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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 444 545
Rank change year-on-year -87 +101 +132
Contract jobs citing MVVM 60 97 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.32% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 41
10th Percentile £366 £392 £413
25th Percentile £381 £416 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% -2.54%
75th Percentile £594 £543 £675
90th Percentile £608 £623 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -22.62% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £59.65 - £76.38
25th Percentile £61.38 - £76.56
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £68.38 - £81.56
90th Percentile £69.35 - £82.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +76.25%

All Process and 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 32,565 30,055 38,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.34% 88.19% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,467 18,359 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,103 978 1,503
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%

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 20 December 2025.

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 14 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 20 December 2025. 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 -75 58 £519 +3.75% 30
London -48 30 £570 +14.00% 8
UK excluding London -19 29 £406 -22.62% 25
North of England -38 15 £400 -20.00% 6
Work from Home -18 13 £500 - 20
Yorkshire -38 12 £400 -33.33% 1
South West -2 7 £400 -23.81% 5
South East -17 3 £575 - 6
North West -25 3 - - 5
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
East of England -22 1 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £388 -

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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Firebase
2 10 (16.67%) Google Play
3 7 (11.67%) GitHub
4 3 (5.00%) Azure
4 3 (5.00%) Bitrise
4 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.33%) AWS
5 2 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Figma
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DHCP
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (30.00%) Git
2 9 (15.00%) Gradle
2 9 (15.00%) Xcode
3 8 (13.33%) Android Studio
4 7 (11.67%) CircleCI
4 7 (11.67%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.00%) JIRA
6 5 (8.33%) fastlane
7 4 (6.67%) Crashlytics
8 3 (5.00%) JUnit
8 3 (5.00%) Mockito
8 3 (5.00%) XCTest
9 2 (3.33%) CocoaPods
9 2 (3.33%) GitLab
10 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.67%) PostCSS
10 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.67%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Back Office
5 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.67%) Front Office
5 1 (1.67%) Games
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (91.67%) Developer
2 30 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 19 (31.67%) iOS Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Senior
5 9 (15.00%) Mobile Developer
6 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Android Developer
9 3 (5.00%) iOS Android Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Lead
9 3 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Principal Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (3.33%) UI Developer
11 1 (1.67%) Lead iOS Developer
11 1 (1.67%) Mobile UI Developer
11 1 (1.67%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.00%) RESTful
2 23 (38.33%) Android Jetpack
3 22 (36.67%) Jetpack Compose
4 14 (23.33%) SwiftUI
5 11 (18.33%) Android SDK
6 9 (15.00%) UIKit
7 8 (13.33%) RxJava
8 7 (11.67%) .NET
9 6 (10.00%) Core Data
9 6 (10.00%) GraphQL
9 6 (10.00%) Web Services
10 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
10 5 (8.33%) Dagger
10 5 (8.33%) FHIR
11 4 (6.67%) Bootstrap
11 4 (6.67%) Core Animation
11 4 (6.67%) CSS
11 4 (6.67%) React
11 4 (6.67%) Retrofit
11 4 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Animation
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.67%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (58.33%) Android
2 29 (48.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.67%) tvOS
4 1 (1.67%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (51.67%) Android Development
3 23 (38.33%) User Experience
4 21 (35.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 21 (35.00%) iOS Development
5 19 (31.67%) Agile
6 18 (30.00%) Design Patterns
7 17 (28.33%) SOLID
8 16 (26.67%) Analytics
8 16 (26.67%) DevOps
9 15 (25.00%) Mobile Development
10 14 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (23.33%) Push Notifications
10 14 (23.33%) Unit Testing
11 13 (21.67%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (21.67%) UX Design
12 12 (20.00%) Clean Code
13 11 (18.33%) Continuous Delivery
14 9 (15.00%) Open Source
14 9 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) Kotlin
2 26 (43.33%) Swift
3 21 (35.00%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) Objective-C
5 6 (10.00%) C#
6 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Grafana
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Google
2 9 (15.00%) Apple
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) Xamarin