Mobile Engineer Contracts in England

Mobile Engineer
UK > England

The median Mobile Engineer daily rate in England is £372 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 585 682
Rank change year-on-year +77 +97 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 23 61 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 61
10th Percentile £177 - £166
25th Percentile £188 £195 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £575 £314
Median % change year-on-year -35.39% +83.41% -24.00%
75th Percentile £450 £613 £550
90th Percentile £555 £693 £588
UK median daily rate £386 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -32.91% +53.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £85.00 £14.61
Median % change year-on-year -70.59% +481.79% -
75th Percentile £25.50 - £14.81
90th Percentile - - £14.92
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £85.00 £14.61
% change year-on-year -70.59% +481.79% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Mobile Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Mobile Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Engineer in England

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Engineer in England

Mobile Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Engineer in England

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Engineer in England

Mobile Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +80 10 £400 -30.43% 42
North of England +27 8 £195 -61.00% 21
Yorkshire +18 6 £160 -54.29% 11
West Midlands +21 2 £450 +130.77% 6
Midlands +18 2 £450 +130.77% 10
South East +14 2 £372 - 37
North East - 2 £195 - 2
South West +8 1 £195 -55.43% 19
Mobile Engineer
UK

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Mobile Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (34.78%) Android
1 8 (34.78%) Apple iOS
1 8 (34.78%) Mobile App
2 7 (30.43%) Appium
2 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Break/Fix
4 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) QA
5 4 (17.39%) Degree
5 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
5 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Windows
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco
5 4 (17.39%) Service Management
5 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
5 4 (17.39%) Swift
5 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.04%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (13.04%) Meraki
6 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
6 3 (13.04%) XCUITest
6 3 (13.04%) 3Com
6 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) LAN
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
1 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) 3G
2 1 (4.35%) 4G
2 1 (4.35%) 5G
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) GPRS
2 1 (4.35%) GSM
2 1 (4.35%) VoLTE
2 1 (4.35%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Appium
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) XCUITest
3 2 (8.70%) UI Automator
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) React Native
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Social Media
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Android
1 8 (34.78%) Apple iOS
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Break/Fix
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
4 4 (17.39%) Service Management
4 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
5 3 (13.04%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (8.70%) Android Development
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.70%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (8.70%) E-Commerce
6 2 (8.70%) iOS Development
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) TDD
6 2 (8.70%) User Experience
7 1 (4.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
2 4 (17.39%) Swift
3 2 (8.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) 3Com
3 3 (13.04%) Aruba
3 3 (13.04%) Brocade
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix
3 3 (13.04%) Juniper
3 3 (13.04%) Meraki
4 1 (4.35%) Apple
4 1 (4.35%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.35%) Nokia