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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 435 497
Rank change year-on-year -56 +62 +42
Contract jobs citing Swagger 104 109 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 1.46% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 68 72
10th Percentile £350 £439 £364
25th Percentile £363 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £565
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +8.35% -2.53%
75th Percentile £511 £691 £674
90th Percentile £575 £825 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -23.18% -6.38% +6.82%
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 8,220 7,490 9,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.91% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 4,765 6,913
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 97 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.92 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -0.38% +25.26% -20.17%

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 18 December 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 14 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 18 December 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 -56 83 £460 -26.48% 24
UK excluding London -47 47 £423 -23.18% 21
London -15 44 £475 -24.00% 11
Work from Home -6 42 £475 -20.83% 11
North of England -53 14 £376 -24.75% 6
South East -16 11 £488 -11.36% 3
Midlands -32 11 £469 -14.73% 1
Wales +16 10 £375 - 3
West Midlands -28 8 £469 -14.73%
North West -17 7 £390 -8.24%
Yorkshire -45 5 £350 -33.33% 4
East Midlands - 3 £269 - 1
North East -5 2 £463 - 2
Scotland +1 1 - - 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 (10.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (10.58%) WebLogic
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle Service Bus
3 6 (5.77%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) Apache
4 2 (1.92%) Mule
4 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.96%) CICS
5 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.96%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.85%) Endur
3 2 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.96%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) AWS
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 17 (16.35%) GitHub
4 15 (14.42%) Serverless
5 14 (13.46%) GCP
6 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.65%) Apigee
8 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.81%) Stackdriver
12 4 (3.85%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.85%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.88%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.42%) Oracle Database
3 14 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 11 (10.58%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.69%) Redis
6 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.88%) MySQL
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.92%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.96%) DB2
10 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.96%) GIS
10 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.96%) Parquet
10 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (25.00%) Git
2 22 (21.15%) Postman
3 21 (20.19%) JIRA
4 15 (14.42%) Jenkins
5 12 (11.54%) Mockito
6 11 (10.58%) GitLab
7 9 (8.65%) JUnit
7 9 (8.65%) Selenium
7 9 (8.65%) SonarQube
8 8 (7.69%) REST Assured
9 7 (6.73%) Cucumber
9 7 (6.73%) Maven
10 5 (4.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
10 5 (4.81%) SoapUI
10 5 (4.81%) Subversion
10 5 (4.81%) Xcode
10 5 (4.81%) XCTest
11 4 (3.85%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.88%) MSTest
General
1 30 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
4 21 (20.19%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.54%) Banking
6 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.85%) Automotive
7 4 (3.85%) Back Office
7 4 (3.85%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.92%) French Language
8 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (32.69%) Developer
2 13 (12.50%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) Java Developer
3 12 (11.54%) Lead
4 11 (10.58%) Consultant
4 11 (10.58%) Senior
5 9 (8.65%) Architect
5 9 (8.65%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.65%) Oracle Consultant
6 8 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Oracle SOA Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.81%) SOA Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (52.88%) OpenAPI
2 50 (48.08%) REST
3 35 (33.65%) JSON
4 31 (29.81%) RESTful
5 28 (26.92%) SOAP
6 27 (25.96%) OAuth
7 26 (25.00%) XML
8 25 (24.04%) Spring Boot
9 24 (23.08%) Spring
10 22 (21.15%) OAuth2
11 21 (20.19%) React
12 16 (15.38%) Kafka
13 15 (14.42%) Node.js
14 13 (12.50%) .NET
15 10 (9.62%) CSS
15 10 (9.62%) HTML
15 10 (9.62%) XSD
16 9 (8.65%) Spring Cloud
17 7 (6.73%) J2EE
17 7 (6.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.62%) Virtual Team
3 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.81%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.85%) Grid Computing
8 3 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.92%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.92%) NHS
9 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.92%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.96%) Derivative
10 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.96%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Unix
3 4 (3.85%) Windows
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.65%) Agile
2 45 (43.27%) DevOps
2 45 (43.27%) Microservices
3 44 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 35 (33.65%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.88%) API Design
6 23 (22.12%) SDLC
6 23 (22.12%) Validation
7 21 (20.19%) Containerisation
8 20 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 19 (18.27%) API Management
10 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (16.35%) TDD
11 16 (15.38%) Code Quality
11 16 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (13.46%) Thought Leadership
12 14 (13.46%) Unit Testing
13 13 (12.50%) API Testing
13 13 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.04%) SQL
2 43 (41.35%) Java
3 22 (21.15%) Python
4 21 (20.19%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.35%) C#
6 13 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.73%) Bash
9 5 (4.81%) Groovy
10 3 (2.88%) Go
11 2 (1.92%) Bicep
12 1 (0.96%) COBOL
12 1 (0.96%) JCL
12 1 (0.96%) Korn
12 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.96%) Scala
12 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) Degree
4 10 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) WCAG
2 8 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.73%) QA
4 5 (4.81%) GDPR
5 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.88%) PSD2
6 2 (1.92%) HL7
7 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.96%) EMIR
7 1 (0.96%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.96%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.96%) MiFID
7 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (33.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (31.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (17.31%) Terraform
3 11 (10.58%) Ansible
4 4 (3.85%) Grafana
5 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.88%) Rundeck
5 3 (2.88%) Salt
6 2 (1.92%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) Istio
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) Control-M
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (23.08%) Oracle
2 8 (7.69%) Splunk
3 7 (6.73%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.77%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.77%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.85%) Charles River
7 3 (2.88%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.88%) Google
7 3 (2.88%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.88%) VMware
8 2 (1.92%) IBM
8 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.96%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.96%) Progress
9 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.96%) Telerik
9 1 (0.96%) webMethods