Swift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Swift
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 429 418
Rank change year-on-year +82 -11 -24
Contract jobs citing Swift 38 27 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 0.40% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 72
10th Percentile - £430 £406
25th Percentile £300 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £450 £675 £575
90th Percentile £518 £693 £610
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -12.20% -4.65% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the UK excluding London

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +36 22 £300 -53.85% 12
Yorkshire +37 15 £300 -55.22% 4
Midlands +40 11 £450 -12.20% 1
East Midlands +26 8 - - 1
North West +21 7 £450 -28.00% 7
South West +21 4 £375 -46.43% 2
West Midlands +28 3 £450 -12.20%
East of England +3 1 £310 -55.71%
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (21.05%) SaaS
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) XCUITest
2 8 (21.05%) Xcode
3 2 (5.26%) Appium
3 2 (5.26%) UI Automator
4 1 (2.63%) CocoaPods
4 1 (2.63%) Git
4 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.63%) XCTest
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
1 8 (21.05%) Legal
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (68.42%) Developer
2 23 (60.53%) iOS Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (21.05%) IT Manager
3 8 (21.05%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 8 (21.05%) IT Services Manager
3 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery Manager
3 8 (21.05%) Service Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Applications Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) iOS SDK
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) SwiftUI
3 1 (2.63%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (13.16%) Android
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) iOS Development
2 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (26.32%) Performance Metrics
4 8 (21.05%) Business Analysis
4 8 (21.05%) Change Management
4 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 8 (21.05%) Information Security
4 8 (21.05%) IT Governance
4 8 (21.05%) ITSM
4 8 (21.05%) Migration
4 8 (21.05%) People Management
4 8 (21.05%) Problem Management
4 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery Management
4 8 (21.05%) Service Management
5 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Agile
6 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.89%) Test Scripting
8 2 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Objective-C
2 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 8 (21.05%) Okta