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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 452 511
Rank change year-on-year -10 +59 +60
Contract jobs citing Swift 50 76 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.71% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 58
10th Percentile £368 £313 £400
25th Percentile £375 £391 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £563
90th Percentile £550 £604 £683
UK median daily rate £406 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -22.62% +9.95% -13.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.43 £49.57 -
25th Percentile £59.19 £51.55 £71.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £55.47 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -23.50% -
75th Percentile £68.69 £58.76 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.68 £60.36 -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £55.47 £72.50
% change year-on-year +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 9,106 10,710 13,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.77% 32.52% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,161 7,340 9,801
10th Percentile £350 £351 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 307 411
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.69 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £71.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.50 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
North of England +6 25 £389 +18.24% 7
London -24 22 £500 -5.21% 24
Yorkshire -1 16 £400 -8.57% 2
North West -10 8 £375 +19.05% 4
South East - 3 £575 - 10
North East - 1 - - 1
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 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Sentry
2 3 (6.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Firebase
2 3 (6.00%) GCP
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) BigCommerce
4 1 (2.00%) Figma
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Git
2 17 (34.00%) Xcode
3 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (14.00%) Gradle
5 5 (10.00%) Postman
5 5 (10.00%) XCUITest
6 4 (8.00%) Appium
6 4 (8.00%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (8.00%) IntelliJ
6 4 (8.00%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (6.00%) CircleCI
7 3 (6.00%) CocoaPods
7 3 (6.00%) JIRA
8 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.00%) GitLab
9 1 (2.00%) JUnit
9 1 (2.00%) NUnit
9 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.00%) Subversion
9 1 (2.00%) XCTest
General
1 13 (26.00%) Banking
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (68.00%) Developer
2 30 (60.00%) iOS Developer
3 11 (22.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Android Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) iOS Android Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Principal Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.00%) iOS Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Android Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Lead iOS Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Principal Java Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior iOS Android Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) RESTful
2 14 (28.00%) SwiftUI
3 8 (16.00%) UIKit
4 7 (14.00%) CSS
4 7 (14.00%) HTML
5 6 (12.00%) React Native
6 5 (10.00%) JSON
6 5 (10.00%) Web Services
7 3 (6.00%) iOS SDK
7 3 (6.00%) Material Design
8 2 (4.00%) .NET
8 2 (4.00%) Core Animation
8 2 (4.00%) Flutter
8 2 (4.00%) OAuth
8 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.00%) REST
9 1 (2.00%) ADO
9 1 (2.00%) SOAP
9 1 (2.00%) VML
9 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (80.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (16.00%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Animation
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (94.00%) Apple iOS
2 23 (46.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) tvOS
3 1 (2.00%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) iOS Development
2 33 (66.00%) Agile
3 29 (58.00%) User Experience
4 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (34.00%) UX Design
5 15 (30.00%) MVVM
6 14 (28.00%) Mobile Development
7 13 (26.00%) Unit Testing
8 12 (24.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (20.00%) Design Patterns
9 10 (20.00%) DevOps
10 9 (18.00%) Scrum
10 9 (18.00%) TDD
11 8 (16.00%) Android Development
11 8 (16.00%) BDD
11 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
12 7 (14.00%) Continuous Deployment
12 7 (14.00%) Front End Development
12 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
12 7 (14.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Objective-C
2 24 (48.00%) Kotlin
3 14 (28.00%) Java
4 9 (18.00%) C++
5 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.00%) Python
6 7 (14.00%) C
6 7 (14.00%) Ruby
6 7 (14.00%) Scala
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.00%) C#
8 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
1 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Apple
2 4 (8.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.00%) Xamarin