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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 511 578
Rank change year-on-year -103 +67 +105
Contract jobs citing Xamarin 8 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.058% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile £344 £410 £331
25th Percentile £358 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +5.88% +6.92%
75th Percentile £478 £525 £450
90th Percentile £499 £533 £481
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -30.15% +20.59% +7.59%
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 19,564 13,843 18,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.79% 47.28% 42.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,535 8,740 11,568
10th Percentile £313 £294 £262
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.50% -1.89%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 529 1,060
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £28.24 £27.99 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +25.59% -47.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £24.66 £21.46
% change year-on-year +2.92% +14.91% -44.97%

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 April 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 5 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 April 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 -107 6 £359 -20.22% 5
Work from Home -41 4 £475 +11.76% 3
North of England -71 4 £358 - 2
UK excluding London -95 4 £358 -30.15% 5
North West - 4 £358 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) npm
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (50.00%) ESLint
2 1 (12.50%) Appium
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) TestRail
General
1 4 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) React Developer
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) Flutter
1 4 (50.00%) Jest
1 4 (50.00%) React
1 4 (50.00%) React Native
1 4 (50.00%) Redux
1 4 (50.00%) Zustand
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
1 5 (62.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Design Patterns
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (50.00%) MVVM
3 4 (50.00%) Open Source
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Cross-Platform Development
4 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Monorepo
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) UX Design
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
1 5 (62.50%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) QA