Apple Swift
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Swift skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swift over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 592 589
Rank change year-on-year +107 -3 -111
Contract jobs citing Swift 105 111 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.54% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 80 199
10th Percentile £300 £328 £409
25th Percentile £381 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £543
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -4.38% +15.43%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -40.00% +19.05% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.68 - -
25th Percentile £62.94 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £80.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +22.14% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.69 - £66.25
90th Percentile £66.33 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +22.14% +31.00%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,836 20,708 32,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.95% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,125 14,930 23,486
10th Percentile £350 £395 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 468 511
10th Percentile £31.93 £26.21 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.92 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £77.30 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £49.54
% change year-on-year +2.17% +23.49% +17.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swift.

Daily rate trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swift over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Swift in the UK

Swift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swift.

Hourly rate trend for Swift in the UK

Swift
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swift within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +128 102 £450 -13.25% 54
London +84 61 £500 - 33
UK excluding London +66 39 £375 -40.00% 26
North of England +37 23 £300 -53.85% 12
Work from Home +95 18 £450 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire +32 16 £300 -55.22% 3
Midlands +38 11 £450 -12.20% 1
East Midlands +28 8 - - 1
North West +14 7 £450 -28.00% 7
South West +21 4 £375 -46.43% 2
West Midlands +27 3 £450 -12.20%
East of England +14 1 £310 -55.71%

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 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) AWS
2 8 (7.62%) Azure
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.62%) SaaS
3 6 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (1.90%) Bitrise
4 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.90%) Sentry
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (0.95%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) 5G
1 2 (1.90%) HTTP
1 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.95%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (18.10%) Xcode
2 17 (16.19%) XCUITest
3 11 (10.48%) Appium
3 11 (10.48%) Git
4 10 (9.52%) XCTest
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) Postman
6 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.86%) Gradle
6 3 (2.86%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.90%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (1.90%) CocoaPods
7 2 (1.90%) git-flow
7 2 (1.90%) Selenium
7 2 (1.90%) UI Automator
8 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (9.52%) Finance
2 8 (7.62%) Legal
2 8 (7.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.81%) Banking
4 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.90%) Publishing
5 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (43.81%) Developer
2 35 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 17 (16.19%) Senior
4 8 (7.62%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (7.62%) IT Manager
4 8 (7.62%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (7.62%) IT Services Manager
4 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
4 8 (7.62%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (7.62%) Service Manager
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
5 7 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) QA Leader
6 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Android Developer
7 4 (3.81%) Applications Developer
7 4 (3.81%) iOS Software Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (3.81%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) SwiftUI
2 12 (11.43%) iOS SDK
3 11 (10.48%) REST
4 9 (8.57%) RESTful
5 8 (7.62%) UIKit
6 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.76%) Spring
8 4 (3.81%) JSON
9 3 (2.86%) Ktor
9 3 (2.86%) React Native
9 3 (2.86%) Web Services
10 2 (1.90%) Cocoa Touch
11 1 (0.95%) AVFoundation
11 1 (0.95%) Flutter
11 1 (0.95%) Node.js
11 1 (0.95%) OpenAPI
11 1 (0.95%) Playwright
11 1 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
11 1 (0.95%) RAML
11 1 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.62%) Mobile App
2 10 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.71%) iPad
3 6 (5.71%) iPhone
4 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (87.62%) Apple iOS
2 27 (25.71%) Android
3 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) iOS Development
2 21 (20.00%) MVVM
3 18 (17.14%) Agile
4 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
6 15 (14.29%) User Experience
7 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) Mobile Development
9 10 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 10 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
10 8 (7.62%) Business Analysis
10 8 (7.62%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.62%) Information Security
10 8 (7.62%) IT Governance
10 8 (7.62%) Migration
10 8 (7.62%) People Management
10 8 (7.62%) Problem Management
10 8 (7.62%) Service Delivery Management
10 8 (7.62%) Test Automation
10 8 (7.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.57%) Objective-C
2 19 (18.10%) Kotlin
3 9 (8.57%) C
4 8 (7.62%) Java
5 5 (4.76%) C++
6 3 (2.86%) Python
7 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) SQL
8 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (5.71%) Degree
2 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Apple
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Okta
3 2 (1.90%) Splunk
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe
4 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx