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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 485 533
Rank change year-on-year -66 +48 +110
Contract jobs citing MVVM 68 41 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 21 51
10th Percentile £281 £350 £425
25th Percentile £363 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £675
90th Percentile £602 £638 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +3.13% -30.43% -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 - - +76.62%

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 36,632 26,629 38,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 90.34% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,216 16,983 25,185
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 898 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £76.53 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £32.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -17.02% +0.63% -9.14%

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 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 11 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 -68 61 £500 -1.48% 39
UK excluding London -64 30 £413 +3.13% 22
London -37 29 £548 +7.88% 12
South West -4 18 £450 -14.29% 2
Work from Home -27 17 £425 -15.00% 24
North of England -62 8 £375 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 3
North West -36 3 - - 4
Scotland +17 2 £425 +33.65% 2
South East - 1 £275 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2

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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.47%) GitHub
2 10 (14.71%) Firebase
3 9 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (8.82%) Google Play
5 4 (5.88%) Azure
6 3 (4.41%) Bitrise
7 2 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.94%) AWS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Stripe
8 1 (1.47%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.47%) Figma
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DHCP
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) DSL
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
1 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) SQLite
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Git
1 13 (19.12%) Xcode
2 11 (16.18%) Gradle
3 10 (14.71%) fastlane
4 9 (13.24%) XCTest
5 8 (11.76%) Android Studio
6 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
6 7 (10.29%) JIRA
6 7 (10.29%) XCUITest
7 5 (7.35%) CircleCI
8 4 (5.88%) Crashlytics
9 3 (4.41%) GitLab
9 3 (4.41%) JUnit
9 3 (4.41%) Mockito
10 2 (2.94%) Appium
10 2 (2.94%) CocoaPods
10 2 (2.94%) NUnit
11 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Automotive
5 1 (1.47%) Games
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 56 (82.35%) Developer
2 30 (44.12%) Android Developer
3 20 (29.41%) iOS Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
6 5 (7.35%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Android Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) iOS Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Android Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Android Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (2.94%) UI Developer
10 1 (1.47%) Java Android Developer
10 1 (1.47%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (44.12%) Android Jetpack
2 29 (42.65%) Jetpack Compose
3 22 (32.35%) RESTful
4 17 (25.00%) Android SDK
5 13 (19.12%) SwiftUI
6 9 (13.24%) .NET
6 9 (13.24%) UIKit
7 8 (11.76%) REST
7 8 (11.76%) RxJava
8 7 (10.29%) GraphQL
9 6 (8.82%) Web Services
10 5 (7.35%) Core Data
10 5 (7.35%) Dagger
10 5 (7.35%) FHIR
10 5 (7.35%) Retrofit
11 4 (5.88%) CSS
11 4 (5.88%) XML
12 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.41%) HTML
12 3 (4.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.41%) Animation
3 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.47%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (57.35%) Android
2 29 (42.65%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) Android Development
2 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 24 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 24 (35.29%) iOS Development
4 23 (33.82%) SOLID
5 21 (30.88%) Design Patterns
5 21 (30.88%) User Experience
6 19 (27.94%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (25.00%) Analytics
8 16 (23.53%) Agile
9 15 (22.06%) DevOps
9 15 (22.06%) Test Automation
10 14 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (20.59%) Open Source
10 14 (20.59%) Push Notifications
11 13 (19.12%) Benchmarking
11 13 (19.12%) Mobile Development
12 12 (17.65%) Clean Code
13 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
14 10 (14.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.88%) Kotlin
2 26 (38.24%) Swift
3 25 (36.76%) Java
4 8 (11.76%) C#
5 7 (10.29%) Objective-C
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.47%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Grafana
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Google
2 6 (8.82%) Apple
3 5 (7.35%) Xamarin
4 2 (2.94%) Adobe
4 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.94%) Brightcove
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (1.47%) Adyen
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) Tealium