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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 164 180
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +55
Contract jobs citing Swagger 11 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.20% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 1.23% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile £439 - £523
25th Percentile £472 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £513 £688 £674
90th Percentile £519 - £695
England median daily rate £450 £625 £561
% change year-on-year -28.00% +11.48% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
England median hourly rate - - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +118.66%

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 691 571 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.67% 15.91% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 367 449
10th Percentile £275 £328 £312
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 32
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.25 £51.58
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.97 £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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
Thames Valley -6 6 £475 -13.64% 5
Berkshire -13 5 £475 - 5
Hampshire -15 5 £506 -17.35%
Oxfordshire - 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Mocha
General
1 2 (18.18%) Billing
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) RESTful
2 5 (45.45%) OpenAPI
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) REST
3 4 (36.36%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 2 (18.18%) OpenID
4 2 (18.18%) WSDL
4 2 (18.18%) XSLT
5 1 (9.09%) Django
5 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 1 (9.09%) Fastify
5 1 (9.09%) Flask
5 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) TM Forum
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) API Development
4 2 (18.18%) API Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) Bash
5 3 (27.27%) Go
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Proxmox
3 3 (27.27%) Rundeck
3 3 (27.27%) Salt
4 2 (18.18%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Argo
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk