Swift Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Apple Swift
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 126 126
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +31
Contract jobs citing Swift 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.41% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £606 -
25th Percentile £513 £615 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -3.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £645 £675
90th Percentile - £654 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £630 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.00% -16.67%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 660 724 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.60% 38.65% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 495 506
10th Percentile £368 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £583
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -0.43% -6.80%
75th Percentile £668 £698 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Swift job vacancy trend in the City of London

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Swift

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Xcode
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (25.00%) CocoaPods
3 1 (25.00%) XCTest
3 1 (25.00%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 4 (100.00%) UIKit
2 1 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Development
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) MVVM
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple