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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 427 533
Rank change year-on-year -105 +106 +140
Contract jobs citing MVVM 54 93 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.33% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 52 43
10th Percentile £307 £388 £415
25th Percentile £381 £412 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £644
90th Percentile £608 £634 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
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 32,398 27,994 37,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,495 16,988 25,007
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 897 1,738
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.02
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%
75th Percentile £57.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.92 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.83 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.15% -23.46% +54.90%

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 19 January 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 13 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 19 January 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 -94 52 £535 +7.00% 31
London -70 29 £570 +14.00% 9
UK excluding London -38 23 £450 -14.29% 23
Work from Home -18 11 £500 - 19
North of England -41 10 £375 -25.00% 8
South West -6 7 £400 -23.81% 2
Yorkshire -38 7 £375 -37.50% 1
North West -27 3 - - 6
South East - 3 £575 - 8
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £388 -
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 3

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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Firebase
1 9 (16.67%) GitHub
2 8 (14.81%) Google Play
3 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.56%) Bitrise
5 2 (3.70%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.70%) Stripe
6 1 (1.85%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.85%) AWS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure
6 1 (1.85%) Figma
6 1 (1.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) DHCP
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
1 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (1.85%) DSL
3 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (18.52%) Gradle
3 8 (14.81%) Android Studio
3 8 (14.81%) Xcode
4 7 (12.96%) fastlane
4 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.26%) JIRA
6 4 (7.41%) Crashlytics
7 3 (5.56%) JUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Mockito
7 3 (5.56%) XCTest
8 2 (3.70%) CircleCI
8 2 (3.70%) CocoaPods
8 2 (3.70%) GitLab
9 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.85%) PostCSS
9 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.85%) XCUITest
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Automotive
5 1 (1.85%) Back Office
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Front Office
5 1 (1.85%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 49 (90.74%) Developer
2 29 (53.70%) Android Developer
3 15 (27.78%) iOS Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Senior
5 9 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Applications Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior Android Developer
9 3 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) iOS Android Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Lead
9 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Principal Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior iOS Developer
10 2 (3.70%) UI Developer
11 1 (1.85%) Lead iOS Developer
11 1 (1.85%) Mobile UI Developer
11 1 (1.85%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.74%) Android Jetpack
2 21 (38.89%) Jetpack Compose
3 20 (37.04%) RESTful
4 11 (20.37%) Android SDK
4 11 (20.37%) SwiftUI
5 8 (14.81%) RxJava
5 8 (14.81%) UIKit
6 6 (11.11%) .NET
6 6 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 6 (11.11%) Web Services
7 5 (9.26%) Core Data
7 5 (9.26%) Dagger
7 5 (9.26%) FHIR
8 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (7.41%) React
8 4 (7.41%) Retrofit
8 4 (7.41%) WPF
9 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (5.56%) Express.js
9 3 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Animation
3 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Derivative
5 1 (1.85%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.85%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (61.11%) Android
2 25 (46.30%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Android Development
2 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 18 (33.33%) Agile
3 18 (33.33%) iOS Development
3 18 (33.33%) User Experience
4 17 (31.48%) Design Patterns
4 17 (31.48%) SOLID
5 15 (27.78%) Analytics
5 15 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
6 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
6 14 (25.93%) Mobile Development
6 14 (25.93%) Push Notifications
7 13 (24.07%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (20.37%) Clean Code
8 11 (20.37%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (18.52%) Unit Testing
9 10 (18.52%) UX Design
10 9 (16.67%) Benchmarking
10 9 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) Kotlin
2 22 (40.74%) Swift
3 20 (37.04%) Java
4 9 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 5 (9.26%) C#
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.85%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.41%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Grafana
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Google
2 8 (14.81%) Apple
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.56%) VMware
5 2 (3.70%) Adobe
5 2 (3.70%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.85%) Adyen