Mobile Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mobile Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mobile Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mobile 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 292 312 436
Rank change year-on-year +20 +124 +92
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 12 33 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 31 32
10th Percentile £373 £375 £376
25th Percentile £444 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £468 £456
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +2.58% -8.75%
75th Percentile £594 £500 £563
90th Percentile £598 £588 £771
UK median daily rate £525 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +12.18% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -18.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Mobile 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 Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Mobile 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 Development.

Mobile Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mobile Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile 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 Development.

Mobile Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (8.33%) Vite
2 1 (8.33%) webpack
2 1 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Dagger
2 2 (16.67%) UIKit
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (8.33%) Core Animation
3 1 (8.33%) Core Data
3 1 (8.33%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Parceljs
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) React Native
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Sass
3 1 (8.33%) SwiftUI
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Animation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 4 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (25.00%) Android Development
3 3 (25.00%) iOS Development
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (16.67%) MVVM
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (8.33%) API Development
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Epics
5 1 (8.33%) Monorepo
5 1 (8.33%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Kotlin
2 4 (33.33%) Swift
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Amplitude
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) OutSystems
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce