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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 489 536
Rank change year-on-year -90 +47 +47
Contract jobs citing MVVM 78 63 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 30 40
10th Percentile £310 £358 £448
25th Percentile £406 £416 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £613
90th Percentile £540 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £575
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +23.39%
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 43,890 28,628 37,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.04% 90.75% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,271 18,064 23,618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,636 1,406 2,527
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +8.91%

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 July 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 July 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 -95 68 £475 -5.00% 34
UK excluding London -64 43 £450 - 18
South West - 23 £513 - 2
London -84 21 £500 +2.56% 17
Work from Home -63 17 £475 -5.00% 24
North East -27 9 £450 - 1
North of England -70 9 £450 -5.26% 6
South East - 6 £413 - 7
East of England -28 2 - - 5
Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
Scotland -17 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) GitHub
2 18 (23.08%) Azure
3 17 (21.79%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.67%) Firebase
6 11 (14.10%) Google Play
7 4 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.85%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.56%) AWS
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.28%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.28%) Google Pay
10 1 (1.28%) Serverless
10 1 (1.28%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DSL
2 2 (2.56%) NFC
3 1 (1.28%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Git
2 17 (21.79%) fastlane
3 16 (20.51%) Xcode
4 14 (17.95%) XCTest
4 14 (17.95%) XCUITest
5 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 9 (11.54%) Gradle
7 7 (8.97%) Android Studio
8 6 (7.69%) CircleCI
9 5 (6.41%) Crashlytics
10 2 (2.56%) Appium
10 2 (2.56%) JIRA
10 2 (2.56%) NUnit
10 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.28%) CocoaPods
11 1 (1.28%) GitLab
11 1 (1.28%) JUnit
11 1 (1.28%) MSTest
11 1 (1.28%) Postman
11 1 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 15 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Aviation
5 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (65.38%) Developer
2 23 (29.49%) Android Developer
2 23 (29.49%) Senior
3 20 (25.64%) iOS Developer
4 15 (19.23%) Android Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.54%) Senior Android Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Android Developer
8 5 (6.41%) .NET Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Senior iOS Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Applications Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Lead
9 3 (3.85%) Mobile Developer
10 2 (2.56%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.56%) C# WPF Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Lead Android Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Mobile Architect
10 2 (2.56%) Mobile Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.59%) Android Jetpack
2 31 (39.74%) RESTful
3 28 (35.90%) Android SDK
3 28 (35.90%) Jetpack Compose
4 16 (20.51%) SwiftUI
5 15 (19.23%) REST
6 11 (14.10%) UIKit
7 9 (11.54%) iOS SDK
8 8 (10.26%) .NET
9 6 (7.69%) Retrofit
10 5 (6.41%) Core Data
10 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
11 4 (5.13%) JSON
11 4 (5.13%) Web Services
12 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
13 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
13 2 (2.56%) JWT
13 2 (2.56%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 2 (2.56%) OAuth
13 2 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (48.72%) Mobile App
2 14 (17.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.13%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Contactless
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (57.69%) Android
2 32 (41.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Android Development
1 36 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 35 (44.87%) Architectural Patterns
3 30 (38.46%) iOS Development
4 27 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 24 (30.77%) Agile
6 23 (29.49%) User Experience
7 22 (28.21%) Design Patterns
8 20 (25.64%) TDD
9 18 (23.08%) Scrum
9 18 (23.08%) Secure Coding
10 16 (20.51%) Clean Code
10 16 (20.51%) UX Design
11 15 (19.23%) DevOps
12 14 (17.95%) Analytics
13 13 (16.67%) Async-Await
13 13 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (16.67%) SOLID
14 12 (15.38%) API Integration
14 12 (15.38%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.13%) Kotlin
2 31 (39.74%) Java
2 31 (39.74%) Swift
3 8 (10.26%) C#
4 5 (6.41%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.56%) XAML
6 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) Degree
2 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.56%) PhD
5 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.51%) Accessibility
2 11 (14.10%) WCAG
3 6 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Google
2 10 (12.82%) Dynatrace
3 8 (10.26%) Apple
4 4 (5.13%) Xamarin
5 3 (3.85%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.56%) Brightcove
7 1 (1.28%) Adyen
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.28%) New Relic
7 1 (1.28%) Tealium