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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 607 657
Rank change year-on-year +33 +50 -65
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 71 106 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64 50 48
10th Percentile - - £33,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £92,854
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.59% +1.36% -

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
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 £79,000
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% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 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 +61 65 £70,000 +16.67% 35
UK excluding London +49 49 £65,000 +16.59% 28
South East +26 29 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Work from Home +53 24 £72,500 +3.57% 17
London +40 20 £87,500 - 10
North of England +21 8 £65,000 -0.76% 8
Scotland -5 6 £65,000 +20.37% 2
South West +8 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North West +29 4 £65,000 -0.76% 7
North East - 3 - -
West Midlands +27 1 £55,000 +7.32%
Midlands +15 1 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire -9 1 £80,000 +25.49% 1

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 (4.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) SaaS
3 4 (5.63%) GCP
3 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.23%) Firebase
4 3 (4.23%) Google Play
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) Figma
6 1 (1.41%) Sentry
6 1 (1.41%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.23%) MySQL
3 2 (2.82%) GIS
4 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Xcode
2 5 (7.04%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.23%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.82%) CMake
5 2 (2.82%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) Storybook
6 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.04%) Law
3 4 (5.63%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.23%) Electronics
4 3 (4.23%) Retail
5 2 (2.82%) Publishing
6 1 (1.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.41%) Games
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (83.10%) Developer
2 48 (67.61%) iOS Developer
3 22 (30.99%) Senior
4 17 (23.94%) Senior Developer
5 16 (22.54%) Lead
6 15 (21.13%) Mobile Developer
7 12 (16.90%) Senior iOS Developer
8 11 (15.49%) Lead Developer
8 11 (15.49%) Lead iOS Developer
9 9 (12.68%) Android Developer
9 9 (12.68%) iOS Android Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Applications Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Lead Android Developer
12 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.23%) Senior Applications Developer
12 3 (4.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (2.82%) Mobile Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.62%) SwiftUI
2 15 (21.13%) RESTful
3 12 (16.90%) React Native
4 10 (14.08%) UIKit
5 8 (11.27%) iOS SDK
5 8 (11.27%) React
6 7 (9.86%) .NET
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
8 3 (4.23%) Core Data
8 3 (4.23%) Laravel
8 3 (4.23%) Vue
9 2 (2.82%) Flutter
9 2 (2.82%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.82%) Next.js
9 2 (2.82%) OpenSceneGraph
9 2 (2.82%) QML
9 2 (2.82%) Qt
9 2 (2.82%) Qt Quick
9 2 (2.82%) Vulkan
9 2 (2.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (56.34%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.82%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.41%) Animation
5 1 (1.41%) Blog
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) iPad
5 1 (1.41%) iPhone
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 40 (56.34%) Android
3 2 (2.82%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Android Development
2 37 (52.11%) Mobile Development
3 23 (32.39%) Performance Optimisation
4 13 (18.31%) AI
4 13 (18.31%) Memory Management
4 13 (18.31%) Multithreading
4 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
4 13 (18.31%) User Experience
5 12 (16.90%) SOLID
6 10 (14.08%) Agile
6 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
7 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
8 8 (11.27%) Code Quality
8 8 (11.27%) Design Patterns
8 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
9 7 (9.86%) Mobile Application Development
10 6 (8.45%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.45%) DevOps
10 6 (8.45%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) Swift
2 15 (21.13%) Kotlin
3 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.23%) PHP
6 2 (2.82%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) C
6 2 (2.82%) C++
6 2 (2.82%) Java
6 2 (2.82%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.82%) SQL
7 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Argo
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Google
1 3 (4.23%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.82%) Apple
2 2 (2.82%) ESRI
2 2 (2.82%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.82%) Xamarin