Mobile Development Contracts

Mobile Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 622 696
Rank change year-on-year +120 +74 -180
Contract jobs citing Mobile Development 82 75 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 54 107
10th Percentile £348 £358 £400
25th Percentile £385 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £566 £613 £591
90th Percentile £650 £788 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Mobile Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Development over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Development in the UK

Mobile Development
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Development within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +96 74 £459 -5.85% 50
London +80 41 £513 +2.50% 18
Work from Home +106 35 £468 -1.47% 33
UK excluding London +48 34 £450 +5.88% 35
North of England +32 19 £438 -27.08% 14
North West +29 15 £438 - 8
South East +17 5 £500 +5.26% 3
South West - 4 £425 - 4
Yorkshire +15 3 £450 -25.00% 5
Scotland +50 2 £469 - 2
West Midlands +16 2 £400 -15.79% 5
Midlands +13 2 £400 +14.29% 10
Wales - 2 £500 - 1
North East +9 1 £525 - 1

Mobile 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.44%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) Drupal
2 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.85%) AWS
1 13 (15.85%) Azure
2 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub
2 4 (4.88%) SaaS
3 3 (3.66%) Figma
4 2 (2.44%) Datadog
4 2 (2.44%) Firebase
4 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.44%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.88%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (1.22%) Big Data
4 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Android Studio
2 6 (7.32%) Mockito
3 5 (6.10%) Xcode
4 4 (4.88%) Git
4 4 (4.88%) Postman
4 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.44%) Appium
5 2 (2.44%) Gradle
5 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.44%) Selenium
5 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.22%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.22%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.22%) JIRA
6 1 (1.22%) JUnit
6 1 (1.22%) Storybook
6 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.22%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.22%) WebPageTest
General
1 5 (6.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.88%) Digital Healthcare
2 4 (4.88%) Finance
3 3 (3.66%) Banking
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing
4 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 57 (69.51%) Developer
2 22 (26.83%) Mobile Developer
3 20 (24.39%) Android Developer
4 11 (13.41%) Flutter Developer
5 9 (10.98%) iOS Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Lead
5 9 (10.98%) Senior
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.32%) iOS Android Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead Mobile Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Android Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (2.44%) Project Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Salesforce Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Android Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) HTML
1 12 (14.63%) Node.js
2 11 (13.41%) Flutter
2 11 (13.41%) RESTful
3 10 (12.20%) .NET
3 10 (12.20%) React Native
3 10 (12.20%) Vue
4 9 (10.98%) CSS
4 9 (10.98%) React
5 6 (7.32%) Ionic Framework
5 6 (7.32%) Next.js
6 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET
6 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (6.10%) Laravel
6 5 (6.10%) REST
6 5 (6.10%) Web Services
7 4 (4.88%) Android SDK
7 4 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (4.88%) UIKit
8 3 (3.66%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.49%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.44%) Social Media
3 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.22%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 48 (58.54%) Android
2 37 (45.12%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.44%) Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) Android Development
2 22 (26.83%) iOS Development
3 13 (15.85%) User Experience
4 12 (14.63%) Agile
5 11 (13.41%) MVVM
6 10 (12.20%) Web Development
7 9 (10.98%) Design Patterns
7 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
8 8 (9.76%) DevOps
9 7 (8.54%) Unit Testing
10 6 (7.32%) Fintech
10 6 (7.32%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (7.32%) MVC
10 6 (7.32%) Project Management
10 6 (7.32%) SOLID
10 6 (7.32%) UX Design
11 5 (6.10%) Front End Development
11 5 (6.10%) OO
11 5 (6.10%) OOP
11 5 (6.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Java
2 20 (24.39%) Kotlin
3 16 (19.51%) Swift
4 12 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) C#
6 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.10%) Objective-C
8 4 (4.88%) Dart
9 3 (3.66%) PHP
9 3 (3.66%) SQL
10 2 (2.44%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.44%) C
11 1 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.22%) Python
11 1 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.66%) Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Ansible
1 2 (2.44%) Terraform
2 1 (1.22%) Bugsnag
2 1 (1.22%) Grafana
2 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.88%) Xamarin
2 2 (2.44%) Checkmarx
2 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe
3 1 (1.22%) Apple
3 1 (1.22%) Google