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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 570 727
Rank change year-on-year -42 +157 +12
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 120 92 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 85 62 129
10th Percentile - £53,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £78,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.12% +28.95% -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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 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 21 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 -35 110 £70,000 +3.70% 28
UK excluding London -13 96 £65,000 +6.12% 11
South East +8 44 £70,000 +21.74% 4
Work from Home +24 36 £85,000 +21.43% 10
North of England -11 28 £63,750 -15.00% 2
London -45 20 £83,750 +11.67% 16
North West +21 17 £72,500 -4.92%
East Midlands -6 17 £63,775 -
Midlands -21 17 £63,775 -7.24%
Yorkshire -33 8 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Scotland 0 6 £63,750 -20.31% 1
North East -37 3 £47,000 - 1
South West -72 1 £75,000 +7.14% 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 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.67%) AWS
1 20 (16.67%) GitHub
2 17 (14.17%) Firebase
3 15 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.83%) Serverless
4 13 (10.83%) Stripe
4 13 (10.83%) TestFlight
5 12 (10.00%) Azure
6 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.17%) ChatGPT
7 5 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.33%) GCP
8 4 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (3.33%) SaaS
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.83%) Sentry
10 1 (0.83%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) XCTest
2 13 (10.83%) Crashlytics
3 8 (6.67%) fastlane
3 8 (6.67%) XCUITest
4 5 (4.17%) Git
4 5 (4.17%) Xcode
5 4 (3.33%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.67%) Appium
8 1 (0.83%) GitLab
8 1 (0.83%) JIRA
8 1 (0.83%) Postman
8 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.83%) TestRail
8 1 (0.83%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.33%) Finance
3 7 (5.83%) Retail
4 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.33%) Law
7 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Banking
7 3 (2.50%) French Language
7 3 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.50%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.50%) Marketing
7 3 (2.50%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.50%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.67%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (78.33%) Developer
2 88 (73.33%) iOS Developer
3 49 (40.83%) Senior
4 41 (34.17%) Senior Developer
5 36 (30.00%) Senior iOS Developer
6 13 (10.83%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Android Developer
7 11 (9.17%) iOS Android Developer
8 10 (8.33%) Applications Developer
8 10 (8.33%) Senior Applications Developer
8 10 (8.33%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Lead
9 7 (5.83%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Lead iOS Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Mobile Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (41.67%) SwiftUI
2 24 (20.00%) RESTful
3 22 (18.33%) UIKit
4 7 (5.83%) React
4 7 (5.83%) React Native
5 4 (3.33%) Core Data
5 4 (3.33%) iOS SDK
5 4 (3.33%) Node.js
6 3 (2.50%) .NET
6 3 (2.50%) CSS
6 3 (2.50%) HTML
6 3 (2.50%) Laravel
6 3 (2.50%) Vue
7 1 (0.83%) Flutter
7 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.83%) Jest
7 1 (0.83%) Next.js
7 1 (0.83%) REST
7 1 (0.83%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 84 (70.00%) Mobile App
2 16 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 119 (99.17%) Apple iOS
2 43 (35.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.50%) Mobile Development
2 42 (35.00%) Android Development
3 35 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 33 (27.50%) Test Automation
5 30 (25.00%) User Experience
6 24 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 20 (16.67%) Analytics
8 19 (15.83%) Code Quality
9 17 (14.17%) Agile
9 17 (14.17%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (13.33%) Cross-Platform Development
10 16 (13.33%) Memory Management
10 16 (13.33%) Multithreading
10 16 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (13.33%) SOLID
11 13 (10.83%) Community of Practice
11 13 (10.83%) Product Vision
11 13 (10.83%) Push Notifications
11 13 (10.83%) Server-Driven UI
11 13 (10.83%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.50%) Swift
2 32 (26.67%) Kotlin
3 11 (9.17%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.17%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) PHP
6 3 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (4.17%) Degree
2 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.17%) WCAG
3 2 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Argo
1 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Amplitude
1 13 (10.83%) Braze
2 7 (5.83%) Apple
3 4 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.50%) WooCommerce