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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 447 440
Rank change year-on-year -84 -7 +100
Contract jobs citing Swift 69 32 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.39% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 71
10th Percentile £319 £375 £300
25th Percentile £370 £395 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -0.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £566
90th Percentile £571 £590 £603
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.21% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £52.20
25th Percentile £58.50 - £58.14
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £61.97
75th Percentile £66.75 - £63.56
90th Percentile £68.70 - £65.48
UK median hourly rate £61.00 - £61.97
% change year-on-year - - -22.54%

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 11,088 8,197 11,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.61% 34.04% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,280 5,685 8,036
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 194 471
10th Percentile £37.03 £28.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 June 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 June 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 -47 39 £375 -25.00% 31
South West -23 11 £513 -9.89% 1
North of England -77 10 £425 +9.25% 6
North West -38 7 £400 +6.67% 2
South East - 5 £387 - 1
North East -24 3 £450 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £482 - 1
Midlands - 2 £482 - 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 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.09%) GitHub
2 9 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (8.70%) Firebase
4 4 (5.80%) Bitrise
4 4 (5.80%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure
5 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (28.99%) Xcode
2 19 (27.54%) XCTest
3 16 (23.19%) XCUITest
4 11 (15.94%) Git
5 10 (14.49%) fastlane
6 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
7 5 (7.25%) Android Studio
8 4 (5.80%) CocoaPods
8 4 (5.80%) GitLab
9 3 (4.35%) Appium
9 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.90%) Gradle
10 2 (2.90%) JIRA
10 2 (2.90%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (1.45%) Crashlytics
11 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.45%) JMeter
11 1 (1.45%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.45%) Selendroid
11 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (1.45%) Aviation
5 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Developer
2 34 (49.28%) iOS Developer
3 20 (28.99%) Senior
4 11 (15.94%) Mobile Engineer
5 10 (14.49%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior iOS Developer
7 7 (10.14%) iOS Software Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Mobile Developer
7 7 (10.14%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Android Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Lead
10 2 (2.90%) QA Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Security Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Tester
10 2 (2.90%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) SwiftUI
2 16 (23.19%) UIKit
3 12 (17.39%) RESTful
4 8 (11.59%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.14%) iOS SDK
6 6 (8.70%) REST
7 4 (5.80%) Core Data
7 4 (5.80%) Core Media
8 3 (4.35%) Jetpack Compose
8 3 (4.35%) OAuth
8 3 (4.35%) WebdriverIO
9 2 (2.90%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (2.90%) JSON
9 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.90%) OpenID
10 1 (1.45%) JWT
10 1 (1.45%) OkHttp
10 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (1.45%) Retrofit
10 1 (1.45%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 30 (43.48%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 69 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 19 (27.54%) Android
3 3 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (66.67%) iOS Development
2 27 (39.13%) MVVM
3 20 (28.99%) Agile
3 20 (28.99%) Test Automation
4 19 (27.54%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.09%) TDD
6 16 (23.19%) Architectural Patterns
6 16 (23.19%) Async-Await
7 13 (18.84%) User Experience
8 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (15.94%) Design Patterns
9 10 (14.49%) DevOps
9 10 (14.49%) Software Engineering
10 9 (13.04%) Analytics
10 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (13.04%) Mobile Development
10 9 (13.04%) Unit Testing
11 7 (10.14%) Pair Programming
12 6 (8.70%) Clean Code
12 6 (8.70%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.88%) Kotlin
2 21 (30.43%) Objective-C
3 13 (18.84%) Java
4 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.45%) BrightScript
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) Ruby
5 1 (1.45%) Scala
5 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) SANS
2 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.74%) QA
2 10 (14.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.35%) WCAG
4 2 (2.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Grafana
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Apple
2 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.45%) Adyen
4 1 (1.45%) Brightcove
4 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.45%) New Relic
4 1 (1.45%) Roku
4 1 (1.45%) Splunk