Swift Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apple Swift
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Swift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Swift 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.075% - 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £464 - £430
25th Percentile £467 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
England median daily rate £489 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -6.93% +16.67% -18.18%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 668 363 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.98% 25.23% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 215 302
10th Percentile £365 £336 £260
25th Percentile £425 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 12
10th Percentile - £16.95 £17.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -62.34% +144.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £54.00 £71.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Swift job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Swift
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Swift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Swift

Swift
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Coventry - 1 £475 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 £489 -
Swift
England

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (50.00%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Telematics
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin