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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 596 730
Rank change year-on-year -19 +134 +11
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 118 88 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 81 58 130
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,525 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £69,813
90th Percentile - £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +26.32% -25.49%

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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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 -37 108 £70,000 +7.69% 15
UK excluding London -5 94 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South East +1 38 £70,000 +19.15%
Work from Home +12 37 £90,000 +28.57% 10
North of England -3 32 £55,000 -15.38% 4
London -30 20 £90,000 +28.57% 6
North West +23 18 £72,500 -3.33% 1
East Midlands -5 18 £63,775 -
Midlands -13 18 £63,775 -5.52%
Yorkshire -35 8 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Scotland +16 6 £63,750 -1.92%
North East -38 6 £47,000 - 2

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 2 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.64%) GitHub
2 20 (16.95%) Firebase
3 18 (15.25%) AWS
4 16 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (11.86%) Serverless
5 14 (11.86%) Stripe
5 14 (11.86%) TestFlight
6 12 (10.17%) Azure
7 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.08%) ChatGPT
8 6 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.69%) GCP
10 2 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.69%) SaaS
11 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.85%) Sentry
11 1 (0.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
1 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.69%) MySQL
1 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) XCTest
2 14 (11.86%) Crashlytics
3 12 (10.17%) fastlane
4 9 (7.63%) XCUITest
5 8 (6.78%) Xcode
6 6 (5.08%) Git
6 6 (5.08%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.69%) Appium
8 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.69%) GitLab
9 1 (0.85%) CocoaPods
9 1 (0.85%) JIRA
9 1 (0.85%) Postman
9 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.85%) TestRail
9 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Finance
3 8 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.78%) Retail
4 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.24%) Digital Health
6 4 (3.39%) Banking
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.54%) French Language
7 3 (2.54%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.54%) Marketing
7 3 (2.54%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.54%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.69%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Front Office
9 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (77.97%) Developer
2 86 (72.88%) iOS Developer
3 51 (43.22%) Senior
4 43 (36.44%) Senior Developer
5 39 (33.05%) Senior iOS Developer
6 14 (11.86%) Mobile Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Android Developer
7 12 (10.17%) iOS Android Developer
7 12 (10.17%) Senior Mobile Developer
8 11 (9.32%) Applications Developer
8 11 (9.32%) Senior Applications Developer
9 9 (7.63%) Mobile Developer
10 8 (6.78%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.93%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 7 (5.93%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Lead
12 5 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Lead iOS Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Android Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior iOS Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (45.76%) SwiftUI
2 26 (22.03%) UIKit
3 23 (19.49%) RESTful
4 6 (5.08%) Core Data
4 6 (5.08%) iOS SDK
4 6 (5.08%) React
4 6 (5.08%) React Native
5 3 (2.54%) .NET
5 3 (2.54%) CSS
5 3 (2.54%) HTML
6 2 (1.69%) Jest
6 2 (1.69%) Laravel
6 2 (1.69%) Node.js
6 2 (1.69%) Vue
7 1 (0.85%) Flutter
7 1 (0.85%) Next.js
7 1 (0.85%) Redux
7 1 (0.85%) REST
7 1 (0.85%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 83 (70.34%) Mobile App
2 17 (14.41%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 117 (99.15%) Apple iOS
2 39 (33.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.75%) CI/CD
2 40 (33.90%) Mobile Development
3 38 (32.20%) Android Development
4 35 (29.66%) User Experience
5 34 (28.81%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.27%) Clean Code
7 23 (19.49%) Analytics
8 22 (18.64%) Code Quality
9 20 (16.95%) Agile
9 20 (16.95%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (14.41%) Cross-Platform Development
11 14 (11.86%) Community of Practice
11 14 (11.86%) Process Improvement
11 14 (11.86%) Product Vision
11 14 (11.86%) Push Notifications
11 14 (11.86%) Re-Platforming
11 14 (11.86%) Server-Driven UI
11 14 (11.86%) Storyboarding
12 13 (11.02%) Memory Management
12 13 (11.02%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 63 (53.39%) Swift
2 30 (25.42%) Kotlin
3 9 (7.63%) TypeScript
4 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.24%) SQL
5 3 (2.54%) Python
6 2 (1.69%) PHP
7 1 (0.85%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) C++
7 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (4.24%) Degree
2 3 (2.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.93%) WCAG
3 3 (2.54%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Argo
1 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.86%) Amplitude
1 14 (11.86%) Braze
2 9 (7.63%) Apple
3 6 (5.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.69%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft