Skill ProfileLanguages

Swift

Swift appeared in 1 hiring posts in August 2026 — roughly 0.2% of all jobs. Currently #24 of 25 languages.

Mentions · August 2026-50%vs prior
1
mentions
this month
12-Mo TrendSep '25 → Aug '26
Share of All Jobs
0.2%
All-Time Peak
18mentions · May 2016
First Seen
October 2011
Month Momentum
Declining-50%
§ 01Demand Signal

Mention history

Annual averages give the long-run shape without the monthly noise; the last two years are zoomed in below.

All-time mentions
769since October 2011 · 185 months
+43% YoY2025 vs 2024
49
'15
113
'16
114
PEAK
'17
104
'18
74
'19
45
'20
78
'21
59
'22
35
'23
21
'24
30
'25
20
'26

Total mentions, by year · hatched column = year still in progress

All-time
769185 mo
↑ Best year
2017114
↓ Quietest full year
20121
Latest full year
2025+43% YoY
§ 02Compensation

What Swift jobs pay

Disclosed USD pay over the past 3 years (2023–Present). Single months are too sparse to band.

Pay over the past 3 years · 2023–Present
USD161Kmedian
$108k – $200k middle 50% · n=32
By seniority
Junior— n=2
Mid— n=1
Senior$160k – $204k n=17
Staff+— n=2

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick = median. Junior & Mid & Staff+ shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

Disclosed
32of 163 posts
Disclosure rate
19.6%
Senior eng median · languages · 2023–Present
Where Swift sits in the pay distribution
−10%vs Rust+6%vs TypeScript
LanguageMedianvs Swift
01
Rust
$200k+11.1%
02
Solidity
$200k+11.1%
03
Kotlin
$183k+1.7%
04
Swiftyou are here
$180k—
05
Python
$176k−2.5%
06
Go
$175k−2.8%
07
TypeScript
$170k−5.6%

Senior eng disclosed pay · 2023–Present

§ 03Footprint

Where Swift is hired

Regions
Top geographies

Share of Swift posts by where the role is based.

01
United States100.0%
6
Remote Policy
17%remote
Remote
16.7%
Hybrid
83.3%
On-site
0.0%
§ 04Composition

Who hires for Swift

By Seniority
Roles by level
01
Senior100.0%
6
By Function
Roles by function
01
Engineering66.7%
4
02
Data / ML16.7%
1
03
Other16.7%
1
§ 05Technical Skills

iOS is the skill most co-mentioned with Swift.

#01
Signature Stack
Swift’s strongest
pairings

Skills with the highest lift when co-listed with Swift over 2023–Present.

Top-Lift Pairs · 2023–Present
SwiftUI
45.8×
Kotlin
23.2×
IoT
18.6×

Lift = how much more likely to co-appear than by chance

Common Stacks · Top co-mentioned skills2023–Present
01iOS31170%
02Python23453%
03Kotlin23353%
04Android20145%
05React18241%
06SwiftUI17840%
07Go17038%
08C++15034%
09TypeScript14833%
10Google Cloud12929%
11Kubernetes11426%
12JavaScript11125%
13PostgreSQL10424%
14IoT10023%
15Elixir8118%

% of Swift jobs also mentioning the skill · 2023–Present

Peer Comparison · LanguagesWhere Swift stands among languages
SkillMentionsYoYMarket share
01
Python
43-2.3%
10.0%
02
TypeScript
380.0%
8.8%
03
Go
11-48%
2.6%
04
Rust
10-29%
2.3%
05
SQL
10+67%
2.3%
06
C++
8+60%
1.9%
07
C
7+17%
1.6%
08
GraphQL
6+50%
1.4%
09
Java
30.0%
0.7%
10
JavaScript
3-77%
0.7%
11
Swiftyou are here
1—
0.2%

Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill · August 2026

§ 06Sponsorship

Visa support stays a minority signal across the thread.

Visa Sponsorship
12 posts offer sponsorship
2.8%
Offer sponsorship
122.8%
Explicitly decline
81.9%
Don’t mention
41095.3%

Based on 430 HN job posts in August 2026. Visa policy is not broken down per language — these rates cover all postings in the thread.