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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 529 660
Rank change year-on-year -42 +131 -7
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 83 102 112
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 57 85
10th Percentile - £48,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -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 50,059 38,488 61,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.51% 93.43% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 30,809 20,039 48,115
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%

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 6 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 6 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 39 £65,000 +8.33% 4
London -4 18 £90,000 +20.00% 16
North of England -22 16 £72,500 +3.57% 11
North West +2 13 £72,500 +3.57% 9
South West -23 5 £75,000 +7.14% 4
North East -9 3 - - 1
Midlands -19 3 - - 3
East Midlands -28 3 - - 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 (3.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.05%) AWS
2 7 (8.43%) SaaS
3 6 (7.23%) Azure
4 5 (6.02%) Firebase
4 5 (6.02%) GitHub
4 5 (6.02%) TestFlight
5 4 (4.82%) GCP
5 4 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.61%) Serverless
6 3 (3.61%) Stripe
7 2 (2.41%) Google Play
8 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.20%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.20%) Figma
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.20%) Sentry
8 1 (1.20%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.61%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) GIS
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) CircleCI
1 4 (4.82%) Crashlytics
1 4 (4.82%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Xcode
2 3 (3.61%) XCTest
3 2 (2.41%) Android Studio
3 2 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.41%) CMake
3 2 (2.41%) fastlane
3 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.20%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (10.84%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.43%) Retail
3 4 (4.82%) Law
3 4 (4.82%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) French Language
4 3 (3.61%) Italian Language
4 3 (3.61%) Portuguese Language
4 3 (3.61%) Spanish Language
5 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (80.72%) Developer
2 58 (69.88%) iOS Developer
3 27 (32.53%) Senior
4 19 (22.89%) Senior Developer
5 15 (18.07%) Senior iOS Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Applications Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Lead
6 9 (10.84%) Lead Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Lead iOS Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Android Developer
7 8 (9.64%) iOS Android Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Mobile Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Senior Applications Developer
8 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Lead Android Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Mobile Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.61%) iOS Software Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (37.35%) SwiftUI
2 21 (25.30%) RESTful
3 9 (10.84%) .NET
4 8 (9.64%) React Native
5 7 (8.43%) UIKit
6 5 (6.02%) React
7 4 (4.82%) Node.js
8 3 (3.61%) CSS
8 3 (3.61%) HTML
8 3 (3.61%) Laravel
8 3 (3.61%) Vue
9 2 (2.41%) Core Data
9 2 (2.41%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.41%) iOS SDK
9 2 (2.41%) OpenGL
9 2 (2.41%) OpenSceneGraph
9 2 (2.41%) QML
9 2 (2.41%) Qt
9 2 (2.41%) Qt Quick
9 2 (2.41%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 60 (72.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.82%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.41%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.20%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 43 (51.81%) Android
3 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.60%) Android Development
2 39 (46.99%) Mobile Development
3 25 (30.12%) Performance Optimisation
4 19 (22.89%) Memory Management
4 19 (22.89%) Multithreading
4 19 (22.89%) SOLID
5 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
6 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.25%) User Experience
8 10 (12.05%) AI
8 10 (12.05%) Analytics
9 9 (10.84%) Code Quality
9 9 (10.84%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (7.23%) Clean Code
11 6 (7.23%) Machine Learning
11 6 (7.23%) Mobile Application Development
11 6 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.23%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) Swift
2 25 (30.12%) Kotlin
3 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.61%) PHP
5 3 (3.61%) Python
5 3 (3.61%) SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.41%) C
6 2 (2.41%) C++
6 2 (2.41%) Java
6 2 (2.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Argo
1 4 (4.82%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.61%) Amplitude
1 3 (3.61%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.41%) Apple
2 2 (2.41%) ESRI
2 2 (2.41%) Google
2 2 (2.41%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.41%) Xamarin