Swagger Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenAPI Swagger
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Swagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 150 178
Rank change year-on-year -58 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Swagger 24 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.34% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 1.79% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 4
10th Percentile £349 £415 -
25th Percentile £363 £452 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -20.41% -5.77%
75th Percentile £465 £517 £688
90th Percentile - £533 -
England median daily rate £460 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% -16.67% +2.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 975 671 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.75% 19.12% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 453 545
10th Percentile £320 £291 £325
25th Percentile £431 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £551 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 17 29
10th Percentile £29.07 £24.69 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.68 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.25 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.63 £58.75 £74.89
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Swagger job vacancy trend in the South East

Swagger
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Swagger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Swagger

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger in the South East over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the South East

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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
Surrey -13 9 £460 +2.22%
Berkshire -23 9 £358 -29.56% 2
Thames Valley -37 9 £358 -29.56% 8
Hampshire -31 5 £375 -25.93% 6
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
Swagger
England

Swagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) GCP
3 10 (41.67%) Boomi
4 9 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (37.50%) iPaaS
5 8 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (12.50%) Apigee
7 3 (12.50%) Azure API Management
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Publishing
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
2 9 (37.50%) Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (25.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Apigee Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
7 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 15 (62.50%) Kafka
2 15 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (58.33%) SOAP
4 13 (54.17%) OAuth
4 13 (54.17%) REST
5 12 (50.00%) JWT
5 12 (50.00%) SAML
6 11 (45.83%) RESTful
7 10 (41.67%) JSON
7 10 (41.67%) Middleware
8 9 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (37.50%) EDI
8 9 (37.50%) GraphQL
8 9 (37.50%) XML
9 6 (25.00%) Django
9 6 (25.00%) Flask
9 6 (25.00%) NumPy
9 6 (25.00%) Pandas
9 6 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (45.83%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (29.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (25.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) API Design
1 12 (50.00%) API Management
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 9 (37.50%) Batch Processing
3 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 9 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 9 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) Webhook
4 8 (33.33%) TDD
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (25.00%) OOP
5 6 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) MuleSoft
2 12 (50.00%) Google
3 9 (37.50%) IBM
3 9 (37.50%) Informatica
3 9 (37.50%) Oracle
3 9 (37.50%) TIBCO
3 9 (37.50%) WSO2
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk