Swift Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apple Swift
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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 288 327 429
Rank change year-on-year +39 +102 +48
Contract jobs citing Swift 16 18 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 34
10th Percentile £363 £428 £319
25th Percentile £400 £434 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £597
90th Percentile £548 £575 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £514
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.41% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £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
Work from Home

Swift falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Swift
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Swift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Swift trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Swift
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Swift.

Swift daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Swift over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Swift daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Swift
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Swift.

Swift hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Swift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) BrowserStack
1 2 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Ads
2 1 (6.25%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Xcode
3 3 (18.75%) XCUITest
4 2 (12.50%) Appium
4 2 (12.50%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) TestNG
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) iOS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) React Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.25%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) RESTful
2 5 (31.25%) Core Data
3 4 (25.00%) UIKit
4 3 (18.75%) Core Animation
4 3 (18.75%) SwiftUI
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) Flutter
5 2 (12.50%) React Native
6 1 (6.25%) CarPlay
6 1 (6.25%) Cocoa
6 1 (6.25%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (6.25%) iOS SDK
6 1 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) Animation
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Apple iOS
2 5 (31.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) iOS Development
2 7 (43.75%) User Experience
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Mobile Development
6 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 2 (12.50%) QA Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Case Management
8 1 (6.25%) Monetization
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Objective-C
2 3 (18.75%) Kotlin
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Apple