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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 734 461
Rank change year-on-year -33 -273 +43
Permanent jobs citing Swift 135 242 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.24% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.55% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 97 142 516
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £97,188 £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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 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 9 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 -6 123 £60,000 -17.24% 49
UK excluding London +12 94 £55,000 -12.00% 21
Work from Home +30 60 £55,000 -18.52% 24
North of England +90 44 £50,000 -43.02% 9
London -3 40 £75,000 +3.45% 33
North West +37 26 £59,000 -9.92% 6
South West -7 23 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire +105 18 £35,000 -68.18% 2
East of England +18 6 £55,000 -38.89%
Scotland -64 6 £75,000 +50.00% 4
Wales +8 5 £55,000 - 1
Midlands -17 5 £75,000 +29.31% 1
South East -37 5 £60,000 -12.73% 4
West Midlands +13 3 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -24 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 5 (3.70%) 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%) JIRA
5 5 (3.70%) Appium
6 4 (2.96%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.22%) fastlane
8 2 (1.48%) XCTest
9 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
9 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
9 3 (2.22%) Automotive
9 3 (2.22%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (63.70%) Developer
2 52 (38.52%) iOS Developer
3 29 (21.48%) Senior
4 24 (17.78%) Lead
4 24 (17.78%) Software Engineer
5 23 (17.04%) Senior Developer
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 11 (8.15%) iOS Software Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) IT Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.67%) Mobile Software Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.52%) RESTful
2 20 (14.81%) React
2 20 (14.81%) REST
3 15 (11.11%) CSS
3 15 (11.11%) HTML
4 14 (10.37%) Core Data
5 12 (8.89%) React Native
6 11 (8.15%) Ionic Framework
6 11 (8.15%) SwiftUI
7 10 (7.41%) Core Animation
7 10 (7.41%) HTML5
8 8 (5.93%) JSON
8 8 (5.93%) UIKit
9 6 (4.44%) iOS SDK
9 6 (4.44%) Redux
9 6 (4.44%) RxSwift
10 5 (3.70%) .NET
10 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.70%) Apache Cordova
10 5 (3.70%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 60 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 12 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.15%) IoT
3 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.41%) Animation
5 9 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 8 (5.93%) Client/Server
7 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.70%) PropTech
9 4 (2.96%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (2.22%) Blog
10 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.48%) PKI
11 2 (1.48%) Robotics
12 1 (0.74%) CCTV
12 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.74%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 131 (97.04%) Apple iOS
2 77 (57.04%) 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 84 (62.22%) 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 30 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 29 (21.48%) Code Quality
8 28 (20.74%) Mobile Application Development
9 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
10 24 (17.78%) Mobile Development
11 22 (16.30%) Android Development
12 21 (15.56%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (14.07%) Design Patterns
15 18 (13.33%) API Integration
15 18 (13.33%) Coaching
15 18 (13.33%) Test Automation
16 17 (12.59%) DevOps
17 16 (11.85%) Computer Science
17 16 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 39 (28.89%) Objective-C
3 30 (22.22%) Java
3 30 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 27 (20.00%) SQL
5 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.19%) C#
7 5 (3.70%) Python
7 5 (3.70%) Rust
8 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.96%) VBScript
9 3 (2.22%) Dart
10 2 (1.48%) Go
10 2 (1.48%) Lua
10 2 (1.48%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) Ruby
11 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