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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 591 686
Rank change year-on-year +14 +95 -77
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 81 117 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.24% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 70 56 64
10th Percentile - £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £91,625 £90,000 £91,354
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & 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 50,353 48,156 59,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.19% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 29,725 23,186 46,025
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Top 10 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 25 January 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 +30 74 £70,000 +14.29% 25
UK excluding London +27 56 £65,000 +8.33% 24
South East +36 34 £62,500 +4.17% 9
Work from Home +25 24 £72,500 +3.57% 13
London +15 21 £88,750 +10.94% 3
North of England +10 12 £65,000 -0.76% 7
North West +21 9 £65,000 -0.76% 6
South West -7 5 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Scotland -19 5 £65,000 +0.78% 1
North East - 3 - -

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 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) AWS
2 9 (11.11%) Azure
2 9 (11.11%) SaaS
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
3 6 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.70%) Firebase
4 3 (3.70%) Google Play
5 2 (2.47%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Figma
6 1 (1.23%) Sentry
6 1 (1.23%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) BigQuery
1 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.70%) MySQL
3 2 (2.47%) GIS
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) CircleCI
1 6 (7.41%) Xcode
2 4 (4.94%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.47%) CMake
4 2 (2.47%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.23%) Storybook
5 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (9.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.41%) Law
2 6 (7.41%) Retail
3 4 (4.94%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Electronics
4 3 (3.70%) French Language
4 3 (3.70%) Italian Language
4 3 (3.70%) Portuguese Language
4 3 (3.70%) Spanish Language
5 2 (2.47%) Publishing
6 1 (1.23%) Finance
6 1 (1.23%) Games
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (81.48%) Developer
2 54 (66.67%) iOS Developer
3 25 (30.86%) Senior
4 19 (23.46%) Senior Developer
5 13 (16.05%) Lead
5 13 (16.05%) Senior iOS Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Mobile Developer
7 10 (12.35%) Lead Developer
7 10 (12.35%) Lead iOS Developer
8 8 (9.88%) Applications Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Android Developer
9 7 (8.64%) iOS Android Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Applications Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Lead Android Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.70%) Graduate
12 3 (3.70%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (33.33%) SwiftUI
2 18 (22.22%) RESTful
3 14 (17.28%) React Native
4 10 (12.35%) .NET
4 10 (12.35%) React
5 8 (9.88%) UIKit
6 7 (8.64%) iOS SDK
7 6 (7.41%) Node.js
8 3 (3.70%) CSS
8 3 (3.70%) HTML
8 3 (3.70%) Laravel
8 3 (3.70%) Vue
9 2 (2.47%) Core Data
9 2 (2.47%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.47%) OpenGL
9 2 (2.47%) OpenSceneGraph
9 2 (2.47%) QML
9 2 (2.47%) Qt
9 2 (2.47%) Qt Quick
9 2 (2.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 51 (62.96%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.23%) Blog
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 81 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 45 (55.56%) Android
3 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (54.32%) Android Development
2 39 (48.15%) Mobile Development
3 25 (30.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 17 (20.99%) Test Automation
5 16 (19.75%) Memory Management
5 16 (19.75%) Multithreading
6 15 (18.52%) SOLID
7 14 (17.28%) Software Engineering
7 14 (17.28%) User Experience
8 12 (14.81%) AI
8 12 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 10 (12.35%) Agile
9 10 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (9.88%) Analytics
10 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.88%) Mobile Application Development
10 8 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.64%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.64%) Machine Learning
11 7 (8.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Swift
2 18 (22.22%) Kotlin
3 16 (19.75%) TypeScript
4 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.17%) SQL
6 3 (3.70%) PHP
6 3 (3.70%) Python
7 2 (2.47%) Bash
7 2 (2.47%) C
7 2 (2.47%) C++
7 2 (2.47%) Java
7 2 (2.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Degree
2 3 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.47%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Argo
1 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.70%) Google
1 3 (3.70%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.47%) Apple
2 2 (2.47%) ESRI
2 2 (2.47%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.47%) Xamarin