Mobile Engineer Contracts

Mobile Engineer
UK

The median Mobile Engineer daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 635 756
Rank change year-on-year +59 +121 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Engineer 26 60 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 61
10th Percentile £185 - -
25th Percentile £240 £195 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +53.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £459 £613 £556
90th Percentile £533 £745 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £195 £425 £195
% change year-on-year -54.12% +117.95% -44.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
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 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 - £14.61

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Mobile Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Engineer in the UK

Mobile Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +64 25 £400 -30.43% 109
London +69 14 £400 -30.43% 21
UK excluding London +26 11 £195 -54.12% 98
North of England +22 7 £178 -51.86% 21
Work from Home +87 6 £400 -28.89% 10
Yorkshire +13 6 £160 -20.00% 12
South East +8 2 £372 - 25
Midlands +22 1 £450 +125.00% 20
West Midlands +13 1 £450 +125.00% 9
South West +11 1 £195 -55.43% 18
North East - 1 £195 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 featuring Mobile Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (46.15%) Android
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 9 (34.62%) Apple iOS
4 7 (26.92%) Mobile App
4 7 (26.92%) Appium
4 7 (26.92%) Kotlin
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) QA
6 5 (19.23%) Break/Fix
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (15.38%) Swift
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco
7 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
8 3 (11.54%) Citrix
8 3 (11.54%) Juniper
8 3 (11.54%) C
8 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) Windows
8 3 (11.54%) LAN
8 3 (11.54%) WAN
8 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (11.54%) Service Management
8 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (11.54%) 3Com
8 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Brocade
8 3 (11.54%) Degree

Mobile Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) LAN
1 3 (11.54%) WAN
1 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.85%) 3G
2 1 (3.85%) 4G
2 1 (3.85%) 5G
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) GPRS
2 1 (3.85%) GSM
2 1 (3.85%) VoLTE
2 1 (3.85%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Appium
2 3 (11.54%) Selenium
3 2 (7.69%) XCUITest
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Postman
4 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.85%) UI Automator
General
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Retail
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) React Native
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Social Media
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) BYOD
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Android
2 9 (34.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
2 5 (19.23%) Break/Fix
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
3 3 (11.54%) Service Management
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.54%) Test Scripting
4 2 (7.69%) Android Development
4 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 2 (7.69%) E-Commerce
4 2 (7.69%) iOS Development
4 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.69%) TDD
4 2 (7.69%) User Experience
5 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.85%) Product Requirements
5 1 (3.85%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) Kotlin
3 4 (15.38%) Swift
4 3 (11.54%) C
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) 3Com
2 3 (11.54%) Aruba
2 3 (11.54%) Brocade
2 3 (11.54%) Citrix
2 3 (11.54%) Juniper
2 3 (11.54%) Meraki
3 1 (3.85%) Apple
3 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.85%) Nokia
124 Mobile Engineer jobs Nationwide