{ "name": "appdevelopmentcost.co.uk UK App Developer Day Rates", "title": "UK App Developer Day Rates", "url": "https://appdevelopmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-app-developer-day-rates/", "csv": "https://appdevelopmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-app-developer-day-rates.csv", "markdown": "https://appdevelopmentcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-app-developer-day-rates/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-28", "license": "https://appdevelopmentcost.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The UK App Developer Day Rates carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by platform run from 350 to 425 GBP, read 27 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The UK App Developer Day Rates carries 7 published figures read from 6 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by platform run from 350 to 425 GBP, read 27 October 2026.", "6 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 27 October 2026.", "UK App Developer Day Rates, platform mobile UK: median 375 GBP across 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"ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer contracts, UK", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/mobile%20developer.do", "figure": "£375, ", "value": 375, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "platform": "mobile UK" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median Mobile Developer daily rate in the UK is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "6fecdf4bb6833951cc2f9f3e1d5c13ef60a0f9019825403467a60896a674cdab" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer contracts, London", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/london/mobile%20developer.do", "figure": "£375, ", "value": 375, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "platform": "mobile London" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median Mobile Developer daily rate in London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "fc76cd12c1952a8d04b820b16c2116b52bb40fe96a67a340db2a2f31260be495" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: iOS Developer contracts, UK", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/ios%20developer.do", "figure": "£400, ", "value": 400, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "platform": "iOS UK" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median iOS Developer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "4fde984fea1867a475e6d39b467f4abd589fa040e6f6384780c5b62d204458e1" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: Android Developer contracts, UK", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/android%20developer.do", "figure": "£425, ", "value": 425, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "platform": "Android UK" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median Android Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months 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"mobile Manchester" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median Mobile Developer daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "caa131c315a0ee934e8551c5e2f5c75c7f810b6add60a98076eb641c9fcfe396" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Ski", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/manchester/mobile%20developer.do", "figure": "£400, ", "value": 400, "unit": "GBP", "vat": null, "axis": { "region": "Manchester" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "quote": "The median Mobile Developer daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026. The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "caa131c315a0ee934e8551c5e2f5c75c7f810b6add60a98076eb641c9fcfe396" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "ITJobsWatch: Flutter contracts, UK", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/flutter.do", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends, Contract", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/mobile%20application%20development.do", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "ITJobsWatch: React Native Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related", "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/react%20native.do", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-27", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/mobile%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer contracts, UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/london/mobile%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer contracts, London", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/ios%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: iOS Developer contracts, UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/android%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Android Developer contracts, UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/flutter.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Flutter contracts, UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/mobile%20application%20development.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Application Development Contract Job Trends, Contract", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/react%20native.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: React Native Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/ios%20android%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: iOS Android Developer Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/manchester/mobile%20developer.do", "label": "ITJobsWatch: Mobile Developer Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Ski", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 461 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median contract day rate per platform (mobile, iOS, Android, Flutter) in the UK and London from ITJobsWatch's six-month advert window, and the implied cost of an MVP band at those rates (days x median), set beside the studios' own bands.", "embed": "

350 to 425 GBP

6 of 7 published figures (platform), UK App Developer Day Rates, across 6 sources, read 27 October 2026

Source: appdevelopmentcost.co.uk UK App Developer Day Rates
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