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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 411 445
Rank change year-on-year -107 +34 +83
Contract jobs citing Swagger 168 143 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.71% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 99 76
10th Percentile £360 £359 £450
25th Percentile £425 £411 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £560 £545 £688
90th Percentile £588 £640 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -8.33%

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 11,852 8,341 9,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.76% 25.47% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 5,612 6,310
10th Percentile £375 £355 £357
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £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 291 181 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.53 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -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 9 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 9 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 -115 116 £463 -10.75% 117
UK excluding London -88 69 £450 -5.26% 68
Work from Home -73 61 £500 - 351
London -93 59 £525 - 69
South East -56 25 £460 -8.00% 15
Scotland -13 14 £400 -5.44% 12
Midlands -45 12 £462 +35.74% 13
West Midlands -38 10 £463 -28.72% 9
North of England -77 10 £425 -15.00% 12
Yorkshire -29 7 £380 +4.83% 5
South West - 7 £575 - 8
East Midlands -18 2 £380 +24.59% 4
East of England -23 2 £480 -16.52% 4
North West -62 2 £425 -19.81% 7
North East -49 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 (5.36%) Anypoint
2 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.98%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) Mule
5 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.98%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.60%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 86 (51.19%) AWS
1 86 (51.19%) Azure
2 50 (29.76%) GitHub
3 39 (23.21%) GitHub Actions
4 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (13.10%) Azure Service Bus
6 19 (11.31%) GCP
7 18 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (9.52%) Boomi
9 15 (8.93%) Apigee
10 14 (8.33%) Kong
11 13 (7.74%) Entra ID
11 13 (7.74%) Serverless
12 12 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (5.95%) Azure API Management
13 10 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.76%) iPaaS
16 7 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) NaaS
2 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 21 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 17 (10.12%) Redis
5 13 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 10 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.98%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.98%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.38%) MySQL
9 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.79%) Metadata
10 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.19%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.19%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 53 (31.55%) Git
2 50 (29.76%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.26%) JUnit
4 28 (16.67%) JIRA
5 23 (13.69%) Mockito
6 22 (13.10%) Gradle
7 20 (11.90%) GitLab
7 20 (11.90%) Liquibase
7 20 (11.90%) Postman
8 13 (7.74%) SpecFlow
9 10 (5.95%) Cucumber
10 8 (4.76%) JMeter
10 8 (4.76%) Maven
10 8 (4.76%) Selenium
11 6 (3.57%) Flyway
12 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.79%) git-flow
12 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.79%) Storybook
13 2 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 24 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Finance
3 19 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.74%) Banking
5 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.17%) Law
6 7 (4.17%) Publishing
7 6 (3.57%) Billing
8 4 (2.38%) Retail
9 3 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.79%) Military
10 2 (1.19%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (39.88%) Developer
2 30 (17.86%) Architect
3 20 (11.90%) Senior
4 17 (10.12%) Lead
5 16 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.74%) Java Developer
8 12 (7.14%) Java Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Python Developer
9 11 (6.55%) Azure Developer
9 11 (6.55%) Node.js Developer
10 10 (5.95%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.95%) Integration Architect
10 10 (5.95%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.76%) Tester
12 6 (3.57%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 5 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (85.71%) OpenAPI
2 87 (51.79%) REST
3 65 (38.69%) RESTful
4 48 (28.57%) Kafka
4 48 (28.57%) OAuth
5 44 (26.19%) JSON
6 37 (22.02%) OAuth2
6 37 (22.02%) React
6 37 (22.02%) Spring Boot
7 36 (21.43%) Spring
8 29 (17.26%) JWT
9 27 (16.07%) Terraform
10 23 (13.69%) OpenID
11 22 (13.10%) Node.js
11 22 (13.10%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (13.10%) XML
12 21 (12.50%) SOAP
13 19 (11.31%) Middleware
14 18 (10.71%) .NET
15 17 (10.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 53 (31.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) NHS
7 2 (1.19%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.60%) Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) FPGA
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Android
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (66.07%) CI/CD
2 77 (45.83%) DevOps
3 72 (42.86%) Agile
4 59 (35.12%) Microservices
5 52 (30.95%) Test Automation
6 49 (29.17%) Containerisation
7 46 (27.38%) Event-Driven
8 36 (21.43%) Observability
9 34 (20.24%) API Design
9 34 (20.24%) TDD
10 33 (19.64%) API Development
11 30 (17.86%) API Management
12 27 (16.07%) Validation
13 26 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 26 (15.48%) Software Engineering
14 23 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (13.10%) Integration Patterns
16 19 (11.31%) Acceptance Criteria
16 19 (11.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.74%) Java
2 45 (26.79%) SQL
3 44 (26.19%) Python
4 34 (20.24%) TypeScript
5 26 (15.48%) C#
6 19 (11.31%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.93%) Go
8 7 (4.17%) Bash
8 7 (4.17%) DataWeave
8 7 (4.17%) Lua
9 6 (3.57%) Bicep
9 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.19%) PromQL
11 2 (1.19%) Rust
11 2 (1.19%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) OpenEdge ABL
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (8.33%) Degree
5 13 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.95%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 15 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.17%) WCAG
4 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.19%) NCSC
5 2 (1.19%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (36.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (39.88%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.12%) Grafana
4 11 (6.55%) Ansible
5 3 (1.79%) Consul
5 3 (1.79%) Kibana
6 2 (1.19%) Argo
6 2 (1.19%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.19%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.60%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.60%) Istio
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.05%) MuleSoft
2 17 (10.12%) Oracle
3 13 (7.74%) Google
4 11 (6.55%) IBM
5 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.36%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.76%) Informatica
6 8 (4.76%) SAP
6 8 (4.76%) TIBCO
6 8 (4.76%) WSO2
7 6 (3.57%) Dell
8 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.98%) Splunk
9 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.19%) Nokia
10 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.19%) Solace
11 1 (0.60%) Ciena
11 1 (0.60%) Red Hat