iOS Developer
UK

The median iOS Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 845 672
Rank change year-on-year +30 -173 -69
Permanent jobs requiring an iOS Developer 62 133 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.13% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.14% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 55 75 339
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £51,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +17.39%
75th Percentile £73,886 £97,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £121,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.03% +13.91% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing iOS Developer.

Salary trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 57 £65,000 -13.33% 22
UK excluding London -15 46 £55,000 -16.03% 11
North of England +67 30 £65,500 - 5
Work from Home +74 21 £47,500 -48.65% 8
North West +21 18 £70,000 +23.89% 3
London +68 16 £62,500 -32.43% 13
Yorkshire +101 12 £35,000 -68.18% 2
South West -26 7 £71,991 +51.56%
Wales - 5 £55,000 - 2
East of England +10 2 £55,000 -38.89%
Midlands +6 2 £27,500 -43.59% 2
East Midlands -16 2 £27,500 -45.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, iOS Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring iOS Developer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 61 (98.39%) Apple iOS
3 51 (82.26%) Swift
4 30 (48.39%) Mobile App
5 23 (37.10%) Mentoring
6 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (29.03%) Objective-C
8 17 (27.42%) Xcode
8 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
9 16 (25.81%) Agile
10 15 (24.19%) User Experience
10 15 (24.19%) Code Quality
11 13 (20.97%) Core Data
11 13 (20.97%) Mobile Application Development
12 12 (19.35%) Git
12 12 (19.35%) RESTful
13 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
13 11 (17.74%) Kotlin
14 10 (16.13%) Mobile Development
15 9 (14.52%) Clean Code
15 9 (14.52%) SwiftUI
15 9 (14.52%) Core Animation
15 9 (14.52%) MVVM
15 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
15 9 (14.52%) Animation
16 8 (12.90%) JSON
16 8 (12.90%) TDD
17 7 (11.29%) REST
17 7 (11.29%) Android
17 7 (11.29%) Design Patterns

iOS 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 5 (8.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) AWS
1 5 (8.06%) AWS IoT
2 2 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Xcode
2 12 (19.35%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.23%) fastlane
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Finance
2 5 (8.06%) Mandarin Language
3 3 (4.84%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) Core Data
2 12 (19.35%) RESTful
3 9 (14.52%) Core Animation
3 9 (14.52%) SwiftUI
4 8 (12.90%) JSON
5 7 (11.29%) REST
6 6 (9.68%) RxSwift
6 6 (9.68%) UIKit
7 5 (8.06%) Apache Cordova
8 4 (6.45%) RxJava
9 3 (4.84%) Cocoa
9 3 (4.84%) Cocoa Touch
9 3 (4.84%) iOS SDK
10 2 (3.23%) RAML
11 1 (1.61%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 30 (48.39%) Mobile App
2 9 (14.52%) Animation
3 5 (8.06%) IoT
4 3 (4.84%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) PropTech
4 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 61 (98.39%) Apple iOS
2 7 (11.29%) Android
3 2 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 23 (37.10%) Mentoring
3 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.81%) Agile
5 15 (24.19%) Code Quality
5 15 (24.19%) User Experience
6 13 (20.97%) Mobile Application Development
7 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
8 10 (16.13%) Mobile Development
9 9 (14.52%) Clean Code
9 9 (14.52%) MVVM
9 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
10 8 (12.90%) TDD
11 7 (11.29%) Design Patterns
12 6 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (9.68%) Software Architecture
13 5 (8.06%) Benchmarking
13 5 (8.06%) Data Modelling
13 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
13 5 (8.06%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 51 (82.26%) Swift
2 18 (29.03%) Objective-C
3 11 (17.74%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Apple