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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 156 181
Rank change year-on-year -54 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing Swagger 24 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 1.04% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 4
10th Percentile £346 £434 £540
25th Percentile £349 £452 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £469 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -26.47% -1.92%
75th Percentile £465 £616 £688
90th Percentile £478 £663 -
England median daily rate £488 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -8.02% -3.64% -6.58%

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 959 577 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.52% 16.67% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 403 523
10th Percentile £318 £303 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £625 £672
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 21 36
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.85 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £32.31 £56.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% -1.44%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.39 £58.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -36 14 £374 -40.20% 4
Berkshire -18 12 £358 -42.80%
Hampshire - 6 £375 -
Surrey -23 3 £460 +2.22% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 - 2
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
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (37.50%) 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 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.67%) Boomi
6 3 (12.50%) Apigee
6 3 (12.50%) Azure API Management
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (12.50%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 9 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) Redis
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) SpecFlow
3 4 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) Selenium
5 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.33%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Publishing
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Apigee Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
6 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) OpenAPI
2 15 (62.50%) RESTful
3 12 (50.00%) Kafka
4 11 (45.83%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (37.50%) Django
5 9 (37.50%) FastAPI
5 9 (37.50%) Flask
5 9 (37.50%) NumPy
5 9 (37.50%) Pandas
6 8 (33.33%) OAuth
6 8 (33.33%) pytest
6 8 (33.33%) REST
6 8 (33.33%) SOAP
7 6 (25.00%) JWT
7 6 (25.00%) SAML
8 5 (20.83%) Jinja
8 5 (20.83%) JSON
8 5 (20.83%) OAuth2
9 4 (16.67%) Middleware
9 4 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cloud Native
1 10 (41.67%) Data Structures
2 9 (37.50%) Algorithms
3 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
1 13 (54.17%) DevOps
2 12 (50.00%) Analytics
3 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) TDD
5 9 (37.50%) Mathematics
5 9 (37.50%) OOP
5 9 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 8 (33.33%) Data Analytics
7 7 (29.17%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) Microservices
8 6 (25.00%) API Design
8 6 (25.00%) API Management
8 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (20.83%) API Development
9 5 (20.83%) BDD
9 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
9 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Linear Programming
10 4 (16.67%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Argo
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) MuleSoft
2 6 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Informatica
4 3 (12.50%) TIBCO
4 3 (12.50%) WSO2
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.17%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) Splunk