Swift Contracts in England

Apple Swift
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 447 442 549
Rank change year-on-year -5 +107 +8
Contract jobs citing Swift 38 100 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.92% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 67 74
10th Percentile £396 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% -5.30%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £631
90th Percentile £591 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £514
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £64.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% -20.00% +22.14%
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £64.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.31% -20.00% +22.14%

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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Swift in England

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in England.

Daily rate trend for Swift in England

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in England

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +7 28 £525 +5.00% 39
South West +47 5 £569 +51.67% 2
North of England 0 4 £500 +66.67% 8
North West +13 3 £550 +22.22% 7
Yorkshire -7 1 £450 +50.00%
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 3 (7.89%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) Apple Pay
3 2 (5.26%) BrowserStack
3 2 (5.26%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Ads
4 1 (2.63%) BigCommerce
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 7 (18.42%) Xcode
3 3 (7.89%) Appium
3 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) JUnit
3 3 (7.89%) TestNG
3 3 (7.89%) XCUITest
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) NUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) Subversion
5 1 (2.63%) XCTest
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Advertising
4 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (60.53%) Developer
2 22 (57.89%) iOS Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Android Developer
5 4 (10.53%) iOS Android Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Mobile Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) React Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.63%) UI/UX Developer
7 1 (2.63%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) RESTful
1 11 (28.95%) SwiftUI
2 9 (23.68%) UIKit
3 5 (13.16%) Cocoa
3 5 (13.16%) Cocoa Touch
3 5 (13.16%) iOS SDK
4 4 (10.53%) React Native
5 3 (7.89%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (7.89%) Android SDK
5 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.26%) .NET
6 2 (5.26%) AVFoundation
6 2 (5.26%) Core Data
6 2 (5.26%) Flutter
6 2 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (5.26%) OpenCV
6 2 (5.26%) REST
7 1 (2.63%) SOAP
7 1 (2.63%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (42.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Animation
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (92.11%) Apple iOS
2 12 (31.58%) Android
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) iOS Development
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 12 (31.58%) User Experience
4 11 (28.95%) Mobile Development
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.42%) Android Development
7 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.16%) Mobile Application Development
8 5 (13.16%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
9 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
9 4 (10.53%) MVVM
9 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
10 3 (7.89%) Push Notifications
10 3 (7.89%) QA Automation
10 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
10 3 (7.89%) SOLID
10 3 (7.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Objective-C
2 12 (31.58%) Kotlin
3 3 (7.89%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Apple
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe
2 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.63%) SAP
2 1 (2.63%) Sitecore