Swift Contracts

Apple Swift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 497 597
Rank change year-on-year +30 +100 -10
Contract jobs citing Swift 52 103 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 0.80% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 70 84
10th Percentile £393 £300 £318
25th Percentile £450 £372 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% -4.42%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £375 £625
% change year-on-year +36.67% -40.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £64.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% -20.00% +22.14%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.14%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the UK

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift.

Hourly rate trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +2 39 £525 +16.67% 54
London +4 28 £525 +5.00% 31
Work from Home +48 16 £525 +16.67% 38
UK excluding London +31 16 £513 +36.67% 31
Scotland - 6 £425 - 4
South West +46 5 £569 +51.67% 2
North of England +9 4 £500 +66.67% 9
North West +7 3 £550 +22.22% 8
East of England +33 1 - - 4
Yorkshire 0 1 £450 +50.00%

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (3.85%) Apple Pay
3 2 (3.85%) BrowserStack
3 2 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Ads
4 1 (1.92%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.92%) Firebase
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Xcode
2 13 (25.00%) Git
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.77%) Appium
4 3 (5.77%) JUnit
4 3 (5.77%) TestNG
4 3 (5.77%) XCUITest
5 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 2 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.92%) GitLab
6 1 (1.92%) NUnit
6 1 (1.92%) Subversion
6 1 (1.92%) XCTest
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Advertising
5 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (57.69%) Developer
2 28 (53.85%) iOS Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Android Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Architect
4 5 (9.62%) iOS Android Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Mobile Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (5.77%) React Developer
7 2 (3.85%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Applications Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (1.92%) Java Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.92%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) UIKit
2 16 (30.77%) RESTful
3 15 (28.85%) SwiftUI
4 7 (13.46%) Core Data
5 6 (11.54%) iOS SDK
5 6 (11.54%) React Native
6 5 (9.62%) Cocoa
6 5 (9.62%) Cocoa Touch
7 3 (5.77%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (5.77%) Android SDK
7 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.77%) Core Animation
7 3 (5.77%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.77%) REST
8 2 (3.85%) .NET
8 2 (3.85%) AVFoundation
8 2 (3.85%) Flutter
8 2 (3.85%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (3.85%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.92%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (55.77%) Mobile App
2 6 (11.54%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.77%) Animation
3 3 (5.77%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.77%) iPad
3 3 (5.77%) iPhone
4 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 49 (94.23%) Apple iOS
2 19 (36.54%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) iOS Development
2 21 (40.38%) Agile
3 19 (36.54%) Mobile Development
4 18 (34.62%) User Experience
5 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Mobile Application Development
9 8 (15.38%) Android Development
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (15.38%) MVVM
9 8 (15.38%) Scrum
10 7 (13.46%) TDD
11 6 (11.54%) Push Notifications
11 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
12 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (9.62%) Design Patterns
12 5 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (9.62%) Unit Testing
12 5 (9.62%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) Objective-C
2 13 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Apple
2 1 (1.92%) Adobe
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.92%) SAP
2 1 (1.92%) Sitecore