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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 179 178
Rank change year-on-year +33 -1 +76
Contract jobs citing Swagger 13 6 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.13% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 0.85% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 27
10th Percentile £419 £553 £575
25th Percentile £453 £594 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £674
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +0.15% +28.38%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £728
90th Percentile £663 - £770
England median daily rate £513 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -14.58% +2.13% +2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
England median hourly rate - - £76.53

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 575 707 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.72% 15.41% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 473 581
10th Percentile £290 £315 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.03%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 43
10th Percentile £22.78 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £49.06 £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.13 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Berkshire +17 5 £566 - 6
Hampshire +17 5 £506 -25.00%
Thames Valley +17 5 £566 - 8
Surrey - 3 £450 -
Swagger
England

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (23.08%) Anypoint
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
2 2 (15.38%) npm
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Mocha
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft Developer
3 2 (15.38%) React Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) OpenAPI
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) RAML
3 3 (23.08%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Material-UI
4 2 (15.38%) Next.js
4 2 (15.38%) React
4 2 (15.38%) WSDL
4 2 (15.38%) XSLT
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.69%) Fastify
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (7.69%) OpenID
5 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) C#
3 6 (46.15%) Python
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
5 3 (23.08%) Bash
5 3 (23.08%) Go
5 3 (23.08%) Java
5 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
6 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) OCP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Proxmox
2 3 (23.08%) Rundeck
2 3 (23.08%) Salt
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk