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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 456 550
Rank change year-on-year -11 +94 0
Contract jobs citing Swift 28 103 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.90% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 65 60
10th Percentile £375 £300 £313
25th Percentile £397 £325 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £638
90th Percentile £561 £627 £678
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £513
% change year-on-year -2.70% -9.76% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.43 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.43 -

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 8,860 11,480 16,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 30.74% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 8,213 11,848
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £540 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 481 410
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.58 £29.71
25th Percentile £36.19 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.50 £80.14
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -17 16 £475 -9.52% 252
North of England 0 12 £400 +33.33% 45
Yorkshire -5 6 £425 +41.67% 8
North West +5 5 £375 -16.67% 35
North East - 1 - - 2
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) Apple Pay
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) BigCommerce
2 1 (3.57%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
1 9 (32.14%) Xcode
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) Gradle
4 1 (3.57%) Android Studio
4 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) JUnit
4 1 (3.57%) NUnit
4 1 (3.57%) Postman
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) XCTest
4 1 (3.57%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
1 17 (60.71%) iOS Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Android Developer
4 2 (7.14%) iOS Android Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Android Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.57%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead iOS Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior iOS Android Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) SwiftUI
2 5 (17.86%) UIKit
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (14.29%) React Native
4 3 (10.71%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.14%) iOS SDK
6 1 (3.57%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (3.57%) Android SDK
6 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.57%) CarPlay
6 1 (3.57%) Flutter
6 1 (3.57%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) SOAP
6 1 (3.57%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.29%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Apple iOS
2 10 (35.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) iOS Development
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Mobile Development
4 11 (39.29%) User Experience
5 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 6 (21.43%) Scrum
6 6 (21.43%) TDD
6 6 (21.43%) UX Design
7 5 (17.86%) BDD
7 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 4 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
9 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
9 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Objective-C
2 11 (39.29%) Kotlin
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) C
4 4 (14.29%) C++
4 4 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Ruby
4 4 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Apple
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Sitecore