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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 565 648
Rank change year-on-year +29 +83 -69
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 70 103 67
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 53
10th Percentile - £45,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -17.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,378 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -7.69%

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 43,730 43,449 49,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.74% 91.10% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,338 21,213 38,942
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,725 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +30 32 £62,500 +13.64% 10
London +28 22 £87,500 +6.06% 8
North of England +17 9 £65,000 -0.76% 8
North West +25 6 £65,000 -0.76% 6
South West +8 5 £75,000 +7.14%
North East - 3 - -
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 (4.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.43%) AWS
2 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 7 (10.00%) SaaS
3 4 (5.71%) GCP
3 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.29%) Firebase
4 3 (4.29%) Google Play
5 2 (2.86%) GitHub
5 2 (2.86%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Figma
6 1 (1.43%) Sentry
6 1 (1.43%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.29%) MySQL
3 2 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Xcode
2 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) JIRA
4 2 (2.86%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.86%) CMake
4 2 (2.86%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.43%) Storybook
5 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (8.57%) Retail
1 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Law
3 4 (5.71%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.29%) Electronics
5 2 (2.86%) Publishing
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) French Language
6 1 (1.43%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
6 1 (1.43%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (84.29%) Developer
2 48 (68.57%) iOS Developer
3 20 (28.57%) Senior
4 16 (22.86%) Senior Developer
5 14 (20.00%) Lead
6 11 (15.71%) Senior iOS Developer
7 10 (14.29%) Lead Developer
7 10 (14.29%) Lead iOS Developer
7 10 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
8 8 (11.43%) Applications Developer
9 7 (10.00%) Android Developer
9 7 (10.00%) iOS Android Developer
10 6 (8.57%) Senior Applications Developer
11 4 (5.71%) Lead Android Developer
11 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 2 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 2 (2.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 2 (2.86%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (38.57%) SwiftUI
2 17 (24.29%) RESTful
3 9 (12.86%) React Native
3 9 (12.86%) UIKit
4 8 (11.43%) .NET
4 8 (11.43%) iOS SDK
5 6 (8.57%) React
6 4 (5.71%) Node.js
7 3 (4.29%) Laravel
7 3 (4.29%) Vue
8 2 (2.86%) Core Data
8 2 (2.86%) Flutter
8 2 (2.86%) Next.js
8 2 (2.86%) OpenGL
8 2 (2.86%) OpenSceneGraph
8 2 (2.86%) QML
8 2 (2.86%) Qt
8 2 (2.86%) Qt Quick
8 2 (2.86%) Vulkan
8 2 (2.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 47 (67.14%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Blog
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) iPad
5 1 (1.43%) iPhone
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.43%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 39 (55.71%) Android
3 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Android Development
2 35 (50.00%) Mobile Development
3 24 (34.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 15 (21.43%) Memory Management
4 15 (21.43%) Multithreading
5 14 (20.00%) SOLID
6 13 (18.57%) User Experience
7 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 11 (15.71%) AI
9 8 (11.43%) Code Quality
9 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.00%) Agile
10 7 (10.00%) Design Patterns
10 7 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
10 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 6 (8.57%) Analytics
11 6 (8.57%) DevOps
11 6 (8.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (41.43%) Swift
2 17 (24.29%) Kotlin
3 12 (17.14%) TypeScript
4 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.29%) PHP
6 2 (2.86%) Bash
6 2 (2.86%) C
6 2 (2.86%) C++
6 2 (2.86%) Java
6 2 (2.86%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.43%) Python
7 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Argo
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Google
1 3 (4.29%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.86%) Apple
2 2 (2.86%) ESRI
2 2 (2.86%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.86%) Xamarin