iOS Developer: market
An iOS Developer builds apps for iPhone and iPad: interfaces with SwiftUI and UIKit, networking and data, performance and App Store publishing. We currently track 498 open positions for this role, 473 of them fresh. The core is Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit, concurrency (async/await, Combine), architecture (MVVM, VIPER, TCA), Core Data or alternatives, tests and mobile CI. By co-occurrence in requirements, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C and Java appear most often. 47% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the iOS Developer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The iOS Developer market currently has 498 open roles, 473 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,869/mo.
47% of iOS Developer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 24 of 498 jobs; remote share from 392 with a stated format; 473 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many iOS Developer postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 105
New sources connected: 11 May +7 · 18 May +3 · 25 May +2 · 1 Jun +2 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +11 · 29 Jun +12 · 6 Jul +11 · 13 Jul +7 · 20 Jul +11 · 27 Jul +5 · 3 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +1 · 24 Aug +3 · 31 Aug +1 · 7 Sept +2 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +2 · 28 Sept +3 · 5 Oct +5 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of iOS Developer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of iOS Developer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of iOS Developer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: iOS Developer
| Open demand | 498 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: iOS Developer
One in ten earns under $2,771, one in ten over $14,875. Half the market falls between $3,875 and $11,473. Sample: 24.
The range histogram for iOS Developer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
⚠ percentiles from 24 salaries out of 498 jobs — a guide on a small sample
Demand geography: iOS Developer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 100 |
| PL | 51 |
| GB | 29 |
| DE | 24 |
| RU | 22 |
| IN | 18 |
| FR | 13 |
| NL | 12 |
| CA | 11 |
| SG | 10 |
The top country for iOS Developer demand is the US (100 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In iOS Developer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C and Java.
Demand by grade: iOS Developer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 177 |
| principal | 21 |
| middle | 20 |
| lead | 8 |
| junior | 5 |
Senior-and-above is about 89% of 231 iOS Developer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: iOS Developer
Demand is spread across 234 employers. The largest accounts for 14.8%, the top ten for 33.7%; the remaining 66.3% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 14.8% |
| top-3 | 24.2% |
| top-10 | 33.7% |
| long tail | 66.3% |
iOS Developer openings come from 234 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 61 sources; the largest accounts for 21.3% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
iOS Developer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: iOS Developer
- iOS Developer- Full Time
- Senior iOS Developer · PL
- Senior iOS Engineer
- iOS Developer · US
- Senior iOS Developer, Search · US
- Senior iOS Engineer · DE
- IOS Developer · UA
- Senior iOS Engineer (KMP) - POS · FR
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the iOS Developer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an iOS Developer do?
An iOS Developer builds apps for iPhone and iPad: interfaces with SwiftUI and UIKit, networking and data, performance and App Store publishing.
Which skills do iOS Developer postings require?
The core is Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit, concurrency (async/await, Combine), architecture (MVVM, VIPER, TCA), Core Data or alternatives, tests and mobile CI. In the current slice, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C and Java appear in requirements most often.
Does an iOS developer need Objective-C?
Not for new projects, but mature apps keep legacy code, and some postings list Objective-C as a plus.
How remote-friendly are iOS Developer jobs?
47% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 498 open positions.
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