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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 409 461
Rank change year-on-year -94 +52 +123
Contract jobs citing Swift 64 66 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.77% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 36 62
10th Percentile £325 £356 £300
25th Percentile £375 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £518
90th Percentile £638 £620 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £58.50 - £63.38
Median hourly rate £61.00 £35.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.29% -46.56% -18.13%
75th Percentile £66.75 - £70.25
90th Percentile £68.70 - £72.35
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £35.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +74.29% -46.56% -18.13%

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 10,430 8,530 11,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.54% 33.69% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,960 5,605 7,963
10th Percentile £351 £357 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 210 473
10th Percentile £41.42 £25.25 £35.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.25%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -57 35 £500 -4.76% 23
North of England -55 11 £400 - 11
North West -31 9 £400 - 8
South West -23 6 £525 -15.32% 7
South East -34 4 £361 -41.77% 9
Midlands -54 4 £417 -15.86% 6
East Midlands -31 2 £357 -27.98% 4
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 £482 - 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 2 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) GitHub
2 7 (10.94%) Firebase
3 5 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.25%) Bitrise
5 3 (4.69%) AWS
5 3 (4.69%) Azure
5 3 (4.69%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (4.69%) Sentry
6 2 (3.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.13%) Stripe
7 1 (1.56%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.56%) Figma
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) SSL
3 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.56%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) SQLite
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (28.13%) Xcode
2 13 (20.31%) Git
3 12 (18.75%) XCTest
4 9 (14.06%) XCUITest
5 8 (12.50%) CocoaPods
5 8 (12.50%) fastlane
6 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
7 6 (9.38%) Android Studio
7 6 (9.38%) GitLab
8 4 (6.25%) JIRA
9 3 (4.69%) Appium
9 3 (4.69%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.69%) Crashlytics
9 3 (4.69%) IntelliJ
9 3 (4.69%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (4.69%) Postman
10 2 (3.13%) Gradle
11 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Banking
3 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Developer
2 28 (43.75%) iOS Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Senior
4 10 (15.63%) iOS Software Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Applications Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (6.25%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead iOS Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Android Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Architect
9 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (37.50%) SwiftUI
2 17 (26.56%) UIKit
3 11 (17.19%) RESTful
4 5 (7.81%) Core Data
4 5 (7.81%) Core Media
4 5 (7.81%) iOS SDK
4 5 (7.81%) Web Services
5 4 (6.25%) Core Animation
5 4 (6.25%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.25%) JSON
6 3 (4.69%) .NET
6 3 (4.69%) React Native
6 3 (4.69%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) RxSwift
6 3 (4.69%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (3.13%) AVFoundation
7 2 (3.13%) Flutter
7 2 (3.13%) OAuth
7 2 (3.13%) OpenID
7 2 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Animation
3 3 (4.69%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (98.44%) Apple iOS
2 17 (26.56%) Android
3 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) iOS Development
2 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 24 (37.50%) Agile
4 23 (35.94%) MVVM
5 16 (25.00%) Analytics
5 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 15 (23.44%) TDD
6 15 (23.44%) User Experience
7 14 (21.88%) Design Patterns
8 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
9 12 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (18.75%) Unit Testing
10 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (15.63%) Async-Await
12 8 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 8 (12.50%) Mobile Development
13 7 (10.94%) Clean Code
13 7 (10.94%) Push Notifications
14 6 (9.38%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) Objective-C
2 19 (29.69%) Kotlin
3 11 (17.19%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.13%) Python
7 1 (1.56%) BrightScript
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.13%) SANS
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 8 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Apple
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) Adobe
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Adyen
5 1 (1.56%) Brightcove
5 1 (1.56%) Plaid
5 1 (1.56%) Roku
5 1 (1.56%) Xamarin