Swift Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Apple Swift
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Swift 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.19% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £525 - -

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 135 85 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 26.21% 34.27% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 64 32
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £400 £358 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £452
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -7.08% -20.00%
75th Percentile £565 £490 £500
90th Percentile £618 £575 £549
North East median daily rate £475 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.50% -17.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 9
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.81% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £66.25 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.40% +9.47% +16.56%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Swift job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Swift

Swift
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £525 - 2
Swift
North East

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Akka
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Push Notifications
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker