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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 774 752 471
Rank change year-on-year -22 -281 +31
Permanent jobs citing Swift 133 244 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.56% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 95 144 518
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £92,724 £120,000 £87,875
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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
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 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 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 7 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 -19 122 £60,000 -17.24% 55
UK excluding London -3 93 £55,000 -12.00% 26
Work from Home +34 59 £55,000 -18.52% 26
North of England +80 44 £50,000 -43.02% 12
London +10 39 £75,000 +3.45% 34
North West +37 26 £59,000 -9.92% 7
South West -16 23 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +96 18 £35,000 -68.18% 4
East of England +14 6 £55,000 -38.89%
Wales +16 5 £55,000 - 2
Midlands -5 5 £75,000 +29.31% 1
South East -16 5 £60,000 -12.73% 4
Scotland -62 5 £75,000 +50.00% 4
West Midlands +18 3 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -23 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 (3.76%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.53%) Firebase
2 13 (9.77%) AWS
2 13 (9.77%) GitHub
2 13 (9.77%) SaaS
3 7 (5.26%) Azure
4 5 (3.76%) AWS IoT
4 5 (3.76%) TestFlight
5 4 (3.01%) GCP
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.26%) Serverless
7 1 (0.75%) Figma
7 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.75%) Google Play
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Wireless
2 2 (1.50%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.50%) Broadband
3 1 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.75%) GPRS
3 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) MySQL
2 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Xcode
2 16 (12.03%) Git
3 7 (5.26%) Crashlytics
4 6 (4.51%) JIRA
5 5 (3.76%) Appium
6 4 (3.01%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.26%) fastlane
8 2 (1.50%) XCTest
9 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.75%) XCUITest
General
1 39 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Finance
3 14 (10.53%) Banking
4 11 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.26%) Law
5 7 (5.26%) Marketing
6 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Automotive
9 3 (2.26%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (64.66%) Developer
2 52 (39.10%) iOS Developer
3 29 (21.80%) Senior
4 24 (18.05%) Lead
5 23 (17.29%) Senior Developer
5 23 (17.29%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.29%) Applications Developer
6 19 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
6 19 (14.29%) Senior iOS Developer
7 15 (11.28%) Lead Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Lead Mobile Developer
9 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) iOS Software Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) IT Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Mobile Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) RESTful
2 20 (15.04%) React
2 20 (15.04%) REST
3 15 (11.28%) CSS
3 15 (11.28%) HTML
4 14 (10.53%) Core Data
5 12 (9.02%) React Native
6 11 (8.27%) Ionic Framework
6 11 (8.27%) SwiftUI
7 10 (7.52%) Core Animation
7 10 (7.52%) HTML5
8 8 (6.02%) JSON
9 7 (5.26%) UIKit
10 6 (4.51%) iOS SDK
10 6 (4.51%) Redux
10 6 (4.51%) RxSwift
11 5 (3.76%) .NET
11 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.76%) Apache Cordova
11 5 (3.76%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 59 (44.36%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.27%) IoT
2 11 (8.27%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.52%) Animation
3 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.77%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.26%) Client/Server
6 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.01%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (3.01%) PropTech
8 3 (2.26%) Blog
8 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.50%) PKI
9 2 (1.50%) Robotics
10 1 (0.75%) CCTV
10 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 129 (96.99%) Apple iOS
2 75 (56.39%) Android
3 5 (3.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (61.65%) iOS Development
2 51 (38.35%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (36.84%) Agile
4 42 (31.58%) Mentoring
5 35 (26.32%) User Experience
6 29 (21.80%) Code Quality
6 29 (21.80%) Software Engineering
7 28 (21.05%) Mobile Application Development
8 25 (18.80%) CI/CD
9 24 (18.05%) Mobile Development
10 21 (15.79%) Android Development
10 21 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (15.04%) Architectural Patterns
12 19 (14.29%) Design Patterns
13 18 (13.53%) API Integration
13 18 (13.53%) Coaching
13 18 (13.53%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.78%) DevOps
15 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
15 16 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.83%) Kotlin
2 38 (28.57%) Objective-C
3 30 (22.56%) Java
3 30 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 27 (20.30%) SQL
5 21 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.26%) C#
7 5 (3.76%) Python
7 5 (3.76%) Rust
8 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.01%) VBScript
9 3 (2.26%) Dart
10 2 (1.50%) Go
10 2 (1.50%) Lua
10 2 (1.50%) PHP
10 2 (1.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Degree
2 16 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.75%) MCP
3 1 (0.75%) MCSA
3 1 (0.75%) MCSE
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.29%) QA
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Terraform
2 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.51%) Amplitude
2 6 (4.51%) Apple
3 1 (0.75%) Cadence
3 1 (0.75%) Google
3 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.75%) Xamarin