Apple Swift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Swift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Swift over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 745 677
Rank change year-on-year +149 -68 -207
Permanent jobs citing Swift 101 118 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.38% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 71 91 225
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.79% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,056 31,037 49,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.57% 35.27% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,388 24,172 31,239
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,872 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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 19 March 2025.

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 19 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +132 93 £65,000 +6.12% 48
London +85 51 £67,500 -5.26% 33
Work from Home +135 49 £67,500 -6.90% 32
UK excluding London +109 48 £60,000 +4.35% 20
South East +93 16 £60,000 - 4
South West +86 11 £72,626 +61.39% 2
Scotland +92 7 £75,000 - 2
Midlands +56 7 £67,500 +8.00% 1
West Midlands +36 5 £67,500 +8.00% 1
North of England +39 4 £77,500 +47.62% 11
East of England +42 3 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands +45 2 £37,500 -
North West +20 2 £68,750 +4.96% 9
Yorkshire +50 1 £77,500 +121.43% 1
North East - 1 - - 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.99%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.77%) GitHub
2 10 (9.90%) AWS
3 8 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (5.94%) Firebase
5 5 (4.95%) BrowserStack
5 5 (4.95%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (3.96%) GCP
7 3 (2.97%) Supabase
7 3 (2.97%) Vercel
8 2 (1.98%) Azure
8 2 (1.98%) Bitrise
8 2 (1.98%) Stripe
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.99%) Figma
9 1 (0.99%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) HTTP
2 4 (3.96%) SSL
3 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Xcode
2 22 (21.78%) Git
3 17 (16.83%) Jenkins
4 14 (13.86%) XCTest
5 13 (12.87%) XCUITest
6 12 (11.88%) Appium
7 8 (7.92%) Gradle
7 8 (7.92%) SonarQube
8 6 (5.94%) GitLab
9 5 (4.95%) Android Studio
10 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
10 4 (3.96%) JUnit
10 4 (3.96%) TestNG
11 2 (1.98%) Crashlytics
12 1 (0.99%) fastlane
12 1 (0.99%) JIRA
12 1 (0.99%) Selenium
12 1 (0.99%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.78%) Games
3 18 (17.82%) Finance
4 12 (11.88%) Aviation
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Marketing
7 4 (3.96%) Publishing
8 3 (2.97%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) French Language
10 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (51.49%) Developer
2 33 (32.67%) iOS Developer
3 18 (17.82%) Android Developer
3 18 (17.82%) Lead
3 18 (17.82%) Senior
4 14 (13.86%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) iOS Android Developer
6 8 (7.92%) Lead Developer
7 7 (6.93%) iOS Software Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Lead Android Developer
7 7 (6.93%) Lead iOS Developer
7 7 (6.93%) Mobile Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Applications Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Mobile Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Senior iOS Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Development Manager
10 4 (3.96%) QA Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.78%) SwiftUI
2 19 (18.81%) RESTful
3 11 (10.89%) UIKit
4 9 (8.91%) REST
5 8 (7.92%) React Native
5 8 (7.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 6 (5.94%) Android Jetpack
6 6 (5.94%) Jetpack Compose
6 6 (5.94%) Web Services
7 5 (4.95%) React
8 4 (3.96%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth
8 4 (3.96%) Redux
9 3 (2.97%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.97%) JSON
9 3 (2.97%) Next.js
10 2 (1.98%) Apollo GraphQL
10 2 (1.98%) Core Data
10 2 (1.98%) ReactiveCocoa
10 2 (1.98%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 63 (62.38%) Mobile App
2 17 (16.83%) Mobile Games
3 12 (11.88%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (8.91%) Educational Technology
5 8 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (7.92%) Virtual Team
6 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.95%) Online Games
8 3 (2.97%) Lidar
8 3 (2.97%) W3C
9 2 (1.98%) Animation
10 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.99%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 101 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 49 (48.51%) Android
3 9 (8.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (61.39%) iOS Development
2 47 (46.53%) Agile
3 45 (44.55%) Mobile Development
4 39 (38.61%) CI/CD
5 36 (35.64%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (35.64%) User Experience
6 29 (28.71%) Android Development
7 24 (23.76%) Software Engineering
7 24 (23.76%) SOLID
8 22 (21.78%) Test Automation
9 21 (20.79%) DevOps
10 19 (18.81%) Mobile Application Development
11 17 (16.83%) Design Patterns
12 15 (14.85%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (13.86%) Computer Science
13 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
14 13 (12.87%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (12.87%) MVVM
15 12 (11.88%) Coaching
16 11 (10.89%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.62%) Kotlin
2 32 (31.68%) Objective-C
3 28 (27.72%) Java
4 11 (10.89%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.95%) Python
6 4 (3.96%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.99%) C
8 1 (0.99%) Dart
8 1 (0.99%) Rust
8 1 (0.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (29.70%) QA
2 7 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Apple
1 8 (7.92%) New Relic
2 3 (2.97%) Google
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe
3 1 (0.99%) SAP
3 1 (0.99%) Spotify