Mobile Application Development Contracts

Mobile App Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 621 728
Rank change year-on-year +90 +107 -116
Contract jobs citing Mobile Application Development 45 63 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 89
10th Percentile £319 £283 £425
25th Percentile £435 £331 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -18.60% +2.38%
75th Percentile £492 £613 £625
90th Percentile £588 £681 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +8.00% -23.81% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Mobile Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Application Development over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Application Development in the UK

Mobile Application Development
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +97 39 £463 +15.63% 50
London +86 28 £463 +12.12% 25
Work from Home +113 16 £441 -2.00% 25
UK excluding London +62 12 £432 +8.00% 27
North of England +32 8 £375 -21.22% 11
Yorkshire - 7 £400 - 5
South East +12 2 £475 +43.94% 1
Wales - 2 £450 - 3
North West +18 1 £350 -26.47% 5

Mobile Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (8.89%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (8.89%) InVision
1 4 (8.89%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) GitHub
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) Firebase
2 4 (8.89%) Flurry Analytics
2 4 (8.89%) PubNub
3 3 (6.67%) Apigee
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.44%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Figma
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) Google Play
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Mixpanel
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (15.56%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) Appium
4 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.89%) Axure RP
5 4 (8.89%) Postman
5 4 (8.89%) Selenium
6 3 (6.67%) gulp
6 3 (6.67%) Maven
7 2 (4.44%) ESLint
7 2 (4.44%) git-flow
7 2 (4.44%) XCTest
7 2 (4.44%) XCUITest
8 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.22%) JIRA
8 1 (2.22%) Lerna
8 1 (2.22%) Storybook
8 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.22%) Vite
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Publishing
4 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 8 (17.78%) Android Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Designer
5 4 (8.89%) React Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Mobile Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Android Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Mobile Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Mobile Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) React Native
2 9 (20.00%) RESTful
3 8 (17.78%) CSS
3 8 (17.78%) Node.js
4 6 (13.33%) .NET
4 6 (13.33%) HTML
5 5 (11.11%) React
6 4 (8.89%) ADO
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.67%) Electron
7 3 (6.67%) Flutter
7 3 (6.67%) Jest
7 3 (6.67%) OAuth
7 3 (6.67%) OpenID
7 3 (6.67%) REST
7 3 (6.67%) SAML
8 2 (4.44%) SwiftUI
8 2 (4.44%) UIKit
9 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 45 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Social Media
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Android
2 15 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) Android Development
3 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (20.00%) User Experience
5 8 (17.78%) Waterfall
6 7 (15.56%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (15.56%) Data Modelling
6 7 (15.56%) SDLC
6 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) TDD
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) iOS Development
7 6 (13.33%) MVVM
7 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
8 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.11%) Fintech
8 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 5 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Java
2 12 (26.67%) Kotlin
3 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.89%) C#
5 4 (8.89%) Swift
6 3 (6.67%) PHP
6 3 (6.67%) Python
7 2 (4.44%) Dart
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Adobe
2 4 (8.89%) Checkmarx
2 4 (8.89%) Xamarin
3 3 (6.67%) Apple
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Cognizant