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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 752 460
Rank change year-on-year -24 -292 +32
Permanent jobs citing Swift 135 250 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.56% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 97 148 518
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £96,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,461 £120,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +25.00%

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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -20 124 £60,000 -17.24% 57
UK excluding London -4 93 £55,000 -12.00% 28
Work from Home +32 60 £55,000 -18.52% 26
North of England +69 43 £50,000 -23.66% 12
London +6 41 £75,000 +3.45% 35
North West +33 25 £65,500 - 7
South West -6 23 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +104 18 £35,000 -59.42% 3
East of England +20 6 £55,000 -38.89%
Midlands +11 6 £75,000 +29.31% 1
Wales +17 5 £55,000 - 2
South East -22 5 £60,000 -12.73% 7
Scotland -65 5 £75,000 +50.00% 3
West Midlands +18 4 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -20 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 (3.70%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.33%) Firebase
2 13 (9.63%) AWS
2 13 (9.63%) GitHub
2 13 (9.63%) SaaS
3 7 (5.19%) Azure
4 5 (3.70%) AWS IoT
4 5 (3.70%) TestFlight
5 4 (2.96%) GCP
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.22%) Serverless
7 1 (0.74%) Figma
7 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.74%) Google Play
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) Wireless
2 2 (1.48%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.48%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.74%) GPRS
3 1 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.15%) MySQL
2 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (13.33%) Xcode
2 16 (11.85%) Git
3 7 (5.19%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.44%) Appium
4 6 (4.44%) JIRA
5 4 (2.96%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.96%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.96%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.22%) fastlane
7 2 (1.48%) XCTest
8 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 40 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.85%) Finance
3 14 (10.37%) Banking
4 11 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.19%) Law
5 7 (5.19%) Marketing
6 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.96%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.22%) Automotive
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (63.70%) Developer
2 51 (37.78%) iOS Developer
3 29 (21.48%) Senior
4 24 (17.78%) Lead
5 23 (17.04%) Senior Developer
5 23 (17.04%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.07%) Applications Developer
6 19 (14.07%) Mobile Developer
6 19 (14.07%) Senior iOS Developer
7 15 (11.11%) Lead Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) iOS Software Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) IT Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Mobile Software Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.52%) RESTful
2 20 (14.81%) React
3 19 (14.07%) REST
4 15 (11.11%) CSS
4 15 (11.11%) HTML
5 14 (10.37%) Core Data
6 13 (9.63%) React Native
7 11 (8.15%) Ionic Framework
7 11 (8.15%) SwiftUI
8 10 (7.41%) Core Animation
8 10 (7.41%) HTML5
9 8 (5.93%) JSON
10 7 (5.19%) UIKit
11 6 (4.44%) .NET
11 6 (4.44%) iOS SDK
11 6 (4.44%) Redux
11 6 (4.44%) RxSwift
12 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.70%) Flutter
12 5 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.15%) IoT
2 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.41%) Animation
3 10 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.67%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.19%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.96%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (2.96%) PropTech
8 3 (2.22%) Blog
8 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.48%) PKI
9 2 (1.48%) Robotics
10 1 (0.74%) CCTV
10 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (96.30%) Apple iOS
2 76 (56.30%) Android
3 5 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.74%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (60.74%) iOS Development
2 52 (38.52%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (37.04%) Agile
4 43 (31.85%) Mentoring
5 35 (25.93%) User Experience
6 29 (21.48%) Code Quality
6 29 (21.48%) Mobile Application Development
6 29 (21.48%) Software Engineering
7 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
8 24 (17.78%) Mobile Development
9 21 (15.56%) Android Development
9 21 (15.56%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
11 19 (14.07%) Coaching
11 19 (14.07%) Design Patterns
12 18 (13.33%) API Integration
12 18 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 17 (12.59%) DevOps
14 16 (11.85%) Computer Science
14 16 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.07%) Kotlin
2 37 (27.41%) Objective-C
3 31 (22.96%) Java
3 31 (22.96%) JavaScript
4 28 (20.74%) SQL
5 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.93%) C#
7 6 (4.44%) Python
8 5 (3.70%) Rust
9 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.96%) VBScript
10 3 (2.22%) Dart
11 2 (1.48%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) Lua
11 2 (1.48%) PHP
11 2 (1.48%) Ruby
12 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (20.74%) Degree
2 16 (11.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.74%) MCP
3 1 (0.74%) MCSA
3 1 (0.74%) MCSE
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.78%) QA
2 5 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.44%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.44%) Apple
3 1 (0.74%) Cadence
3 1 (0.74%) Google
3 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.74%) Xamarin