iOS Development Job Trends

iOS Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring iOS Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 623 640
Rank change year-on-year +57 +17 -77
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 77 105 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 70 52 49
10th Percentile £55,000 - £33,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,625 £90,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,174 50,059 47,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.96% 89.84% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28,944 25,024 36,293
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

iOS Development job vacancy trend in the UK

iOS Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iOS Development

iOS Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Development over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Development within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +66 71 £70,000 +16.67% 100
UK excluding London +36 51 £65,000 +20.37% 92
South East +31 29 £65,000 +30.00% 22
Work from Home +61 27 £76,250 +8.93% 78
London +31 24 £87,500 - 20
North of England +19 10 £70,000 +6.87% 22
Scotland +1 6 £65,000 +20.37% 8
South West -1 5 £75,000 +7.14% 9
North West +19 4 £65,000 -0.76% 18
Yorkshire -2 3 £80,000 +25.49% 4
North East - 3 - -
West Midlands +28 1 £55,000 +7.32% 5
Midlands +26 1 £55,000 +4.76% 13

iOS Development
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.39%) AWS
1 8 (10.39%) Azure
2 7 (9.09%) SaaS
3 4 (5.19%) GCP
3 4 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (3.90%) Firebase
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) Google Play
5 2 (2.60%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Figma
6 1 (1.30%) Sentry
6 1 (1.30%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.90%) MySQL
3 2 (2.60%) GIS
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Xcode
2 6 (7.79%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
3 4 (5.19%) JIRA
4 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.60%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.60%) CMake
5 2 (2.60%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.60%) Storybook
5 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.30%) Appium
6 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.30%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (7.79%) Law
1 6 (7.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.19%) Tech for Good
3 3 (3.90%) Electronics
3 3 (3.90%) Retail
4 2 (2.60%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Publishing
5 1 (1.30%) Games
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (79.22%) Developer
2 49 (63.64%) iOS Developer
3 26 (33.77%) Senior
4 20 (25.97%) Senior Developer
5 18 (23.38%) Lead
6 17 (22.08%) Mobile Developer
7 15 (19.48%) Senior iOS Developer
8 11 (14.29%) Android Developer
8 11 (14.29%) iOS Android Developer
8 11 (14.29%) Lead Developer
8 11 (14.29%) Lead iOS Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) Applications Developer
10 5 (6.49%) Mobile Engineer
11 4 (5.19%) Lead Android Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Senior Android Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 4 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.90%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.47%) SwiftUI
2 14 (18.18%) React Native
2 14 (18.18%) RESTful
3 10 (12.99%) UIKit
4 8 (10.39%) .NET
4 8 (10.39%) iOS SDK
4 8 (10.39%) React
5 4 (5.19%) Node.js
6 3 (3.90%) Core Data
6 3 (3.90%) Flutter
6 3 (3.90%) Laravel
6 3 (3.90%) Next.js
6 3 (3.90%) Vue
7 2 (2.60%) Jest
7 2 (2.60%) OpenSceneGraph
7 2 (2.60%) QML
7 2 (2.60%) Qt Quick
7 2 (2.60%) REST
7 2 (2.60%) Vulkan
7 2 (2.60%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 41 (53.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.49%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.19%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.60%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.60%) iPad
5 2 (2.60%) iPhone
6 1 (1.30%) Animation
6 1 (1.30%) Blog
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 77 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 45 (58.44%) Android
3 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) Mobile Development
2 40 (51.95%) Android Development
3 22 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 15 (19.48%) AI
5 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 13 (16.88%) User Experience
7 12 (15.58%) Memory Management
7 12 (15.58%) Mentoring
7 12 (15.58%) Multithreading
8 11 (14.29%) SOLID
9 10 (12.99%) Agile
9 10 (12.99%) Design Patterns
9 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
10 9 (11.69%) Code Quality
10 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.39%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
13 6 (7.79%) DevOps
13 6 (7.79%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Swift
2 18 (23.38%) Kotlin
3 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.19%) Java
5 4 (5.19%) Objective-C
6 3 (3.90%) C++
6 3 (3.90%) PHP
7 2 (2.60%) Bash
7 2 (2.60%) C
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Argo
1 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.90%) Google
1 3 (3.90%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.60%) Apple
2 2 (2.60%) ESRI
2 2 (2.60%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.60%) Xamarin