Swift Contract Job Trends in Central London

Apple Swift
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +48
Contract jobs citing Swift 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.63% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £373 £490 £450
25th Percentile £463 £499 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £615 £610 £594
90th Percentile £642 £649 £620
London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%

All Programming Languages
Central London

Swift falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 682 798 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.69% 34.00% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 532 769
10th Percentile £375 £401 £400
25th Percentile £439 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £22.98 £38.35 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.13 £40.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +38.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £112.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - £45.15
London median hourly rate £44.20 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -13.91% +1.10%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Swift job vacancy trend in Central London

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Swift

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in Central London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in Central London

Swift
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
City of London +5 4 £563 +6.13% 3
Swift
London

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Firebase
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) CocoaPods
2 1 (25.00%) Crashlytics
2 1 (25.00%) fastlane
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) AVFoundation
2 1 (25.00%) Core Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Core Data
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) React Native
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) RxSwift
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
2 1 (25.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) iOS Development
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Plaid