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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 557 688
Rank change year-on-year -29 +131 -32
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 87 116 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 69 62 86
10th Percentile - £45,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £91,000 £89,875 £86,250
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 54,960 44,026 66,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.09% 92.87% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32,942 21,945 51,245
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,494
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,651 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -6 79 £70,000 +7.69% 34
UK excluding London +3 65 £65,000 +8.33% 22
South East +6 37 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Work from Home +4 24 £77,500 +10.71% 14
London -10 17 £90,000 +20.00% 12
North of England -16 15 £72,500 +3.57% 9
North West +10 12 £72,500 +3.57% 7
South West -20 5 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Scotland -22 5 £65,000 -16.13%
North East -8 3 - -
Midlands -14 3 - - 3
East Midlands -30 3 - - 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 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.79%) AWS
2 9 (10.34%) SaaS
3 8 (9.20%) Azure
4 6 (6.90%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (5.75%) Firebase
5 5 (5.75%) GitHub
5 5 (5.75%) TestFlight
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.45%) Serverless
6 3 (3.45%) Stripe
7 2 (2.30%) Google Play
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.15%) Figma
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) Sentry
8 1 (1.15%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) BigQuery
1 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.45%) MySQL
3 2 (2.30%) GIS
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
2 4 (4.60%) Crashlytics
2 4 (4.60%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 3 (3.45%) Xcode
3 3 (3.45%) XCTest
4 2 (2.30%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.30%) CMake
4 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.15%) fastlane
5 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.15%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.05%) Retail
3 6 (6.90%) Law
4 4 (4.60%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) French Language
5 3 (3.45%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.45%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.45%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Publishing
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (80.46%) Developer
2 60 (68.97%) iOS Developer
3 30 (34.48%) Senior
4 22 (25.29%) Senior Developer
5 17 (19.54%) Senior iOS Developer
6 10 (11.49%) Mobile Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Applications Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Lead
7 9 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Lead iOS Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Android Developer
8 8 (9.20%) iOS Android Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Senior Applications Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Lead Android Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Mobile Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.63%) SwiftUI
2 20 (22.99%) RESTful
3 13 (14.94%) React Native
4 9 (10.34%) .NET
4 9 (10.34%) React
5 7 (8.05%) UIKit
6 6 (6.90%) Node.js
7 3 (3.45%) CSS
7 3 (3.45%) HTML
7 3 (3.45%) Laravel
7 3 (3.45%) Vue
8 2 (2.30%) Core Data
8 2 (2.30%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.30%) iOS SDK
8 2 (2.30%) OpenGL
8 2 (2.30%) OpenSceneGraph
8 2 (2.30%) QML
8 2 (2.30%) Qt
8 2 (2.30%) Qt Quick
8 2 (2.30%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 58 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.15%) Blog
5 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 87 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 45 (51.72%) Android
3 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Android Development
2 39 (44.83%) Mobile Development
3 25 (28.74%) Performance Optimisation
4 20 (22.99%) Test Automation
5 18 (20.69%) Memory Management
5 18 (20.69%) Multithreading
5 18 (20.69%) SOLID
6 15 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 11 (12.64%) User Experience
9 10 (11.49%) AI
9 10 (11.49%) Analytics
9 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (10.34%) Agile
10 9 (10.34%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.05%) Cross-Platform Development
11 7 (8.05%) Mobile Application Development
12 6 (6.90%) Microservices
12 6 (6.90%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.93%) Swift
2 24 (27.59%) Kotlin
3 15 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.75%) SQL
6 3 (3.45%) PHP
6 3 (3.45%) Python
7 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) C
7 2 (2.30%) C++
7 2 (2.30%) Java
7 2 (2.30%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) Argo
1 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) Amplitude
1 3 (3.45%) WooCommerce
2 2 (2.30%) Apple
2 2 (2.30%) ESRI
2 2 (2.30%) Google
2 2 (2.30%) Mapbox
2 2 (2.30%) Xamarin