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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 466 448
Rank change year-on-year -104 -18 +73
Contract jobs citing Swift 75 57 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.62% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 50
10th Percentile £345 £373 £313
25th Percentile £370 £375 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% -6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £476 £550 £588
90th Percentile £538 £602 £604
UK median daily rate £430 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -9.47% -7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £57.43 £49.57
25th Percentile - £59.19 £51.55
Median hourly rate £77.00 £63.75 £55.47
Median % change year-on-year +20.78% +14.94% -23.50%
75th Percentile £86.00 £68.69 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.40 £70.68 £60.36
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £63.75 £55.47
% change year-on-year +20.78% +14.94% -23.50%

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 12,243 9,174 10,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.14% 32.61% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,916 6,144 6,872
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £635 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 264 289
10th Percentile £21.33 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.64 £42.25 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 14 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Swift in England over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 October 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 -80 50 £430 -14.00% 114
North of England -77 17 £450 +17.04% 22
North West -45 12 £425 +13.33% 17
South West - 5 £400 - 4
North East -38 4 £450 -
South East -62 3 £323 -43.91% 6
Yorkshire -47 1 £325 -18.75% 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 (5.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (33.33%) GitHub
2 20 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (12.00%) Firebase
4 4 (5.33%) Azure
4 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.00%) AWS
6 2 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (2.67%) Google Play
6 2 (2.67%) Sentry
7 1 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.33%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (28.00%) XCUITest
2 20 (26.67%) Xcode
3 19 (25.33%) XCTest
4 13 (17.33%) CircleCI
5 10 (13.33%) fastlane
6 9 (12.00%) Git
7 5 (6.67%) CocoaPods
7 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
8 3 (4.00%) Appium
8 3 (4.00%) Gradle
8 3 (4.00%) JIRA
8 3 (4.00%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (2.67%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (2.67%) Selendroid
10 1 (1.33%) Crashlytics
10 1 (1.33%) JUnit
10 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
4 5 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Local Government
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
5 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (53.33%) Developer
2 37 (49.33%) iOS Developer
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 12 (16.00%) Mobile Developer
4 12 (16.00%) Mobile Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.00%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (4.00%) iOS Software Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Android Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Architect
7 2 (2.67%) Java Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Mac Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) QA Engineer
8 1 (1.33%) Android Developer
8 1 (1.33%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (1.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 1 (1.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 1 (1.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.00%) SwiftUI
2 24 (32.00%) UIKit
3 22 (29.33%) RESTful
4 18 (24.00%) REST
5 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
6 7 (9.33%) iOS SDK
7 4 (5.33%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (5.33%) Core Data
7 4 (5.33%) Flutter
7 4 (5.33%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (5.33%) RAML
8 3 (4.00%) React Native
9 2 (2.67%) AVFoundation
9 2 (2.67%) gRPC
9 2 (2.67%) JSON
9 2 (2.67%) OAuth
9 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.67%) OpenID
10 1 (1.33%) Dagger
10 1 (1.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 40 (53.33%) Mobile App
2 10 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.33%) Legacy Code
4 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.00%) IoT
6 2 (2.67%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.33%) Music Streaming
7 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (97.33%) Apple iOS
2 20 (26.67%) Android
3 2 (2.67%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (73.33%) iOS Development
2 30 (40.00%) MVVM
3 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
4 25 (33.33%) Agile
5 22 (29.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 21 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 20 (26.67%) Mobile Development
7 20 (26.67%) User Experience
8 15 (20.00%) DevOps
9 13 (17.33%) TDD
10 10 (13.33%) Clean Code
10 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.67%) API Integration
12 8 (10.67%) Async-Await
13 7 (9.33%) Scrum
13 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
14 6 (8.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) Objective-C
2 19 (25.33%) Kotlin
3 7 (9.33%) Java
4 4 (5.33%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) Ruby
5 3 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (33.33%) QA
2 14 (18.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Apple
2 5 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.33%) Splunk
4 3 (4.00%) Checkmarx
4 3 (4.00%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.00%) New Relic
5 2 (2.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Sparx