Swagger Contract Job Trends in the South West

OpenAPI Swagger
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Swagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 109 151
Rank change year-on-year -32 +42 -3
Contract jobs citing Swagger 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 0.70% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £521 £813 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £825 £635
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +29.92% +45.14%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £653
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £460 £530 £531
% change year-on-year -13.21% -0.24% -9.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 507 285 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.34% 15.12% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 184 282
10th Percentile £350 £353 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.29%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 76
10th Percentile £46.50 £61.13 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.00 -
90th Percentile £71.23 £70.87 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swagger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Swagger job vacancy trend in the South West

Swagger
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Swagger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Swagger

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Somerset -26 2 £600 -27.27% 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £533 - 5
Bristol - 2 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Swagger
England

Swagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) HBase
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Military
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Android Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Android Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) GeoJSON
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) WSDL
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (42.86%) API Design
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Service Design
4 2 (28.57%) ArchiMate
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Hydrography
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) Rust
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Argo
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) webMethods