Swift Contract Job Trends in London

Apple Swift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 321 364
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 +103
Contract jobs citing Swift 35 56 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 0.93% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 34
10th Percentile £375 £370 £404
25th Percentile £465 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £488
90th Percentile £660 £638 £546
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £57.43 - -
25th Percentile £59.19 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% - -
75th Percentile £68.69 - -
90th Percentile £70.68 - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +82.14% -51.72% -9.38%

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 5,407 6,025 7,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 38.62% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 4,097 5,349
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 40 69
10th Percentile £25.40 £35.68 £26.15
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £51.44 £51.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Swift job vacancy trend in London

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Swift

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in London

Swift
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Swift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Swift

Swift
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Swift in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 December 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 +6 5 £575 +12.47% 1
Swift
England

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.71%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Firebase
2 5 (14.29%) Sentry
3 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Apple Pay
5 1 (2.86%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.86%) Figma
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) Google Play
5 1 (2.86%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
2 1 (2.86%) tcpdump
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Xcode
2 8 (22.86%) Git
3 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
4 5 (14.29%) Appium
4 5 (14.29%) Charles Proxy
4 5 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
4 5 (14.29%) Postman
4 5 (14.29%) XCUITest
5 4 (11.43%) IntelliJ
5 4 (11.43%) JIRA
6 2 (5.71%) CocoaPods
6 2 (5.71%) Crashlytics
6 2 (5.71%) fastlane
6 2 (5.71%) GitLab
7 1 (2.86%) Android Studio
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (42.86%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) Developer
2 19 (54.29%) iOS Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead iOS Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Quality Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Android Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.71%) iOS Android Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Android Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Mobile UI Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Android Developer
8 1 (2.86%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) RESTful
2 9 (25.71%) SwiftUI
3 7 (20.00%) UIKit
4 5 (14.29%) Core Animation
4 5 (14.29%) Core Data
4 5 (14.29%) Web Services
5 4 (11.43%) React Native
6 3 (8.57%) AVFoundation
6 3 (8.57%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.71%) Apollo GraphQL
7 2 (5.71%) FHIR
7 2 (5.71%) Flutter
7 2 (5.71%) iOS SDK
7 2 (5.71%) JSON
7 2 (5.71%) OAuth
7 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
7 2 (5.71%) React
7 2 (5.71%) Redux
7 2 (5.71%) RxSwift
8 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.43%) Animation
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (97.14%) Apple iOS
2 14 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.86%) tvOS
4 1 (2.86%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) iOS Development
2 18 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) User Experience
4 13 (37.14%) Analytics
4 13 (37.14%) MVVM
5 11 (31.43%) Mobile Development
6 8 (22.86%) Design Patterns
7 7 (20.00%) Push Notifications
7 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
8 6 (17.14%) UX Design
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Functional Programming
9 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 5 (14.29%) Product Requirements
9 5 (14.29%) Software Deployment
9 5 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Kotlin
2 12 (34.29%) Objective-C
3 5 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.71%) C++
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
1 5 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Apple
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 4 (11.43%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Adobe
5 1 (2.86%) Plaid
5 1 (2.86%) Xamarin