Swagger Contracts in the North West

OpenAPI Swagger
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Swagger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swagger over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing Swagger 15 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 0.60% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £485 £350 -
25th Percentile £508 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -4.63% +17.39%
75th Percentile £545 £535 -
90th Percentile - £537 -
England median daily rate £530 £520 £593
% change year-on-year +1.92% -12.24% +7.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger in the North West

Swagger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the North West

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +30 14 £530 +63.08% 2
Merseyside - 1 £475 -
Swagger
England

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Apigee
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (80.00%) JUnit
3 10 (66.67%) Gradle
3 10 (66.67%) Liquibase
3 10 (66.67%) Mockito
4 7 (46.67%) GitLab
5 4 (26.67%) JIRA
6 3 (20.00%) Git
7 2 (13.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (13.33%) Jasmine
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (66.67%) Electronics
2 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 10 (66.67%) Marketing
2 10 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) React Developer
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) OpenAPI
2 13 (86.67%) Spring
3 12 (80.00%) Kafka
3 12 (80.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (66.67%) React
5 5 (33.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) OAuth
6 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Security
7 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.67%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) Microservices
2 14 (93.33%) Containerisation
3 12 (80.00%) Agile
3 12 (80.00%) DevOps
3 12 (80.00%) TDD
4 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
5 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (66.67%) Migration
5 10 (66.67%) Programme Management
6 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (46.67%) Event-Driven
7 7 (46.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (40.00%) Clean Code
9 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
9 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 2 (13.33%) BDD
10 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
10 2 (13.33%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
3 12 (80.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Google