Swift Contracts in the City of London

Apple Swift
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Swift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swift over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 159
Rank change year-on-year +2 +38 +32
Contract jobs citing Swift 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.23% 0.085%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.64% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £566 - £568
25th Percentile £572 £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £625
90th Percentile £599 - £633
Central London median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +26.32%

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 724 784 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.82% 36.76% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 545 916
10th Percentile £404 £403 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the City of London

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Swift in the City of London

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (33.33%) Apple Pay
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
1 1 (33.33%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Android Development
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Push Notifications
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple