Swift Contract Job Trends in England

Apple Swift
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 472 452
Rank change year-on-year -93 -20 +80
Contract jobs citing Swift 64 46 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 0.51% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 45
10th Percentile - £368 £327
25th Percentile £370 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £491 £519 £588
90th Percentile £540 £558 £627
UK median daily rate £450 £406 £513
% change year-on-year +10.77% -20.73% +6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £57.43 £49.57
25th Percentile - £59.19 £51.55
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £55.47
Median % change year-on-year - +14.94% -
75th Percentile - £68.69 £58.76
90th Percentile - £70.68 £60.36
UK median hourly rate - £63.75 £55.47
% change year-on-year - +14.94% -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,864 9,028 10,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.97% 32.77% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 6,169 7,493
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £519 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +2.77% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 264 335
10th Percentile £29.99 £29.53 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.31 £40.94 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.63 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Swift job vacancy trend in England

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swift

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in England

Swift
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Swift

Swift
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the England region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -49 47 £430 -14.00% 35
North of England -86 9 £450 +15.68% 6
South West - 6 £438 - 1
North East -37 5 £450 -
North West -53 4 £400 +6.67% 6
South East -72 2 £413 -28.26% 2
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) GitHub
2 14 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (9.38%) Firebase
4 5 (7.81%) Azure
4 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) AWS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) XCUITest
2 17 (26.56%) Xcode
3 15 (23.44%) XCTest
4 9 (14.06%) Git
5 8 (12.50%) CircleCI
5 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 6 (9.38%) fastlane
7 4 (6.25%) JIRA
8 3 (4.69%) Appium
9 2 (3.13%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.56%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (1.56%) CocoaPods
10 1 (1.56%) GitLab
10 1 (1.56%) JMeter
10 1 (1.56%) Postman
10 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.56%) Selendroid
10 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.81%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (60.94%) Developer
2 36 (56.25%) iOS Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Mobile Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Mobile Engineer
4 11 (17.19%) Senior
5 9 (14.06%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.06%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Lead
6 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Android Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Applications Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Mobile Architect
7 1 (1.56%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Technical Architect
7 1 (1.56%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.38%) RESTful
1 22 (34.38%) SwiftUI
2 13 (20.31%) REST
2 13 (20.31%) UIKit
3 6 (9.38%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.38%) iOS SDK
4 5 (7.81%) Core Data
5 4 (6.25%) Flutter
6 2 (3.13%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.56%) Akka
7 1 (1.56%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (1.56%) Android SDK
7 1 (1.56%) JSON
7 1 (1.56%) OpenID
7 1 (1.56%) Play Framework
7 1 (1.56%) React Native
7 1 (1.56%) RxSwift
7 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 35 (54.69%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.56%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 16 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (81.25%) iOS Development
2 26 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 26 (40.63%) MVVM
3 24 (37.50%) Agile
4 18 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
4 18 (28.13%) Mobile Development
5 17 (26.56%) DevOps
6 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 13 (20.31%) User Experience
8 10 (15.63%) TDD
9 9 (14.06%) API Integration
10 8 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.50%) Scrum
11 7 (10.94%) Analytics
11 7 (10.94%) Async-Await
11 7 (10.94%) Design Patterns
11 7 (10.94%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (10.94%) Secure Coding
11 7 (10.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) Objective-C
2 17 (26.56%) Kotlin
3 9 (14.06%) Java
4 3 (4.69%) Ruby
4 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) Python
6 1 (1.56%) C++
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Scala
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.69%) QA
2 14 (21.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Apple
2 5 (7.81%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.69%) Checkmarx
3 3 (4.69%) New Relic
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Sparx