Apple iOS Job Trends

Apple iOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apple iOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 287 282
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 -45
Permanent jobs citing Apple iOS 436 491 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.00% 1.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.41% 6.62% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 339 291 630
10th Percentile £26,950 £30,000 £28,704
25th Percentile £30,750 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -19.05%

All Operating Systems
UK

Apple iOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,187 7,421 11,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.64% 15.09% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 4,166 9,483
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -5.56%

Apple iOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apple iOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Apple iOS job vacancy trend in the UK

Apple iOS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apple iOS

Apple iOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apple iOS over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Apple iOS in the UK

Apple iOS
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apple iOS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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
England +3 410 £47,500 -20.83% 183
UK excluding London +5 297 £45,000 -14.29% 135
Work from Home +1 173 £60,000 -5.88% 99
London -25 118 £62,500 -25.37% 76
South East +13 88 £60,000 +26.32% 50
North of England +19 74 £45,000 -18.18% 38
East of England +7 48 £33,500 -33.00% 9
North West +24 40 £33,000 -47.20% 21
Midlands -3 37 £33,000 -52.86% 14
South West -6 37 £40,000 - 20
Yorkshire -13 24 £45,000 - 16
East Midlands -9 19 £33,500 +24.65% 6
West Midlands -4 18 £30,750 -56.07% 8
Scotland -15 15 £67,500 +1.89% 5
North East +3 10 £50,000 - 2

