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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 409 432
Rank change year-on-year -112 +23 +99
Contract jobs citing Swagger 158 145 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.75% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 102 78
10th Percentile £354 £359 £413
25th Percentile £425 £412 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £560 £545 £687
90th Percentile £588 £649 £829
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -4.32% -11.63% -10.42%

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 11,701 8,291 9,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.82% 25.51% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,710 5,586 6,363
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £433 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 186 195
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.50 £26.16
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.88 £79.35 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -129 111 £463 -11.81% 110
UK excluding London -88 63 £455 -4.32% 68
Work from Home -50 58 £513 +2.50% 49
London -80 56 £525 - 63
South East -54 24 £460 -8.00% 16
Midlands -44 12 £462 +35.74% 11
Scotland -14 10 £425 +0.47% 14
West Midlands -41 10 £463 -28.72% 6
North of England -68 10 £425 -15.00% 11
Yorkshire -35 7 £380 +4.83% 4
South West - 7 £575 - 8
East Midlands -22 2 £380 +24.59% 5
North West -57 2 £425 -19.81% 7
East of England -22 1 - - 4
North East -45 1 £426 -8.00%

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 9 (5.70%) Anypoint
2 5 (3.16%) Confluence
2 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) Mule
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (5.06%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.16%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.63%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.63%) AWS
1 80 (50.63%) Azure
2 48 (30.38%) GitHub
3 38 (24.05%) GitHub Actions
4 31 (19.62%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (11.39%) GCP
7 16 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.49%) Boomi
9 13 (8.23%) Apigee
10 12 (7.59%) Entra ID
11 11 (6.96%) Kong
11 11 (6.96%) Serverless
12 10 (6.33%) Azure API Management
12 10 (6.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.43%) iPaaS
15 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) NaaS
2 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (30.38%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (17.09%) MongoDB
3 19 (12.03%) NoSQL
4 17 (10.76%) Redis
5 12 (7.59%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.53%) MySQL
10 3 (1.90%) Metadata
10 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.63%) HBase
Development Applications
1 52 (32.91%) Git
2 49 (31.01%) Jenkins
3 28 (17.72%) JIRA
3 28 (17.72%) JUnit
4 22 (13.92%) Mockito
5 21 (13.29%) Gradle
6 20 (12.66%) Liquibase
7 19 (12.03%) GitLab
7 19 (12.03%) Postman
8 12 (7.59%) SpecFlow
9 9 (5.70%) Cucumber
10 8 (5.06%) JMeter
10 8 (5.06%) Selenium
11 7 (4.43%) Maven
12 6 (3.80%) Flyway
13 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.90%) git-flow
13 3 (1.90%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.90%) Storybook
14 2 (1.27%) MSBuild
General
1 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.03%) Finance
2 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.59%) Banking
4 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.06%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.43%) Law
5 7 (4.43%) Publishing
6 6 (3.80%) Billing
6 6 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.53%) Retail
8 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Military
9 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (39.87%) Developer
2 29 (18.35%) Architect
3 20 (12.66%) Senior
4 15 (9.49%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.86%) Lead
5 14 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.59%) Java Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.96%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Azure Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Integration Architect
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.70%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.06%) Tester
11 6 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (86.08%) OpenAPI
2 82 (51.90%) REST
3 59 (37.34%) RESTful
4 46 (29.11%) Kafka
5 44 (27.85%) OAuth
6 42 (26.58%) JSON
7 37 (23.42%) React
8 36 (22.78%) Spring Boot
9 35 (22.15%) Spring
10 34 (21.52%) OAuth2
11 26 (16.46%) JWT
12 22 (13.92%) Node.js
12 22 (13.92%) Terraform
13 20 (12.66%) OpenID
13 20 (12.66%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (12.66%) XML
14 19 (12.03%) SOAP
15 17 (10.76%) Jest
15 17 (10.76%) Middleware
16 15 (9.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (29.75%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.63%) Clustering
8 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.63%) FPGA
8 1 (0.63%) LIMS
8 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Android
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (65.19%) CI/CD
2 70 (44.30%) Agile
2 70 (44.30%) DevOps
3 59 (37.34%) Microservices
4 50 (31.65%) Test Automation
5 48 (30.38%) Containerisation
6 42 (26.58%) Event-Driven
7 34 (21.52%) Observability
8 33 (20.89%) TDD
9 32 (20.25%) API Design
9 32 (20.25%) API Development
10 26 (16.46%) Software Engineering
11 25 (15.82%) API Management
11 25 (15.82%) Validation
12 23 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (13.29%) Integration Patterns
15 20 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (12.03%) Acceptance Criteria
17 17 (10.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.91%) Java
2 43 (27.22%) SQL
3 42 (26.58%) Python
4 34 (21.52%) TypeScript
5 23 (14.56%) C#
6 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.96%) Go
8 7 (4.43%) Bash
8 7 (4.43%) DataWeave
9 6 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.16%) Bicep
10 5 (3.16%) Lua
11 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) PromQL
12 2 (1.27%) Rust
13 1 (0.63%) Groovy
13 1 (0.63%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.63%) Ruby
13 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (7.59%) Degree
5 11 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) QA
2 15 (9.49%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.43%) WCAG
4 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.27%) NCSC
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.63%) SEPA
6 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (37.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (39.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.76%) Prometheus
3 16 (10.13%) Grafana
4 11 (6.96%) Ansible
5 3 (1.90%) Consul
5 3 (1.90%) Kibana
6 2 (1.27%) Argo
6 2 (1.27%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.27%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.63%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.63%) Istio
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) MuleSoft
2 15 (9.49%) Oracle
3 12 (7.59%) Google
4 10 (6.33%) IBM
5 9 (5.70%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.06%) SAP
7 7 (4.43%) Informatica
7 7 (4.43%) TIBCO
7 7 (4.43%) WSO2
8 6 (3.80%) Dell
9 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.16%) Splunk
10 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.27%) Nokia
11 2 (1.27%) Solace
12 1 (0.63%) Ciena
12 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.63%) Red Hat