Swift Contracts in London

Apple Swift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Swift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swift over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 332 420
Rank change year-on-year -17 +88 +54
Contract jobs citing Swift 16 67 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.38% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.99% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 41 48
10th Percentile £400 £353 £309
25th Percentile £411 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% -12.73%
75th Percentile £548 £600 £603
90th Percentile £588 £675 £663
England median daily rate £436 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.43 -
England median hourly rate - £61.43 -

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,203 6,802 10,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.35% 38.60% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,653 5,159 7,620
10th Percentile £370 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £835
England median daily rate £521 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 50 77
10th Percentile £27.08 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.82 £48.60
Median hourly rate £41.66 £49.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -17.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.81 £62.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £72.75 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Swift in London

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in London.

Daily rate trend for Swift in London

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in London

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift in London.

Hourly rate trend for Swift in London

Swift
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the London region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Central London +4 3 £588 +17.50% 31
South London - 1 - -
Swift
England

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Apple Pay
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) BigCommerce
2 1 (6.25%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Xcode
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
1 10 (62.50%) iOS Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Android Developer
3 2 (12.50%) iOS Android Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Android Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead iOS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior iOS Android Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) SwiftUI
2 4 (25.00%) UIKit
3 3 (18.75%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) iOS SDK
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) ADO
5 1 (6.25%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (6.25%) Android SDK
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) Flutter
5 1 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (6.25%) JSON
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) React Native
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Swagger
5 1 (6.25%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (31.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) iOS Development
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Development
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) User Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Android Development
6 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 2 (12.50%) Fintech
6 2 (12.50%) MVVM
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Push Notifications
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (6.25%) Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.25%) Kanban
7 1 (6.25%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Objective-C
2 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Checkmarx
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore