Swift Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apple Swift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 360 433
Rank change year-on-year +39 +73 -8
Contract jobs citing Swift 15 39 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.80% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 19
10th Percentile £378 - £440
25th Percentile £438 £300 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £625
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -40.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £456 £673
90th Percentile £588 £565 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £514
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £64.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -45.31% -20.00% +22.14%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the UK excluding London

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Swift in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland - 6 £425 - 9
South West +47 5 £569 +51.67% 12
North of England 0 4 £500 +66.67% 25
North West +13 3 £550 +22.22% 15
Yorkshire -7 1 £450 +50.00% 7
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Xcode
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) XCTest
3 1 (6.67%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
1 11 (73.33%) iOS Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 3 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.67%) iOS Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Android Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Mobile Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Objective-C Developer
3 1 (6.67%) React Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) UI Developer
3 1 (6.67%) UI/UX Developer
3 1 (6.67%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) UIKit
2 7 (46.67%) RESTful
3 5 (33.33%) Cocoa
3 5 (33.33%) Cocoa Touch
4 4 (26.67%) iOS SDK
4 4 (26.67%) SwiftUI
5 2 (13.33%) .NET
5 2 (13.33%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (13.33%) Android SDK
5 2 (13.33%) AVFoundation
5 2 (13.33%) Core Data
5 2 (13.33%) OpenCV
6 1 (6.67%) CarPlay
6 1 (6.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (20.00%) iPad
2 3 (20.00%) iPhone
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (46.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) iOS Development
2 8 (53.33%) User Experience
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) TDD
4 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (33.33%) MVVM
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Android Development
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Mobile Development
6 3 (20.00%) Biometrics
6 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (13.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC