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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 486 529
Rank change year-on-year -64 +43 +107
Contract jobs citing MVVM 59 41 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 47
10th Percentile £276 £360 £429
25th Percentile £363 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £675
90th Percentile £588 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% -30.43% +23.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £59.65 - £77.85
25th Percentile £61.38 - £78.38
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
75th Percentile £68.38 - £82.13
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.50
% change year-on-year - - +77.72%

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 38,014 26,489 38,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.62% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,062 17,216 24,858
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 972 2,349
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.26 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% - -12.26%

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 30 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 12 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 30 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 -90 53 £463 -8.87% 36
UK excluding London -62 32 £450 +12.50% 24
South West -12 19 £400 -23.81% 1
London -61 18 £475 -6.40% 11
Work from Home -29 16 £413 -21.43% 26
South East - 6 £413 - 11
North of England -66 4 £525 +31.25% 8
North West -38 3 - - 4
Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
Scotland +8 1 £425 +33.65%
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 1 (1.69%) CMS
1 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) GitHub
2 11 (18.64%) Firebase
2 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (10.17%) Google Play
4 5 (8.47%) Azure
5 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.78%) Bitrise
6 2 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.39%) AWS
6 2 (3.39%) Stripe
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.69%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DHCP
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
1 2 (3.39%) DSL
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
1 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.39%) SQLite
2 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) fastlane
2 9 (15.25%) Git
2 9 (15.25%) Xcode
2 9 (15.25%) XCTest
3 8 (13.56%) Gradle
4 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.86%) XCUITest
5 5 (8.47%) Android Studio
5 5 (8.47%) CircleCI
6 4 (6.78%) Crashlytics
6 4 (6.78%) JIRA
7 3 (5.08%) GitLab
7 3 (5.08%) JUnit
8 2 (3.39%) Appium
8 2 (3.39%) Mockito
8 2 (3.39%) NUnit
9 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.69%) CocoaPods
9 1 (1.69%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.69%) MSTest
General
1 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Banking
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Automotive
4 1 (1.69%) Aviation
4 1 (1.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (76.27%) Developer
2 23 (38.98%) Android Developer
3 16 (27.12%) iOS Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) .NET Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Android Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Android Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Android Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Mobile Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Android Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior iOS Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Software Developer
9 1 (1.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (42.37%) Android Jetpack
2 23 (38.98%) Jetpack Compose
3 15 (25.42%) Android SDK
4 13 (22.03%) RESTful
4 13 (22.03%) SwiftUI
5 10 (16.95%) REST
6 8 (13.56%) .NET
6 8 (13.56%) GraphQL
6 8 (13.56%) UIKit
7 5 (8.47%) Core Data
7 5 (8.47%) RxJava
8 4 (6.78%) Web Services
9 3 (5.08%) iOS SDK
9 3 (5.08%) Retrofit
9 3 (5.08%) XML
10 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (3.39%) Core Animation
10 2 (3.39%) Dagger
10 2 (3.39%) React
10 2 (3.39%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Security Posture
2 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.39%) Animation
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Legacy Code
3 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.69%) Infotainment
4 1 (1.69%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Android
2 25 (42.37%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.08%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Android Development
2 25 (42.37%) Architectural Patterns
2 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.59%) iOS Development
4 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
5 16 (27.12%) Agile
6 15 (25.42%) User Experience
7 14 (23.73%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (22.03%) Design Patterns
8 13 (22.03%) SOLID
8 13 (22.03%) TDD
9 11 (18.64%) Analytics
10 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (16.95%) DevOps
10 10 (16.95%) Open Source
11 9 (15.25%) Benchmarking
12 8 (13.56%) Async-Await
12 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
12 8 (13.56%) Scrum
12 8 (13.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) Kotlin
2 22 (37.29%) Java
2 22 (37.29%) Swift
3 8 (13.56%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) WCAG
3 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Google
2 4 (6.78%) Apple
2 4 (6.78%) Xamarin
3 2 (3.39%) Adobe
3 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.39%) Brightcove
3 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) Adyen
4 1 (1.69%) New Relic
4 1 (1.69%) Tealium