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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 469 524
Rank change year-on-year -95 +55 +94
Contract jobs citing MVVM 61 50 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 39
10th Percentile £290 £400 £450
25th Percentile £375 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -1.48% -17.14%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £644
90th Percentile £582 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +21.88% -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 40,197 26,741 37,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,242 17,210 23,886
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,094 2,440
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.44 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -28.95% +8.57%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -103 52 £475 -6.40% 32
UK excluding London -70 32 £488 +21.88% 21
South West -22 17 £500 -4.76% 2
Work from Home -34 17 £425 -10.53% 17
London -62 17 £475 -6.40% 10
North of England -64 6 £450 +12.50% 12
South East - 6 £413 - 4
North West -41 3 - - 8
North East - 3 £450 - 2
Midlands - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
Scotland +1 1 £425 +33.65%

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 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) GitHub
2 12 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (16.39%) Firebase
4 7 (11.48%) Azure
5 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.84%) Google Play
6 2 (3.28%) AWS
6 2 (3.28%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DSL
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) SSL
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.64%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) fastlane
2 11 (18.03%) Xcode
3 10 (16.39%) XCTest
4 9 (14.75%) Gradle
5 8 (13.11%) Git
5 8 (13.11%) XCUITest
6 6 (9.84%) Android Studio
6 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
7 4 (6.56%) Crashlytics
8 3 (4.92%) CircleCI
8 3 (4.92%) GitLab
8 3 (4.92%) JIRA
9 2 (3.28%) Appium
9 2 (3.28%) JUnit
9 2 (3.28%) NUnit
10 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.64%) Mockito
10 1 (1.64%) MSTest
10 1 (1.64%) Postman
10 1 (1.64%) TestRail
General
1 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Automotive
5 1 (1.64%) Aviation
5 1 (1.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 43 (70.49%) Developer
2 22 (36.07%) Android Developer
3 17 (27.87%) iOS Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Android Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Android Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Applications Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Architect
8 2 (3.28%) iOS Android Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Lead Android Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Mobile Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Android Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
9 1 (1.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.98%) Android Jetpack
2 23 (37.70%) Jetpack Compose
3 15 (24.59%) RESTful
3 15 (24.59%) SwiftUI
4 14 (22.95%) Android SDK
5 10 (16.39%) REST
6 9 (14.75%) UIKit
7 7 (11.48%) .NET
7 7 (11.48%) GraphQL
8 5 (8.20%) iOS SDK
9 4 (6.56%) Core Data
9 4 (6.56%) Retrofit
9 4 (6.56%) RxJava
10 3 (4.92%) Web Services
11 2 (3.28%) Dagger
11 2 (3.28%) JSON
11 2 (3.28%) OAuth
11 2 (3.28%) OkHttp
11 2 (3.28%) OpenID
11 2 (3.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.07%) Mobile App
2 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.56%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.64%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (59.02%) Android
2 27 (44.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Android Development
1 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
2 27 (44.26%) Architectural Patterns
3 23 (37.70%) iOS Development
4 20 (32.79%) Agile
5 18 (29.51%) Test Automation
6 16 (26.23%) User Experience
7 14 (22.95%) TDD
8 13 (21.31%) Design Patterns
8 13 (21.31%) Scrum
9 11 (18.03%) Clean Code
9 11 (18.03%) DevOps
9 11 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (18.03%) SOLID
10 10 (16.39%) Analytics
11 9 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.75%) UX Design
12 8 (13.11%) Async-Await
12 8 (13.11%) Open Source
12 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Kotlin
2 24 (39.34%) Swift
3 23 (37.70%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) C#
5 5 (8.20%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.64%) C
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Scala
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.20%) WCAG
3 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.64%) Docker
1 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) Apple
2 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
2 4 (6.56%) Xamarin
3 2 (3.28%) Brightcove
4 1 (1.64%) Adyen
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) New Relic
4 1 (1.64%) Tealium
4 1 (1.64%) VMware