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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 528 711
Rank change year-on-year -50 +183 -21
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 118 102 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 90 66 107
10th Percentile - £51,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -34 108 £70,000 +5.66% 24
UK excluding London -32 90 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South East -1 44 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Work from Home -23 34 £77,500 +10.71% 13
London -13 23 £90,000 +20.00% 11
North of England -38 21 £70,000 - 4
North West -11 17 £72,500 +3.57% 2
East Midlands -31 13 £63,775 +21.48% 2
Midlands -37 13 £63,775 -5.52% 2
Scotland -23 7 £63,750 -20.31% 1
South West -44 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
North East -23 3 - -
Yorkshire -46 1 £55,000 -13.73% 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 (2.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.25%) AWS
2 15 (12.71%) GitHub
3 13 (11.02%) Azure
4 12 (10.17%) Firebase
5 11 (9.32%) TestFlight
6 10 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.63%) SaaS
7 9 (7.63%) Serverless
7 9 (7.63%) Stripe
8 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.08%) GCP
8 6 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.39%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.69%) Google Play
12 1 (0.85%) Figma
12 1 (0.85%) Sentry
12 1 (0.85%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) BigQuery
1 6 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.54%) MySQL
3 2 (1.69%) GIS
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Crashlytics
1 10 (8.47%) XCTest
2 7 (5.93%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) XCUITest
3 6 (5.08%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.24%) fastlane
4 5 (4.24%) Xcode
5 4 (3.39%) JIRA
6 3 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.69%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.69%) CMake
7 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Appium
8 1 (0.85%) Postman
8 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.85%) TestRail
8 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (12.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.63%) Retail
3 8 (6.78%) Finance
4 6 (5.08%) Law
5 4 (3.39%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Banking
6 3 (2.54%) French Language
6 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.54%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.54%) Marketing
6 3 (2.54%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.54%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.69%) Publishing
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 93 (78.81%) Developer
2 83 (70.34%) iOS Developer
3 45 (38.14%) Senior
4 35 (29.66%) Senior Developer
5 30 (25.42%) Senior iOS Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Mobile Developer
7 10 (8.47%) Applications Developer
7 10 (8.47%) Lead
7 10 (8.47%) Lead Developer
7 10 (8.47%) Lead iOS Developer
7 10 (8.47%) Mobile Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Android Developer
8 9 (7.63%) iOS Android Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Senior Applications Developer
10 7 (5.93%) Lead Android Developer
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Mobile Developer
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (40.68%) SwiftUI
2 26 (22.03%) RESTful
3 17 (14.41%) UIKit
4 13 (11.02%) React Native
5 9 (7.63%) .NET
5 9 (7.63%) React
6 6 (5.08%) Node.js
7 3 (2.54%) Core Data
7 3 (2.54%) CSS
7 3 (2.54%) HTML
7 3 (2.54%) iOS SDK
7 3 (2.54%) Laravel
7 3 (2.54%) Vue
8 2 (1.69%) Flutter
8 2 (1.69%) Google Maps API
8 2 (1.69%) OpenGL
8 2 (1.69%) OpenSceneGraph
8 2 (1.69%) QML
8 2 (1.69%) Qt
8 2 (1.69%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 79 (66.95%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.32%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.69%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (0.85%) Blog
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 118 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 51 (43.22%) Android
3 2 (1.69%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Android Development
2 47 (39.83%) Mobile Development
3 30 (25.42%) Test Automation
4 28 (23.73%) CI/CD
5 27 (22.88%) Performance Optimisation
6 25 (21.19%) User Experience
7 20 (16.95%) Memory Management
7 20 (16.95%) Multithreading
7 20 (16.95%) SOLID
8 18 (15.25%) Code Quality
9 17 (14.41%) Agile
9 17 (14.41%) Analytics
10 15 (12.71%) Clean Code
10 15 (12.71%) Software Engineering
11 14 (11.86%) Cross-Platform Development
12 13 (11.02%) AI
12 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.17%) Push Notifications
14 11 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
15 10 (8.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.92%) Swift
2 33 (27.97%) Kotlin
3 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.24%) SQL
6 3 (2.54%) PHP
6 3 (2.54%) Python
7 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) C
7 2 (1.69%) C++
7 2 (1.69%) Java
7 2 (1.69%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 8 (6.78%) Degree
2 3 (2.54%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.54%) QA
3 2 (1.69%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.08%) Argo
1 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.63%) Amplitude
2 6 (5.08%) Apple
3 3 (2.54%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.69%) ESRI
4 2 (1.69%) Google
4 2 (1.69%) Mapbox
4 2 (1.69%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace