iOS Development Contracts

iOS Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring iOS Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iOS Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 498 627
Rank change year-on-year +40 +129 -83
Contract jobs citing iOS Development 62 84 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 66 60
10th Percentile £412 £300 £296
25th Percentile £450 £326 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £591
90th Percentile £631 £575 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +30.00% -26.32% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

iOS Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iOS Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iOS Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +25 45 £460 +2.22% 73
London +27 25 £525 -0.62% 34
UK excluding London +46 22 £455 +30.00% 53
Work from Home +26 15 £525 +12.18% 51
North of England +7 11 £450 +50.00% 19
Yorkshire +1 7 £450 +50.00% 4
Scotland - 6 £425 - 5
South West +46 5 £569 +51.67% 3
North West +12 4 £525 +16.67% 14

iOS Development
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 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Apple Pay
1 3 (4.84%) AWS
2 2 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (1.61%) Azure
3 1 (1.61%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.61%) Firebase
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.61%) SaaS
3 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Xcode
2 11 (17.74%) Git
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
4 1 (1.61%) JUnit
4 1 (1.61%) NUnit
4 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (69.35%) Developer
2 42 (67.74%) iOS Developer
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Android Developer
4 8 (12.90%) iOS Android Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior iOS Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Mobile Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Applications Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) React Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Mobile Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Product Manager
9 1 (1.61%) Digital Product Manager
9 1 (1.61%) Java Android Developer
9 1 (1.61%) Mobility Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Objective-C Developer
9 1 (1.61%) UI/UX Developer
9 1 (1.61%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) UIKit
2 15 (24.19%) RESTful
3 13 (20.97%) SwiftUI
4 7 (11.29%) iOS SDK
5 6 (9.68%) Core Data
6 5 (8.06%) Cocoa
6 5 (8.06%) Cocoa Touch
6 5 (8.06%) React Native
7 4 (6.45%) AVFoundation
8 3 (4.84%) .NET
8 3 (4.84%) Core Animation
8 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.23%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (3.23%) Android SDK
9 2 (3.23%) Flutter
9 2 (3.23%) OpenCV
9 2 (3.23%) REST
10 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.61%) Jetpack Compose
10 1 (1.61%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 31 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.68%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.45%) NHS
4 3 (4.84%) Animation
4 3 (4.84%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.84%) iPad
4 3 (4.84%) iPhone
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.61%) EMV
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 30 (48.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Agile
2 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 19 (30.65%) User Experience
4 18 (29.03%) Mobile Development
5 17 (27.42%) Android Development
6 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (19.35%) Mobile Application Development
8 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.90%) MVVM
9 8 (12.90%) Scrum
10 7 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (9.68%) Push Notifications
12 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (8.06%) Design Patterns
12 5 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
12 5 (8.06%) TDD
12 5 (8.06%) Unit Testing
12 5 (8.06%) UX Design
13 4 (6.45%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 41 (66.13%) Swift
2 29 (46.77%) Objective-C
3 8 (12.90%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.61%) SCCM
1 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Apple
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe
2 1 (1.61%) Google
2 1 (1.61%) Optimizely
2 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.61%) SAP
2 1 (1.61%) Sitecore
2 1 (1.61%) Virgin Media