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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 148 197
Rank change year-on-year -45 +49 -13
Contract jobs citing Swagger 14 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.17% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 0.99% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 2
10th Percentile £349 £431 £339
25th Percentile £359 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% - -28.85%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £553
90th Percentile £589 - £596
England median daily rate £464 £530 £507
% change year-on-year -12.45% +4.48% -14.39%

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 875 504 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.59% 17.25% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 333 479
10th Percentile £323 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £619
90th Percentile £700 £662 £663
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 41
10th Percentile £41.35 £20.09 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £35.91 £56.65
Median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -10.82% -8.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.09 £70.00
90th Percentile - £65.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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
Thames Valley -35 10 £433 -30.80% 4
Berkshire -23 7 £374 -40.20% 2
Hampshire - 3 £375 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 2 £563 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
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 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP MDG
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
1 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 5 (35.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
3 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Billing
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Python Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Tester
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Architect
5 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) OpenAPI
2 9 (64.29%) RESTful
3 5 (35.71%) Django
3 5 (35.71%) FastAPI
3 5 (35.71%) Flask
3 5 (35.71%) JSON
3 5 (35.71%) Kafka
3 5 (35.71%) NumPy
3 5 (35.71%) Pandas
4 4 (28.57%) pytest
4 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (21.43%) React
6 2 (14.29%) .NET
6 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 2 (14.29%) CSS
6 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
6 2 (14.29%) LINQ
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 6 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (35.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) TM Forum
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
2 5 (35.71%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) OOP
2 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) API Development
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) API Testing
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Dell
1 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk