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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 463 462
Rank change year-on-year -98 -1 +73
Contract jobs citing Swift 70 41 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 0.45% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 50
10th Percentile £350 £366 £324
25th Percentile £370 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £501 £541 £575
90th Percentile £555 £570 £613
UK median daily rate £453 £436 £500
% change year-on-year +3.78% -12.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £57.43 £49.57
25th Percentile - £59.19 £51.55
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £55.47
Median % change year-on-year - +14.94% -
75th Percentile - £68.69 £58.76
90th Percentile - £70.68 £60.36
UK median hourly rate - £63.75 £55.47
% change year-on-year - +14.94% -

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 11,984 9,056 10,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.38% 32.80% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,769 6,248 7,619
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 228 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.00 £51.25
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 £79.60 £83.42 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -20 50 £430 -9.47% 58
South West - 10 £525 - 1
North of England -74 6 £450 +12.50% 12
North East -35 5 £450 -
South East -69 2 £413 -28.26% 7
West Midlands - 2 £482 - 2
Midlands - 2 £482 - 2
North West -55 1 £575 +53.33% 5
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 4 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.86%) 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%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Metadata
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 5 (7.14%) JIRA
8 3 (4.29%) Android Studio
8 3 (4.29%) Appium
9 2 (2.86%) GitLab
9 2 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.43%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (1.43%) CocoaPods
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 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Aviation
6 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (55.71%) Developer
1 39 (55.71%) iOS Developer
2 16 (22.86%) 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 3 (4.29%) iOS Software Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Architect
7 2 (2.86%) Java Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) QA 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%) Mobile Tester
8 1 (1.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.00%) SwiftUI
2 20 (28.57%) 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%) 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%) Core Media
9 1 (1.43%) OpenID
9 1 (1.43%) Play Framework
9 1 (1.43%) React Native
9 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (45.71%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.29%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 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 30 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 26 (37.14%) Agile
5 23 (32.86%) Architectural Patterns
6 22 (31.43%) Test Automation
7 16 (22.86%) Async-Await
8 15 (21.43%) DevOps
9 14 (20.00%) TDD
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%) Design Patterns
14 8 (11.43%) Kanban
14 8 (11.43%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) 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%) Python
5 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.71%) QA
2 15 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Apple
2 5 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.29%) Checkmarx
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) New Relic
3 3 (4.29%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) Brightcove
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Sparx