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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 155 188
Rank change year-on-year -25 +33 +18
Contract jobs citing Swagger 9 2 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.064% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.38% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £356 £528 £493
25th Percentile £388 £531 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -0.90% -11.20%
75th Percentile £505 £569 £579
90th Percentile £524 £573 £625
England median daily rate £425 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -32.00% +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
England median hourly rate - - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +45.77%

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 811 525 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.55% 16.74% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 332 442
10th Percentile £321 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £503
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% +7.16% -6.51%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £625
90th Percentile £676 £669 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 44
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.38 £52.23
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £56.05
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.13% -4.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.13 £75.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 February 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 February 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 -22 8 £475 -13.64% 3
Berkshire - 5 £475 -
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -12 1 £525 -4.55% 2
Hampshire -24 1 £375 -31.82% 1
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 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Billing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) RESTful
2 6 (66.67%) OpenAPI
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Django
4 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
4 2 (22.22%) Flask
4 2 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
4 2 (22.22%) OpenID
4 2 (22.22%) React
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) WSDL
4 2 (22.22%) XSLT
5 1 (11.11%) Celery
5 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) TM Forum
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) API Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) API Design
2 2 (22.22%) CRM
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (22.22%) OOP
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Argo
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce