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 20 September 2025, 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 537 622
Rank change year-on-year -18 +85 +171
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 7 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.052% 0.044%
As % of the Vendors category 0.045% 0.12% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 18
10th Percentile £394 £301 £243
25th Percentile £413 £324 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £363
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +17.24% -19.44%
75th Percentile £515 £475 £448
90th Percentile £551 £489 £518
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -4.19%

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 15,612 17,085 22,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.45% 44.35% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,583 10,226 14,399
10th Percentile £275 £286 £263
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 677 660
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.35 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.55 £15.62 £18.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.43
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £29.77 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.45% -29.95% +112.50%

Xamarin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Xamarin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Xamarin 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 20 September 2025.

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 10 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 20 September 2025. 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 +7 6 £438 -2.78% 19
UK excluding London -3 4 £450 - 16
Work from Home +21 3 £510 +13.33% 11
London +12 2 £425 - 3
Midlands -15 2 £449 -5.53% 1
East Midlands -2 1 £388 -18.42% 1
North of England -29 1 £450 - 1
North West - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 - - 11
West Midlands - 1 £510 -

Xamarin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) Firebase
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Android Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Xcode
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile UI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (14.29%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Android
2 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Application Security
1 3 (42.86%) MVVM
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) UX Design
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Cross-Platform Development
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Push Notifications
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
3 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
3 1 (14.29%) Swift
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes