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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 619 629
Rank change year-on-year +39 +10 -75
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 71 105 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 53 56
10th Percentile £55,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -

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 48,781 51,056 45,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.30% 89.04% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,561 26,014 35,209
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,074
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% - -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.51%

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 16 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 16 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 +58 63 £70,000 +16.67% 37
UK excluding London +35 48 £65,000 +20.37% 35
Work from Home +54 26 £75,000 +13.21% 28
South East +30 24 £60,000 +20.00% 11
London +32 21 £87,500 +2.94% 7
North of England +21 10 £70,000 +6.87% 11
Scotland +2 8 £65,000 +20.37% 2
South West +20 5 £75,000 +7.14% 3
North West +21 4 £65,000 -0.76% 10
Yorkshire -11 3 £80,000 +25.49% 1
North East - 3 - -
Midlands +21 1 £55,000 +4.76% 2
West Midlands +21 1 £55,000 +7.32%

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 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) SaaS
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
4 4 (5.63%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.23%) Firebase
5 3 (4.23%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Google Play
6 2 (2.82%) TestFlight
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) BigQuery
1 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.82%) GIS
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.41%) MySQL
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Xcode
2 6 (8.45%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) CircleCI
3 4 (5.63%) JIRA
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.82%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.82%) CMake
5 2 (2.82%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.82%) Storybook
5 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) Appium
6 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.41%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (8.45%) Law
1 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.63%) Tech for Good
3 3 (4.23%) Electronics
3 3 (4.23%) Retail
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Publishing
5 1 (1.41%) Games
5 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (77.46%) Developer
2 45 (63.38%) iOS Developer
3 25 (35.21%) Senior
4 20 (28.17%) Mobile Developer
5 19 (26.76%) Senior Developer
6 17 (23.94%) Lead
6 17 (23.94%) Senior iOS Developer
7 14 (19.72%) Android Developer
7 14 (19.72%) iOS Android Developer
8 10 (14.08%) Lead Developer
8 10 (14.08%) Lead iOS Developer
9 8 (11.27%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 7 (9.86%) Senior Android Developer
10 7 (9.86%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
12 5 (7.04%) Applications Developer
12 5 (7.04%) Mobile Engineer
13 4 (5.63%) Lead Android Developer
13 4 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (4.23%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.39%) SwiftUI
2 13 (18.31%) React Native
3 12 (16.90%) RESTful
4 10 (14.08%) UIKit
5 8 (11.27%) .NET
5 8 (11.27%) iOS SDK
6 6 (8.45%) React
7 4 (5.63%) Node.js
8 3 (4.23%) Core Data
8 3 (4.23%) Flutter
9 2 (2.82%) Jest
9 2 (2.82%) Next.js
9 2 (2.82%) OpenGL
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%) REST
9 2 (2.82%) Vulkan
9 2 (2.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (46.48%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.27%) Virtual Team
3 7 (9.86%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (5.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) iPad
6 2 (2.82%) iPhone
7 1 (1.41%) Animation
7 1 (1.41%) Blog
7 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.41%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.41%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 44 (61.97%) Android
3 2 (2.82%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) Mobile Development
2 39 (54.93%) Android Development
3 20 (28.17%) Performance Optimisation
4 16 (22.54%) AI
5 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
5 12 (16.90%) User Experience
6 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.08%) Design Patterns
7 10 (14.08%) Memory Management
7 10 (14.08%) Multithreading
7 10 (14.08%) SOLID
8 9 (12.68%) Code Quality
8 9 (12.68%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.27%) Agile
9 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.04%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (7.04%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) Swift
2 17 (23.94%) Kotlin
3 10 (14.08%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.63%) Java
5 4 (5.63%) Objective-C
6 3 (4.23%) C++
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 2 (2.82%) C
8 1 (1.41%) C#
8 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Argo
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Google
2 2 (2.82%) Apple
2 2 (2.82%) ESRI
2 2 (2.82%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.82%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.41%) WooCommerce