Swagger Contracts in the South East

OpenAPI Swagger
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Swagger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swagger over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 177 182
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 +75
Contract jobs citing Swagger 11 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.12% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 0.81% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 28
10th Percentile £415 £553 £575
25th Percentile £452 £594 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +0.07% +28.48%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £750
90th Percentile £663 - £783
England median daily rate £530 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -3.64% -5.98% +3.63%

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 595 737 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.72% 15.16% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 501 591
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £627 £670 £700
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 35 35
10th Percentile £21.48 £27.30 £50.00
25th Percentile £33.68 £54.85 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +5.14% -2.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £58.74 £74.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger in the South East over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the South East

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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 16 August 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
Hampshire +21 5 £506 -25.00% 1
Berkshire +12 3 £625 - 1
Thames Valley +6 3 £625 - 2
Surrey - 3 £450 -
Swagger
England

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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 (27.27%) Anypoint
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) npm
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Mocha
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft Developer
3 2 (18.18%) React Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) OpenAPI
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) RAML
3 3 (27.27%) REST
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Material-UI
4 2 (18.18%) Next.js
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
5 1 (9.09%) Fastify
5 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (9.09%) OpenID
5 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) API Development
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (18.18%) API Management
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Proxmox
2 3 (27.27%) Rundeck
2 3 (27.27%) Salt
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) MuleSoft
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