Swagger Contract Job Trends

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Swagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 418 489
Rank change year-on-year -79 +71 +36
Contract jobs citing Swagger 136 120 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 1.76% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 81 69
10th Percentile £349 £385 £391
25th Percentile £397 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £595 £650 £870
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -19.60% -0.99% -15.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,851 6,815 9,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.85% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,652 6,374
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 126 276
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.16 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -13.46%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Swagger job vacancy trend in the UK

Swagger
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Swagger

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Swagger.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Swagger

Swagger
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 June 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
England -90 111 £459 -13.40% 25
UK excluding London -86 59 £402 -19.60% 19
London -70 50 £550 +3.77% 8
Work from Home -45 43 £527 -1.22% 11
North of England -60 27 £398 -22.74% 6
South East -53 17 £375 -18.92% 8
North West -34 15 £398 -24.93% 2
Yorkshire -54 8 £363 -17.14% 1
Midlands -52 7 £555 +58.88% 1
South West -19 6 £600 -27.27% 2
North East -34 4 £438 -7.84% 3
West Midlands - 4 £459 - 1
Scotland -12 2 - - 1
East Midlands -17 2 - -
East of England -29 1 - - 1

Swagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (8.09%) Confluence
2 7 (5.15%) Appian
3 5 (3.68%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.47%) IIS
5 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Notion
2 1 (0.74%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP MDG
1 4 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.44%) Azure
2 52 (38.24%) AWS
3 32 (23.53%) GitHub
4 25 (18.38%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.35%) Apigee
6 10 (7.35%) Serverless
7 9 (6.62%) GCP
7 9 (6.62%) Kong
8 8 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.15%) Azure AI
9 7 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.15%) Boomi
9 7 (5.15%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.41%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) HTTP
2 2 (1.47%) NaaS
2 2 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.88%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.44%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 15 (11.03%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
6 11 (8.09%) Redis
7 7 (5.15%) Pinecone
8 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.94%) MySQL
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.21%) Metadata
11 2 (1.47%) Flink
11 2 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.47%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 43 (31.62%) Jenkins
2 34 (25.00%) Git
3 26 (19.12%) JUnit
4 25 (18.38%) JIRA
5 23 (16.91%) GitLab
5 23 (16.91%) Postman
6 21 (15.44%) Gradle
6 21 (15.44%) Mockito
7 18 (13.24%) Liquibase
8 10 (7.35%) JMeter
9 7 (5.15%) MLflow
10 6 (4.41%) Flyway
11 4 (2.94%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.21%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.21%) Gatling
12 3 (2.21%) git-flow
12 3 (2.21%) MSBuild
12 3 (2.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (2.21%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.21%) webpack
General
1 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.18%) Finance
3 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.82%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Law
7 6 (4.41%) Billing
7 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.94%) Publishing
10 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.21%) Military
11 2 (1.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Retail
12 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (33.09%) Developer
2 21 (15.44%) Architect
3 15 (11.03%) Software Engineer
4 14 (10.29%) Java Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) Senior
6 12 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 11 (8.09%) Lead
8 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Integration Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Tester
10 8 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Business Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.41%) Node.js Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (77.94%) OpenAPI
2 70 (51.47%) REST
3 46 (33.82%) RESTful
4 39 (28.68%) Kafka
5 32 (23.53%) JSON
6 31 (22.79%) Spring
7 29 (21.32%) OAuth
7 29 (21.32%) Spring Boot
8 27 (19.85%) React
9 24 (17.65%) JWT
10 19 (13.97%) OAuth2
10 19 (13.97%) XML
11 18 (13.24%) Django
11 18 (13.24%) FastAPI
11 18 (13.24%) pytest
12 17 (12.50%) Flask
12 17 (12.50%) Pandas
13 16 (11.76%) NumPy
14 14 (10.29%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (8.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.62%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.15%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.21%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.74%) CMDB
10 1 (0.74%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Android
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 56 (41.18%) Agile
3 53 (38.97%) Microservices
4 52 (38.24%) Containerisation
5 50 (36.76%) DevOps
6 45 (33.09%) Test Automation
7 38 (27.94%) API Development
8 37 (27.21%) Validation
9 36 (26.47%) Observability
10 32 (23.53%) TDD
11 30 (22.06%) API Design
11 30 (22.06%) Event-Driven
12 27 (19.85%) Software Engineering
13 25 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (16.91%) Integration Patterns
14 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (15.44%) Deployment Automation
15 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (13.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.91%) Java
2 49 (36.03%) Python
3 45 (33.09%) SQL
4 29 (21.32%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.03%) C#
6 11 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 10 (7.35%) Bash
7 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.94%) DataWeave
8 4 (2.94%) Groovy
9 3 (2.21%) Go
10 2 (1.47%) Bicep
10 2 (1.47%) C++
10 2 (1.47%) PromQL
10 2 (1.47%) Rust
10 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (8.82%) Degree
5 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 9 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.94%) WCAG
5 3 (2.21%) NCSC
5 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.21%) PSD2
6 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.74%) GDPR
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (44.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (41.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.03%) Terraform
3 14 (10.29%) Grafana
3 14 (10.29%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.35%) Ansible
5 5 (3.68%) Istio
6 3 (2.21%) Argo
6 3 (2.21%) Consul
6 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.47%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.82%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.15%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (5.15%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.15%) OpenAI
3 7 (5.15%) UiPath
4 6 (4.41%) Oracle
5 5 (3.68%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.68%) SAP
5 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.94%) Dell
7 3 (2.21%) Google
7 3 (2.21%) Splunk
7 3 (2.21%) Veracode
8 2 (1.47%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.47%) Ciena
8 2 (1.47%) Databricks
8 2 (1.47%) New Relic
8 2 (1.47%) Solace