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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 722 473
Rank change year-on-year -36 -249 +16
Permanent jobs citing Swift 138 252 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.55% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 100 148 524
10th Percentile £41,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,000 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,066 £120,000 £90,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +21.95%

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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 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 27 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 0 127 £60,000 -17.24% 55
UK excluding London +19 94 £55,000 -12.00% 26
Work from Home +45 62 £60,000 -11.11% 28
North of England +86 44 £47,500 -27.48% 13
London +21 43 £75,000 +3.45% 33
North West +34 25 £65,500 - 7
South West +13 23 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire +108 19 £35,000 -59.42% 4
East of England +11 6 £55,000 -38.89%
Midlands +2 6 £75,000 +29.31% 1
Wales +17 5 £55,000 - 2
South East -7 5 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Scotland -65 5 £75,000 +50.00% 1
West Midlands +28 4 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -22 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 (3.62%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.04%) Firebase
2 13 (9.42%) AWS
2 13 (9.42%) GitHub
2 13 (9.42%) SaaS
3 7 (5.07%) Azure
4 5 (3.62%) AWS IoT
4 5 (3.62%) TestFlight
5 4 (2.90%) GCP
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (0.72%) Figma
7 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.72%) Google Play
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) Wireless
2 2 (1.45%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.45%) Broadband
3 1 (0.72%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.72%) GPRS
3 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) MySQL
2 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Xcode
2 16 (11.59%) Git
3 7 (5.07%) Appium
3 7 (5.07%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.35%) JIRA
5 5 (3.62%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.62%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.90%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.17%) fastlane
8 2 (1.45%) XCTest
9 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.72%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.59%) Finance
3 14 (10.14%) Banking
4 11 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.07%) Law
5 7 (5.07%) Marketing
6 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Mandarin Language
7 5 (3.62%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Automotive
10 2 (1.45%) 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 88 (63.77%) Developer
2 53 (38.41%) iOS Developer
3 29 (21.01%) Senior
4 24 (17.39%) Lead
5 23 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 23 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 20 (14.49%) Applications Developer
7 19 (13.77%) Mobile Developer
7 19 (13.77%) Senior iOS Developer
8 15 (10.87%) Lead Developer
9 12 (8.70%) Lead Mobile Developer
10 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) iOS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) IT Engineer
10 10 (7.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
13 6 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.12%) RESTful
2 20 (14.49%) React
3 19 (13.77%) REST
4 15 (10.87%) Core Data
4 15 (10.87%) CSS
4 15 (10.87%) HTML
5 14 (10.14%) React Native
6 11 (7.97%) Core Animation
6 11 (7.97%) Ionic Framework
6 11 (7.97%) SwiftUI
7 10 (7.25%) HTML5
8 8 (5.80%) JSON
9 7 (5.07%) iOS SDK
9 7 (5.07%) UIKit
10 6 (4.35%) .NET
10 6 (4.35%) Redux
10 6 (4.35%) RxSwift
11 5 (3.62%) Apache Cordova
11 5 (3.62%) pytest
11 5 (3.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (43.48%) Mobile App
2 11 (7.97%) Animation
2 11 (7.97%) IoT
2 11 (7.97%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.52%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.07%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.90%) PropTech
8 3 (2.17%) Blog
8 3 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.45%) PKI
9 2 (1.45%) Robotics
10 1 (0.72%) CCTV
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (95.65%) Apple iOS
2 76 (55.07%) Android
3 5 (3.62%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (60.87%) iOS Development
2 53 (38.41%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (36.23%) Agile
4 43 (31.16%) Mentoring
5 36 (26.09%) User Experience
6 29 (21.01%) Code Quality
6 29 (21.01%) Mobile Application Development
6 29 (21.01%) Software Engineering
7 27 (19.57%) CI/CD
8 25 (18.12%) Mobile Development
9 21 (15.22%) Android Development
9 21 (15.22%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (14.49%) Architectural Patterns
11 19 (13.77%) Coaching
11 19 (13.77%) Design Patterns
12 18 (13.04%) API Integration
12 18 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 17 (12.32%) Clean Code
13 17 (12.32%) Computer Science
13 17 (12.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 39 (28.26%) Objective-C
3 32 (23.19%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.46%) Java
5 28 (20.29%) SQL
6 21 (15.22%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.80%) C#
8 7 (5.07%) Python
9 5 (3.62%) Rust
10 4 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.90%) VBScript
11 3 (2.17%) Dart
12 2 (1.45%) Go
12 2 (1.45%) Lua
12 2 (1.45%) PHP
12 2 (1.45%) Ruby
13 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (21.01%) Degree
2 17 (12.32%) 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 25 (18.12%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Terraform
2 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.35%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (0.72%) Cadence
3 1 (0.72%) Google
3 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.72%) Xamarin