Swift Contracts in the North of England

Apple Swift
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 163 199
Rank change year-on-year -2 +36 0
Contract jobs citing Swift 12 19 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.41% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 6
10th Percentile £375 - £525
25th Percentile £389 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -52.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £450 £329 £666
90th Percentile £550 £450 £675
England median daily rate £447 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -0.67% -6.25% -12.73%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,014 1,151 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.70% 24.92% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 818 1,058
10th Percentile £320 £319 £359
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -9.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £611
90th Percentile £604 £626 £688
England median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 41 31
10th Percentile £30.00 £37.50 £22.41
25th Percentile £31.62 £41.25 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +6.11% +26.87%
75th Percentile £86.63 £71.50 £52.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.17 £63.75
England median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +15.74%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the North of England

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Swift in the North of England

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the North of England

Swift
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire -16 6 £425 +41.67% 12
North West +5 5 £375 -3.72% 16
North East - 1 - - 1
Swift
England

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) Gradle
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (33.33%) Xcode
2 1 (8.33%) XCTest
2 1 (8.33%) XCUITest
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
1 7 (58.33%) iOS Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) SwiftUI
2 3 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (8.33%) CarPlay
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (41.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) iOS Development
2 8 (66.67%) User Experience
3 7 (58.33%) Mobile Development
4 6 (50.00%) TDD
5 5 (41.67%) BDD
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (41.67%) UX Design
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (25.00%) Coaching
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) High Availability
8 2 (16.67%) Mobile Transformation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Kotlin
1 7 (58.33%) Objective-C
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Ruby
2 4 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility