Mobile Application Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mobile App Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile Application Development 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 287 332 455
Rank change year-on-year +45 +123 +112
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 17 13 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.085% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.096% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile £344 £317 £313
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £432 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £522 £459 £550
90th Percentile £538 £484 £735
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £413
% change year-on-year -2.70% +12.12% -23.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Mobile Application Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Mobile Application Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mobile Application Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mobile Application Development
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 Application Development.

Mobile Application Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mobile Application Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Application Development
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 Application Development.

Mobile Application Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Application Development
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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Figma
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Android Studio
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.88%) Xcode
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Android Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Android Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) iOS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Mobility Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Android SDK
1 5 (29.41%) Dagger
2 3 (17.65%) Core Data
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.76%) Core Animation
3 2 (11.76%) UIKit
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) React Native
4 1 (5.88%) Redux
4 1 (5.88%) SwiftUI
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Animation
3 1 (5.88%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Android
2 8 (47.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) User Experience
3 6 (35.29%) Android Development
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (29.41%) iOS Development
4 5 (29.41%) MVVM
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Mobile Development
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.88%) OWASP
7 1 (5.88%) Product Roadmap
7 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
7 1 (5.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Kotlin
2 6 (35.29%) Swift
3 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce