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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 485 592
Rank change year-on-year +6 +107 -2
Contract jobs citing Swift 51 105 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 0.82% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 71 80
10th Percentile £393 £300 £328
25th Percentile £450 £381 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.25% -4.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £676
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 10,008 12,836 20,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 29.59% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,799 9,125 14,930
10th Percentile £358 £350 £395
25th Percentile £417 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £774 £763 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 490 468
10th Percentile £22.50 £31.93 £26.21
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £49.92
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.25 £77.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.18
% change year-on-year +2.40% +2.17% +23.49%

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 4 May 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 9 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 4 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
England 0 38 £525 +16.67% 68
London +13 28 £525 +5.00% 43
Work from Home +44 16 £525 +16.67% 43
UK excluding London +45 15 £513 +36.67% 43
Scotland - 6 £425 - 4
South West +41 5 £569 +51.67% 4
North of England -2 4 £500 +66.67% 10
North West +11 3 £550 +22.22% 9
Yorkshire -4 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 (3.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) AWS
2 3 (5.88%) GitHub
3 2 (3.92%) Apple Pay
3 2 (3.92%) BrowserStack
3 2 (3.92%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Ads
4 1 (1.96%) BigCommerce
4 1 (1.96%) Firebase
4 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) Xcode
2 13 (25.49%) Git
3 3 (5.88%) Appium
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JUnit
3 3 (5.88%) TestNG
3 3 (5.88%) XCUITest
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.96%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (1.96%) NUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) Subversion
5 1 (1.96%) XCTest
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) Developer
2 28 (54.90%) iOS Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Android Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) iOS Android Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Mobile Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior iOS Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (5.88%) React Developer
7 2 (3.92%) QA Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Applications Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (1.96%) Java Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Mac Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) UIKit
2 16 (31.37%) RESTful
3 15 (29.41%) SwiftUI
4 7 (13.73%) Core Data
5 6 (11.76%) iOS SDK
6 5 (9.80%) Cocoa
6 5 (9.80%) Cocoa Touch
6 5 (9.80%) React Native
7 3 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (5.88%) Android SDK
7 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.88%) Core Animation
7 3 (5.88%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.92%) .NET
8 2 (3.92%) AVFoundation
8 2 (3.92%) Flutter
8 2 (3.92%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (3.92%) OpenCV
8 2 (3.92%) REST
9 1 (1.96%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (56.86%) Mobile App
2 6 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.88%) Animation
3 3 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.88%) iPad
3 3 (5.88%) iPhone
4 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 48 (94.12%) Apple iOS
2 18 (35.29%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (80.39%) iOS Development
2 20 (39.22%) Agile
3 19 (37.25%) Mobile Development
4 18 (35.29%) User Experience
5 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.61%) Mobile Application Development
9 8 (15.69%) Android Development
9 8 (15.69%) MVVM
9 8 (15.69%) Scrum
10 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (11.76%) Push Notifications
11 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) TDD
12 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (9.80%) Design Patterns
12 5 (9.80%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (9.80%) Unit Testing
12 5 (9.80%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (62.75%) Objective-C
2 12 (23.53%) Kotlin
3 4 (7.84%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) C#
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Apple
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe
2 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.96%) SAP
2 1 (1.96%) Sitecore