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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 433 510
Rank change year-on-year -50 +77 +84
Contract jobs citing Swift 61 74 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.75% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 48
10th Percentile £358 £333 £412
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £525
90th Percentile £608 £620 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £57.43 - -
25th Percentile £59.19 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% -51.72% -9.38%
75th Percentile £68.69 - £73.75
90th Percentile £70.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +82.14% -51.72% -9.38%

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 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 7 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Swift in England over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Swift in England

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 7 December 2025. 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 -25 35 £500 -4.76% 8
North of England -31 17 £380 -3.80% 7
Yorkshire - 12 £400 -
North West -18 5 £375 -5.06% 7
South East -14 4 £575 -7.26% 11
East Midlands -17 2 £357 -26.49% 4
Midlands -32 2 £357 -26.49% 4
South West -16 1 £625 +0.81% 3
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 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) Firebase
2 5 (8.20%) Sentry
3 4 (6.56%) Azure
4 3 (4.92%) AWS
4 3 (4.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.64%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.64%) Figma
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Google Play
6 1 (1.64%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.64%) SSL
2 1 (1.64%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.28%) SQLite
3 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Git
2 16 (26.23%) Xcode
3 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.48%) CocoaPods
5 5 (8.20%) Appium
5 5 (8.20%) Charles Proxy
5 5 (8.20%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (8.20%) Postman
5 5 (8.20%) XCUITest
6 4 (6.56%) CircleCI
6 4 (6.56%) IntelliJ
6 4 (6.56%) JIRA
7 3 (4.92%) GitLab
7 3 (4.92%) Gradle
8 2 (3.28%) Crashlytics
8 2 (3.28%) fastlane
9 1 (1.64%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (34.43%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Publishing
6 1 (1.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (72.13%) Developer
2 36 (59.02%) iOS Developer
3 14 (22.95%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Mobile Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Android Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Applications Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Senior iOS Developer
8 3 (4.92%) iOS Android Developer
8 3 (4.92%) iOS Software Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead iOS Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Principal Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) RESTful
2 17 (27.87%) SwiftUI
3 9 (14.75%) UIKit
4 6 (9.84%) Web Services
5 5 (8.20%) Core Animation
5 5 (8.20%) Core Data
5 5 (8.20%) JSON
5 5 (8.20%) React Native
6 4 (6.56%) iOS SDK
7 3 (4.92%) .NET
7 3 (4.92%) AVFoundation
7 3 (4.92%) CSS
7 3 (4.92%) Flutter
7 3 (4.92%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.92%) HTML
7 3 (4.92%) Material Design
8 2 (3.28%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (3.28%) FHIR
8 2 (3.28%) Redux
8 2 (3.28%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 40 (65.57%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.20%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (6.56%) Animation
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (98.36%) Apple iOS
2 22 (36.07%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.64%) tvOS
4 1 (1.64%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (75.41%) iOS Development
2 31 (50.82%) CI/CD
3 29 (47.54%) Agile
4 27 (44.26%) User Experience
5 21 (34.43%) MVVM
6 15 (24.59%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (24.59%) Mobile Development
7 14 (22.95%) Design Patterns
7 14 (22.95%) UX Design
8 13 (21.31%) Analytics
9 11 (18.03%) Unit Testing
10 10 (16.39%) DevOps
10 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
11 9 (14.75%) Android Development
11 9 (14.75%) Customer Experience
11 9 (14.75%) Memory Management
12 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
12 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (13.11%) TDD
12 8 (13.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) Objective-C
2 23 (37.70%) Kotlin
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.20%) C++
5 5 (8.20%) Python
6 3 (4.92%) C
6 3 (4.92%) Ruby
6 3 (4.92%) Scala
6 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.28%) SQL
8 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.20%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Apple
2 5 (8.20%) Splunk
3 4 (6.56%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.64%) Plaid
6 1 (1.64%) Xamarin