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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 633 639
Rank change year-on-year +53 +6 -81
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 63 109 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 55 51 61
10th Percentile £55,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% +8.00% -9.09%

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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 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 2 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 +63 51 £75,000 +25.00% 42
UK excluding London +66 44 £65,000 +20.37% 40
Work from Home +59 22 £75,000 +20.00% 25
London +49 17 £87,500 +4.48% 14
South East +27 17 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Scotland +13 12 £65,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +39 10 £70,000 -2.10% 5
North West +42 4 £65,000 -0.76% 4
South West +21 4 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire +2 3 £80,000 +3.23% 1
North East - 3 - -
West Midlands +48 1 £55,000 +7.32%
Midlands +43 1 £55,000 +4.76%

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (9.52%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) SaaS
3 3 (4.76%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) Firebase
3 3 (4.76%) GitHub
3 3 (4.76%) Google Play
4 2 (3.17%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (3.17%) TestFlight
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.17%) GIS
1 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Xcode
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.35%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) Android Studio
4 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.17%) CMake
4 2 (3.17%) Crashlytics
4 2 (3.17%) Storybook
4 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.59%) Appium
5 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.59%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Law
3 3 (4.76%) Electronics
3 3 (4.76%) Finance
3 3 (4.76%) Tech for Good
4 2 (3.17%) Publishing
4 2 (3.17%) Retail
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Games
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Private Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (76.19%) Developer
2 38 (60.32%) iOS Developer
3 24 (38.10%) Mobile Developer
4 23 (36.51%) Senior
5 18 (28.57%) Senior Developer
6 17 (26.98%) Senior iOS Developer
7 16 (25.40%) Android Developer
7 16 (25.40%) iOS Android Developer
8 14 (22.22%) Lead
9 11 (17.46%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 10 (15.87%) Senior Android Developer
10 10 (15.87%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 7 (11.11%) Lead Developer
11 7 (11.11%) Lead iOS Developer
12 5 (7.94%) Mobile Engineer
12 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
13 4 (6.35%) Applications Developer
14 3 (4.76%) Lead Android Developer
14 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 2 (3.17%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) SwiftUI
2 11 (17.46%) React Native
2 11 (17.46%) UIKit
3 10 (15.87%) RESTful
4 8 (12.70%) .NET
4 8 (12.70%) iOS SDK
5 4 (6.35%) Core Data
5 4 (6.35%) React
6 3 (4.76%) Flutter
7 2 (3.17%) Cocoa
7 2 (3.17%) Jest
7 2 (3.17%) Next.js
7 2 (3.17%) Node.js
7 2 (3.17%) OpenGL
7 2 (3.17%) OpenSceneGraph
7 2 (3.17%) QML
7 2 (3.17%) Qt Quick
7 2 (3.17%) REST
7 2 (3.17%) Vulkan
7 2 (3.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.10%) Mobile App
2 11 (17.46%) Virtual Team
3 10 (15.87%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.17%) iPad
5 2 (3.17%) iPhone
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) Animation
6 1 (1.59%) Blog
6 1 (1.59%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.59%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 63 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 42 (66.67%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) Mobile Development
2 37 (58.73%) Android Development
3 19 (30.16%) AI
4 18 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 12 (19.05%) User Experience
6 11 (17.46%) Design Patterns
6 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
7 9 (14.29%) Agile
7 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 9 (14.29%) SOLID
8 8 (12.70%) Memory Management
8 8 (12.70%) Multithreading
8 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
8 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
8 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.94%) Analytics
9 5 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (7.94%) UX Design
10 4 (6.35%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) Swift
2 16 (25.40%) Kotlin
3 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.35%) Java
4 4 (6.35%) Objective-C
5 3 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (3.17%) Bash
6 2 (3.17%) C
7 1 (1.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Argo
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Google
2 2 (3.17%) Apple
2 2 (3.17%) ESRI
2 2 (3.17%) Mapbox
2 2 (3.17%) Xamarin