iOS Development Job Trends in England

iOS Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring iOS Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 550 684
Rank change year-on-year -23 +134 +34
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 110 89 146
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 76 60 114
10th Percentile - £53,675 £35,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £80,938 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -31.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,806 36,392 71,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 93.41% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39,236 20,177 53,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing iOS Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

iOS Development job vacancy trend in England

iOS Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing iOS Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing iOS Development

iOS Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Development in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for iOS Development in England

iOS Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Development within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
South East +9 45 £70,000 +21.74% 2
North of England -10 27 £65,000 -13.33% 4
London -45 20 £90,000 +20.00% 15
North West +14 17 £72,500 -4.92%
East Midlands -5 17 £63,775 -
Midlands -27 17 £63,775 -7.24%
Yorkshire -47 7 £55,000 +10.00% 2
North East -34 3 £47,000 - 2
South West -69 1 £75,000 +7.14% 2
iOS Development
UK

iOS Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.36%) AWS
1 18 (16.36%) GitHub
2 15 (13.64%) Firebase
3 14 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (12.73%) TestFlight
4 13 (11.82%) Serverless
4 13 (11.82%) Stripe
5 7 (6.36%) Azure
6 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.64%) ChatGPT
7 4 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.73%) SaaS
9 2 (1.82%) GCP
9 2 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.91%) Google Play
10 1 (0.91%) Sentry
10 1 (0.91%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.73%) MySQL
2 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.91%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Crashlytics
1 13 (11.82%) XCTest
2 7 (6.36%) XCUITest
3 5 (4.55%) fastlane
3 5 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.73%) Xcode
5 2 (1.82%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.91%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.91%) Appium
6 1 (0.91%) CMake
6 1 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.91%) JIRA
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.18%) Finance
3 7 (6.36%) Retail
4 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.73%) Banking
4 3 (2.73%) French Language
4 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.73%) Italian Language
4 3 (2.73%) Marketing
4 3 (2.73%) Portuguese Language
4 3 (2.73%) Spanish Language
5 2 (1.82%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.82%) Law
5 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.91%) Publishing
6 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 85 (77.27%) Developer
2 79 (71.82%) iOS Developer
3 43 (39.09%) Senior
4 35 (31.82%) Senior Developer
5 31 (28.18%) Senior iOS Developer
6 14 (12.73%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (10.00%) Android Developer
7 11 (10.00%) Applications Developer
7 11 (10.00%) iOS Android Developer
8 10 (9.09%) Senior Applications Developer
9 8 (7.27%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Lead
10 7 (6.36%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Lead iOS Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Mobile Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.55%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
12 5 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (42.73%) SwiftUI
2 23 (20.91%) RESTful
3 19 (17.27%) UIKit
4 5 (4.55%) .NET
5 4 (3.64%) React Native
6 3 (2.73%) CSS
6 3 (2.73%) HTML
6 3 (2.73%) Laravel
6 3 (2.73%) React
6 3 (2.73%) Vue
7 2 (1.82%) Core Data
7 2 (1.82%) iOS SDK
7 2 (1.82%) Node.js
8 1 (0.91%) Flutter
8 1 (0.91%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.91%) Jest
8 1 (0.91%) Next.js
8 1 (0.91%) RxSwift
8 1 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.91%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 81 (73.64%) Mobile App
2 16 (14.55%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.91%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.91%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 110 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 42 (38.18%) Android
3 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.91%) Mobile Development
2 40 (36.36%) Android Development
3 31 (28.18%) CI/CD
4 27 (24.55%) Test Automation
4 27 (24.55%) User Experience
5 20 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 19 (17.27%) Analytics
6 19 (17.27%) Code Quality
7 18 (16.36%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (15.45%) Memory Management
8 17 (15.45%) Multithreading
8 17 (15.45%) SOLID
9 15 (13.64%) Cross-Platform Development
9 15 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (12.73%) Push Notifications
11 13 (11.82%) Community of Practice
11 13 (11.82%) Product Vision
11 13 (11.82%) Re-Platforming
11 13 (11.82%) Server-Driven UI
11 13 (11.82%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 53 (48.18%) Swift
2 33 (30.00%) Kotlin
3 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.73%) PHP
5 3 (2.73%) Python
5 3 (2.73%) SQL
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) C
6 1 (0.91%) C++
6 1 (0.91%) Java
6 1 (0.91%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 7 (6.36%) Degree
2 3 (2.73%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.82%) WCAG
3 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Argo
1 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.82%) Amplitude
1 13 (11.82%) Braze
2 6 (5.45%) Apple
3 3 (2.73%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.91%) ESRI
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.91%) Xamarin