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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 581 609
Rank change year-on-year +50 +28 -33
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 69 95 57
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 63 46 44
10th Percentile - - £34,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £94,250 £90,000 £102,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%

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 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +29 29 £65,000 +30.00% 8
London +11 22 £87,500 - 10
North of England +26 10 £70,000 +6.87% 9
South West +6 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North West +26 4 £65,000 -0.76% 9
Yorkshire -6 3 £80,000 +25.49%
North East - 3 - -
Midlands +16 1 £55,000 +4.76% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £55,000 +7.32%
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 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) AWS
1 8 (11.59%) Azure
2 7 (10.14%) SaaS
3 4 (5.80%) GCP
3 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.35%) Firebase
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub
4 3 (4.35%) Google Play
5 2 (2.90%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Figma
6 1 (1.45%) Sentry
6 1 (1.45%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) GIS
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Xcode
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.90%) CMake
5 2 (2.90%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.90%) Storybook
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.45%) Appium
6 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.45%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (8.70%) Law
1 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.80%) Tech for Good
3 3 (4.35%) Electronics
3 3 (4.35%) Retail
4 2 (2.90%) Finance
4 2 (2.90%) Publishing
5 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (81.16%) Developer
2 44 (63.77%) iOS Developer
3 19 (27.54%) Senior
4 17 (24.64%) Lead
5 15 (21.74%) Senior Developer
6 12 (17.39%) Mobile Developer
7 11 (15.94%) Lead Developer
7 11 (15.94%) Lead iOS Developer
8 10 (14.49%) Senior iOS Developer
9 7 (10.14%) Android Developer
9 7 (10.14%) iOS Android Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Applications Developer
11 4 (5.80%) Lead Android Developer
11 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.35%) Mobile Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Senior Applications Developer
12 3 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 2 (2.90%) Mobile Applications Developer
13 2 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) SwiftUI
2 14 (20.29%) RESTful
3 10 (14.49%) React Native
3 10 (14.49%) UIKit
4 8 (11.59%) .NET
4 8 (11.59%) iOS SDK
5 7 (10.14%) React
6 4 (5.80%) Node.js
7 3 (4.35%) Core Data
7 3 (4.35%) Laravel
7 3 (4.35%) Next.js
7 3 (4.35%) Vue
8 2 (2.90%) Flutter
8 2 (2.90%) Jest
8 2 (2.90%) QML
8 2 (2.90%) Qt
8 2 (2.90%) Qt Quick
8 2 (2.90%) REST
8 2 (2.90%) Vulkan
8 2 (2.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (57.97%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.80%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.90%) iPad
4 2 (2.90%) iPhone
5 1 (1.45%) Animation
5 1 (1.45%) Blog
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.45%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 69 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 39 (56.52%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) Android Development
2 35 (50.72%) Mobile Development
3 21 (30.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
4 13 (18.84%) User Experience
5 12 (17.39%) Memory Management
5 12 (17.39%) Multithreading
6 11 (15.94%) AI
6 11 (15.94%) SOLID
7 9 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 8 (11.59%) Agile
8 8 (11.59%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.14%) Mobile Application Development
10 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.70%) DevOps
10 6 (8.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 30 (43.48%) Swift
2 16 (23.19%) Kotlin
3 13 (18.84%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.35%) C++
5 3 (4.35%) Java
5 3 (4.35%) Objective-C
5 3 (4.35%) PHP
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) C
7 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Argo
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.35%) Google
1 3 (4.35%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.90%) Apple
2 2 (2.90%) ESRI
2 2 (2.90%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.90%) Xamarin