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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 406 491
Rank change year-on-year -110 +85 +46
Contract jobs citing Swagger 134 119 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.77% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 80 68
10th Percentile £350 £383 £390
25th Percentile £400 £449 £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 £597 £650 £880
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -19.75% -1.19% -15.67%

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 9,789 6,726 9,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.85% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 4,599 6,367
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 263
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 12 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 12 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 -96 110 £447 -15.66% 25
UK excluding London -69 58 £401 -19.75% 22
London -67 50 £550 +3.77% 5
Work from Home -61 41 £500 -6.28% 12
North of England -61 29 £401 -22.09% 6
North West -27 17 £401 -24.29% 3
South East -62 15 £375 -18.92% 10
Yorkshire -47 8 £363 -17.14%
Midlands -58 7 £555 +58.88% 1
South West -20 5 £558 -32.42% 3
North East -33 4 £438 -7.84% 3
West Midlands - 4 £459 - 1
Scotland -11 2 - -
East Midlands -22 2 - -
East of England -23 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 13 (9.70%) Confluence
2 8 (5.97%) Appian
3 5 (3.73%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.24%) Apache
4 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.49%) IIS
5 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Notion
2 1 (0.75%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.99%) SAP MDG
2 4 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Shopify
4 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.55%) Azure
2 50 (37.31%) AWS
3 30 (22.39%) GitHub
4 23 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.21%) Serverless
7 10 (7.46%) Apigee
7 10 (7.46%) GCP
8 9 (6.72%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.72%) Kong
9 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.97%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.97%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.22%) Boomi
11 6 (4.48%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (4.48%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.72%) HTTP
2 2 (1.49%) NaaS
2 2 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.36%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.69%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.19%) NoSQL
3 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
4 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.97%) Pinecone
5 8 (5.97%) Redis
6 6 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.73%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.73%) MySQL
8 4 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.24%) Metadata
10 2 (1.49%) Flink
10 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.49%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 41 (30.60%) Jenkins
2 31 (23.13%) Git
3 26 (19.40%) JUnit
4 25 (18.66%) Postman
5 24 (17.91%) GitLab
5 24 (17.91%) JIRA
6 21 (15.67%) Gradle
6 21 (15.67%) Mockito
7 18 (13.43%) Liquibase
8 10 (7.46%) JMeter
9 8 (5.97%) MLflow
10 6 (4.48%) Flyway
11 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.24%) Gatling
12 3 (2.24%) git-flow
12 3 (2.24%) MSBuild
12 3 (2.24%) Robot Framework
12 3 (2.24%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.24%) webpack
General
1 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.91%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.21%) Banking
6 7 (5.22%) Law
7 6 (4.48%) Billing
7 6 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.99%) Publishing
9 3 (2.24%) Military
10 2 (1.49%) Back Office
10 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (30.60%) Developer
2 19 (14.18%) Architect
3 16 (11.94%) Software Engineer
4 15 (11.19%) Java Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Senior
6 12 (8.96%) Lead
7 11 (8.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.46%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Analyst
9 9 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 9 (6.72%) Integration Architect
9 9 (6.72%) Tester
10 8 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.73%) Lead Developer
13 5 (3.73%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (76.87%) OpenAPI
2 70 (52.24%) REST
3 45 (33.58%) RESTful
4 38 (28.36%) Kafka
5 34 (25.37%) JSON
6 32 (23.88%) Spring
7 30 (22.39%) Spring Boot
8 29 (21.64%) OAuth
9 27 (20.15%) React
10 25 (18.66%) JWT
11 21 (15.67%) XML
12 18 (13.43%) OAuth2
13 17 (12.69%) Django
13 17 (12.69%) FastAPI
13 17 (12.69%) pytest
14 16 (11.94%) Flask
14 16 (11.94%) Pandas
15 15 (11.19%) NumPy
16 14 (10.45%) SOAP
17 12 (8.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.21%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.72%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.97%) Low-Code
5 7 (5.22%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.73%) Digital Wallet
6 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.49%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.75%) CMDB
10 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.75%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Android
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (67.16%) CI/CD
2 56 (41.79%) Agile
3 49 (36.57%) DevOps
3 49 (36.57%) Microservices
4 48 (35.82%) Containerisation
5 47 (35.07%) Test Automation
6 40 (29.85%) Validation
7 36 (26.87%) Observability
8 34 (25.37%) API Development
9 33 (24.63%) API Design
10 31 (23.13%) TDD
11 29 (21.64%) Event-Driven
12 28 (20.90%) Software Engineering
13 26 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (17.16%) Integration Patterns
14 23 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (16.42%) Deployment Automation
16 20 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (14.18%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.54%) Java
2 48 (35.82%) Python
3 46 (34.33%) SQL
4 30 (22.39%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.94%) C#
6 12 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.21%) Bash
8 10 (7.46%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.99%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.99%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.99%) Groovy
10 2 (1.49%) Bicep
10 2 (1.49%) C++
10 2 (1.49%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) PromQL
10 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) C
11 1 (0.75%) Ruby
11 1 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 43 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (9.70%) Degree
4 11 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 10 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.73%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.73%) PSD2
4 5 (3.73%) WCAG
5 3 (2.24%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.49%) GDPR
6 2 (1.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (44.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (41.04%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.19%) Grafana
2 15 (11.19%) Prometheus
2 15 (11.19%) Terraform
3 10 (7.46%) Ansible
4 6 (4.48%) Istio
5 4 (2.99%) Argo
6 3 (2.24%) Consul
6 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.49%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.49%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.70%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.97%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.97%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.97%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.97%) UiPath
4 7 (5.22%) Oracle
5 5 (3.73%) SAP
5 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.99%) Dell
6 4 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.24%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) Splunk
7 3 (2.24%) Veracode
8 2 (1.49%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.49%) Ciena
8 2 (1.49%) Databricks
8 2 (1.49%) New Relic
8 2 (1.49%) Solace