Xamarin Contract Job Trends

Xamarin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Xamarin products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xamarin over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Xamarin.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 520 571
Rank change year-on-year -55 +51 +149
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 9 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.022% 0.045%
As % of the Vendors category 0.053% 0.048% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £334 £435 £250
25th Percentile £359 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% +10.00% +13.92%
75th Percentile £455 £525 £500
90th Percentile £495 £533 £516
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.25% +11.11% +13.92%

All Vendors
UK

Xamarin falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,072 14,476 18,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.18% 45.80% 44.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,992 8,580 11,904
10th Percentile £300 £285 £255
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 423 683
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -38.00% +58.43%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.06 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.44 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £24.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.84% -44.67% +78.00%

Xamarin
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Xamarin relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Xamarin job vacancy trend in the UK

Xamarin
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Xamarin.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Xamarin

Xamarin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xamarin over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Xamarin in the UK

Xamarin
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Xamarin.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Xamarin

Xamarin
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xamarin within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -58 9 £374 -24.49% 3
UK excluding London -51 8 £374 -25.25% 4
North of England - 4 £359 -
North West - 4 £359 -
Work from Home -2 2 £480 +6.67% 2
Midlands -39 2 £449 -9.34% 2
South East -22 1 - - 1
East Midlands -23 1 £388 -21.72%
London -29 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 2

Xamarin
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) npm
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) Firebase
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 3 (33.33%) ESLint
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Android Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) NUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Xcode
General
1 3 (33.33%) Publishing
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
2 3 (33.33%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile UI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Mobile Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) Flutter
1 4 (44.44%) React Native
2 3 (33.33%) Jest
2 3 (33.33%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Redux
2 3 (33.33%) Zustand
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
3 2 (22.22%) OpenID
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Compact Framework
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Blog
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Contactless
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Android
2 6 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Application Security
3 3 (33.33%) Cross-Platform Development
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Android Development
4 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (22.22%) Monorepo
4 2 (22.22%) MVVM
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
4 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes