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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 569 723
Rank change year-on-year -21 +154 +8
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 122 94 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 86 64 126
10th Percentile - £53,225 £38,750
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 £82,813 £82,500 £68,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £79,250
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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 14 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 14 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 -22 111 £70,000 +3.70% 21
UK excluding London -28 96 £65,000 +6.12% 12
South East +15 45 £70,000 +21.74% 3
Work from Home 0 39 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North of England -2 26 £65,000 -13.33% 5
London -31 22 £90,000 +20.00% 8
North West +17 17 £72,500 -4.92%
East Midlands -9 17 £63,775 -
Midlands -27 17 £63,775 -7.24%
Scotland +2 7 £63,750 -20.31% 1
Yorkshire -57 6 £55,000 +10.00% 2
North East -33 3 £47,000 - 3
South West -62 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 (2.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.03%) AWS
2 19 (15.57%) GitHub
3 16 (13.11%) Firebase
4 15 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (11.48%) TestFlight
6 13 (10.66%) Azure
6 13 (10.66%) Serverless
6 13 (10.66%) Stripe
7 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.74%) SaaS
8 6 (4.92%) GCP
8 6 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.28%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.82%) Google Play
11 1 (0.82%) Sentry
11 1 (0.82%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) BigQuery
1 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.46%) MySQL
3 1 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) XCTest
2 13 (10.66%) Crashlytics
3 7 (5.74%) fastlane
3 7 (5.74%) XCUITest
4 6 (4.92%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.10%) Git
5 5 (4.10%) Xcode
6 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.64%) Appium
8 2 (1.64%) JIRA
9 1 (0.82%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.82%) CMake
9 1 (0.82%) GitLab
9 1 (0.82%) Postman
9 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.82%) TestRail
9 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (13.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Finance
3 7 (5.74%) Retail
4 6 (4.92%) Law
5 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) French Language
7 3 (2.46%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.46%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.46%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.46%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (75.41%) Developer
2 85 (69.67%) iOS Developer
3 50 (40.98%) Senior
4 39 (31.97%) Senior Developer
5 34 (27.87%) Senior iOS Developer
6 14 (11.48%) Mobile Engineer
7 11 (9.02%) Applications Developer
8 10 (8.20%) Android Developer
8 10 (8.20%) iOS Android Developer
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Applications Developer
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Mobile Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Lead
11 7 (5.74%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Lead iOS Developer
12 6 (4.92%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 6 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (40.16%) SwiftUI
2 24 (19.67%) RESTful
3 20 (16.39%) UIKit
4 11 (9.02%) React Native
5 9 (7.38%) React
6 6 (4.92%) Node.js
7 5 (4.10%) .NET
8 3 (2.46%) Core Data
8 3 (2.46%) CSS
8 3 (2.46%) HTML
8 3 (2.46%) iOS SDK
8 3 (2.46%) Laravel
8 3 (2.46%) Vue
9 1 (0.82%) Flutter
9 1 (0.82%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.82%) Jest
9 1 (0.82%) Next.js
9 1 (0.82%) Qt Quick
9 1 (0.82%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.82%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 84 (68.85%) Mobile App
2 16 (13.11%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.82%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.82%) Blog
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 121 (99.18%) Apple iOS
2 47 (38.52%) Android
3 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.70%) Mobile Development
2 45 (36.89%) Android Development
3 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
3 34 (27.87%) Test Automation
4 30 (24.59%) User Experience
5 21 (17.21%) Clean Code
6 20 (16.39%) Analytics
7 19 (15.57%) Code Quality
7 19 (15.57%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (13.93%) Cross-Platform Development
8 17 (13.93%) Memory Management
8 17 (13.93%) Multithreading
8 17 (13.93%) SOLID
9 16 (13.11%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (12.30%) Agile
10 15 (12.30%) Software Engineering
11 14 (11.48%) Push Notifications
12 13 (10.66%) Community of Practice
12 13 (10.66%) Product Vision
12 13 (10.66%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.90%) Swift
2 33 (27.05%) Kotlin
3 14 (11.48%) TypeScript
4 10 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.10%) SQL
6 3 (2.46%) PHP
6 3 (2.46%) Python
7 1 (0.82%) Bash
7 1 (0.82%) C
7 1 (0.82%) C++
7 1 (0.82%) Java
7 1 (0.82%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 7 (5.74%) Degree
2 3 (2.46%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.28%) WCAG
3 2 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Argo
1 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Amplitude
1 13 (10.66%) Braze
2 7 (5.74%) Apple
3 3 (2.46%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.46%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.82%) ESRI
4 1 (0.82%) Google
4 1 (0.82%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.82%) Xamarin