Swift Contracts in England

Apple Swift
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Swift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swift over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 560 559
Rank change year-on-year +125 -1 -118
Contract jobs citing Swift 100 103 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.58% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 73 174
10th Percentile £300 £313 £407
25th Percentile £363 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -5.09% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £672
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -12.20% -4.65% +18.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.68 - -
25th Percentile £62.94 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £80.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +22.14% +13.91%
75th Percentile £65.69 - £66.25
90th Percentile £66.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +22.14% +31.00%

All Programming Languages
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Swift in England

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in England.

Daily rate trend for Swift in England

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in England

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift in England.

Hourly rate trend for Swift in England

Swift
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 59 £500 - 33
North of England +41 23 £300 -53.85% 13
Yorkshire +31 16 £300 -55.22% 4
Midlands +32 11 £450 -12.20% 1
East Midlands +25 8 - - 1
North West +13 7 £450 -28.00% 7
South West +24 4 £375 -46.43% 2
West Midlands +32 3 £450 -12.20%
East of England +15 1 £310 -55.71%
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.00%) AWS
2 8 (8.00%) Azure
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.00%) SaaS
3 6 (6.00%) GitHub
4 2 (2.00%) Bitrise
4 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.00%) Sentry
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.00%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) 5G
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
1 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Xcode
2 16 (16.00%) XCUITest
3 11 (11.00%) Git
4 10 (10.00%) Appium
4 10 (10.00%) XCTest
5 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.00%) Postman
6 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.00%) Gradle
7 2 (2.00%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (2.00%) CocoaPods
7 2 (2.00%) git-flow
7 2 (2.00%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.00%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (2.00%) Selenium
7 2 (2.00%) UI Automator
8 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.00%) JIRA
8 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (10.00%) Finance
2 8 (8.00%) Legal
2 8 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.00%) Publishing
5 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (44.00%) Developer
2 35 (35.00%) iOS Developer
3 14 (14.00%) Senior
4 8 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (8.00%) IT Manager
4 8 (8.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (8.00%) IT Services Manager
4 8 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (8.00%) Service Manager
5 7 (7.00%) Lead
6 6 (6.00%) QA Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.00%) QA Leader
7 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Android Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.00%) iOS Software Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Android Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) SwiftUI
2 12 (12.00%) iOS SDK
3 11 (11.00%) REST
4 9 (9.00%) RESTful
5 8 (8.00%) UIKit
6 6 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.00%) Spring
8 4 (4.00%) JSON
9 3 (3.00%) Ktor
9 3 (3.00%) React Native
9 3 (3.00%) Web Services
10 2 (2.00%) Cocoa Touch
11 1 (1.00%) AVFoundation
11 1 (1.00%) Cocoa
11 1 (1.00%) Flutter
11 1 (1.00%) Node.js
11 1 (1.00%) Playwright
11 1 (1.00%) Protocol Buffers
11 1 (1.00%) RAML
11 1 (1.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.00%) Mobile App
2 10 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.00%) iPad
3 6 (6.00%) iPhone
4 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (87.00%) Apple iOS
2 24 (24.00%) Android
3 3 (3.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.00%) iOS Development
2 20 (20.00%) MVVM
3 18 (18.00%) Agile
4 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 14 (14.00%) User Experience
7 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 10 (10.00%) Mobile Development
8 10 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
9 8 (8.00%) Business Analysis
9 8 (8.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (8.00%) Information Security
9 8 (8.00%) IT Governance
9 8 (8.00%) ITSM
9 8 (8.00%) Migration
9 8 (8.00%) People Management
9 8 (8.00%) Problem Management
9 8 (8.00%) Service Delivery Management
9 8 (8.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.00%) Objective-C
2 16 (16.00%) Kotlin
3 8 (8.00%) C
4 7 (7.00%) Java
5 5 (5.00%) C++
6 3 (3.00%) Python
7 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.00%) SQL
8 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (6.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Apple
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Okta
3 2 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe
4 1 (1.00%) Checkmarx