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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 443 505
Rank change year-on-year -24 +62 +52
Contract jobs citing Swagger 101 117 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 1.41% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 76 88
10th Percentile £356 £431 £359
25th Percentile £363 £498 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £563 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% -3.02% +1.05%
75th Percentile £536 £688 £675
90th Percentile £650 £825 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £437 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -20.64% -8.33% +21.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.36
25th Percentile - - -
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 7,661 8,293 10,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.01% 22.13% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,033 5,269 7,743
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 162 205
10th Percentile £30.18 £25.42 £37.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%

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 17 October 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 October 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 -25 77 £500 -16.67% 21
London -16 43 £500 -16.67% 9
Work from Home +8 42 £500 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London -17 38 £437 -20.64% 16
South East +17 11 £504 -8.41% 12
North of England -27 10 £363 -28.22% 2
Wales - 8 £375 -
Midlands -20 7 £340 -38.18%
East Midlands - 5 £305 -
North East -2 4 £463 -
Yorkshire -32 4 £356 -29.46% 2
East of England -4 2 £575 -23.33%
North West -17 2 £340 -
West Midlands -27 2 £650 +18.18%
Scotland +4 1 £423 +0.12% 2

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 (10.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (10.89%) WebLogic
2 10 (9.90%) Oracle Service Bus
3 4 (3.96%) Apache
3 4 (3.96%) Confluence
3 4 (3.96%) Mule
4 2 (1.98%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.98%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.98%) Camunda
4 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.99%) CICS
5 1 (0.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.99%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.96%) Endur
3 1 (0.99%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.71%) AWS
2 23 (22.77%) Azure
3 18 (17.82%) GitHub
4 11 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.90%) Serverless
6 9 (8.91%) GCP
6 9 (8.91%) SaaS
7 6 (5.94%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.95%) Apigee
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.95%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.97%) Stackdriver
11 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.98%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.98%) 4G
1 2 (1.98%) 5G
1 2 (1.98%) HTTP
1 2 (1.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.76%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.84%) Oracle Database
3 12 (11.88%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.88%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.90%) Redis
5 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.96%) MySQL
7 3 (2.97%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.98%) GIS
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.99%) DB2
9 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.99%) Parquet
9 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Git
2 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 20 (19.80%) Postman
3 18 (17.82%) JUnit
4 17 (16.83%) JIRA
4 17 (16.83%) Mockito
5 12 (11.88%) SonarQube
6 9 (8.91%) Gradle
6 9 (8.91%) Liquibase
6 9 (8.91%) REST Assured
7 8 (7.92%) GitLab
7 8 (7.92%) Maven
8 7 (6.93%) Selenium
9 6 (5.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
9 6 (5.94%) SoapUI
9 6 (5.94%) Subversion
9 6 (5.94%) Xcode
9 6 (5.94%) XCTest
10 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
General
1 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.73%) Finance
3 20 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.84%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.90%) Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.96%) Automotive
7 4 (3.96%) Back Office
7 4 (3.96%) Front Office
8 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Developer
2 14 (13.86%) Java Developer
2 14 (13.86%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Consultant
4 11 (10.89%) Lead
5 10 (9.90%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Designer
6 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Oracle Consultant
7 7 (6.93%) Analyst
7 7 (6.93%) Architect
8 6 (5.94%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Oracle SOA Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.95%) React Developer
9 5 (4.95%) SOA Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Endur Architect
10 4 (3.96%) OpenLink Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (51.49%) OpenAPI
2 48 (47.52%) REST
3 29 (28.71%) Spring Boot
4 26 (25.74%) React
5 25 (24.75%) JSON
5 25 (24.75%) OAuth
6 24 (23.76%) RESTful
6 24 (23.76%) Spring
7 23 (22.77%) SOAP
8 22 (21.78%) Kafka
9 21 (20.79%) OAuth2
9 21 (20.79%) XML
10 13 (12.87%) HTML
11 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
11 10 (9.90%) JPA
11 10 (9.90%) Node.js
11 10 (9.90%) Web Services
11 10 (9.90%) XSD
12 9 (8.91%) CSS
12 9 (8.91%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.90%) Virtual Team
3 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Grid Computing
6 3 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Derivative
8 1 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.89%) Linux
2 6 (5.94%) Unix
3 4 (3.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.99%) Android
5 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (54.46%) Agile
2 46 (45.54%) DevOps
3 45 (44.55%) Microservices
4 36 (35.64%) CI/CD
5 30 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (27.72%) API Design
6 28 (27.72%) Containerisation
7 25 (24.75%) TDD
8 23 (22.77%) SDLC
9 19 (18.81%) Test Automation
10 16 (15.84%) API Management
10 16 (15.84%) Unit Testing
11 15 (14.85%) Validation
12 14 (13.86%) Code Quality
12 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
12 14 (13.86%) Thought Leadership
13 13 (12.87%) Front End Development
14 12 (11.88%) API Development
14 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.55%) Java
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 23 (22.77%) Python
4 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.87%) C#
6 13 (12.87%) PL/SQL
7 7 (6.93%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.94%) Groovy
9 5 (4.95%) Bash
9 5 (4.95%) Go
10 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.98%) C++
11 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.99%) C
12 1 (0.99%) COBOL
12 1 (0.99%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.99%) JCL
12 1 (0.99%) Korn
12 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.95%) WCAG
3 3 (2.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) EMIR
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) MiFID
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (38.61%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (29.70%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.85%) Terraform
3 10 (9.90%) Ansible
4 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 3 (2.97%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.97%) Rundeck
4 3 (2.97%) Salt
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.98%) Puppet
6 1 (0.99%) Argo
6 1 (0.99%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.99%) Control-M
6 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Oracle
2 10 (9.90%) Splunk
3 7 (6.93%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.94%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.94%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.95%) Checkmarx
6 4 (3.96%) Charles River
7 3 (2.97%) Google
7 3 (2.97%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.97%) VMware
8 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Dell
9 1 (0.99%) IBM
9 1 (0.99%) Progress
9 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.99%) Trillium
9 1 (0.99%) webMethods