iOS Software Engineer Job Trends

iOS Software Engineer
UK

The median iOS Software Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 789 671 790
Rank change year-on-year -118 +119 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an iOS Software Engineer 4 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.004% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.004% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £46,875
25th Percentile - - £65,337
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £71,991
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.34%
75th Percentile - - £73,886
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £71,991
% change year-on-year - - +3.66%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 106,084 44,466 74,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,032 26,165 45,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

iOS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'iOS Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

iOS Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

iOS Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for iOS Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for iOS Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

iOS Software Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iOS Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 - 4 £70,000 - 10
UK excluding London -108 2 £70,000 - 1
North of England - 2 £70,000 - 1
London - 2 - - 8
North West - 2 £70,000 - 1

iOS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, iOS Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring iOS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (50.00%) Apple
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Bitrise
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) git-flow
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Development

iOS Software Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Bitrise
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) git-flow
1 2 (50.00%) Xcode
1 2 (50.00%) XCTest
1 2 (50.00%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Publishing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 2 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Post-Production
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Apple