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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 594 632
Rank change year-on-year -67 +38 +20
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 87 50 119
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.086% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66 41 71
10th Percentile £47,250 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.85% +30.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.92% +30.00% -25.93%

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 74,604 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52,829 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -26 28 £77,500 +29.17% 15
London -53 24 £90,000 +5.88% 73
North of England -54 22 £47,000 -35.17% 36
North West -13 8 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Midlands -40 7 £63,500 +20.95% 9
Yorkshire -42 7 - - 11
East Midlands - 7 £63,500 - 5
North East - 7 £47,000 - 3
East of England - 4 £140,000 - 11
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Firebase
2 11 (12.64%) GitHub
3 10 (11.49%) AWS
4 9 (10.34%) Azure
5 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.90%) Serverless
6 6 (6.90%) Stripe
6 6 (6.90%) TestFlight
7 5 (5.75%) Bitrise
8 3 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.30%) ChatGPT
9 2 (2.30%) GCP
9 2 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.30%) Google Play
10 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Broadband
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
1 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.30%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Xcode
2 10 (11.49%) fastlane
3 8 (9.20%) XCTest
4 6 (6.90%) Crashlytics
4 6 (6.90%) Git
4 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.75%) XCUITest
6 3 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.30%) git-flow
7 2 (2.30%) GitLab
8 1 (1.15%) Appium
8 1 (1.15%) CocoaPods
General
1 13 (14.94%) Retail
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.90%) Health Technology
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Digital Health
5 5 (5.75%) Publishing
6 3 (3.45%) Automotive
6 3 (3.45%) Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Games
6 3 (3.45%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (73.56%) Developer
2 59 (67.82%) iOS Developer
3 36 (41.38%) Senior
4 30 (34.48%) Senior Developer
5 28 (32.18%) Senior iOS Developer
6 22 (25.29%) Mobile Developer
7 21 (24.14%) Android Developer
7 21 (24.14%) iOS Android Developer
8 20 (22.99%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 14 (16.09%) Applications Developer
9 14 (16.09%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 14 (16.09%) Senior Applications Developer
9 14 (16.09%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
10 10 (11.49%) Senior Android Developer
10 10 (11.49%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 8 (9.20%) Software Developer
12 7 (8.05%) Mobile Engineer
13 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
14 4 (4.60%) iOS Software Engineer
14 4 (4.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (45.98%) SwiftUI
2 19 (21.84%) RESTful
3 18 (20.69%) UIKit
4 7 (8.05%) REST
5 6 (6.90%) Core Data
5 6 (6.90%) iOS SDK
6 4 (4.60%) React Native
7 3 (3.45%) CarPlay
8 2 (2.30%) Flutter
8 2 (2.30%) Jest
8 2 (2.30%) Kafka
8 2 (2.30%) React
8 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.15%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.15%) Redux
9 1 (1.15%) Torch
9 1 (1.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 67 (77.01%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.20%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) NHS
5 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.45%) IoT
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 49 (56.32%) Android
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.72%) Android Development
2 37 (42.53%) Mobile Development
3 28 (32.18%) CI/CD
4 21 (24.14%) Clean Code
5 19 (21.84%) User Experience
6 17 (19.54%) Test Automation
7 15 (17.24%) Multithreading
7 15 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
8 14 (16.09%) SOLID
9 13 (14.94%) Agile
9 13 (14.94%) Analytics
10 12 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (13.79%) Memory Management
11 11 (12.64%) AI
11 11 (12.64%) Code Quality
12 10 (11.49%) E-Commerce
12 10 (11.49%) MVVM
13 9 (10.34%) API Integration
14 8 (9.20%) Architectural Patterns
14 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (58.62%) Swift
2 26 (29.89%) Kotlin
3 8 (9.20%) Java
4 5 (5.75%) C++
5 3 (3.45%) Embedded C++
6 2 (2.30%) Python
6 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.90%) WCAG
3 1 (1.15%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Apple
2 6 (6.90%) Amplitude
2 6 (6.90%) Braze
2 6 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.30%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft