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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 477 527
Rank change year-on-year -89 +50 +117
Contract jobs citing MVVM 60 42 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 46
10th Percentile £275 £365 £428
25th Percentile £363 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £675
90th Percentile £568 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 37,704 26,329 38,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 90.53% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,901 17,073 24,878
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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 942 2,338
10th Percentile £14.94 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.12 £77.10 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +0.83% -12.50%

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 25 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 25 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 -92 54 £450 -11.33% 36
UK excluding London -76 31 £413 +3.13% 24
London -73 20 £500 -1.48% 11
South West -6 19 £400 -23.81% 1
Work from Home -31 17 £413 -21.43% 26
North of England -64 6 £525 +31.25% 8
South East - 4 £413 - 11
North West -35 3 - - 4
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
Scotland +10 1 £425 +33.65%
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
North East - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1

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 (3.33%) CMS
1 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) GitHub
2 12 (20.00%) Firebase
3 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.33%) Azure
4 5 (8.33%) Google Play
5 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Bitrise
6 2 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.33%) AWS
6 2 (3.33%) Stripe
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.67%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DHCP
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) DSL
1 2 (3.33%) SSL
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SQLite
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) fastlane
2 11 (18.33%) Git
3 10 (16.67%) Xcode
4 9 (15.00%) Gradle
4 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (15.00%) XCTest
5 7 (11.67%) XCUITest
6 6 (10.00%) JIRA
7 5 (8.33%) Android Studio
7 5 (8.33%) CircleCI
7 5 (8.33%) Crashlytics
8 3 (5.00%) GitLab
8 3 (5.00%) JUnit
8 3 (5.00%) Mockito
9 2 (3.33%) Appium
9 2 (3.33%) CocoaPods
9 2 (3.33%) NUnit
10 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.67%) Postman
10 1 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 45 (75.00%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) Android Developer
3 16 (26.67%) iOS Developer
4 12 (20.00%) Senior
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Android Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Android Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Android Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior iOS Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Mobile Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Mobile Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (41.67%) Android Jetpack
2 24 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 16 (26.67%) Android SDK
4 14 (23.33%) RESTful
5 12 (20.00%) SwiftUI
6 9 (15.00%) REST
6 9 (15.00%) UIKit
7 8 (13.33%) .NET
8 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
8 7 (11.67%) RxJava
9 6 (10.00%) Core Data
10 5 (8.33%) Retrofit
10 5 (8.33%) Web Services
11 4 (6.67%) Dagger
12 3 (5.00%) Core Animation
12 3 (5.00%) iOS SDK
12 3 (5.00%) RxSwift
12 3 (5.00%) XML
13 2 (3.33%) CSS
13 2 (3.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Animation
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.67%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Android
2 26 (43.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.00%) Windows
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (48.33%) Android Development
2 26 (43.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 25 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 22 (36.67%) iOS Development
5 17 (28.33%) Agile
5 17 (28.33%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (28.33%) Test Automation
6 16 (26.67%) User Experience
7 15 (25.00%) SOLID
8 14 (23.33%) Design Patterns
9 12 (20.00%) Analytics
9 12 (20.00%) Open Source
9 12 (20.00%) TDD
10 11 (18.33%) Benchmarking
11 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (16.67%) DevOps
12 9 (15.00%) Clean Code
12 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
13 8 (13.33%) Async-Await
13 8 (13.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.00%) Kotlin
2 24 (40.00%) Java
3 23 (38.33%) Swift
4 8 (13.33%) C#
5 7 (11.67%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.67%) C
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.00%) WCAG
3 2 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Grafana
1 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Google
2 5 (8.33%) Apple
3 4 (6.67%) Xamarin
4 2 (3.33%) Adobe
4 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.33%) Brightcove
4 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Adyen
5 1 (1.67%) New Relic
5 1 (1.67%) Tealium