Senior iOS Developer Jobs

Senior iOS Developer
UK

The median Senior iOS Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 862 954
Rank change year-on-year +185 +92 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior iOS Developer 7 23 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.023% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.025% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 10
10th Percentile £63,500 £52,500 £64,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -27.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £97,500
90th Percentile £90,267 £82,777 £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.32% -24.72% +38.46%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior iOS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior iOS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior iOS Developer in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior iOS Developer in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior iOS Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior iOS Developer in the UK

Senior iOS Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior iOS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +178 7 £70,000 - 4
Work from Home +183 5 £70,000 -12.50% 4
UK excluding London +195 4 £70,000 +3.32% 4
South West +113 3 £70,000 -2.77%
London +100 3 £75,000 +25.00% 1
North of England +79 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -

Senior iOS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Senior iOS Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior iOS Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 7 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Swift
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Android Development
4 4 (57.14%) Android
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (42.86%) GitHub
5 3 (42.86%) MVVM
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) SwiftUI
6 2 (28.57%) Bitrise
6 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (28.57%) Firebase
6 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
6 2 (28.57%) Flutter
6 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 2 (28.57%) Dart
6 2 (28.57%) Mobile Development
6 2 (28.57%) SOLID
6 2 (28.57%) RESTful
6 2 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (28.57%) UIKit
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Finance

Senior iOS Developer Skill Set
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 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Bitrise
2 2 (28.57%) Firebase
3 1 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
2 1 (14.29%) Crashlytics
2 1 (14.29%) fastlane
2 1 (14.29%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SwiftUI
2 2 (28.57%) Flutter
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) UIKit
3 1 (14.29%) Android SDK
3 1 (14.29%) iOS SDK
3 1 (14.29%) ReactiveCocoa
3 1 (14.29%) Redux
3 1 (14.29%) RxJava
3 1 (14.29%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (57.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Android Development
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) MVVM
6 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 2 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (28.57%) Mobile Development
6 2 (28.57%) OOP
6 2 (28.57%) SOLID
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) User Experience
7 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Swift
2 2 (28.57%) Dart
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Google