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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 744 759
Rank change year-on-year +124 +15 -313
Permanent jobs citing iOS Development 89 168 203
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 58 131 131
10th Percentile £53,525 £37,500 £39,000
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% +7.41%
75th Percentile £81,563 £69,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £80,000 £120,000
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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 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 30 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 +87 84 £65,000 +30.00% 581
UK excluding London +117 54 £60,000 +26.32% 589
Work from Home +59 36 £70,000 +55.56% 435
London +117 34 £72,500 +7.41% 70
South West +84 17 £62,500 +38.89% 66
South East +87 15 £57,500 -4.17% 159
Midlands +90 12 £67,500 +50.00% 112
West Midlands +66 11 £67,500 +50.00% 63
North of England +4 5 £65,000 +33.33% 139
Scotland +120 4 £80,000 +60.00% 33
North West -19 3 £75,000 +7.14% 73
East Midlands +42 1 - - 42
Yorkshire +39 1 £50,000 +11.11% 51
East of England +39 1 £55,000 - 85
North East - 1 - - 16

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 (1.12%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.12%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.36%) GitHub
2 7 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (4.49%) Firebase
4 3 (3.37%) Supabase
4 3 (3.37%) Vercel
5 2 (2.25%) Azure
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (2.25%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.12%) Figma
6 1 (1.12%) GCP
6 1 (1.12%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.12%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) SSL
2 3 (3.37%) Bluetooth
2 3 (3.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 17 (19.10%) Git
2 12 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.11%) Xcode
4 8 (8.99%) Gradle
5 7 (7.87%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.62%) Appium
6 5 (5.62%) GitLab
6 5 (5.62%) JIRA
7 4 (4.49%) XCTest
7 4 (4.49%) XCUITest
8 2 (2.25%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.12%) CocoaPods
9 1 (1.12%) Crashlytics
9 1 (1.12%) fastlane
9 1 (1.12%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.12%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (26.97%) Finance
2 19 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Aviation
3 9 (10.11%) Games
4 7 (7.87%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Electronics
5 5 (5.62%) Private Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Automotive
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (48.31%) Developer
2 33 (37.08%) iOS Developer
3 20 (22.47%) Senior
4 14 (15.73%) Lead
5 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Development Manager
7 11 (12.36%) Android Developer
8 10 (11.24%) iOS Android Developer
9 9 (10.11%) Lead Developer
9 9 (10.11%) Lead iOS Developer
10 8 (8.99%) iOS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
11 7 (7.87%) Lead Android Developer
11 7 (7.87%) Mobile Developer
12 6 (6.74%) Senior iOS Developer
13 5 (5.62%) IT Development Manager
13 5 (5.62%) IT Manager
14 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (4.49%) Software Team Leader
14 4 (4.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.09%) SwiftUI
2 14 (15.73%) RESTful
3 13 (14.61%) UIKit
4 11 (12.36%) Android Jetpack
4 11 (12.36%) Jetpack Compose
5 8 (8.99%) REST
6 7 (7.87%) OAuth
6 7 (7.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 6 (6.74%) JSON
7 6 (6.74%) Laravel
7 6 (6.74%) Node.js
8 5 (5.62%) CodeIgniter
8 5 (5.62%) Web Services
9 4 (4.49%) Flutter
9 4 (4.49%) React
9 4 (4.49%) React Native
9 4 (4.49%) Redux
10 3 (3.37%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.37%) HTML
10 3 (3.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (52.81%) Mobile App
2 14 (15.73%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (10.11%) Algorithms
4 7 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.87%) Mobile Games
4 7 (7.87%) Virtual Team
5 6 (6.74%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.62%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.37%) Lidar
7 3 (3.37%) W3C
8 2 (2.25%) Animation
8 2 (2.25%) Online Games
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.12%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 89 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 53 (59.55%) Android
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) Android Development
2 44 (49.44%) Mobile Development
3 42 (47.19%) Agile
4 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
5 28 (31.46%) User Experience
6 27 (30.34%) Software Engineering
7 23 (25.84%) Mentoring
7 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (25.84%) SOLID
8 19 (21.35%) Computer Science
8 19 (21.35%) Roadmaps
9 18 (20.22%) Design Patterns
10 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
11 14 (15.73%) DevOps
11 14 (15.73%) MVVM
12 13 (14.61%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (13.48%) Product Management
13 12 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (12.36%) Clean Code
14 11 (12.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 63 (70.79%) Swift
2 20 (22.47%) Java
2 20 (22.47%) Kotlin
3 15 (16.85%) Objective-C
4 8 (8.99%) C++
4 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.74%) C#
5 6 (6.74%) PHP
6 5 (5.62%) Python
6 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) Dart
8 1 (1.12%) C
8 1 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (10.11%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.22%) QA
2 10 (11.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.62%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) New Relic
2 5 (5.62%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.49%) Apple
3 4 (4.49%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe
4 1 (1.12%) Ping Identity