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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 513 666
Rank change year-on-year -39 +153 -7
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 107 98 139
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.29% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 82 63 108
10th Percentile - £52,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -24.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £65,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -15.38%

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 53,786 34,133 67,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.78% 93.22% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33,742 20,386 52,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,762 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -2 43 £65,000 +8.33% 5
London -37 23 £90,000 +18.03% 11
North of England -39 21 £70,000 -9.68% 4
North West -3 17 £72,500 -6.45% 2
Midlands -27 13 £63,775 -5.52% 2
East Midlands -35 13 £63,775 +21.48% 2
South West -53 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North East -17 3 - -
Yorkshire -45 1 £55,000 -13.73% 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 (2.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) AWS
2 14 (13.08%) GitHub
3 11 (10.28%) Firebase
4 10 (9.35%) TestFlight
5 9 (8.41%) Azure
5 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (8.41%) Serverless
5 9 (8.41%) Stripe
6 7 (6.54%) SaaS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.74%) ChatGPT
7 4 (3.74%) GCP
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.93%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) Google Play
9 1 (0.93%) Sentry
9 1 (0.93%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.80%) MySQL
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Crashlytics
2 9 (8.41%) XCTest
3 7 (6.54%) XCUITest
4 6 (5.61%) Git
5 4 (3.74%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.80%) fastlane
7 2 (1.87%) JIRA
7 2 (1.87%) Xcode
8 1 (0.93%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.93%) CMake
8 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Retail
3 8 (7.48%) Finance
4 4 (3.74%) Law
4 4 (3.74%) Tech for Good
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Banking
5 3 (2.80%) French Language
5 3 (2.80%) Italian Language
5 3 (2.80%) Marketing
5 3 (2.80%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (2.80%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (79.44%) Developer
2 76 (71.03%) iOS Developer
3 40 (37.38%) Senior
4 32 (29.91%) Senior Developer
5 28 (26.17%) Senior iOS Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Applications Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Lead
6 10 (9.35%) Lead Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Lead iOS Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Mobile Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Mobile Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Applications Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Android Developer
8 8 (7.48%) iOS Android Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Lead Android Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (42.06%) SwiftUI
2 24 (22.43%) RESTful
3 16 (14.95%) UIKit
4 8 (7.48%) .NET
4 8 (7.48%) React Native
5 5 (4.67%) React
6 4 (3.74%) Node.js
7 3 (2.80%) CSS
7 3 (2.80%) HTML
7 3 (2.80%) Laravel
7 3 (2.80%) Vue
8 2 (1.87%) Core Data
8 2 (1.87%) Flutter
8 2 (1.87%) iOS SDK
9 1 (0.93%) Cocoa
9 1 (0.93%) OpenGL
9 1 (0.93%) OpenSceneGraph
9 1 (0.93%) QML
9 1 (0.93%) Qt
9 1 (0.93%) Qt Quick
Miscellaneous
1 75 (70.09%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.28%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.74%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (0.93%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 107 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 45 (42.06%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) Mobile Development
2 43 (40.19%) Android Development
3 25 (23.36%) CI/CD
3 25 (23.36%) Performance Optimisation
3 25 (23.36%) Test Automation
4 22 (20.56%) User Experience
5 19 (17.76%) Memory Management
5 19 (17.76%) Multithreading
5 19 (17.76%) SOLID
6 18 (16.82%) Code Quality
7 16 (14.95%) Analytics
8 14 (13.08%) Clean Code
9 13 (12.15%) AI
10 12 (11.21%) Agile
10 12 (11.21%) Push Notifications
11 11 (10.28%) Cross-Platform Development
11 11 (10.28%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.35%) Mentoring
13 9 (8.41%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (8.41%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.73%) Swift
2 32 (29.91%) Kotlin
3 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.80%) PHP
5 3 (2.80%) Python
5 3 (2.80%) SQL
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) Degree
2 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Argo
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Amplitude
2 4 (3.74%) Apple
3 3 (2.80%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.93%) ESRI
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.93%) Xamarin