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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 121 118
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +31
Contract jobs citing Swift 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 0.63% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £429 £373 £490
25th Percentile £460 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.13% -3.64%
75th Percentile £706 £615 £610
90th Percentile £808 £642 £649
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.13% -3.64%

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 644 640 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.50% 36.78% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 459 480
10th Percentile £400 £385 £400
25th Percentile £454 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.61% -3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £579
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.65% -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £13.70 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the City of London

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 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (20.00%) Firebase
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
1 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Xcode
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (20.00%) CocoaPods
3 1 (20.00%) Crashlytics
3 1 (20.00%) fastlane
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) XCTest
3 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 5 (100.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) gRPC
2 2 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) OpenID
2 2 (40.00%) React Native
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) iOS Development
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Backends for Frontends
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile Development
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Async-Await
4 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Docs as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace