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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 471 536
Rank change year-on-year -105 +65 +54
Contract jobs citing MVVM 68 62 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 37
10th Percentile £296 £389 £443
25th Percentile £375 £422 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £508
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.94% -21.92%
75th Percentile £505 £576 £613
90th Percentile £538 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% -30.43% +22.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £77.85
25th Percentile - - £78.38
Median hourly rate - - £80.50
75th Percentile - - £82.13
90th Percentile - - £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 11 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 June 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 -107 60 £450 -10.00% 76
UK excluding London -70 42 £450 +12.50% 71
South West -5 24 £500 - 6
Work from Home -60 15 £475 -9.52% 76
London -85 15 £475 -5.00% 22
North East -24 9 £450 - 3
North of England -63 9 £450 -5.26% 17
South East - 6 £413 - 17
Midlands - 2 £500 - 6
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 3
Scotland -16 1 £425 +33.65% 6

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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) GitHub
2 17 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (19.12%) Azure
3 13 (19.12%) Firebase
4 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Google Play
6 2 (2.94%) AWS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.47%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.47%) Serverless
7 1 (1.47%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) DSL
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) fastlane
2 17 (25.00%) Xcode
3 15 (22.06%) Git
3 15 (22.06%) XCTest
3 15 (22.06%) XCUITest
4 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
5 8 (11.76%) Gradle
6 6 (8.82%) Android Studio
6 6 (8.82%) CircleCI
6 6 (8.82%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.94%) Appium
7 2 (2.94%) JIRA
7 2 (2.94%) NUnit
8 1 (1.47%) CocoaPods
8 1 (1.47%) GitLab
8 1 (1.47%) MSTest
8 1 (1.47%) Postman
8 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 15 (22.06%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (67.65%) Developer
2 21 (30.88%) Android Developer
2 21 (30.88%) iOS Developer
3 17 (25.00%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Senior Developer
5 10 (14.71%) Android Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Android Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior iOS Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Android Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 2 (2.94%) Applications Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Architect
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Mobile Architect
9 2 (2.94%) Mobile Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Mobile Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.47%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (39.71%) Android Jetpack
2 25 (36.76%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (33.82%) RESTful
4 21 (30.88%) Android SDK
5 17 (25.00%) SwiftUI
6 11 (16.18%) UIKit
7 10 (14.71%) REST
8 9 (13.24%) iOS SDK
9 6 (8.82%) .NET
9 6 (8.82%) Core Data
9 6 (8.82%) Retrofit
10 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
11 2 (2.94%) JSON
11 2 (2.94%) JWT
11 2 (2.94%) OAuth
11 2 (2.94%) OpenID
11 2 (2.94%) Web Services
12 1 (1.47%) Dagger
12 1 (1.47%) OkHttp
12 1 (1.47%) RxCocoa
Miscellaneous
1 33 (48.53%) Mobile App
2 14 (20.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (52.94%) Android
2 33 (48.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) Architectural Patterns
1 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
2 31 (45.59%) iOS Development
3 29 (42.65%) Android Development
4 26 (38.24%) Test Automation
5 23 (33.82%) Agile
6 20 (29.41%) TDD
7 17 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 17 (25.00%) User Experience
8 15 (22.06%) Scrum
9 14 (20.59%) Analytics
9 14 (20.59%) Clean Code
10 13 (19.12%) Async-Await
10 13 (19.12%) DevOps
10 13 (19.12%) Secure Coding
10 13 (19.12%) SOLID
10 13 (19.12%) UX Design
11 12 (17.65%) API Integration
11 12 (17.65%) Kanban
12 11 (16.18%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 32 (47.06%) Swift
3 26 (38.24%) Java
4 6 (8.82%) C#
5 5 (7.35%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.47%) C
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) Accessibility
2 11 (16.18%) WCAG
3 5 (7.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Google
2 10 (14.71%) Dynatrace
3 8 (11.76%) Apple
4 4 (5.88%) Xamarin
5 2 (2.94%) Brightcove
6 1 (1.47%) Adyen
6 1 (1.47%) New Relic
6 1 (1.47%) Tealium