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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 546 710
Rank change year-on-year -36 +164 -30
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 96 114 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 75 67 93
10th Percentile - £50,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +33.33% -25.00%

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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 March 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 March 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 -50 88 £70,000 +7.69% 33
UK excluding London -17 73 £65,000 +8.33% 22
South East +9 40 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Work from Home -6 26 £77,500 +10.71% 13
London -14 18 £90,000 +20.00% 16
North of England -19 17 £70,000 - 10
North West +4 14 £70,000 - 7
Midlands -23 6 £64,050 -5.11% 1
East Midlands -30 6 £64,050 +22.00% 1
Scotland -14 5 £65,000 -16.13% 2
South West -30 5 £75,000 +7.14% 4
North East -15 3 - - 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 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) AWS
2 9 (9.38%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) SaaS
3 7 (7.29%) Firebase
3 7 (7.29%) GitHub
3 7 (7.29%) TestFlight
4 6 (6.25%) GCP
4 6 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.21%) Serverless
5 5 (5.21%) Stripe
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.08%) Google Play
8 1 (1.04%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.04%) Figma
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.04%) Sentry
8 1 (1.04%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 6 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (2.08%) GIS
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) CircleCI
1 6 (6.25%) Crashlytics
2 5 (5.21%) XCTest
3 4 (4.17%) Git
4 3 (3.13%) JIRA
4 3 (3.13%) Xcode
5 2 (2.08%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.08%) CMake
5 2 (2.08%) fastlane
5 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.08%) XCUITest
6 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Retail
3 6 (6.25%) Law
4 4 (4.17%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Finance
5 3 (3.13%) French Language
5 3 (3.13%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.13%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.13%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.08%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Publishing
7 1 (1.04%) Games
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (79.17%) Developer
2 66 (68.75%) iOS Developer
3 33 (34.38%) Senior
4 24 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 19 (19.79%) Senior iOS Developer
6 11 (11.46%) Mobile Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Applications Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Lead
7 9 (9.38%) Lead Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Lead iOS Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Android Developer
8 8 (8.33%) iOS Android Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Applications Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Lead Android Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Mobile Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.50%) SwiftUI
2 23 (23.96%) RESTful
3 13 (13.54%) React Native
4 9 (9.38%) .NET
4 9 (9.38%) React
4 9 (9.38%) UIKit
5 6 (6.25%) Node.js
6 3 (3.13%) CSS
6 3 (3.13%) HTML
6 3 (3.13%) Laravel
6 3 (3.13%) Vue
7 2 (2.08%) Core Data
7 2 (2.08%) Google Maps API
7 2 (2.08%) iOS SDK
7 2 (2.08%) OpenGL
7 2 (2.08%) OpenSceneGraph
7 2 (2.08%) QML
7 2 (2.08%) Qt
7 2 (2.08%) Qt Quick
7 2 (2.08%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 65 (67.71%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 96 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 47 (48.96%) Android
3 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.92%) Android Development
2 43 (44.79%) Mobile Development
3 27 (28.13%) Performance Optimisation
4 23 (23.96%) Test Automation
5 20 (20.83%) Memory Management
5 20 (20.83%) Multithreading
5 20 (20.83%) SOLID
6 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
7 15 (15.63%) User Experience
8 12 (12.50%) Analytics
8 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.46%) Code Quality
10 10 (10.42%) Agile
10 10 (10.42%) AI
10 10 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (9.38%) Cross-Platform Development
12 8 (8.33%) Clean Code
12 8 (8.33%) Push Notifications
13 7 (7.29%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) Swift
2 28 (29.17%) Kotlin
3 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.21%) SQL
6 3 (3.13%) PHP
6 3 (3.13%) Python
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.08%) C
7 2 (2.08%) C++
7 2 (2.08%) Java
7 2 (2.08%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Argo
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Amplitude
2 3 (3.13%) Apple
2 3 (3.13%) WooCommerce
3 2 (2.08%) ESRI
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Mapbox
3 2 (2.08%) Xamarin