Swagger Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenAPI Swagger
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 361 379
Rank change year-on-year +65 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Swagger 47 26 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 0.80% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 44
10th Percentile £327 £313 £506
25th Percentile £452 £489 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -14.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £568 £569 £675
90th Percentile £674 £629 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £515 £569
% change year-on-year +2.91% -9.45% +3.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,358 3,247 4,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.39% 15.97% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 2,121 3,183
10th Percentile £335 £325 £353
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 210 94
10th Percentile £35.46 £21.68 £22.31
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +29.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger in the UK excluding London

Swagger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the UK excluding London

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the UK excluding London

Swagger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swagger in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Swagger in the UK excluding London

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
North of England +34 26 £530 +3.72% 17
North West +22 16 £530 +2.91% 9
Yorkshire +19 8 £750 +48.22% 3
South East +46 5 £463 -15.91% 25
Scotland +11 5 £317 -49.36% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 3
South West +46 3 £825 +29.92% 6
East of England +25 2 £575 +76.92% 6
Midlands +15 2 £349 -28.70% 15
East Midlands +8 2 £349 -28.70% 8
North East -1 2 £338 -38.64% 5
Wales - 1 - -
Swagger
UK

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (19.15%) Confluence
2 7 (14.89%) Anypoint
3 5 (10.64%) Mule
4 1 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) AWS
1 11 (23.40%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Slack
3 8 (17.02%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (14.89%) Apigee
5 6 (12.77%) GCP
6 5 (10.64%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) npm
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (2.13%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.13%) Route 53
9 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) HTTP
2 2 (4.26%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.26%) 4G
2 2 (4.26%) 5G
2 2 (4.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (46.81%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (31.91%) MongoDB
3 11 (23.40%) Relational Database
4 10 (21.28%) MySQL
5 9 (19.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.13%) Adabas
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.13%) Metadata
7 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) JUnit
2 18 (38.30%) Git
3 16 (34.04%) Jenkins
4 14 (29.79%) JIRA
5 11 (23.40%) Mockito
6 10 (21.28%) Cucumber
6 10 (21.28%) Gradle
6 10 (21.28%) Liquibase
7 9 (19.15%) Jasmine
8 8 (17.02%) GitLab
9 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.26%) CircleCI
9 2 (4.26%) Postman
9 2 (4.26%) webpack
10 1 (2.13%) Ant
10 1 (2.13%) Babel
10 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.13%) Maven
10 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (42.55%) Public Sector
2 18 (38.30%) Finance
3 14 (29.79%) Telecoms
4 11 (23.40%) Electronics
4 11 (23.40%) Manufacturing
4 11 (23.40%) Marketing
5 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Developer
2 14 (29.79%) Java Developer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior
4 10 (21.28%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.02%) React Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Software Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Java Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (12.77%) MuleSoft Developer
7 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (10.64%) Lead
8 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Cloud Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Consultant
10 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
11 1 (2.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 1 (2.13%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (85.11%) OpenAPI
2 24 (51.06%) Spring
2 24 (51.06%) Spring Boot
3 21 (44.68%) RESTful
4 15 (31.91%) Kafka
5 14 (29.79%) React
6 10 (21.28%) RAML
6 10 (21.28%) Spring Security
7 8 (17.02%) Spring Batch
8 7 (14.89%) JSON
8 7 (14.89%) REST
9 6 (12.77%) OAuth
10 5 (10.64%) Node.js
10 5 (10.64%) XML
11 4 (8.51%) HTML
11 4 (8.51%) Next.js
11 4 (8.51%) SOAP
12 3 (6.38%) CSS
12 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) Microservices
2 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 28 (59.57%) Containerisation
3 21 (44.68%) DevOps
4 20 (42.55%) Software Engineering
4 20 (42.55%) TDD
5 16 (34.04%) Agile
5 16 (34.04%) API Development
5 16 (34.04%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
7 12 (25.53%) API Design
8 11 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (23.40%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (23.40%) Migration
8 11 (23.40%) Programme Management
9 10 (21.28%) BDD
10 9 (19.15%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (19.15%) Event-Driven
10 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
10 9 (19.15%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Java
2 23 (48.94%) SQL
3 17 (36.17%) TypeScript
4 9 (19.15%) Bash
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.64%) C#
7 4 (8.51%) DataWeave
7 4 (8.51%) Python
8 2 (4.26%) C++
8 2 (4.26%) Go
9 1 (2.13%) Natural
9 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) SC Cleared
1 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) OCP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 30 (63.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) SAP
2 9 (19.15%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk