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 10 November 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
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 537 598
Rank change year-on-year -25 +61 +151
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 10 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.036% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.061% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 21
10th Percentile £339 £329 £250
25th Percentile £359 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +11.76% +0.89%
75th Percentile £456 £510 £500
90th Percentile £491 £530 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £498 £425
% change year-on-year -24.87% +17.06% +6.92%

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 16,461 16,273 21,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.51% 44.90% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,304 9,580 13,727
10th Percentile £285 £300 £258
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 848 508 685
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.41 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.94 £17.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -18.82% -29.76% +71.92%
75th Percentile £39.45 £62.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.85 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -21.70% -33.72% +95.45%

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 10 November 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 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 10 November 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 -16 10 £388 -20.10% 25
UK excluding London -31 8 £374 -24.87% 23
North of England -28 4 £359 - 6
North West - 4 £359 - 5
London +10 2 £425 - 4
Work from Home +8 2 £480 - 12
Midlands -23 2 £449 -7.47% 3
South East +1 1 - - 10
East Midlands -11 1 £388 -20.10%
South West - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 3

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 2 (20.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) Firebase
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (30.00%) ESLint
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (30.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile Developer
2 3 (30.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile UI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) Flutter
1 4 (40.00%) React Native
2 3 (30.00%) Jest
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Redux
2 3 (30.00%) Zustand
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (20.00%) OpenID
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Compact Framework
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Blog
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Contactless
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (10.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Android
2 6 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Application Security
4 3 (30.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Android Development
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (20.00%) Monorepo
5 2 (20.00%) MVVM
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (30.00%) WCAG
3 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes