iOS Developer Jobs

iOS Developer
UK

The median iOS Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 821 852
Rank change year-on-year +171 +31 -177
Permanent jobs requiring an iOS Developer 34 64 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.069% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 57 77
10th Percentile - £30,000 £41,850
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £78,125 £73,886 £97,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £87,000 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured iOS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing iOS Developer.

Salary trend for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for iOS Developer in the UK

iOS Developer
Top 12 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 30 April 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 +161 31 £60,000 -7.69% 14
UK excluding London +181 21 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Work from Home +175 16 £70,000 +47.37% 12
London +100 13 £72,500 +11.54% 5
South East - 12 £57,500 - 2
South West +111 3 £70,000 -2.77%
Scotland - 3 £82,500 - 1
North of England +55 2 £77,500 +37.17% 5
Midlands +60 1 £45,000 +63.64% 1
North West +16 1 £77,500 +10.71% 4
North East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 -

iOS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, iOS Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring iOS Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 34 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 31 (91.18%) Mobile App
3 30 (88.24%) Swift
4 23 (67.65%) SOLID
5 22 (64.71%) Mobile Development
6 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (44.12%) Design Patterns
8 14 (41.18%) Android Development
8 14 (41.18%) Android
9 13 (38.24%) Agile
10 12 (35.29%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (35.29%) Aviation
11 11 (32.35%) DevOps
11 11 (32.35%) Objective-C
12 10 (29.41%) GitHub
12 10 (29.41%) Git
12 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
12 10 (29.41%) Kotlin
12 10 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
13 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
13 9 (26.47%) Product Management
13 9 (26.47%) RESTful
13 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
14 8 (23.53%) Games
14 8 (23.53%) Java
14 8 (23.53%) QA
14 8 (23.53%) Gradle
14 8 (23.53%) Coaching

iOS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.94%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) GitHub
2 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.88%) Bitrise
3 2 (5.88%) Firebase
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) Figma
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Git
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (23.53%) Gradle
3 7 (20.59%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.88%) Xcode
5 1 (2.94%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.94%) Crashlytics
5 1 (2.94%) fastlane
5 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.94%) XCTest
General
1 12 (35.29%) Aviation
2 8 (23.53%) Games
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Advertising
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) French Language
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) RESTful
2 7 (20.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 6 (17.65%) SwiftUI
4 5 (14.71%) UIKit
5 4 (11.76%) Redux
6 3 (8.82%) React Native
7 2 (5.88%) Flutter
7 2 (5.88%) iOS SDK
7 2 (5.88%) Node.js
8 1 (2.94%) Android SDK
8 1 (2.94%) Core Animation
8 1 (2.94%) Core Data
8 1 (2.94%) Express.js
8 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.94%) JWT
8 1 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (2.94%) ReactiveCocoa
8 1 (2.94%) RxJava
8 1 (2.94%) RxSwift
8 1 (2.94%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (91.18%) Mobile App
2 12 (35.29%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (20.59%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (20.59%) Mobile Games
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Animation
4 1 (2.94%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 14 (41.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 23 (67.65%) SOLID
3 22 (64.71%) Mobile Development
4 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (44.12%) Design Patterns
6 14 (41.18%) Android Development
7 13 (38.24%) Agile
8 11 (32.35%) DevOps
9 10 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
10 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
10 9 (26.47%) Product Management
10 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
11 8 (23.53%) Coaching
12 7 (20.59%) B2B
12 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
12 7 (20.59%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
12 7 (20.59%) Migration
12 7 (20.59%) Product Strategy
12 7 (20.59%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (88.24%) Swift
2 11 (32.35%) Objective-C
3 10 (29.41%) Kotlin
4 8 (23.53%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) Dart
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) New Relic
2 2 (5.88%) Apple
2 2 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe
3 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity