Mobile App Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Mobile Application
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 100 102
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 17 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 2.04% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 10
10th Percentile £153 - £417
25th Percentile £280 £143 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £145 £450
Median % change year-on-year +197.41% -67.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £504 £400 £549
90th Percentile £704 £440 £570
England median daily rate £500 £488 £520
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.25% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.46 - -
England median hourly rate £40.46 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +15.60% -21.35% +27.14%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Mobile App falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 804 489 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.06% 29.21% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 299 407
10th Percentile £250 £206 £275
25th Percentile £380 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £624
90th Percentile £652 £712 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 39
10th Percentile £18.23 £15.22 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £17.86
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +5.13% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.54 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.05 £55.25 £67.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -21.62% -13.78% +22.42%

Mobile App
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile App relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Mobile App job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile App.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile App in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile App in the West Midlands

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile App.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Mobile App

Mobile App
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile App within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Birmingham -11 6 £419 +188.79% 14
Warwickshire - 3 £500 - 2
Shropshire - 2 £400 - 19
Coventry - 2 £313 - 12
West Bromwich - 1 - - 1
Mobile App
England

Mobile App
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Adobe XD
1 2 (11.76%) Sketch
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (5.88%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Figma
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (23.53%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Automotive
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Break Fix Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Junior
2 2 (11.76%) Compliance Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Designer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) UI Designer
2 2 (11.76%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (11.76%) UX Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead UX Designer
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) CSS3
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) HTML5
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) React
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) Blazor
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) LDAP
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Infotainment
3 1 (5.88%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Break/Fix
2 4 (23.53%) Time Management
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) User Experience
3 3 (17.65%) UX Design
3 3 (17.65%) Wireframes
4 2 (11.76%) Data Privacy
4 2 (11.76%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (11.76%) Security Management
4 2 (11.76%) Usability Testing
4 2 (11.76%) User Research
4 2 (11.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (5.88%) Runbook
5 1 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Groovy
2 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) PERC
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) HP
2 3 (17.65%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Xamarin