Swift Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apple Swift
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Swift skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 496 627
Rank change year-on-year -48 +131 -20
Permanent jobs citing Swift 71 45 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.52% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 49 29 61
10th Percentile £47,000 £52,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,756 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -17.24%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,536 8,590 19,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.91% 25.31% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8,412 5,518 13,934
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Swift
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Swift relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Swift job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Swift
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swift.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Swift

Swift
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Swift in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Swift in the UK excluding London

Swift
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -2 21 £66,000 -
Midlands -19 21 £66,000 +7.76%
South East -26 21 £60,000 - 4
North of England -12 20 £47,000 -30.37% 5
North West +4 13 £71,500 +14.40% 4
Scotland +16 8 £70,000 -42.98%
North East -41 7 £47,000 -
South West -68 1 £72,500 - 5
Swift
UK

Swift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (32.39%) Firebase
2 18 (25.35%) GitHub
3 16 (22.54%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (21.13%) AWS
4 15 (21.13%) TestFlight
5 14 (19.72%) Serverless
5 14 (19.72%) Stripe
6 13 (18.31%) Azure
7 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.82%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.41%) Bitrise
9 1 (1.41%) GCP
9 1 (1.41%) Google Play
9 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Broadband
1 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) SQLite
2 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Crashlytics
1 14 (19.72%) fastlane
1 14 (19.72%) XCTest
2 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.27%) Xcode
3 6 (8.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (8.45%) XCUITest
4 3 (4.23%) Git
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.45%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Digital Health
6 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (71.83%) Developer
2 44 (61.97%) iOS Developer
3 28 (39.44%) Senior
4 22 (30.99%) Senior Developer
5 21 (29.58%) Senior iOS Developer
6 14 (19.72%) Mobile Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Applications Developer
7 9 (12.68%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 8 (11.27%) Lead
8 8 (11.27%) Lead Developer
9 7 (9.86%) Mobile Developer
9 7 (9.86%) Senior Mobile Developer
10 6 (8.45%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 6 (8.45%) UI Developer
11 5 (7.04%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (7.04%) Senior Applications Developer
11 5 (7.04%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 5 (7.04%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
12 4 (5.63%) Mobile UI Developer
13 3 (4.23%) Lead iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (70.42%) SwiftUI
2 25 (35.21%) UIKit
3 22 (30.99%) RESTful
4 8 (11.27%) Core Data
5 7 (9.86%) iOS SDK
6 2 (2.82%) Flutter
6 2 (2.82%) REST
7 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (71.83%) Mobile App
2 14 (19.72%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (14.08%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 71 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 17 (23.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (81.69%) iOS Development
2 39 (54.93%) CI/CD
3 30 (42.25%) User Experience
4 29 (40.85%) Clean Code
4 29 (40.85%) Test Automation
5 21 (29.58%) Analytics
5 21 (29.58%) Deployment Automation
6 16 (22.54%) Android Development
6 16 (22.54%) Code Quality
7 14 (19.72%) Agile
7 14 (19.72%) Community of Practice
7 14 (19.72%) Cross-Platform Development
7 14 (19.72%) Process Improvement
7 14 (19.72%) Product Vision
7 14 (19.72%) Push Notifications
7 14 (19.72%) Re-Platforming
7 14 (19.72%) Server-Driven UI
7 14 (19.72%) Storyboarding
8 13 (18.31%) Mobile Development
9 12 (16.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) Kotlin
2 2 (2.82%) Objective-C
3 1 (1.41%) C#
3 1 (1.41%) C++
3 1 (1.41%) Dart
3 1 (1.41%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.86%) WCAG
3 1 (1.41%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) Apple
2 14 (19.72%) Amplitude
2 14 (19.72%) Braze
3 7 (9.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft