Mobile Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mobile Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Mobile Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 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 334 422 605
Rank change year-on-year +88 +183 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 7 33 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.13% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.14% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 10
10th Percentile - £413 £455
25th Percentile £400 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £450 £625 £556
90th Percentile - £745 £588
UK median daily rate £386 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -32.91% +53.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £85.00 £14.61
% change year-on-year -70.59% +481.79% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Mobile Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Mobile Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Mobile Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mobile Engineer.

Mobile Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Mobile Engineer.

Mobile Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Mobile App
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
2 4 (57.14%) Appium
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Android
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Social Media
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Swift
3 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) XCUITest
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (28.57%) Android Development
3 2 (28.57%) iOS Development

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) GSM
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Appium
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) UI Automator
2 2 (28.57%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
1 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (28.57%) Android Development
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Development
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Nokia