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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 747 734
Rank change year-on-year +156 -13 -276
Permanent jobs citing Swift 93 138 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.42% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 62 100 150
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,563 £82,500 £97,188
90th Percentile £102,753 £92,066 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Swift in the UK

Swift
Top 14 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 30 April 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 +148 86 £65,000 +8.33% 54
London +108 47 £65,000 -13.33% 31
Work from Home +164 45 £67,500 +12.50% 38
UK excluding London +158 45 £60,000 +9.09% 31
South East +124 16 £60,000 - 7
South West +104 12 £85,253 +89.45% 2
Scotland +130 7 £85,253 +13.67% 4
Midlands +62 7 £67,500 -10.00% 2
West Midlands +52 5 £67,500 -10.00% 1
East Midlands +49 2 £37,500 - 1
North of England +42 2 £77,500 +63.16% 9
East of England +53 1 £75,000 +36.36% 4
North West +9 1 £77,500 +18.32% 8
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 (1.08%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.73%) GitHub
2 8 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (5.38%) Firebase
4 4 (4.30%) AWS
5 3 (3.23%) GCP
5 3 (3.23%) Supabase
5 3 (3.23%) Vercel
6 2 (2.15%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.08%) Azure
7 1 (1.08%) Figma
7 1 (1.08%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.08%) Serverless
7 1 (1.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) SSL
2 4 (4.30%) HTTP
3 1 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Git
2 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.05%) Xcode
4 10 (10.75%) XCTest
5 9 (9.68%) XCUITest
6 8 (8.60%) Gradle
6 8 (8.60%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.53%) Appium
8 6 (6.45%) GitLab
9 3 (3.23%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.15%) Crashlytics
11 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.08%) fastlane
11 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Finance
3 21 (22.58%) Games
4 12 (12.90%) Aviation
5 10 (10.75%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Private Banking
7 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Marketing
9 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.15%) Publishing
10 1 (1.08%) Electronics
10 1 (1.08%) French Language
10 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (51.61%) Developer
2 30 (32.26%) iOS Developer
3 19 (20.43%) Android Developer
4 18 (19.35%) Senior
5 15 (16.13%) Lead
5 15 (16.13%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) iOS Android Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Lead Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Development Manager
8 7 (7.53%) iOS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Lead Android Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Lead iOS Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Applications Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Senior iOS Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.73%) SwiftUI
2 13 (13.98%) RESTful
2 13 (13.98%) UIKit
3 11 (11.83%) Android Jetpack
3 11 (11.83%) Jetpack Compose
4 9 (9.68%) REST
5 8 (8.60%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 7 (7.53%) OAuth
7 6 (6.45%) Web Services
8 5 (5.38%) React Native
9 4 (4.30%) React
10 3 (3.23%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.23%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.23%) JSON
10 3 (3.23%) Next.js
10 3 (3.23%) Redux
11 2 (2.15%) iOS SDK
11 2 (2.15%) Node.js
11 2 (2.15%) ReactiveCocoa
11 2 (2.15%) RxSwift
Miscellaneous
1 58 (62.37%) Mobile App
2 18 (19.35%) Mobile Games
3 12 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (10.75%) Educational Technology
5 8 (8.60%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
6 7 (7.53%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.23%) Lidar
7 3 (3.23%) Online Games
7 3 (3.23%) W3C
8 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.08%) Animation
8 1 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.08%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 93 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 53 (56.99%) Android
3 10 (10.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (69.89%) iOS Development
2 45 (48.39%) Agile
2 45 (48.39%) Mobile Development
3 35 (37.63%) Android Development
4 33 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 33 (35.48%) User Experience
5 31 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (29.03%) Software Engineering
7 24 (25.81%) SOLID
8 22 (23.66%) DevOps
9 17 (18.28%) Design Patterns
10 16 (17.20%) Computer Science
10 16 (17.20%) Mobile Application Development
10 16 (17.20%) MVVM
11 15 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
11 15 (16.13%) Mentoring
12 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
13 13 (13.98%) Coaching
14 12 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.01%) Kotlin
2 32 (34.41%) Objective-C
3 30 (32.26%) Java
4 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.38%) C++
6 4 (4.30%) Python
7 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.08%) C
8 1 (1.08%) Dart
8 1 (1.08%) Rust
8 1 (1.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.11%) QA
2 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) New Relic
2 4 (4.30%) Apple
3 2 (2.15%) Google
4 1 (1.08%) Adobe
4 1 (1.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.08%) Spotify