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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 458 524
Rank change year-on-year -60 +66 +134
Contract jobs citing MVVM 69 59 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 31 54
10th Percentile £281 £388 £425
25th Percentile £366 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £669
90th Percentile £602 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £575
% change year-on-year +2.70% -19.57% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £59.65 - £76.63
25th Percentile £61.38 - £77.19
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £68.38 - £82.50
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +79.05%

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 36,453 27,072 38,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.11% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,124 16,979 25,034
10th Percentile £313 £305 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,168 886 2,250
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.13 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £33.50
% change year-on-year -20.81% -5.19% -4.29%

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 4 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 4 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 -75 63 £500 -1.48% 44
UK excluding London -66 32 £475 +2.70% 31
London -60 29 £548 +7.88% 14
South West -15 17 £500 -4.76% 8
Work from Home -21 17 £425 -15.00% 26
North of England -55 10 £375 -6.25% 8
Yorkshire - 7 £375 - 3
North West -40 3 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 £494 - 3
Midlands - 2 £494 - 4
Scotland - 2 £425 -
South East - 1 £275 - 8

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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) GitHub
2 10 (14.49%) Firebase
3 9 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (10.14%) Google Play
5 4 (5.80%) Azure
6 3 (4.35%) Bitrise
7 2 (2.90%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.90%) AWS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.90%) Stripe
8 1 (1.45%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.45%) Figma
8 1 (1.45%) GCP
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DHCP
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
1 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.90%) DSL
2 2 (2.90%) SSL
3 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.35%) SQLite
2 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 12 (17.39%) Xcode
3 11 (15.94%) Gradle
4 10 (14.49%) fastlane
5 8 (11.59%) Android Studio
5 8 (11.59%) XCTest
6 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
6 7 (10.14%) JIRA
7 6 (8.70%) XCUITest
8 5 (7.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.80%) Crashlytics
10 3 (4.35%) GitLab
10 3 (4.35%) JUnit
10 3 (4.35%) Mockito
11 2 (2.90%) Appium
11 2 (2.90%) CocoaPods
11 2 (2.90%) NUnit
12 1 (1.45%) PostCSS
12 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.45%) TestRail
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (1.45%) Automotive
5 1 (1.45%) Games
5 1 (1.45%) Retail
5 1 (1.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 57 (82.61%) Developer
2 30 (43.48%) Android Developer
3 19 (27.54%) iOS Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Android Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.35%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Android Developer
10 2 (2.90%) iOS Android Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Android Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.90%) UI Developer
11 1 (1.45%) Mobile Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (43.48%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (42.03%) Jetpack Compose
3 23 (33.33%) RESTful
4 17 (24.64%) Android SDK
5 13 (18.84%) SwiftUI
6 10 (14.49%) .NET
6 10 (14.49%) UIKit
7 8 (11.59%) REST
7 8 (11.59%) RxJava
7 8 (11.59%) Web Services
8 7 (10.14%) GraphQL
9 5 (7.25%) Core Data
9 5 (7.25%) Dagger
9 5 (7.25%) FHIR
9 5 (7.25%) Retrofit
10 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.80%) CSS
10 4 (5.80%) React
10 4 (5.80%) XML
11 3 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.78%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Animation
3 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (56.52%) Android
2 28 (40.58%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.80%) Windows
4 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (49.28%) Android Development
2 32 (46.38%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.33%) iOS Development
3 23 (33.33%) SOLID
4 22 (31.88%) Architectural Patterns
4 22 (31.88%) Design Patterns
5 21 (30.43%) User Experience
6 19 (27.54%) Agile
6 19 (27.54%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (24.64%) Analytics
8 16 (23.19%) DevOps
8 16 (23.19%) Test Automation
9 15 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (20.29%) Open Source
10 14 (20.29%) Push Notifications
11 13 (18.84%) Benchmarking
11 13 (18.84%) Mobile Development
12 12 (17.39%) Clean Code
12 12 (17.39%) Unit Testing
13 10 (14.49%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.07%) Kotlin
2 25 (36.23%) Java
2 25 (36.23%) Swift
3 9 (13.04%) C#
4 7 (10.14%) Objective-C
5 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.45%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Grafana
1 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.33%) Google
2 6 (8.70%) Apple
3 5 (7.25%) Xamarin
4 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) VMware
5 2 (2.90%) Adobe
5 2 (2.90%) Brightcove
6 1 (1.45%) Adyen
6 1 (1.45%) New Relic
6 1 (1.45%) Tealium