Apple iOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 54 (12.39%) SharePoint
2 47 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.15%) CMS
3 5 (1.15%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) WordPress
5 2 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (7.57%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.69%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.69%) Alphatax
2 3 (0.69%) Shopify
3 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 145 (33.26%) Microsoft 365
2 96 (22.02%) Azure
3 91 (20.87%) Entra ID
4 52 (11.93%) AWS
5 36 (8.26%) SaaS
6 34 (7.80%) OneDrive
7 16 (3.67%) GCP
8 14 (3.21%) Google Workspace
9 9 (2.06%) GitHub
9 9 (2.06%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.61%) Figma
11 6 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.15%) Firebase
12 5 (1.15%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.92%) Google Play
13 4 (0.92%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.70%) DNS
2 41 (9.40%) DHCP
2 41 (9.40%) VPN
3 35 (8.03%) TCP/IP
3 35 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (5.96%) Firewall
5 23 (5.28%) Wireless
6 21 (4.82%) VLAN
6 21 (4.82%) WAN
7 17 (3.90%) Broadband
8 12 (2.75%) SD-WAN
9 11 (2.52%) LAN
10 6 (1.38%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.15%) VoIP
12 4 (0.92%) SSL
12 4 (0.92%) WebEx
13 3 (0.69%) Internet
13 3 (0.69%) Mobile Broadband
13 3 (0.69%) NAS
13 3 (0.69%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.38%) BigQuery
2 6 (1.38%) MySQL
3 5 (1.15%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.92%) Power BI
5 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.46%) GIS
6 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.46%) Redis
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 13 (2.98%) Git
2 12 (2.75%) JIRA
3 10 (2.29%) Xcode
4 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.15%) XCUITest
6 4 (0.92%) Storybook
7 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.69%) Crashlytics
7 3 (0.69%) Postman
8 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.46%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.46%) CMake
8 2 (0.46%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.46%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.46%) TestRail
8 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.46%) XCTest
General
1 140 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.47%) Law
3 48 (11.01%) Finance
4 33 (7.57%) Marketing
5 28 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (6.19%) Retail
7 20 (4.59%) Games
8 19 (4.36%) Legal
9 15 (3.44%) Banking
10 14 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.52%) Tech for Good
12 10 (2.29%) Advertising
12 10 (2.29%) Billing
13 9 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
14 8 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.61%) Health Technology
16 5 (1.15%) Back Office
16 5 (1.15%) Electronics
16 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 114 (26.15%) Developer
2 97 (22.25%) IT Support
3 91 (20.87%) Senior
4 60 (13.76%) iOS Developer
4 60 (13.76%) Support Engineer
5 58 (13.30%) Analyst
6 45 (10.32%) Lead
7 42 (9.63%) IT Analyst
8 37 (8.49%) 2nd Line Support
8 37 (8.49%) Support Analyst
9 32 (7.34%) Support Technician
10 28 (6.42%) IT Engineer
11 27 (6.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 27 (6.19%) IT Support Analyst
11 27 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
11 27 (6.19%) IT Support Technician
11 27 (6.19%) IT Technician
12 25 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 25 (5.73%) Mobile Developer
13 22 (5.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.17%) React Native
2 33 (7.57%) SwiftUI
3 30 (6.88%) RESTful
4 28 (6.42%) .NET
5 23 (5.28%) React
6 14 (3.21%) CSS
6 14 (3.21%) HTML
7 11 (2.52%) UIKit
8 10 (2.29%) Flutter
9 9 (2.06%) Node.js
10 8 (1.83%) iOS SDK
10 8 (1.83%) REST
10 8 (1.83%) Web Services
11 7 (1.61%) Core Data
11 7 (1.61%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.61%) Spring
12 6 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.38%) EDI
12 6 (1.38%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.15%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 137 (31.42%) Mobile App
2 58 (13.30%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.28%) Driving Licence
4 20 (4.59%) iPhone
5 19 (4.36%) Video Conferencing
6 16 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.44%) iPad
8 12 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.29%) CCTV
10 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.15%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.15%) Lidar
11 5 (1.15%) Mobile Games
11 5 (1.15%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.92%) EPoS
12 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 283 (64.91%) Android
2 180 (41.28%) Windows
3 66 (15.14%) Windows 10
4 49 (11.24%) Windows Server
5 42 (9.63%) Mac OS
6 10 (2.29%) Mac OS X
7 7 (1.61%) Linux
7 7 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (18.81%) iOS Development
2 81 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (17.43%) Mentoring
4 68 (15.60%) Agile
5 63 (14.45%) CI/CD
5 63 (14.45%) Customer Service
6 62 (14.22%) Mobile Device Management
7 59 (13.53%) Mobile Development
8 54 (12.39%) ITIL
8 54 (12.39%) User Experience
9 47 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (10.55%) AI
11 44 (10.09%) Test Automation
12 43 (9.86%) Android Development
13 42 (9.63%) Service Management
14 36 (8.26%) Service Delivery
15 34 (7.80%) Incident Management
16 31 (7.11%) Roadmaps
17 29 (6.65%) Performance Optimisation
18 28 (6.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.16%) Swift
2 32 (7.34%) Kotlin
3 26 (5.96%) TypeScript
4 25 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.13%) Java
7 17 (3.90%) C#
8 16 (3.67%) SQL
9 10 (2.29%) PHP
9 10 (2.29%) Python
10 7 (1.61%) Go
11 5 (1.15%) VB
12 4 (0.92%) Bash
12 4 (0.92%) C++
12 4 (0.92%) XAML
13 3 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.46%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.23%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (8.72%) SC Cleared
1 38 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 30 (6.88%) Degree
3 10 (2.29%) OSCP
4 8 (1.83%) CREST Certified
4 8 (1.83%) DBS Check
4 8 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.46%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.46%) CISSP
6 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.46%) GPEN
6 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.46%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.23%) GXPN
7 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.26%) SLA
2 29 (6.65%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.19%) QA
4 4 (0.92%) WCAG
5 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 114 (26.15%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.21%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.29%) Docker
5 6 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.69%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (16.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (13.76%) Jamf Pro
3 15 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.44%) Terraform
4 9 (2.06%) SCCM
5 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.38%) Ansible
6 6 (1.38%) Argo
6 6 (1.38%) Nessus
6 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.92%) WSUS
8 1 (0.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 136 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 101 (23.17%) Apple
3 43 (9.86%) Samsung
4 36 (8.26%) VMware
5 23 (5.28%) Google
6 12 (2.75%) Xamarin
7 7 (1.61%) Okta
7 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.38%) iManage
9 5 (1.15%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.15%) JD Edwards
9 5 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.92%) Adobe
10 4 (0.92%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.69%) Bomgar
11 3 (0.69%) HP
11 3 (0.69%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.46%) MobileIron
12 2 (0.46%) Roku