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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 719 462
Rank change year-on-year -46 -257 +39
Permanent jobs citing Swift 130 235 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 0.55% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 91 137 494
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £58,000 £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 £96,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,250 £120,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -11 118 £60,000 -17.24% 63
UK excluding London +17 93 £55,000 -12.00% 37
Work from Home +27 59 £55,000 -18.52% 43
North of England +76 45 £50,000 -43.02% 13
London +10 36 £80,000 +10.34% 47
North West +25 27 £59,000 -9.92% 8
South West -1 23 £45,000 -14.29%
Yorkshire +96 18 £35,000 -68.18% 4
Scotland -55 6 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Wales +12 5 £55,000 +83.33%
Midlands -18 5 £75,000 +29.31% 1
South East -26 5 £60,000 -17.24% 18
East of England +5 4 £55,000 -38.89% 1
West Midlands +9 3 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -16 2 - - 1

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 5 (3.85%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.85%) Firebase
2 14 (10.77%) AWS
3 13 (10.00%) GitHub
3 13 (10.00%) SaaS
4 8 (6.15%) Azure
5 5 (3.85%) AWS IoT
5 5 (3.85%) GCP
5 5 (3.85%) TestFlight
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.31%) Serverless
7 1 (0.77%) Figma
7 1 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.77%) Google Play
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) Wireless
2 2 (1.54%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.77%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.77%) GPRS
3 1 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) MySQL
2 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Xcode
2 14 (10.77%) Git
3 7 (5.38%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.62%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.08%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.31%) Appium
6 3 (2.31%) fastlane
7 2 (1.54%) XCTest
8 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.77%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Finance
3 14 (10.77%) Banking
4 11 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.38%) Law
5 7 (5.38%) Marketing
6 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.31%) Automotive
10 1 (0.77%) Back Office
10 1 (0.77%) Games
10 1 (0.77%) Legal
10 1 (0.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.77%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (64.62%) Developer
2 51 (39.23%) iOS Developer
3 29 (22.31%) Senior
4 24 (18.46%) Lead
4 24 (18.46%) Software Engineer
5 23 (17.69%) Senior Developer
6 19 (14.62%) Applications Developer
6 19 (14.62%) Mobile Developer
6 19 (14.62%) Senior iOS Developer
7 15 (11.54%) Lead Developer
8 12 (9.23%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 11 (8.46%) iOS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) IT Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) RESTful
2 20 (15.38%) React
2 20 (15.38%) REST
3 15 (11.54%) CSS
3 15 (11.54%) HTML
4 14 (10.77%) Core Data
5 11 (8.46%) Ionic Framework
5 11 (8.46%) SwiftUI
6 10 (7.69%) Core Animation
6 10 (7.69%) HTML5
6 10 (7.69%) React Native
7 8 (6.15%) UIKit
8 6 (4.62%) JSON
8 6 (4.62%) Redux
8 6 (4.62%) RxSwift
9 5 (3.85%) .NET
9 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.85%) Apache Cordova
9 5 (3.85%) Web Services
10 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 58 (44.62%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.46%) IoT
3 11 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.69%) Animation
5 9 (6.92%) Virtual Team
6 8 (6.15%) Client/Server
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.85%) PropTech
9 4 (3.08%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (2.31%) Blog
10 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.54%) PKI
11 2 (1.54%) Robotics
12 1 (0.77%) CCTV
12 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 128 (98.46%) Apple iOS
2 75 (57.69%) Android
3 5 (3.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.77%) Linux
4 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (63.08%) iOS Development
2 52 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (37.69%) Agile
4 43 (33.08%) Mentoring
5 33 (25.38%) User Experience
6 31 (23.85%) Software Engineering
7 29 (22.31%) Code Quality
8 27 (20.77%) Mobile Application Development
9 24 (18.46%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.46%) Mobile Development
10 21 (16.15%) Android Development
10 21 (16.15%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
12 19 (14.62%) Design Patterns
13 18 (13.85%) API Integration
13 18 (13.85%) Coaching
13 18 (13.85%) DevOps
13 18 (13.85%) Test Automation
14 16 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (11.54%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.62%) Kotlin
2 37 (28.46%) Objective-C
3 29 (22.31%) Java
4 27 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 27 (20.77%) SQL
5 21 (16.15%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.38%) C#
7 5 (3.85%) Rust
8 4 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.08%) VBScript
9 3 (2.31%) Dart
9 3 (2.31%) Python
10 2 (1.54%) Go
10 2 (1.54%) Lua
10 2 (1.54%) PHP
10 2 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Degree
2 14 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.77%) MCP
3 1 (0.77%) MCSA
3 1 (0.77%) MCSE
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.92%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Terraform
2 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.62%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.62%) Apple
3 1 (0.77%) Cadence
3 1 (0.77%) Google
3 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.77%) Xamarin