Swagger Contract Job Trends

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Swagger skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 454 519
Rank change year-on-year +33 +65 +72
Contract jobs citing Swagger 138 119 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 1.39% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 84
10th Percentile £359 £450 £358
25th Percentile £410 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -4.26%
75th Percentile £545 £688 £650
90th Percentile £646 £843 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.31
25th Percentile - - £56.39
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.53

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 7,486 8,575 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 22.42% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 5,593 7,918
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 186 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
England +31 111 £513 -14.58% 40
London +19 62 £525 -12.50% 23
Work from Home +16 56 £500 -9.09% 36
UK excluding London +5 49 £475 -13.64% 25
North of England -6 19 £488 -3.66% 8
South East +30 13 £500 -25.93% 15
North West -3 13 £530 - 6
Wales - 8 £375 -
Midlands -13 7 £340 -33.00% 1
East Midlands -4 5 £305 -37.76% 1
North East -1 4 £463 -15.91%
East of England +6 2 £575 -23.33% 1
West Midlands -13 2 £650 +18.18%
Yorkshire -18 2 £363 -28.22% 2
Scotland -10 1 £423 +0.12%

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (7.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (7.97%) WebLogic
2 10 (7.25%) Oracle Service Bus
3 4 (2.90%) Anypoint
3 4 (2.90%) Apache
3 4 (2.90%) Confluence
3 4 (2.90%) Mule
4 2 (1.45%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.45%) Camunda
4 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.72%) CICS
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.17%) Endur
3 1 (0.72%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.46%) AWS
2 25 (18.12%) Azure
3 20 (14.49%) GitHub
4 12 (8.70%) SaaS
4 12 (8.70%) Serverless
5 11 (7.97%) GCP
6 9 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.35%) Apigee
7 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.17%) Stackdriver
11 2 (1.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) HTTP
2 2 (1.45%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.45%) 4G
2 2 (1.45%) 5G
2 2 (1.45%) Wireless
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (21.01%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.59%) Oracle Database
4 14 (10.14%) NoSQL
5 13 (9.42%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.25%) Redis
7 3 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.17%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.17%) MySQL
7 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.45%) GIS
8 2 (1.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.72%) DB2
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.72%) Parquet
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 41 (29.71%) JUnit
3 39 (28.26%) Mockito
4 32 (23.19%) Gradle
4 32 (23.19%) Liquibase
5 25 (18.12%) Postman
6 21 (15.22%) Git
7 20 (14.49%) JIRA
8 19 (13.77%) GitLab
9 12 (8.70%) SonarQube
10 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
10 9 (6.52%) REST Assured
11 8 (5.80%) Maven
12 6 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (4.35%) Cypress.io
12 6 (4.35%) Selenium
12 6 (4.35%) SoapUI
12 6 (4.35%) Subversion
12 6 (4.35%) Xcode
12 6 (4.35%) XCTest
General
1 49 (35.51%) Finance
2 33 (23.91%) Public Sector
3 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 25 (18.12%) Telecoms
5 22 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (13.77%) Electronics
6 19 (13.77%) Manufacturing
6 19 (13.77%) Marketing
7 10 (7.25%) Banking
8 4 (2.90%) Automotive
8 4 (2.90%) Front Office
9 3 (2.17%) Back Office
10 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (44.20%) Developer
2 27 (19.57%) Java Developer
3 21 (15.22%) Senior
4 16 (11.59%) React Developer
4 16 (11.59%) Software Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.42%) Consultant
6 13 (9.42%) Lead
7 11 (7.97%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Designer
8 10 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Kafka Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Oracle Consultant
9 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (5.80%) Analyst
10 8 (5.80%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (64.49%) OpenAPI
2 57 (41.30%) REST
3 52 (37.68%) Spring Boot
4 51 (36.96%) React
5 49 (35.51%) Kafka
6 48 (34.78%) Spring
7 31 (22.46%) OAuth
8 27 (19.57%) RESTful
9 25 (18.12%) OAuth2
10 24 (17.39%) JSON
11 23 (16.67%) SOAP
12 21 (15.22%) XML
13 17 (12.32%) HTML
14 13 (9.42%) CSS
15 12 (8.70%) Node.js
15 12 (8.70%) Web Services
16 10 (7.25%) AngularJS
16 10 (7.25%) JPA
16 10 (7.25%) XSD
17 9 (6.52%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.25%) Virtual Team
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.80%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.17%) Grid Computing
7 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.17%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (1.45%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.72%) Derivative
9 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.70%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Unix
3 4 (2.90%) Windows
4 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (61.59%) Agile
2 82 (59.42%) DevOps
3 74 (53.62%) Microservices
4 63 (45.65%) CI/CD
5 57 (41.30%) Containerisation
6 50 (36.23%) TDD
7 40 (28.99%) Software Engineering
8 32 (23.19%) Migration
9 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (21.01%) Test Automation
11 28 (20.29%) API Design
12 27 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (17.39%) SDLC
14 22 (15.94%) API Development
14 22 (15.94%) API Management
15 21 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (14.49%) Code Quality
17 19 (13.77%) Digital Marketing
17 19 (13.77%) Programme Management
18 17 (12.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 75 (54.35%) Java
2 70 (50.72%) SQL
3 42 (30.43%) TypeScript
4 29 (21.01%) JavaScript
5 27 (19.57%) Python
6 14 (10.14%) C#
7 13 (9.42%) PL/SQL
8 10 (7.25%) Go
9 7 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 6 (4.35%) Groovy
11 5 (3.62%) Bash
12 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.45%) C++
13 2 (1.45%) COBOL
13 2 (1.45%) JCL
13 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.72%) C
14 1 (0.72%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.72%) Swift
14 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 48 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) Degree
4 8 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.90%) WCAG
4 2 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) EMIR
5 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (46.38%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (24.64%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) Terraform
3 9 (6.52%) Ansible
4 3 (2.17%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.17%) Rundeck
4 3 (2.17%) Salt
5 2 (1.45%) Grafana
5 2 (1.45%) Puppet
6 1 (0.72%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.72%) Control-M
6 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (16.67%) Oracle
2 19 (13.77%) SAP
3 10 (7.25%) Splunk
4 8 (5.80%) MuleSoft
5 7 (5.07%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.62%) Checkmarx
7 5 (3.62%) Google
8 4 (2.90%) Charles River
8 4 (2.90%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.17%) Hitachi
9 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.17%) VMware
10 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.72%) Dell
11 1 (0.72%) IBM
11 1 (0.72%) Progress
11 1 (0.72%) Trillium
11 1 (0.72%) webMethods