Mobile Developer Contracts

Mobile Developer
UK

The median Mobile Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 670 794
Rank change year-on-year +124 +124 -165
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Developer 38 27 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.049% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.051% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 39
10th Percentile £325 £329 £415
25th Percentile £344 £373 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +22.09%
75th Percentile £528 £513 £572
90th Percentile £650 £606 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £395 £525
% change year-on-year +1.27% -24.76% +53.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Mobile Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mobile Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Developer in the UK

Mobile Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +94 29 £400 -15.79% 9
London +88 15 £350 -30.00% 1
Work from Home +111 14 £468 +6.97% 6
UK excluding London +33 14 £400 +1.27% 9
North of England +19 5 £450 -5.26% 4
South West - 5 £375 -
Yorkshire +16 3 £500 +42.86%
North West +15 2 £360 -24.21% 3
Scotland - 2 £588 - 1
South East +15 1 £375 - 2
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Mobile Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 27 (71.05%) Android
2 22 (57.89%) Mobile Development
3 21 (55.26%) Apple iOS
4 20 (52.63%) Mobile App
5 17 (44.74%) Android Development
5 17 (44.74%) iOS Development
6 8 (21.05%) .NET
6 8 (21.05%) Swift
7 7 (18.42%) Kotlin
7 7 (18.42%) SOLID
7 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
7 7 (18.42%) Azure
7 7 (18.42%) MVVM
8 6 (15.79%) Lua
8 6 (15.79%) C#
9 5 (13.16%) HTML
9 5 (13.16%) OO
9 5 (13.16%) Web Services
9 5 (13.16%) MVC
9 5 (13.16%) Node.js
10 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
10 4 (10.53%) Web Development
10 4 (10.53%) OOP
10 4 (10.53%) Java
10 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
10 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
10 4 (10.53%) CSS
10 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (10.53%) Flutter
10 4 (10.53%) Responsive Web Design

Mobile Developer 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 1 (2.63%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub
2 2 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Appium
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) Gradle
1 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.63%) JUnit
1 1 (2.63%) Postman
1 1 (2.63%) Selenium
1 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Banking
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) HTML
2 5 (13.16%) Node.js
2 5 (13.16%) Web Services
3 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (10.53%) CSS
3 4 (10.53%) Flutter
3 4 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) Vue
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.26%) iOS SDK
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.63%) HTML5
5 1 (2.63%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (2.63%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.63%) SwiftUI
5 1 (2.63%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (52.63%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (71.05%) Android
2 21 (55.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Mobile Development
2 17 (44.74%) Android Development
2 17 (44.74%) iOS Development
3 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
3 7 (18.42%) MVVM
3 7 (18.42%) SOLID
4 5 (13.16%) MVC
4 5 (13.16%) OO
5 4 (10.53%) Fintech
5 4 (10.53%) OOP
5 4 (10.53%) Responsive Web Design
5 4 (10.53%) Web Development
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.89%) TDD
7 2 (5.26%) Agile
7 2 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Migration
7 2 (5.26%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Swift
2 7 (18.42%) Kotlin
3 6 (15.79%) C#
3 6 (15.79%) Lua
4 4 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.26%) Dart
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.26%) Xamarin
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe
2 1 (2.63%) Apple
2 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
2 1 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) SAP