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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 782 729
Rank change year-on-year +153 -53 -264
Permanent jobs citing Swift 82 128 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 0.38% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 57 91 139
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £93,250 £120,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -

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 16,211 33,459 42,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.65% 32.75% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,556 25,024 27,148
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +118 75 £61,250 +2.08% 384
UK excluding London +142 41 £60,000 +9.09% 338
London +126 40 £65,000 -18.75% 94
Work from Home +103 40 £67,500 +22.73% 166
South East +101 15 £60,000 - 97
South West +106 11 £85,253 +89.45% 33
Scotland +125 7 £85,253 +13.67% 12
Midlands +60 5 £67,500 -10.00% 57
West Midlands +65 4 £67,500 -10.00% 31
North of England -3 2 £77,500 +51.22% 87
East of England +40 1 £75,000 +36.36% 46
East Midlands +38 1 - - 22
North West -26 1 £77,500 +18.32% 50
North East - 1 - - 9

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 (1.22%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) GitHub
2 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (6.10%) Firebase
4 3 (3.66%) GCP
4 3 (3.66%) Supabase
4 3 (3.66%) Vercel
5 2 (2.44%) AWS
5 2 (2.44%) Bitrise
6 1 (1.22%) Azure
6 1 (1.22%) Figma
6 1 (1.22%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) SSL
2 3 (3.66%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.85%) Git
3 12 (14.63%) Xcode
4 8 (9.76%) XCUITest
5 7 (8.54%) Gradle
5 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.32%) Appium
6 6 (7.32%) GitLab
6 6 (7.32%) XCTest
7 3 (3.66%) Android Studio
8 2 (2.44%) Crashlytics
9 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.22%) fastlane
9 1 (1.22%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (29.27%) Finance
2 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.39%) Games
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 10 (12.20%) Aviation
6 5 (6.10%) Private Banking
7 4 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.44%) Law
8 2 (2.44%) Marketing
8 2 (2.44%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (53.66%) Developer
2 28 (34.15%) iOS Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Android Developer
3 18 (21.95%) Senior
4 15 (18.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) Lead
6 8 (9.76%) iOS Android Developer
6 8 (9.76%) iOS Software Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead iOS Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Development Manager
7 7 (8.54%) Lead Android Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Mobile Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior iOS Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Development Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.44%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) SwiftUI
2 13 (15.85%) UIKit
3 11 (13.41%) Android Jetpack
3 11 (13.41%) Jetpack Compose
4 10 (12.20%) RESTful
5 9 (10.98%) REST
6 7 (8.54%) OAuth
6 7 (8.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 5 (6.10%) Web Services
8 4 (4.88%) React
8 4 (4.88%) React Native
9 3 (3.66%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.66%) JSON
9 3 (3.66%) Next.js
9 3 (3.66%) Redux
10 2 (2.44%) ReactiveCocoa
10 2 (2.44%) RxSwift
11 1 (1.22%) Apollo GraphQL
11 1 (1.22%) Core Data
11 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (54.88%) Mobile App
2 17 (20.73%) Mobile Games
3 13 (15.85%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (12.20%) Educational Technology
5 7 (8.54%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (8.54%) Virtual Team
6 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.66%) Lidar
7 3 (3.66%) Online Games
7 3 (3.66%) W3C
8 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.22%) Animation
9 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.22%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 82 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 49 (59.76%) Android
3 10 (12.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) iOS Development
2 44 (53.66%) Mobile Development
3 37 (45.12%) Agile
3 37 (45.12%) Android Development
4 28 (34.15%) CI/CD
4 28 (34.15%) User Experience
5 26 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (30.49%) Software Engineering
7 24 (29.27%) SOLID
8 18 (21.95%) DevOps
9 17 (20.73%) Design Patterns
10 14 (17.07%) Computer Science
10 14 (17.07%) Mentoring
11 13 (15.85%) Architectural Patterns
11 13 (15.85%) MVVM
12 12 (14.63%) Coaching
12 12 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (12.20%) Game Development
13 10 (12.20%) Mobile Application Development
13 10 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) Kotlin
2 27 (32.93%) Java
3 25 (30.49%) Objective-C
4 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.88%) C++
5 4 (4.88%) Python
6 1 (1.22%) C
6 1 (1.22%) C#
6 1 (1.22%) Dart
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (9.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (30.49%) QA
2 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (8.54%) New Relic
2 3 (3.66%) Apple
3 2 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe
4 1 (1.22%) Spotify