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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 718 460
Rank change year-on-year -67 -258 +42
Permanent jobs citing Swift 129 236 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.56% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 90 138 482
10th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £58,750 £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 £94,425 £120,375 £89,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 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 28 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 -37 117 £60,000 -17.24% 41
UK excluding London -12 95 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Work from Home +33 59 £55,000 -18.52% 28
North of England +87 47 £51,250 -41.60% 13
London +34 33 £80,000 +10.34% 26
North West +31 28 £65,500 - 9
South West -12 23 £45,000 -23.40%
Yorkshire +95 19 £35,000 -68.18% 2
Midlands -14 6 £75,000 +29.31% 1
Scotland -53 6 £75,000 +87.50% 4
Wales +6 5 £55,000 +83.33%
East of England -7 4 £55,000 -38.89% 2
South East -36 4 £60,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +10 3 £75,000 +20.00%
East Midlands -24 3 - - 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 6 (4.65%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.95%) Firebase
2 14 (10.85%) 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
6 4 (3.10%) TestFlight
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
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
2 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Xcode
2 13 (10.08%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.65%) JIRA
5 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.33%) Appium
6 3 (2.33%) fastlane
6 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.55%) XCTest
8 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 42 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.63%) Finance
3 13 (10.08%) 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%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (65.89%) Developer
2 53 (41.09%) iOS Developer
3 27 (20.93%) Senior
4 24 (18.60%) Lead
4 24 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 22 (17.05%) 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 23 (17.83%) 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%) Ionic Framework
5 11 (8.53%) SwiftUI
6 10 (7.75%) HTML5
6 10 (7.75%) 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%) .NET
10 4 (3.10%) Cocoa
10 4 (3.10%) Flutter
10 4 (3.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (45.74%) Mobile App
2 12 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.53%) Animation
3 11 (8.53%) IoT
4 10 (7.75%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.98%) Virtual Team
6 8 (6.20%) Client/Server
7 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.88%) PropTech
9 3 (2.33%) Blog
9 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.33%) 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%) PKI
10 1 (0.78%) Robotics
10 1 (0.78%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 127 (98.45%) Apple iOS
2 74 (57.36%) Android
3 4 (3.10%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (64.34%) iOS Development
2 54 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (38.76%) Agile
4 44 (34.11%) Mentoring
5 32 (24.81%) User Experience
6 31 (24.03%) Software Engineering
7 29 (22.48%) Code Quality
8 28 (21.71%) Mobile Application Development
9 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.60%) Mobile Development
10 21 (16.28%) Android Development
11 20 (15.50%) Architectural Patterns
11 20 (15.50%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (14.73%) Design Patterns
13 18 (13.95%) API Integration
13 18 (13.95%) Coaching
13 18 (13.95%) DevOps
13 18 (13.95%) Test Automation
14 17 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (10.85%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.88%) Kotlin
2 34 (26.36%) Objective-C
3 27 (20.93%) Java
4 26 (20.16%) SQL
5 25 (19.38%) JavaScript
6 21 (16.28%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.88%) C#
8 4 (3.10%) Rust
9 3 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.33%) VBScript
10 2 (1.55%) Dart
10 2 (1.55%) Python
11 1 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.78%) Lua
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Degree
2 13 (10.08%) 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 22 (17.05%) 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 15 (11.63%) 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