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 15 March 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 502 577
Rank change year-on-year -117 +75 +115
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 10 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.030% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.053% 0.064% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £344 £413 £415
25th Percentile £358 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +5.00% +13.92%
75th Percentile £478 £518 £500
90th Percentile £499 £531 £522
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -28.40% +14.29% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

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 19,015 14,010 19,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.98% 47.13% 43.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,141 8,724 11,943
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +1.17% -3.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 972 458 1,025
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.01 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £83.57 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.43 £23.22
% change year-on-year -14.31% +18.13% -30.18%

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 15 March 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 7 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 15 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 -102 8 £359 -24.02% 5
UK excluding London -78 5 £358 -28.40% 5
Work from Home -27 4 £475 +11.76% 3
North of England -60 4 £358 -
North West - 4 £358 -
London -48 1 - - 2
South West - 1 - -

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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Firebase
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (40.00%) ESLint
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (10.00%) Appium
4 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (10.00%) TestRail
4 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (40.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) React Developer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile UI Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) Flutter
2 5 (50.00%) React Native
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) Jest
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) Redux
3 4 (40.00%) Zustand
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (20.00%) OpenID
4 2 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Compact Framework
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Blog
3 1 (10.00%) Contactless
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Android
2 6 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Design Patterns
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 5 (50.00%) MVVM
3 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (40.00%) UX Design
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Monorepo
5 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Android Development
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (50.00%) WCAG
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes