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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 423 458
Rank change year-on-year -93 +35 +114
Contract jobs citing Swift 62 59 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 0.70% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 60
10th Percentile £321 £391 £300
25th Percentile £358 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £518
90th Percentile £638 £620 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.68
25th Percentile £58.50 - £62.94
Median hourly rate £61.00 £35.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.29% -45.31% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.75 - £65.69
90th Percentile £68.70 - £66.33
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £35.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +74.29% -45.31% -20.00%

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 10,671 8,404 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.02% 33.97% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 5,665 7,918
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 215 452
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 16 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 16 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 -58 32 £503 -4.29% 16
North of England -53 11 £400 - 7
North West -36 9 £400 - 5
South West -29 7 £513 -17.34% 2
South East -47 4 £361 -41.77% 4
Midlands -54 4 £417 -15.86% 3
East Midlands -28 2 £357 -27.98% 3
West Midlands - 2 £482 -
North East - 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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 (3.23%) CMS
1 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) GitHub
2 8 (12.90%) Firebase
3 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.06%) AWS
4 5 (8.06%) Bitrise
5 4 (6.45%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (4.84%) Azure
7 2 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Stripe
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.61%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.61%) Figma
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.61%) Sentry
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) SSL
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.61%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
2 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQLite
2 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Xcode
2 14 (22.58%) Git
3 13 (20.97%) XCTest
4 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (14.52%) XCUITest
5 8 (12.90%) CocoaPods
5 8 (12.90%) fastlane
6 7 (11.29%) GitLab
7 6 (9.68%) Android Studio
8 5 (8.06%) JIRA
9 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.84%) Crashlytics
10 2 (3.23%) Appium
10 2 (3.23%) Gradle
10 2 (3.23%) Postman
11 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.61%) Charles Proxy
11 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (20.97%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (56.45%) Developer
2 28 (45.16%) iOS Developer
3 17 (27.42%) Senior
4 9 (14.52%) iOS Software Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Applications Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Lead iOS Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Android Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.10%) SwiftUI
2 15 (24.19%) UIKit
3 10 (16.13%) RESTful
4 5 (8.06%) Core Data
4 5 (8.06%) Core Media
4 5 (8.06%) iOS SDK
5 4 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth
5 4 (6.45%) REST
6 3 (4.84%) .NET
6 3 (4.84%) Core Animation
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.84%) OpenID
6 3 (4.84%) React Native
6 3 (4.84%) RxSwift
6 3 (4.84%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (3.23%) AVFoundation
7 2 (3.23%) Flutter
7 2 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.84%) Animation
2 3 (4.84%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (4.84%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Code
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (98.39%) Apple iOS
2 17 (27.42%) Android
3 4 (6.45%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) iOS Development
2 27 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 23 (37.10%) MVVM
4 19 (30.65%) Agile
5 16 (25.81%) Test Automation
6 15 (24.19%) Analytics
6 15 (24.19%) TDD
7 14 (22.58%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (19.35%) Design Patterns
8 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
8 12 (19.35%) User Experience
9 11 (17.74%) Async-Await
9 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (17.74%) Unit Testing
10 9 (14.52%) Mobile Development
11 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (12.90%) Push Notifications
12 7 (11.29%) Clean Code
13 6 (9.68%) Application Security
13 6 (9.68%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Objective-C
2 20 (32.26%) Kotlin
3 14 (22.58%) Java
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.23%) Python
7 1 (1.61%) BrightScript
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (1.61%) Scala
7 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
3 2 (3.23%) SANS
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) GIAC
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.68%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Apple
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Adobe
3 2 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Adyen
4 1 (1.61%) Brightcove
4 1 (1.61%) Plaid
4 1 (1.61%) Roku
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Xamarin