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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 633 639
Rank change year-on-year +48 +6 -112
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 65 112 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 47 64
10th Percentile - - £28,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,000 £91,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% +20.00% -18.18%

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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +48 53 £70,000 +16.67% 58
UK excluding London +66 45 £65,000 +20.37% 32
Work from Home +55 21 £75,000 +27.66% 36
London +25 18 £87,500 +2.94% 33
South East +36 14 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Scotland +4 12 £65,000 +25.00% 4
North of England +38 10 £67,500 -3.23% 3
South West +37 6 £75,000 +87.50% 5
North West +33 5 £65,000 -12.16% 2
West Midlands +53 3 £52,500 -8.70% 2
Midlands +45 3 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Yorkshire +10 3 £80,000 +60.00% 1
North East - 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) Firebase
3 4 (6.15%) GitHub
3 4 (6.15%) SaaS
4 3 (4.62%) AWS
4 3 (4.62%) Google Play
5 2 (3.08%) Figma
5 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.54%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) GIS
2 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
2 8 (12.31%) Xcode
3 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.62%) Crashlytics
4 3 (4.62%) JIRA
5 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.08%) Storybook
6 1 (1.54%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.54%) Appium
6 1 (1.54%) CMake
6 1 (1.54%) CocoaPods
6 1 (1.54%) fastlane
6 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.54%) XCTest
6 1 (1.54%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Law
3 4 (6.15%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Electronics
4 3 (4.62%) Tech for Good
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.08%) Publishing
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (78.46%) Developer
2 38 (58.46%) iOS Developer
3 27 (41.54%) Mobile Developer
4 21 (32.31%) Senior
5 17 (26.15%) Senior Developer
6 16 (24.62%) Lead
6 16 (24.62%) Senior iOS Developer
7 15 (23.08%) Android Developer
7 15 (23.08%) iOS Android Developer
8 11 (16.92%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 10 (15.38%) Senior Android Developer
9 10 (15.38%) Senior iOS Android Developer
10 9 (13.85%) Lead Developer
10 9 (13.85%) Lead iOS Developer
11 5 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Applications Developer
12 3 (4.62%) Lead Android Developer
12 3 (4.62%) Lead Mobile Developer
13 2 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) SwiftUI
2 14 (21.54%) RESTful
3 13 (20.00%) UIKit
4 9 (13.85%) iOS SDK
4 9 (13.85%) React Native
5 7 (10.77%) Core Data
6 6 (9.23%) .NET
7 4 (6.15%) Flutter
7 4 (6.15%) React
8 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.62%) Core Animation
8 3 (4.62%) JSON
9 2 (3.08%) Cocoa
9 2 (3.08%) Jest
9 2 (3.08%) Next.js
9 2 (3.08%) Node.js
9 2 (3.08%) REST
9 2 (3.08%) WebSockets
9 2 (3.08%) YAML
10 1 (1.54%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Mobile App
2 11 (16.92%) Virtual Team
3 10 (15.38%) Augmented Reality
4 4 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.62%) Animation
6 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.08%) iPad
6 2 (3.08%) iPhone
7 1 (1.54%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.54%) Blog
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (1.54%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 65 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 45 (69.23%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (63.08%) Mobile Development
2 40 (61.54%) Android Development
3 20 (30.77%) AI
4 16 (24.62%) Performance Optimisation
4 16 (24.62%) User Experience
5 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns
6 12 (18.46%) Agile
7 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.38%) SOLID
9 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.77%) Memory Management
11 7 (10.77%) Multithreading
11 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
12 6 (9.23%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (9.23%) MVVM
12 6 (9.23%) Push Notifications
12 6 (9.23%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) Swift
2 18 (27.69%) Kotlin
3 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.23%) Objective-C
3 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.15%) Java
5 3 (4.62%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) C++
7 1 (1.54%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) C
7 1 (1.54%) Dart
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Argo
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.62%) Google
2 2 (3.08%) Apple
3 1 (1.54%) ESRI
3 1 (1.54%) Mapbox
3 1 (1.54%) Xamarin