Swift Contracts in the North West

Apple Swift
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +1
Contract jobs citing Swift 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 0.92% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile - £441 £544
25th Percentile - £450 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £469 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -25.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £388 £515 £666
90th Percentile £395 £518 £675
England median daily rate £449 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -0.33% -14.29% -3.23%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 649 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.66% 24.34% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 477 662
10th Percentile £358 £325 £327
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £622 £619 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.27% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 35 17
10th Percentile £69.90 £37.93 £25.22
25th Percentile £73.50 £41.25 £37.75
Median hourly rate £82.50 £48.43 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +70.35% +4.87% -10.07%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.87 £56.40
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.27 £65.85
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +21.65%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the North West

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Swift in the North West

Swift
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Cheshire - 3 £375 - 17
Manchester +14 1 £400 -14.67% 31
Swift
England

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Gradle
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) XCTest
2 1 (25.00%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) CarPlay
2 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (75.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) iOS Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Development
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
1 3 (75.00%) Scala