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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 482 522
Rank change year-on-year -97 +40 +71
Contract jobs citing MVVM 81 69 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 26
10th Percentile £363 £375 £422
25th Percentile £400 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £523 £580 £600
90th Percentile £554 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £406 £569
% change year-on-year +6.15% -28.57% +26.39%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -106 63 £488 +2.63% 66
UK excluding London -78 45 £431 +6.15% 40
London -84 27 £505 +3.59% 29
South West - 16 £375 - 3
Scotland -5 12 £390 +22.64% 2
North East -34 9 £450 - 2
North of England -70 9 £450 +12.50% 15
Work from Home -81 9 £519 -1.19% 31
South East -60 5 £506 -11.96% 8
East of England -19 2 - - 14
Midlands -46 1 £525 +35.48% 1
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.33%) GitHub
2 20 (24.69%) Google Play
3 17 (20.99%) Azure
4 14 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (14.81%) Firebase
6 7 (8.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (6.17%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.23%) AWS
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.23%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.23%) Google Pay
8 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) NFC
2 1 (1.23%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.23%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (33.33%) Git
2 14 (17.28%) XCTest
2 14 (17.28%) XCUITest
3 13 (16.05%) Android Studio
3 13 (16.05%) Gradle
3 13 (16.05%) Xcode
4 12 (14.81%) fastlane
4 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.41%) CircleCI
6 5 (6.17%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.23%) CocoaPods
8 1 (1.23%) GitLab
8 1 (1.23%) JUnit
General
1 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.47%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.23%) Aviation
4 1 (1.23%) Finance
4 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (64.20%) Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Senior
3 24 (29.63%) Android Developer
3 24 (29.63%) iOS Developer
4 19 (23.46%) Android Engineer
5 13 (16.05%) Senior Android Engineer
6 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior Android Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior iOS Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Lead
10 2 (2.47%) .NET Developer
10 2 (2.47%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.47%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.47%) C# WPF Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Mobile Architect
10 2 (2.47%) Mobile Developer
10 2 (2.47%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.21%) Android Jetpack
2 34 (41.98%) RESTful
3 30 (37.04%) Android SDK
4 26 (32.10%) Jetpack Compose
5 23 (28.40%) REST
6 22 (27.16%) SwiftUI
7 17 (20.99%) UIKit
8 11 (13.58%) Core Data
8 11 (13.58%) Retrofit
9 8 (9.88%) iOS SDK
10 7 (8.64%) RxSwift
11 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.70%) JSON
12 2 (2.47%) .NET
12 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.47%) Silverlight
12 2 (2.47%) WCF
12 2 (2.47%) Web Services
12 2 (2.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (60.49%) Mobile App
2 14 (17.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.64%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Contactless
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.23%) Music Streaming
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (60.49%) Android
2 35 (43.21%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.91%) Android Development
2 36 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 35 (43.21%) Agile
4 34 (41.98%) iOS Development
5 31 (38.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 29 (35.80%) Scrum
7 25 (30.86%) User Experience
8 22 (27.16%) Design Patterns
8 22 (27.16%) Test Automation
9 20 (24.69%) Performance Optimisation
9 20 (24.69%) Secure Coding
10 17 (20.99%) API Integration
10 17 (20.99%) Clean Code
10 17 (20.99%) TDD
10 17 (20.99%) UX Design
11 13 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.05%) DevOps
11 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (14.81%) Analytics
12 12 (14.81%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) Kotlin
2 35 (43.21%) Swift
3 34 (41.98%) Java
4 7 (8.64%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.47%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) XAML
6 1 (1.23%) C++
6 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.46%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.35%) WCAG
3 6 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
Vendors
1 28 (34.57%) Google
2 10 (12.35%) Dynatrace
3 8 (9.88%) Apple
4 5 (6.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft