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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 588 708
Rank change year-on-year -69 +120 +16
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 105 92 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 69 125
10th Percentile £47,350 £53,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £69,250
90th Percentile - £87,500 £79,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year - +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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -57 101 £70,000 +7.69% 21
UK excluding London -47 86 £65,000 - 12
North of England +2 37 £60,000 -22.58% 3
Work from Home -19 31 £90,000 +16.13% 5
South East -12 28 £70,000 +19.15% 6
North West +13 22 £70,000 -6.67% 3
East Midlands +4 18 £63,775 -
Midlands -24 18 £63,775 -5.52%
London -35 16 £90,000 +18.03% 10
Yorkshire -30 8 £55,000 -31.25%
North East -51 7 £47,000 -
Scotland -4 2 £62,500 -3.85%
East of England -12 1 £55,000 - 1

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 22 (20.95%) Firebase
1 22 (20.95%) GitHub
2 16 (15.24%) GitHub Actions
3 15 (14.29%) AWS
4 14 (13.33%) Serverless
4 14 (13.33%) Stripe
4 14 (13.33%) TestFlight
5 12 (11.43%) Azure
6 11 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.71%) ChatGPT
7 6 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.95%) GCP
9 1 (0.95%) Google Play
9 1 (0.95%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Broadband
1 1 (0.95%) HTTP
1 1 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) fastlane
1 15 (14.29%) XCTest
2 14 (13.33%) Crashlytics
3 9 (8.57%) Xcode
3 9 (8.57%) XCUITest
4 7 (6.67%) Git
4 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.90%) Appium
6 2 (1.90%) GitLab
7 1 (0.95%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.95%) JIRA
7 1 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.95%) TestRail
7 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Retail
6 6 (5.71%) Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Digital Health
8 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.86%) French Language
8 3 (2.86%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.86%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.86%) Marketing
8 3 (2.86%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.86%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 74 (70.48%) Developer
2 71 (67.62%) iOS Developer
3 47 (44.76%) Senior
4 35 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 34 (32.38%) Senior iOS Developer
6 14 (13.33%) Android Developer
6 14 (13.33%) iOS Android Developer
6 14 (13.33%) Mobile Engineer
7 13 (12.38%) Senior Mobile Developer
8 10 (9.52%) Applications Developer
8 10 (9.52%) Mobile Developer
8 10 (9.52%) Senior Applications Developer
9 9 (8.57%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 9 (8.57%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
10 8 (7.62%) Software Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior Android Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior iOS Android Developer
12 6 (5.71%) Software Engineer
13 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.52%) SwiftUI
2 28 (26.67%) UIKit
3 21 (20.00%) RESTful
4 7 (6.67%) Core Data
4 7 (6.67%) iOS SDK
5 3 (2.86%) .NET
5 3 (2.86%) CSS
5 3 (2.86%) HTML
5 3 (2.86%) React Native
6 2 (1.90%) Flutter
6 2 (1.90%) Jest
6 2 (1.90%) React
6 2 (1.90%) REST
7 1 (0.95%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.95%) Redux
7 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.95%) Torch
7 1 (0.95%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 72 (68.57%) Mobile App
2 17 (16.19%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (10.48%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 104 (99.05%) Apple iOS
2 36 (34.29%) Android
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 35 (33.33%) Android Development
2 35 (33.33%) User Experience
3 34 (32.38%) Mobile Development
4 32 (30.48%) Clean Code
4 32 (30.48%) Test Automation
5 24 (22.86%) Analytics
6 21 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 21 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (17.14%) Agile
8 15 (14.29%) Cross-Platform Development
9 14 (13.33%) Community of Practice
9 14 (13.33%) Process Improvement
9 14 (13.33%) Product Vision
9 14 (13.33%) Push Notifications
9 14 (13.33%) Re-Platforming
9 14 (13.33%) Server-Driven UI
9 14 (13.33%) Storyboarding
10 13 (12.38%) E-Commerce
10 13 (12.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (60.95%) Swift
2 29 (27.62%) Kotlin
3 5 (4.76%) Python
4 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.86%) SQL
6 2 (1.90%) C++
6 2 (1.90%) Java
6 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) C#
7 1 (0.95%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (3.81%) Degree
2 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.62%) WCAG
3 2 (1.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Amplitude
1 14 (13.33%) Braze
2 11 (10.48%) Apple
3 7 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.95%) Google
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft