Apple Swift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Swift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Swift over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 720 469
Rank change year-on-year -30 -251 +7
Permanent jobs citing Swift 139 262 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.57% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 101 155 524
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £82,068
90th Percentile £93,250 £120,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

All Programming Languages
UK

Swift is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,108 46,004 82,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 43.52% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25,049 29,252 44,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.14% +7.70%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Swift.

Salary trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Swift over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Swift in the UK

Swift
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
England -4 128 £60,000 -17.24% 49
UK excluding London 0 93 £55,000 -12.00% 23
Work from Home +27 63 £65,000 -3.70% 29
London +19 44 £75,000 +1.69% 30
North of England +73 43 £47,500 -25.78% 9
North West +24 24 £59,000 -5.98% 5
South West +2 23 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +101 19 £35,000 -59.42% 2
East of England +31 6 £55,000 -38.89% 1
Midlands +15 6 £75,000 +29.31% 1
Wales +5 5 £55,000 - 3
South East -24 5 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Scotland -64 5 £75,000 +50.00% 1
West Midlands +32 4 £75,000 +30.43%
East Midlands -18 2 - - 1

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 5 (3.60%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.95%) Firebase
2 14 (10.07%) AWS
3 13 (9.35%) GitHub
3 13 (9.35%) SaaS
4 7 (5.04%) Azure
5 5 (3.60%) AWS IoT
5 5 (3.60%) TestFlight
6 4 (2.88%) GCP
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.16%) Serverless
8 1 (0.72%) Figma
8 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.72%) Google Play
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) Wireless
2 2 (1.44%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.44%) Broadband
3 1 (0.72%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.72%) GPRS
3 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.91%) MySQL
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.67%) Xcode
2 16 (11.51%) Git
3 8 (5.76%) Appium
4 7 (5.04%) Crashlytics
5 6 (4.32%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.32%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.32%) JIRA
6 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.88%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.16%) fastlane
8 2 (1.44%) XCTest
9 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.72%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Finance
3 15 (10.79%) Banking
4 11 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.04%) Law
5 7 (5.04%) Marketing
6 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Tech for Good
7 5 (3.60%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.88%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Back Office
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (62.59%) Developer
2 52 (37.41%) iOS Developer
3 29 (20.86%) Senior
4 24 (17.27%) Lead
5 23 (16.55%) Senior Developer
5 23 (16.55%) Software Engineer
6 20 (14.39%) Applications Developer
7 19 (13.67%) Mobile Developer
7 19 (13.67%) Senior iOS Developer
8 14 (10.07%) Lead Developer
9 12 (8.63%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) iOS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) IT Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.76%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.32%) Applications Engineer
13 6 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.99%) RESTful
2 20 (14.39%) React
3 19 (13.67%) REST
4 15 (10.79%) Core Data
4 15 (10.79%) CSS
4 15 (10.79%) HTML
4 15 (10.79%) React Native
5 11 (7.91%) Core Animation
5 11 (7.91%) Ionic Framework
5 11 (7.91%) SwiftUI
6 10 (7.19%) HTML5
7 8 (5.76%) JSON
8 7 (5.04%) iOS SDK
8 7 (5.04%) UIKit
9 6 (4.32%) .NET
9 6 (4.32%) pytest
9 6 (4.32%) Redux
9 6 (4.32%) RxSwift
10 5 (3.60%) Flutter
10 5 (3.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (42.45%) Mobile App
2 11 (7.91%) Animation
2 11 (7.91%) IoT
2 11 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.47%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.04%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.88%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.88%) PropTech
8 3 (2.16%) Blog
8 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.44%) PKI
9 2 (1.44%) Robotics
10 1 (0.72%) CCTV
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.72%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 132 (94.96%) Apple iOS
2 76 (54.68%) Android
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.71%) iOS Development
2 52 (37.41%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (35.97%) Agile
4 43 (30.94%) Mentoring
5 36 (25.90%) User Experience
6 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
7 29 (20.86%) Code Quality
8 28 (20.14%) CI/CD
8 28 (20.14%) Mobile Application Development
9 26 (18.71%) Mobile Development
10 21 (15.11%) Android Development
10 21 (15.11%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (14.39%) Architectural Patterns
11 20 (14.39%) Coaching
12 19 (13.67%) Design Patterns
13 18 (12.95%) API Integration
13 18 (12.95%) Clean Code
13 18 (12.95%) DevOps
13 18 (12.95%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.09%) Kotlin
2 38 (27.34%) Objective-C
3 33 (23.74%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.30%) Java
5 28 (20.14%) SQL
6 21 (15.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.76%) C#
7 8 (5.76%) Python
8 5 (3.60%) Rust
9 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.88%) VBScript
10 3 (2.16%) Dart
11 2 (1.44%) Go
11 2 (1.44%) Lua
11 2 (1.44%) PHP
11 2 (1.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (20.86%) Degree
2 17 (12.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.72%) MCP
3 1 (0.72%) MCSA
3 1 (0.72%) MCSE
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.71%) QA
2 5 (3.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.16%) Terraform
2 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.32%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.32%) Apple
3 1 (0.72%) Cadence
3 1 (0.72%) Google
3 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.72%) Xamarin