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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 719 621 644
Rank change year-on-year -98 +23 +38
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 90 62 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67 51 81
10th Percentile £47,300 £53,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +30.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £73,886
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% -9.09%

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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -97 86 £83,750 +28.85% 94
UK excluding London -129 60 £67,500 +3.85% 30
South East -31 28 £77,500 +29.17% 4
Work from Home -32 25 £90,000 +16.13% 29
London -64 24 £90,000 +5.88% 69
North of England -60 22 £47,000 -35.17% 14
North West -24 8 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Yorkshire -34 7 - - 3
North East - 7 £47,000 -
Midlands -45 6 £63,500 +20.95% 2
East Midlands - 6 £63,500 - 1
East of England - 4 £140,000 - 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 13 (14.44%) Firebase
1 13 (14.44%) GitHub
2 12 (13.33%) AWS
3 9 (10.00%) Azure
4 8 (8.89%) Serverless
5 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.56%) Bitrise
7 5 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (5.56%) Stripe
7 5 (5.56%) TestFlight
8 3 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.22%) ChatGPT
9 2 (2.22%) GCP
9 2 (2.22%) Google Play
10 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Broadband
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
1 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Xcode
2 10 (11.11%) fastlane
3 7 (7.78%) XCTest
4 6 (6.67%) Git
4 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.56%) Crashlytics
5 5 (5.56%) XCUITest
6 3 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.22%) git-flow
7 2 (2.22%) GitLab
8 1 (1.11%) Appium
8 1 (1.11%) CocoaPods
General
1 13 (14.44%) Finance
1 13 (14.44%) Retail
2 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.78%) Health Technology
5 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Digital Health
6 5 (5.56%) Publishing
7 3 (3.33%) Automotive
7 3 (3.33%) Games
7 3 (3.33%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Law
9 1 (1.11%) Front Office
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (72.22%) Developer
2 60 (66.67%) iOS Developer
3 36 (40.00%) Senior
4 30 (33.33%) Senior Developer
5 28 (31.11%) Senior iOS Developer
6 22 (24.44%) Mobile Developer
7 21 (23.33%) Android Developer
7 21 (23.33%) iOS Android Developer
8 20 (22.22%) Senior Mobile Developer
9 14 (15.56%) Applications Developer
9 14 (15.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 14 (15.56%) Senior Applications Developer
9 14 (15.56%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
10 10 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
10 10 (11.11%) Senior iOS Android Developer
11 8 (8.89%) Software Developer
11 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) iOS Software Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (43.33%) SwiftUI
2 22 (24.44%) RESTful
3 17 (18.89%) UIKit
4 7 (7.78%) React Native
4 7 (7.78%) REST
5 6 (6.67%) Core Data
5 6 (6.67%) iOS SDK
6 5 (5.56%) React
7 3 (3.33%) CarPlay
7 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.33%) Node.js
8 2 (2.22%) Flutter
8 2 (2.22%) Jest
8 2 (2.22%) Kafka
8 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.22%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.11%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
9 1 (1.11%) Redux
9 1 (1.11%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 69 (76.67%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.44%) NHS
5 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) IoT
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.33%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (98.89%) Apple iOS
2 52 (57.78%) Android
3 4 (4.44%) Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) Android Development
2 37 (41.11%) Mobile Development
3 30 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 20 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 18 (20.00%) User Experience
6 16 (17.78%) Agile
6 16 (17.78%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 15 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 14 (15.56%) AI
8 14 (15.56%) SOLID
9 12 (13.33%) Analytics
9 12 (13.33%) Memory Management
10 11 (12.22%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (12.22%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (11.11%) Code Quality
11 10 (11.11%) E-Commerce
11 10 (11.11%) MVVM
12 9 (10.00%) API Integration
12 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (55.56%) Swift
2 25 (27.78%) Kotlin
3 8 (8.89%) Java
4 5 (5.56%) C++
4 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.22%) Python
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.67%) WCAG
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Apple
2 6 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.56%) Amplitude
3 5 (5.56%) Braze
4 2 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft