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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 124 174
Rank change year-on-year +10 +50 +6
Contract jobs citing Swift 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.40% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile £563 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £613
90th Percentile - - £628
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

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 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Apple Pay
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) iOS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
2 2 (40.00%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (40.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (60.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) iOS Development
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Android Development
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Development
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) B2C
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Push Notifications
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Apple