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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 114 125
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +61
Contract jobs citing Swift 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 0.73% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £393 £487 £450
25th Percentile £513 £492 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.47% -7.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £534 £594
90th Percentile £676 £541 £620
Central London median daily rate £575 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +12.47% -7.05% -4.35%

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 589 689 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.89% 35.26% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 435 595
10th Percentile £357 £406 £402
25th Percentile £425 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.85% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £796 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £595
% change year-on-year -5.17% -2.52% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £38.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

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 7 January 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 2 (40.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Firebase
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) CocoaPods
2 2 (40.00%) Crashlytics
2 2 (40.00%) fastlane
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AVFoundation
1 2 (40.00%) Core Animation
1 2 (40.00%) Core Data
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) RxSwift
1 2 (40.00%) UIKit
2 1 (20.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (20.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (40.00%) Animation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) iOS Development
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) MVVM
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) OOP
4 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
4 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Plaid