Mobile Application Development Contracts in England

Mobile App Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Mobile Application Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 578 681
Rank change year-on-year +77 +103 -90
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 42 60 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 50 74
10th Percentile £319 £272 £411
25th Percentile £435 £330 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £541
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -21.48% +3.10%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £625
90th Percentile £578 £615 £725
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £541
% change year-on-year -2.63% -12.24% +3.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Mobile Application Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Mobile Application Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in England

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in England

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in England

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Application Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in England

Mobile Application Development
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Application Development within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
London +68 29 £463 - 17
North of England +32 9 £400 -3.15% 10
Yorkshire +22 7 £400 +14.29% 5
North West +19 2 £375 -21.22% 5
South East +10 2 £475 +43.94% 2
Mobile Application Development
UK

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (9.52%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (9.52%) InVision
1 4 (9.52%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) GitHub
2 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) Firebase
2 4 (9.52%) Flurry Analytics
2 4 (9.52%) PubNub
3 3 (7.14%) Apigee
3 3 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.76%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Figma
5 1 (2.38%) Google Play
5 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Mixpanel
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Appium
3 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.52%) Axure RP
4 4 (9.52%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
4 4 (9.52%) Selenium
5 3 (7.14%) gulp
5 3 (7.14%) Maven
6 2 (4.76%) git-flow
6 2 (4.76%) XCTest
6 2 (4.76%) XCUITest
7 1 (2.38%) ESLint
7 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Publishing
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Android Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Project Manager
4 7 (16.67%) Designer
5 4 (9.52%) iOS Developer
5 4 (9.52%) React Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Architect
7 2 (4.76%) iOS Android Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Mobile Project Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Mobile Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Mobile Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) React Native
2 8 (19.05%) Node.js
3 7 (16.67%) CSS
3 7 (16.67%) RESTful
4 6 (14.29%) .NET
4 6 (14.29%) HTML
5 4 (9.52%) ADO
5 4 (9.52%) React
6 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.14%) Electron
6 3 (7.14%) OAuth
6 3 (7.14%) OpenID
6 3 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (7.14%) SAML
7 2 (4.76%) Jest
7 2 (4.76%) SwiftUI
7 2 (4.76%) UIKit
8 1 (2.38%) GatsbyJS
8 1 (2.38%) Next.js
8 1 (2.38%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 42 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Social Media
3 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (57.14%) Android
2 15 (35.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Android Development
3 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (21.43%) iOS Development
5 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 8 (19.05%) TDD
5 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 8 (19.05%) Waterfall
6 7 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.67%) SDLC
6 7 (16.67%) User Experience
7 6 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 6 (14.29%) DevOps
7 6 (14.29%) MVVM
8 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
8 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.90%) Responsive Web Design
8 5 (11.90%) Unit Testing
9 4 (9.52%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
2 11 (26.19%) Kotlin
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) Swift
5 4 (9.52%) C#
5 4 (9.52%) PHP
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) Python
7 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Adobe
1 4 (9.52%) Checkmarx
1 4 (9.52%) Google
1 4 (9.52%) Xamarin
2 3 (7.14%) Apple
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Cognizant