Hybrid/Remote Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends

Mobile App Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mobile Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 286 366
Rank change year-on-year -16 +80 +122
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 15 29 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.26% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.29% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 13
10th Percentile £171 £319 £309
25th Percentile £204 £441 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £600
90th Percentile - £625 -
UK median daily rate £354 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -32.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process & 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 9,224 9,963 14,548
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.54% 89.38% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,076 6,244 9,917
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 198 368
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.43 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.13 £26.18
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -33.07% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.19 £70.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mobile Application Development and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mobile Application Development job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Mobile Application Development daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Mobile Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Application Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mobile Application Development

Mobile Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
1 3 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (13.33%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Android Studio
2 5 (33.33%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Xcode
4 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (13.33%) Fiddler
6 1 (6.67%) CocoaPods
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) UX Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Product Owner
3 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) Ajax
2 3 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (20.00%) React
3 2 (13.33%) iOS SDK
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Flutter
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) PMI
4 1 (6.67%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Android Development
2 5 (33.33%) User Experience
3 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (20.00%) iOS Development
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 1 (6.67%) Project Management
6 1 (6.67%) Project Planning
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Objective-C
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.67%) MBA
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) OneTrust
2 2 (13.33%) Tealium