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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 624 673
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 -192
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 57 121 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49 59 69
10th Percentile £54,750 £43,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% +5.26% -13.64%

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 43,732 58,410 52,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.90% 82.19% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24,546 31,188 40,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,997 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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 +45 45 £65,000 +8.33% 27
UK excluding London +47 41 £65,000 +30.00% 20
London +29 15 £87,500 +7.69% 9
Work from Home +20 15 £75,000 +44.23% 20
South East +17 13 £60,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland +2 12 £65,000 +30.00%
North of England -4 9 £70,000 +6.87% 6
North West -15 6 £65,000 -12.16% 3
South West +52 4 £62,500 -13.18% 5
Midlands +49 3 £52,500 +2.44% 2
West Midlands +40 3 £52,500 -8.70% 2
Yorkshire +6 3 £80,000 +60.00%

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 3 (5.26%) Azure
1 3 (5.26%) Firebase
1 3 (5.26%) GitHub
1 3 (5.26%) Google Play
2 1 (1.75%) AWS
2 1 (1.75%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (1.75%) Figma
2 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (1.75%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) GIS
1 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Git
2 7 (12.28%) Xcode
3 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) Crashlytics
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) Storybook
5 1 (1.75%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.75%) Appium
5 1 (1.75%) CMake
5 1 (1.75%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.75%) fastlane
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.75%) XCTest
5 1 (1.75%) XCUITest
General
1 7 (12.28%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Law
4 3 (5.26%) Electronics
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Publishing
6 1 (1.75%) Aviation
6 1 (1.75%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (75.44%) Developer
2 31 (54.39%) iOS Developer
3 25 (43.86%) Mobile Developer
4 19 (33.33%) Senior
5 17 (29.82%) Senior Developer
6 15 (26.32%) Senior iOS Developer
7 13 (22.81%) Lead
8 12 (21.05%) Android Developer
8 12 (21.05%) iOS Android Developer
9 11 (19.30%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 10 (17.54%) Senior Android Developer
10 10 (17.54%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
11 6 (10.53%) Lead iOS Developer
12 4 (7.02%) Mobile Engineer
13 3 (5.26%) Lead Mobile Developer
13 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
14 2 (3.51%) Development Manager
14 2 (3.51%) Flutter Developer
14 2 (3.51%) iOS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) SwiftUI
2 14 (24.56%) UIKit
3 10 (17.54%) RESTful
4 9 (15.79%) iOS SDK
5 7 (12.28%) Core Data
6 4 (7.02%) Flutter
6 4 (7.02%) React Native
7 3 (5.26%) .NET
7 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.26%) Core Animation
8 2 (3.51%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (3.51%) Jest
8 2 (3.51%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (3.51%) JSON
8 2 (3.51%) Next.js
8 2 (3.51%) OAuth
8 2 (3.51%) React
8 2 (3.51%) REST
8 2 (3.51%) WebSockets
8 2 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Mobile App
2 13 (22.81%) Virtual Team
3 10 (17.54%) Augmented Reality
4 6 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.26%) Animation
6 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.51%) iPad
6 2 (3.51%) iPhone
7 1 (1.75%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.75%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 57 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 38 (66.67%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) Mobile Development
2 34 (59.65%) Android Development
3 19 (33.33%) AI
4 14 (24.56%) Design Patterns
4 14 (24.56%) User Experience
5 11 (19.30%) Agile
6 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
6 10 (17.54%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (15.79%) SOLID
8 8 (14.04%) Code Quality
8 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
9 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 6 (10.53%) Wireframes
11 5 (8.77%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
12 4 (7.02%) Memory Management
12 4 (7.02%) MVVM
12 4 (7.02%) User Stories
12 4 (7.02%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Swift
2 17 (29.82%) Kotlin
3 6 (10.53%) Java
3 6 (10.53%) Objective-C
4 3 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) C++
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) C
6 1 (1.75%) Dart
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (5.26%) Google
2 2 (3.51%) Apple
3 1 (1.75%) ESRI
3 1 (1.75%) Mapbox
3 1 (1.75%) Xamarin