Senior iOS Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior iOS Developer
UK

The median Senior iOS Developer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 538 605
Rank change year-on-year -39 +67 +182
Contract jobs requiring a Senior iOS Developer 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.015% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £485 £428
25th Percentile £375 £537 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £455
Median % change year-on-year -38.44% +42.80% -17.27%
75th Percentile £538 £737 £473
90th Percentile £568 £775 £474
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Senior iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior iOS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior iOS Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior iOS Developer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior iOS Developer in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior iOS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
London -2 5 £400 -50.00% 2
England -35 5 £400 -50.00% 66
Work from Home -2 2 £400 -19.92% 1

Senior iOS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Senior iOS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior iOS Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 4 (80.00%) Apple
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Swift
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) AVFoundation
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (60.00%) Core Animation
3 3 (60.00%) Core Data
3 3 (60.00%) Firebase
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) Google
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) MVVM
3 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (60.00%) UIKit
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Xcode
4 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) CMS
4 2 (40.00%) CocoaPods
4 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Crashlytics

Senior iOS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Firebase
2 1 (20.00%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Xcode
2 2 (40.00%) CocoaPods
2 2 (40.00%) Crashlytics
2 2 (40.00%) fastlane
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AVFoundation
1 3 (60.00%) Core Animation
1 3 (60.00%) Core Data
1 3 (60.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) RxSwift
3 1 (20.00%) Flutter
3 1 (20.00%) React Native
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Animation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) tvOS
2 1 (20.00%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (60.00%) MVVM
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Swift
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Apple
2 3 (60.00%) Google