iOS Developer Job Trends

iOS Developer
UK

The median iOS Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 615 780
Rank change year-on-year +6 +165 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an iOS Developer 82 38 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.098% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 77 26 42
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +16.67% +45.45% -31.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 68,739 38,903 80,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.47% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,768 23,119 61,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%

iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'iOS Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

iOS Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for iOS Developer job vacancies in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Developer over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +13 69 £70,000 +16.67% 22
UK excluding London +17 66 £70,000 +16.67% 11
South East +16 40 £65,000 +8.33% 4
London +13 13 £90,000 +20.00% 12
Scotland -12 12 £70,000 -15.15%
Work from Home +13 11 £80,000 +8.47% 14
North West -5 8 £72,500 -6.45% 3
North of England -28 8 £72,500 -6.45% 5
South West -24 4 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Midlands -17 2 £63,775 +30.82% 1
East Midlands -31 2 £63,775 +21.48% 1

iOS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, iOS Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring iOS Developer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 73 (89.02%) iOS Development
3 45 (54.88%) Swift
4 36 (43.90%) Mobile Development
5 34 (41.46%) SwiftUI
6 29 (35.37%) Android
7 28 (34.15%) Android Development
8 24 (29.27%) RESTful
9 21 (25.61%) Kotlin
9 21 (25.61%) Performance Optimisation
10 19 (23.17%) Memory Management
10 19 (23.17%) Multithreading
10 19 (23.17%) SOLID
11 15 (18.29%) AI
12 13 (15.85%) Agile
13 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
14 9 (10.98%) 3D Modelling
15 8 (9.76%) UIKit
15 8 (9.76%) User Experience
16 7 (8.54%) Code Quality
17 6 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
17 6 (7.32%) Coaching
17 6 (7.32%) Git
17 6 (7.32%) XCUITest
18 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
18 5 (6.10%) Apple
18 5 (6.10%) Clean Code
18 5 (6.10%) Cross-Platform Development
18 5 (6.10%) GitHub
18 5 (6.10%) MVVM

iOS Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (6.10%) GitHub
2 4 (4.88%) Azure
2 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (4.88%) ChatGPT
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (2.44%) Firebase
3 2 (2.44%) Google Play
3 2 (2.44%) TestFlight
4 1 (1.22%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Git
1 6 (7.32%) XCUITest
2 4 (4.88%) Xcode
3 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) JIRA
4 2 (2.44%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.44%) CMake
4 2 (2.44%) fastlane
4 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.22%) Crashlytics
General
1 7 (8.54%) Retail
2 5 (6.10%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.44%) Marketing
4 2 (2.44%) Publishing
4 2 (2.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (41.46%) SwiftUI
2 24 (29.27%) RESTful
3 8 (9.76%) UIKit
4 3 (3.66%) Core Data
4 3 (3.66%) iOS SDK
5 2 (2.44%) .NET
5 2 (2.44%) Google Maps API
5 2 (2.44%) OpenGL
5 2 (2.44%) OpenSceneGraph
5 2 (2.44%) QML
5 2 (2.44%) Qt
5 2 (2.44%) Qt Quick
5 2 (2.44%) React
5 2 (2.44%) React Native
5 2 (2.44%) Vulkan
6 1 (1.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 52 (63.41%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.98%) Lidar
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 82 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 29 (35.37%) Android
3 2 (2.44%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (89.02%) iOS Development
2 36 (43.90%) Mobile Development
3 28 (34.15%) Android Development
4 21 (25.61%) Performance Optimisation
5 19 (23.17%) Memory Management
5 19 (23.17%) Multithreading
5 19 (23.17%) SOLID
6 15 (18.29%) AI
7 13 (15.85%) Agile
8 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.98%) 3D Modelling
10 8 (9.76%) User Experience
11 7 (8.54%) Code Quality
12 6 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (7.32%) Coaching
13 5 (6.10%) Clean Code
13 5 (6.10%) Cross-Platform Development
13 5 (6.10%) MVVM
13 5 (6.10%) TDD
14 4 (4.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.88%) Swift
2 21 (25.61%) Kotlin
3 2 (2.44%) Bash
3 2 (2.44%) C
3 2 (2.44%) C++
3 2 (2.44%) Java
3 2 (2.44%) Objective-C
3 2 (2.44%) SQL
3 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
2 1 (1.22%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Apple
2 2 (2.44%) ESRI
2 2 (2.44%) Google
2 2 (2.44%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.44%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace