iOS Developer Contracts

iOS Developer
UK

The median iOS Developer daily rate in the UK is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 534 640
Rank change year-on-year +46 +106 -9
Contract jobs requiring an iOS Developer 42 56 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 45
10th Percentile £412 - £263
25th Percentile £449 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% -16.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £613
90th Percentile £579 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +53.33% -36.84% -9.52%

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 27,097 40,246 56,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.78% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,700 26,198 39,189
10th Percentile £300 £277 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,676 1,567
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.16
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.26 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iOS Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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 +46 33 £460 +5.14% 26
UK excluding London +55 17 £460 +53.33% 22
London +43 15 £486 +5.08% 12
Work from Home +43 14 £525 +16.67% 18
North of England +4 9 £450 +50.00% 9
Yorkshire +3 6 £450 +50.00% 1
South West +44 5 £569 - 1
North West +10 3 £550 +22.22% 8
Scotland - 3 £425 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, iOS 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 iOS Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 42 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 28 (66.67%) Swift
3 19 (45.24%) Android
4 18 (42.86%) Objective-C
5 17 (40.48%) Mobile App
5 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
6 15 (35.71%) RESTful
7 14 (33.33%) Agile
8 13 (30.95%) User Experience
9 10 (23.81%) Git
10 9 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
10 9 (21.43%) UIKit
10 9 (21.43%) Android Development
10 9 (21.43%) SwiftUI
11 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
12 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (16.67%) Apple
12 7 (16.67%) Mobile Development
12 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
13 6 (14.29%) Kotlin
13 6 (14.29%) Core Data
13 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (14.29%) iOS SDK
14 5 (11.90%) MVVM
14 5 (11.90%) Scrum
14 5 (11.90%) Cocoa
14 5 (11.90%) Xcode
14 5 (11.90%) Cocoa Touch
15 4 (9.52%) Clean Code

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 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) Apple Pay
2 2 (4.76%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (2.38%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Xcode
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) NUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Subversion
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) RESTful
2 9 (21.43%) SwiftUI
2 9 (21.43%) UIKit
3 6 (14.29%) Core Data
3 6 (14.29%) iOS SDK
4 5 (11.90%) Cocoa
4 5 (11.90%) Cocoa Touch
5 4 (9.52%) AVFoundation
6 3 (7.14%) .NET
6 3 (7.14%) Core Animation
6 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.14%) React Native
7 2 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (4.76%) Android SDK
7 2 (4.76%) Flutter
7 2 (4.76%) OpenCV
7 2 (4.76%) REST
8 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.38%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.52%) NHS
3 3 (7.14%) Animation
3 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) EMV
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 19 (45.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) Agile
4 13 (30.95%) User Experience
5 9 (21.43%) Android Development
5 9 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
6 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (16.67%) Mobile Development
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.90%) MVVM
8 5 (11.90%) Scrum
9 4 (9.52%) Clean Code
10 3 (7.14%) Code Quality
10 3 (7.14%) Image Processing
10 3 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (7.14%) SOLID
11 2 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (4.76%) Kanban
11 2 (4.76%) OWASP
11 2 (4.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Swift
2 18 (42.86%) Objective-C
3 6 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (2.38%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media