MVVM Contract Job Trends

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MVVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 490 515
Rank change year-on-year -52 +25 +131
Contract jobs citing MVVM 64 41 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 51
10th Percentile £281 £355 £425
25th Percentile £363 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £675
90th Percentile £602 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +6.25% -30.43% +23.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £59.65 - £76.50
25th Percentile £61.38 - £76.88
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £68.38 - £81.75
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +76.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

MVVM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

MVVM
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MVVM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MVVM job vacancy trend in the UK

MVVM
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM

MVVM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVVM over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MVVM in the UK

MVVM
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVVM

MVVM
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVVM within the UK over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -79 58 £500 -1.48% 32
UK excluding London -64 28 £425 +6.25% 23
London -41 27 £550 +8.37% 10
South West -10 18 £450 -14.29%
Work from Home -33 18 £450 -12.20% 21
North of England -56 7 £450 +12.50% 8
North West -34 3 - - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £375 - 3
Scotland +9 1 £425 +33.65%
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
South East - 1 £275 - 11
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
North East - 1 £525 -

MVVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) CMS
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) GitHub
2 10 (15.63%) Firebase
2 10 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (9.38%) Google Play
4 4 (6.25%) Bitrise
5 3 (4.69%) Azure
6 2 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.13%) AWS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Stripe
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) DHCP
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
1 2 (3.13%) DSL
1 2 (3.13%) SSL
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) SQLite
2 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Xcode
2 11 (17.19%) Git
2 11 (17.19%) Gradle
3 10 (15.63%) fastlane
4 9 (14.06%) XCTest
5 7 (10.94%) Android Studio
5 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
5 7 (10.94%) XCUITest
6 6 (9.38%) JIRA
7 5 (7.81%) CircleCI
8 4 (6.25%) Crashlytics
9 3 (4.69%) GitLab
9 3 (4.69%) JUnit
9 3 (4.69%) Mockito
10 2 (3.13%) Appium
10 2 (3.13%) CocoaPods
10 2 (3.13%) NUnit
11 1 (1.56%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.56%) MSTest
11 1 (1.56%) TestRail
General
1 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Automotive
5 1 (1.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (79.69%) Developer
2 28 (43.75%) Android Developer
3 17 (26.56%) iOS Developer
4 10 (15.63%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Mobile Developer
6 5 (7.81%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Android Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead
8 3 (4.69%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Android Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior iOS Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Backend Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Java Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (45.31%) Android Jetpack
2 28 (43.75%) Jetpack Compose
3 18 (28.13%) RESTful
4 16 (25.00%) Android SDK
5 12 (18.75%) SwiftUI
6 9 (14.06%) REST
7 8 (12.50%) .NET
8 7 (10.94%) GraphQL
8 7 (10.94%) RxJava
8 7 (10.94%) UIKit
9 5 (7.81%) Core Data
9 5 (7.81%) FHIR
9 5 (7.81%) Web Services
10 4 (6.25%) Dagger
10 4 (6.25%) Retrofit
11 3 (4.69%) Core Animation
11 3 (4.69%) CSS
11 3 (4.69%) React
11 3 (4.69%) RxSwift
11 3 (4.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.69%) Animation
3 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.56%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (57.81%) Android
2 26 (40.63%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) Windows
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Android Development
2 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 24 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 22 (34.38%) iOS Development
4 22 (34.38%) SOLID
5 19 (29.69%) User Experience
6 18 (28.13%) Design Patterns
6 18 (28.13%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (25.00%) Analytics
7 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 14 (21.88%) Agile
8 14 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (21.88%) DevOps
9 13 (20.31%) Mobile Development
9 13 (20.31%) Open Source
9 13 (20.31%) Push Notifications
10 12 (18.75%) Benchmarking
10 12 (18.75%) Clean Code
11 10 (15.63%) Unit Testing
12 9 (14.06%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (56.25%) Kotlin
2 24 (37.50%) Java
3 23 (35.94%) Swift
4 8 (12.50%) C#
5 6 (9.38%) Objective-C
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.56%) C
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Grafana
1 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Google
2 6 (9.38%) Apple
3 4 (6.25%) Xamarin
4 2 (3.13%) Adobe
4 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.13%) Brightcove
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Adyen
5 1 (1.56%) New Relic
5 1 (1.56%) Tealium