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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 480 608
Rank change year-on-year -20 +128 -54
Contract jobs citing iOS Development 51 115 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 80 47
10th Percentile £375 £300 £293
25th Percentile £413 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -10.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £606
90th Percentile £580 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.47 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 28,676 37,017 50,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.74% 85.22% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,067 23,615 34,636
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 2,525 1,716
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.06 £16.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -6 37 £450 +1.35% 260
UK excluding London +11 24 £450 +28.57% 110
London -7 18 £486 -11.64% 175
North of England -6 15 £450 +42.86% 34
Scotland - 9 £425 - 16
Work from Home +7 8 £503 +7.37% 129
Yorkshire -5 8 £450 +50.00% 9
North West -1 6 £375 -6.25% 24
North East - 1 - - 1

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 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.88%) GitHub
2 2 (3.92%) Firebase
3 1 (1.96%) Apple Pay
3 1 (1.96%) AWS
3 1 (1.96%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.96%) Bitrise
3 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.96%) Google Play
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) SSL
Development Applications
1 15 (29.41%) Xcode
2 12 (23.53%) Git
3 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.84%) Gradle
5 2 (3.92%) JUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.96%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.96%) fastlane
6 1 (1.96%) GitLab
6 1 (1.96%) JIRA
6 1 (1.96%) NUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Subversion
6 1 (1.96%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (66.67%) Developer
2 33 (64.71%) iOS Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Android Developer
3 6 (11.76%) iOS Android Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Mobile Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Product Manager
8 1 (1.96%) Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Digital Product Manager
8 1 (1.96%) Java Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Lead Android Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Lead Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Lead iOS Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Mobility Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Android Developer
8 1 (1.96%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) SwiftUI
2 12 (23.53%) UIKit
3 6 (11.76%) RESTful
4 4 (7.84%) CSS
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) iOS SDK
5 3 (5.88%) Core Data
5 3 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.92%) React Native
7 1 (1.96%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (1.96%) Android SDK
7 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.96%) AVFoundation
7 1 (1.96%) Flutter
7 1 (1.96%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (1.96%) JWT
7 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.96%) OpenID
7 1 (1.96%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (54.90%) Mobile App
2 9 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 6 (11.76%) Credit Risk
3 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (11.76%) iPad
3 6 (11.76%) iPhone
4 5 (9.80%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (7.84%) NHS
6 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.96%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 30 (58.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Agile
2 22 (43.14%) CI/CD
3 19 (37.25%) Mobile Development
4 17 (33.33%) User Experience
5 13 (25.49%) Android Development
6 12 (23.53%) Scrum
6 12 (23.53%) TDD
6 12 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 12 (23.53%) UX Design
7 11 (21.57%) BDD
7 11 (21.57%) MVVM
8 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (17.65%) Design Patterns
10 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (15.69%) Mobile Application Development
10 8 (15.69%) MVC
10 8 (15.69%) Push Notifications
10 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
11 7 (13.73%) Biometrics
11 7 (13.73%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (64.71%) Swift
2 23 (45.10%) Objective-C
3 7 (13.73%) Kotlin
4 6 (11.76%) Java
4 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) C
5 4 (7.84%) C++
5 4 (7.84%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) Ruby
5 4 (7.84%) Scala
6 1 (1.96%) C#
6 1 (1.96%) Rust
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.96%) SCCM
1 1 (1.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Apple
2 2 (3.92%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe
3 1 (1.96%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.96%) Pega
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) Sitecore