Apple Swift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Swift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Swift over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 727 462
Rank change year-on-year -49 -265 +35
Permanent jobs citing Swift 129 219 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.23% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.55% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 88 136 461
10th Percentile £40,250 £48,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £58,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,775 £120,625 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.71% +0.38% +23.81%

All Programming Languages
UK

Swift is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Swift.

Salary trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Swift over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Swift in the UK

Swift
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 -24 117 £60,000 -17.24% 38
UK excluding London -21 96 £55,000 -15.71% 19
Work from Home +31 59 £55,000 -18.52% 24
North of England +76 49 £51,250 -41.60% 10
London +8 32 £80,000 +10.34% 23
North West +15 30 £65,500 - 6
South West -15 23 £45,000 -28.00%
Yorkshire +79 19 £35,000 -68.18% 2
Midlands -20 6 £75,000 +29.31% 3
Scotland -62 6 £75,000 +87.50% 3
Wales +8 5 £55,000 +83.33%
East of England -8 4 £55,000 -38.89% 3
West Midlands -10 3 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -24 3 - - 3
South East -47 3 £60,000 -20.00%

Swift
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.65%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.95%) Firebase
2 15 (11.63%) AWS
3 13 (10.08%) GitHub
3 13 (10.08%) SaaS
4 7 (5.43%) Azure
5 6 (4.65%) AWS IoT
6 4 (3.10%) GCP
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.33%) Serverless
7 3 (2.33%) TestFlight
8 1 (0.78%) Figma
8 1 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.78%) Google Play
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Wireless
2 2 (1.55%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.55%) Broadband
3 1 (0.78%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.78%) GPRS
3 1 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.53%) MySQL
2 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Xcode
2 14 (10.85%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.65%) JIRA
5 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.33%) fastlane
7 2 (1.55%) Appium
7 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.55%) XCTest
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.85%) Finance
3 12 (9.30%) Banking
4 11 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.43%) Law
5 7 (5.43%) Marketing
6 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.33%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Electronics
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (66.67%) Developer
2 54 (41.86%) iOS Developer
3 26 (20.16%) Senior
4 24 (18.60%) Lead
4 24 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 21 (16.28%) Senior Developer
6 20 (15.50%) Applications Developer
7 19 (14.73%) Mobile Developer
7 19 (14.73%) Senior iOS Developer
8 16 (12.40%) Lead Developer
9 12 (9.30%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 11 (8.53%) iOS Software Engineer
11 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 10 (7.75%) IT Engineer
11 10 (7.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.98%) Mobile Software Engineer
13 6 (4.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 6 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (4.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.60%) RESTful
2 20 (15.50%) REST
3 19 (14.73%) React
4 14 (10.85%) Core Data
4 14 (10.85%) CSS
4 14 (10.85%) HTML
5 11 (8.53%) Core Animation
5 11 (8.53%) HTML5
5 11 (8.53%) Ionic Framework
5 11 (8.53%) SwiftUI
6 9 (6.98%) React Native
7 8 (6.20%) UIKit
8 6 (4.65%) Apache Cordova
8 6 (4.65%) Redux
8 6 (4.65%) RxSwift
9 5 (3.88%) JSON
10 4 (3.10%) Cocoa
10 4 (3.10%) Cocoa Touch
10 4 (3.10%) Flutter
10 4 (3.10%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 61 (47.29%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.53%) Animation
3 11 (8.53%) IoT
4 9 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.98%) Virtual Team
5 8 (6.20%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.88%) PropTech
8 3 (2.33%) Blog
8 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.78%) CCTV
10 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.78%) NHS
10 1 (0.78%) PKI
10 1 (0.78%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 128 (99.22%) Apple iOS
2 74 (57.36%) Android
3 3 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (65.12%) iOS Development
2 55 (42.64%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (38.76%) Agile
4 44 (34.11%) Mentoring
5 33 (25.58%) User Experience
6 32 (24.81%) Software Engineering
7 29 (22.48%) Code Quality
8 28 (21.71%) Mobile Application Development
9 24 (18.60%) Mobile Development
10 23 (17.83%) CI/CD
11 21 (16.28%) Android Development
12 20 (15.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (14.73%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (14.73%) Design Patterns
13 19 (14.73%) DevOps
14 18 (13.95%) API Integration
14 18 (13.95%) Coaching
14 18 (13.95%) Test Automation
15 17 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (10.85%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.66%) Kotlin
2 33 (25.58%) Objective-C
3 27 (20.93%) Java
4 25 (19.38%) SQL
5 24 (18.60%) JavaScript
6 22 (17.05%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.10%) C#
7 4 (3.10%) Rust
8 2 (1.55%) Dart
8 2 (1.55%) Python
8 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.55%) VBScript
9 1 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.78%) Lua
9 1 (0.78%) PHP
9 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (20.16%) Degree
2 14 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.78%) MCP
3 1 (0.78%) MCSA
3 1 (0.78%) MCSE
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.28%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.65%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.65%) Apple
3 1 (0.78%) Cadence
3 1 (0.78%) Google
3 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.78%) Xamarin