Swagger Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

OpenAPI Swagger
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Swagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Swagger 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.09% 0.22% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.64% 1.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £398 - -
90th Percentile £401 - -
North West median daily rate £358 £425 £600
% change year-on-year -15.76% -29.17% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

Swagger falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 151 81 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.48% 17.76% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 60 31
10th Percentile £313 £303 £425
25th Percentile £358 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.13% +9.55%
75th Percentile £500 £558 £540
90th Percentile £687 £638 £575
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95.75 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% - -
75th Percentile £97.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.87% +41.84% +2.99%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swagger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Swagger job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Swagger
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Swagger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Swagger

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 6 £358 - 1
Swagger
North West

Swagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Apigee
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Kong
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) JSON
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) JWT
2 5 (71.43%) OAuth
2 5 (71.43%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 7 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
1 7 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) API Management
3 5 (71.43%) API Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Business Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Business Process Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (71.43%) Use Case
4 4 (57.14%) Monetization
5 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (28.57%) PSD2
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft