iOS Development Jobs

iOS Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring iOS Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited iOS Development over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 747 757
Rank change year-on-year +122 +10 -315
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 86 163 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 56 130 136
10th Percentile £53,750 £39,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -31.03% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,188 £96,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,650 £119,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -24.00% +4.17%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

iOS Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iOS Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing iOS Development.

Salary trend for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing iOS Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for iOS Development in the UK

iOS Development
Top 15 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 28 May 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 +90 81 £65,000 +30.00% 134
UK excluding London +120 52 £60,000 +26.32% 86
Work from Home +64 36 £70,000 +55.56% 79
London +122 33 £72,500 +7.41% 78
South West +96 16 £73,876 +64.17% 5
South East +90 16 £58,750 -2.08% 27
Midlands +64 11 £68,750 +52.78% 6
West Midlands +71 10 £68,750 +52.78% 4
Scotland +126 4 £80,000 +60.00% 7
North of England -4 4 £75,000 +57.89% 34
North West -25 2 £76,250 +8.93% 29
Yorkshire +42 1 £50,000 +11.11% 5
East Midlands +36 1 - - 2
East of England +35 1 £55,000 - 5
North East - 1 - - 1

iOS Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.16%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.79%) GitHub
2 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (3.49%) Firebase
3 3 (3.49%) Supabase
3 3 (3.49%) Vercel
4 2 (2.33%) Bitrise
5 1 (1.16%) Azure
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.16%) Figma
5 1 (1.16%) GCP
5 1 (1.16%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.16%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) SSL
2 3 (3.49%) Bluetooth
2 3 (3.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Git
2 12 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.30%) Gradle
4 7 (8.14%) SonarQube
4 7 (8.14%) Xcode
5 5 (5.81%) Appium
5 5 (5.81%) GitLab
5 5 (5.81%) JIRA
6 4 (4.65%) XCUITest
7 3 (3.49%) XCTest
8 2 (2.33%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.33%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.16%) Crashlytics
9 1 (1.16%) fastlane
9 1 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.16%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (27.91%) Finance
2 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Aviation
4 9 (10.47%) Games
5 7 (8.14%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Electronics
6 5 (5.81%) Private Banking
7 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Law
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Advertising
9 1 (1.16%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Marketing
9 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (46.51%) Developer
2 31 (36.05%) iOS Developer
3 20 (23.26%) Senior
4 13 (15.12%) Lead
4 13 (15.12%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Development Manager
6 11 (12.79%) Android Developer
7 10 (11.63%) iOS Android Developer
8 8 (9.30%) iOS Software Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Lead Developer
8 8 (9.30%) Lead iOS Developer
8 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Lead Android Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Mobile Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Senior iOS Developer
11 5 (5.81%) IT Development Manager
11 5 (5.81%) IT Manager
12 4 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.65%) Software Team Leader
12 4 (4.65%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.74%) SwiftUI
2 12 (13.95%) UIKit
3 11 (12.79%) Android Jetpack
3 11 (12.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 10 (11.63%) RESTful
5 8 (9.30%) REST
6 7 (8.14%) OAuth
6 7 (8.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 6 (6.98%) Laravel
7 6 (6.98%) Node.js
8 5 (5.81%) CodeIgniter
8 5 (5.81%) JSON
8 5 (5.81%) Web Services
9 4 (4.65%) React
9 4 (4.65%) React Native
9 4 (4.65%) Redux
10 3 (3.49%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.49%) Flutter
10 3 (3.49%) HTML
10 3 (3.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (54.65%) Mobile App
2 15 (17.44%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (10.47%) Algorithms
4 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.14%) Mobile Games
4 7 (8.14%) Virtual Team
5 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.49%) Lidar
7 3 (3.49%) W3C
8 2 (2.33%) Online Games
9 1 (1.16%) Animation
9 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.16%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 51 (59.30%) Android
3 4 (4.65%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (53.49%) Android Development
2 43 (50.00%) Mobile Development
3 41 (47.67%) Agile
4 30 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 27 (31.40%) Software Engineering
6 25 (29.07%) User Experience
7 24 (27.91%) SOLID
8 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
9 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (22.09%) Computer Science
10 19 (22.09%) Roadmaps
11 17 (19.77%) Design Patterns
12 14 (16.28%) DevOps
12 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
13 13 (15.12%) MVVM
14 12 (13.95%) Architectural Patterns
14 12 (13.95%) Product Management
14 12 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (12.79%) Coaching
16 10 (11.63%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 61 (70.93%) Swift
2 20 (23.26%) Java
2 20 (23.26%) Kotlin
3 14 (16.28%) Objective-C
4 8 (9.30%) C++
4 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.98%) PHP
6 5 (5.81%) C#
6 5 (5.81%) Python
6 5 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.33%) Dart
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) QA
2 10 (11.63%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.81%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (8.14%) New Relic
2 5 (5.81%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.65%) Google
4 3 (3.49%) Apple
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe
5 1 (1.16%) Ping Identity