Mobile App Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mobile Application
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile App in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile App over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 178 241
Rank change year-on-year -33 +63 -41
Contract jobs citing Mobile App 93 174 258
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 1.13% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 3.95% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 103 197
10th Percentile £366 £322 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -5.13% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £588 £675 £830
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £12.54
25th Percentile - - £12.59
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +53.11% +16.11%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £39.75
90th Percentile - £74.00 £42.90
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.59% +95.19%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Mobile App
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Mobile App as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mobile App trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mobile App
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mobile App.

Mobile App daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile App
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Mobile App over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Mobile App daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile App
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Mobile App.

Mobile App hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile App
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.15%) Apache
1 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.15%) CMS
1 2 (2.15%) Confluence
1 2 (2.15%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.08%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (1.08%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.08%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (1.08%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.51%) AWS
2 14 (15.05%) Azure
3 8 (8.60%) Serverless
4 7 (7.53%) Figma
5 5 (5.38%) GitHub
6 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.30%) SaaS
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.23%) GCP
7 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.15%) Firebase
8 2 (2.15%) IaaS
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.15%) PaaS
8 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) Internet
2 1 (1.08%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
1 5 (5.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.23%) MySQL
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.08%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.08%) Mixpanel
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) Cypress.io
2 5 (5.38%) JIRA
2 5 (5.38%) Postman
3 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (3.23%) Mocha
4 3 (3.23%) Xcode
5 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.15%) Selenium
5 2 (2.15%) Subversion
5 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.15%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.08%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.08%) Appium
6 1 (1.08%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (1.08%) Pa11y
6 1 (1.08%) XCUITest
6 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.45%) Banking
3 6 (6.45%) Finance
3 6 (6.45%) Marketing
4 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Retail
6 1 (1.08%) Billing
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.08%) German Language
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (50.54%) Developer
2 15 (16.13%) React Developer
3 14 (15.05%) Senior
4 10 (10.75%) Android Developer
4 10 (10.75%) iOS Developer
5 8 (8.60%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.53%) Architect
6 7 (7.53%) Designer
6 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Android Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) JavaScript Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Lead
9 4 (4.30%) Product Designer
9 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.23%) Node.js Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) React Native
2 14 (15.05%) Node.js
3 11 (11.83%) RESTful
4 10 (10.75%) React
5 8 (8.60%) HTML
6 7 (7.53%) CSS
6 7 (7.53%) Dagger
6 7 (7.53%) Redux
7 6 (6.45%) .NET
7 6 (6.45%) Android SDK
7 6 (6.45%) Next.js
8 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.38%) Core Data
8 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.38%) REST
9 4 (4.30%) HTML5
9 4 (4.30%) UIKit
9 4 (4.30%) XML
10 3 (3.23%) OAuth
10 3 (3.23%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Animation
1 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.23%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (2.15%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.15%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.08%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.08%) EPoS
4 1 (1.08%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.08%) Life Science
4 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.08%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.08%) Social Media
4 1 (1.08%) Video Editing
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Android
2 19 (20.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.26%) Agile
2 28 (30.11%) User Experience
3 18 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.28%) Mobile Application Development
5 16 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (12.90%) UX Design
8 11 (11.83%) Android Development
8 11 (11.83%) Front End Development
8 11 (11.83%) iOS Development
9 10 (10.75%) DevOps
9 10 (10.75%) MVVM
10 9 (9.68%) Mobile Development
10 9 (9.68%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.60%) Microservices
12 6 (6.45%) Case Management
12 6 (6.45%) Code Quality
12 6 (6.45%) E-Commerce
12 6 (6.45%) Scrum
12 6 (6.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) Kotlin
2 14 (15.05%) JavaScript
3 12 (12.90%) Swift
4 8 (8.60%) Objective-C
5 6 (6.45%) Java
5 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.38%) C#
6 5 (5.38%) SQL
7 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.15%) C++
7 2 (2.15%) Python
7 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.15%) VBA
7 2 (2.15%) VBScript
8 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.23%) Degree
3 2 (2.15%) ISEB
3 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.08%) SCCM
3 1 (1.08%) SCOM
3 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) Google
3 3 (3.23%) Adobe
3 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.15%) Apple
5 1 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.08%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.08%) YouTube