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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 569 716
Rank change year-on-year -44 +147 +14
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 123 88 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 88 58 128
10th Percentile £54,250 £53,525 £39,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +32.50% -31.03%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £66,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £78,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +26.32% -24.00%

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 68,525 40,020 82,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 84.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,515 20,986 59,915
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,645 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.66% +3.29% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -36 113 £70,000 +7.69% 24
UK excluding London -20 98 £65,000 +8.33% 7
South East +3 45 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Work from Home +16 37 £90,000 +28.57% 9
North of England -11 29 £62,500 -16.67% 2
London -50 21 £90,000 +20.00% 16
North West +15 17 £72,500 -4.92%
East Midlands -11 17 £63,775 -
Midlands -21 17 £63,775 -5.52%
Yorkshire -38 8 £55,000 +10.00%
Scotland -2 6 £63,750 -20.31%
North East -38 4 £47,000 - 2
South West -77 1 £75,000 +1.52% 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 3 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.26%) AWS
1 20 (16.26%) GitHub
2 17 (13.82%) Firebase
3 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.57%) Serverless
4 13 (10.57%) Stripe
4 13 (10.57%) TestFlight
5 12 (9.76%) Azure
6 8 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) ChatGPT
7 5 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.25%) GCP
8 4 (3.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (3.25%) SaaS
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.81%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.81%) Sentry
10 1 (0.81%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Broadband
1 1 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.25%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (11.38%) XCTest
2 13 (10.57%) Crashlytics
3 9 (7.32%) fastlane
4 8 (6.50%) XCUITest
5 6 (4.88%) Xcode
6 5 (4.07%) Git
7 4 (3.25%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.63%) Appium
9 2 (1.63%) GitLab
10 1 (0.81%) CocoaPods
10 1 (0.81%) JIRA
10 1 (0.81%) Postman
10 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.81%) TestRail
10 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.94%) Finance
3 7 (5.69%) Retail
4 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.25%) Law
7 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Digital Health
7 3 (2.44%) French Language
7 3 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.44%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.44%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.44%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.81%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 97 (78.86%) Developer
2 90 (73.17%) iOS Developer
3 50 (40.65%) Senior
4 42 (34.15%) Senior Developer
5 37 (30.08%) Senior iOS Developer
6 13 (10.57%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) Android Developer
7 11 (8.94%) iOS Android Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Applications Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Senior Applications Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 8 (6.50%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Lead
10 7 (5.69%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Lead iOS Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Mobile Developer
11 6 (4.88%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.07%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
13 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (41.46%) SwiftUI
2 24 (19.51%) RESTful
3 22 (17.89%) UIKit
4 8 (6.50%) React
4 8 (6.50%) React Native
5 4 (3.25%) Core Data
5 4 (3.25%) iOS SDK
5 4 (3.25%) Node.js
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
6 3 (2.44%) CSS
6 3 (2.44%) HTML
6 3 (2.44%) Laravel
6 3 (2.44%) Vue
7 2 (1.63%) Jest
8 1 (0.81%) Flutter
8 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.81%) Next.js
8 1 (0.81%) Redux
8 1 (0.81%) REST
8 1 (0.81%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (69.92%) Mobile App
2 16 (13.01%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 122 (99.19%) Apple iOS
2 44 (35.77%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.40%) Mobile Development
2 43 (34.96%) Android Development
3 36 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 33 (26.83%) Test Automation
5 31 (25.20%) User Experience
6 25 (20.33%) Clean Code
7 20 (16.26%) Analytics
7 20 (16.26%) Code Quality
8 17 (13.82%) Agile
8 17 (13.82%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (13.01%) Cross-Platform Development
9 16 (13.01%) Memory Management
9 16 (13.01%) Multithreading
9 16 (13.01%) Performance Optimisation
9 16 (13.01%) SOLID
10 13 (10.57%) Community of Practice
10 13 (10.57%) Process Improvement
10 13 (10.57%) Push Notifications
10 13 (10.57%) Re-Platforming
10 13 (10.57%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.97%) Swift
2 32 (26.02%) Kotlin
3 12 (9.76%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.07%) SQL
6 3 (2.44%) PHP
6 3 (2.44%) Python
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) Degree
2 3 (2.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.07%) WCAG
3 3 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Argo
1 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.57%) Amplitude
1 13 (10.57%) Braze
2 7 (5.69%) Apple
3 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.44%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft