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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 477 460
Rank change year-on-year -78 -17 +63
Contract jobs citing Swift 70 35 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.39% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 59
10th Percentile £350 £372 £300
25th Percentile £370 £379 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -9.72% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £538 £573 £604
UK median daily rate £450 £436 £475
% change year-on-year +3.21% -8.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.57
25th Percentile - - £51.55
Median hourly rate - - £55.47
75th Percentile - - £58.76
90th Percentile - - £60.36
UK median hourly rate - - £55.47

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 11,916 9,037 10,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 32.94% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 6,231 7,773
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 381
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £39.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.12 £83.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.35%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -33 49 £430 -14.00% 28
South West - 10 £525 - 1
North of England -85 7 £450 +12.50% 6
North East -37 5 £450 - 1
North West -50 2 £488 +30.00% 3
South East - 2 £413 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £482 -
Midlands - 2 £482 -
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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) GitHub
2 13 (18.57%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (8.57%) Firebase
4 5 (7.14%) Azure
4 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.71%) Bitrise
5 4 (5.71%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (4.29%) AWS
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.43%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 24 (34.29%) Xcode
2 21 (30.00%) XCTest
3 20 (28.57%) XCUITest
4 13 (18.57%) Git
5 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
6 7 (10.00%) CircleCI
6 7 (10.00%) fastlane
7 4 (5.71%) JIRA
8 3 (4.29%) Android Studio
8 3 (4.29%) Appium
9 2 (2.86%) CocoaPods
9 2 (2.86%) GitLab
9 2 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.43%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (1.43%) JMeter
10 1 (1.43%) Postman
10 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.43%) Selendroid
10 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) Aviation
6 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (55.71%) Developer
1 39 (55.71%) iOS Developer
2 17 (24.29%) Senior
3 11 (15.71%) Mobile Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Senior iOS Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (5.71%) iOS Software Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Java Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) QA Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Tester
7 2 (2.86%) Test Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Tester
8 1 (1.43%) Applications Tester
8 1 (1.43%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.43%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.00%) SwiftUI
2 19 (27.14%) RESTful
3 18 (25.71%) UIKit
4 8 (11.43%) iOS SDK
4 8 (11.43%) REST
5 6 (8.57%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.14%) Core Data
7 3 (4.29%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (2.86%) Core Media
8 2 (2.86%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (2.86%) JSON
8 2 (2.86%) OAuth
8 2 (2.86%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.86%) RxSwift
9 1 (1.43%) Akka
9 1 (1.43%) Android SDK
9 1 (1.43%) OpenID
9 1 (1.43%) Play Framework
9 1 (1.43%) React Native
9 1 (1.43%) RxCocoa
Miscellaneous
1 32 (45.71%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 70 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 16 (22.86%) Android
3 3 (4.29%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (77.14%) iOS Development
2 31 (44.29%) MVVM
3 29 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 25 (35.71%) Agile
5 23 (32.86%) Architectural Patterns
6 22 (31.43%) Test Automation
7 16 (22.86%) Async-Await
8 15 (21.43%) TDD
9 14 (20.00%) DevOps
9 14 (20.00%) User Experience
10 13 (18.57%) Mobile Development
11 11 (15.71%) Analytics
12 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (12.86%) API Integration
13 9 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (12.86%) Scrum
13 9 (12.86%) Unit Testing
14 8 (11.43%) Kanban
14 8 (11.43%) Pair Programming
14 8 (11.43%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Objective-C
2 17 (24.29%) Kotlin
3 10 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.29%) Ruby
4 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.29%) QA
2 15 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Apple
2 5 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.29%) Checkmarx
3 3 (4.29%) New Relic
3 3 (4.29%) Splunk
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) Brightcove