Core Data Job Trends

Apple Core Data
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Core Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 714 715
Rank change year-on-year +75 +1 +265
Permanent jobs citing Core Data 11 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.009% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.042% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £70,000 - £38,000
25th Percentile £71,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £35,000
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Core Data falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,036 11,915 13,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 21.52% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,254 7,096 10,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Core Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Core Data job vacancy trend in the UK

Core Data
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Core Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Core Data

Core Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Core Data over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Core Data in the UK

Core Data
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Core Data within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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 +72 11 £75,000 - 47
Work from Home +84 10 £75,000 -11.76% 49
London +48 9 £75,000 - 4
UK excluding London +63 1 £55,000 - 48
Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 5

Core Data
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) iOS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead iOS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Mobile Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) UIKit
2 10 (90.91%) iOS SDK
3 4 (36.36%) SwiftUI
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) Core Animation
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) AI
2 10 (90.91%) Architectural Patterns
2 10 (90.91%) Data Collection
2 10 (90.91%) Dependency Injection
2 10 (90.91%) MVVM
3 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
4 6 (54.55%) Software Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Code Quality
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (27.27%) iOS Development
7 1 (9.09%) Android Development
7 1 (9.09%) Mobile Development
7 1 (9.09%) Push Notifications
7 1 (9.09%) User Stories
7 1 (9.09%) Web Development
7 1 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Swift
2 1 (9.09%) C#