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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 435 488
Rank change year-on-year -73 +53 +44
Contract jobs citing Swagger 101 93 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 1.35% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 73
10th Percentile £350 £425 £353
25th Percentile £363 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +10.09% -7.63%
75th Percentile £494 £685 £650
90th Percentile £588 £825 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -31.29% +9.09% -7.37%
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 8,855 6,902 9,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.20% 22.50% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,927 4,447 6,511
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -0.11% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 84 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.13 £39.06 £44.70
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 16 February 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 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 16 February 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 -46 93 £425 -32.00% 28
UK excluding London -52 54 £412 -31.29% 28
London -50 36 £400 -34.69% 7
North of England -42 32 £394 -21.25% 7
Work from Home -16 31 £470 -21.67% 13
North West -12 22 £394 -7.35% 5
Midlands -43 10 £470 -14.55% 2
South East -24 9 £475 -13.64% 9
West Midlands -40 8 £470 -14.64%
Yorkshire -59 7 £363 -51.67%
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Wales -1 2 - - 1
Scotland +6 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 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 13 (12.87%) Confluence
2 8 (7.92%) Appian
3 3 (2.97%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.99%) Notion
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.98%) Shopify
3 1 (0.99%) Endur
3 1 (0.99%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.64%) Azure
2 31 (30.69%) AWS
3 16 (15.84%) GitHub
4 14 (13.86%) Apigee
4 14 (13.86%) Serverless
5 13 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.88%) GCP
7 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (8.91%) Kong
8 9 (8.91%) Power Automate
9 8 (7.92%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (7.92%) Azure AI
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.95%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.92%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.92%) Pinecone
3 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.96%) Redis
5 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.99%) GIS
6 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) JIRA
2 20 (19.80%) Postman
3 18 (17.82%) Git
4 14 (13.86%) GitLab
4 14 (13.86%) Jenkins
5 10 (9.90%) Mockito
6 9 (8.91%) JUnit
7 8 (7.92%) MLflow
8 7 (6.93%) Selenium
9 5 (4.95%) Cucumber
9 5 (4.95%) SonarQube
10 4 (3.96%) Gradle
10 4 (3.96%) JMeter
10 4 (3.96%) Maven
10 4 (3.96%) MSTest
11 3 (2.97%) Spinnaker
12 2 (1.98%) GoCD
12 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (1.98%) webpack
General
1 33 (32.67%) Finance
2 23 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
3 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Billing
6 2 (1.98%) Dutch Language
6 2 (1.98%) French Language
6 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Back Office
7 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (33.66%) Developer
2 14 (13.86%) Analyst
3 12 (11.88%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (10.89%) Java Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Lead
6 9 (8.91%) Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Python Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior
8 7 (6.93%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (66.34%) OpenAPI
2 55 (54.46%) REST
3 38 (37.62%) RESTful
4 27 (26.73%) JSON
5 24 (23.76%) OAuth
6 20 (19.80%) SOAP
6 20 (19.80%) Spring
6 20 (19.80%) XML
7 19 (18.81%) JWT
8 17 (16.83%) React
9 16 (15.84%) Spring Boot
10 13 (12.87%) .NET
10 13 (12.87%) Kafka
11 12 (11.88%) FastAPI
11 12 (11.88%) pytest
12 11 (10.89%) Django
12 11 (10.89%) Flask
12 11 (10.89%) Node.js
13 9 (8.91%) NumPy
13 9 (8.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.92%) Low-Code
3 7 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.95%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) NHS
7 2 (1.98%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.99%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) CI/CD
2 36 (35.64%) Agile
2 36 (35.64%) Microservices
3 30 (29.70%) Validation
4 28 (27.72%) DevOps
5 27 (26.73%) Test Automation
6 26 (25.74%) API Design
6 26 (25.74%) Requirements Gathering
7 24 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (21.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (20.79%) API Development
9 21 (20.79%) Containerisation
10 20 (19.80%) Integration Patterns
11 18 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (16.83%) API Management
13 16 (15.84%) API Integration
13 16 (15.84%) API Testing
14 15 (14.85%) Data Modelling
14 15 (14.85%) Unit Testing
14 15 (14.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (38.61%) Java
2 33 (32.67%) SQL
3 28 (27.72%) Python
4 15 (14.85%) C#
5 12 (11.88%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.94%) Bash
8 4 (3.96%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.96%) Groovy
9 3 (2.97%) Bicep
9 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.99%) PHP
11 1 (0.99%) SOQL
11 1 (0.99%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) Degree
4 13 (12.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.92%) WCAG
3 6 (5.94%) GDPR
3 6 (5.94%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.94%) PSD2
4 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.97%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.98%) HL7
6 2 (1.98%) QA
7 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (34.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (34.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.86%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Istio
4 4 (3.96%) Grafana
4 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.97%) Argo
6 2 (1.98%) Ansible
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) Salesforce
2 9 (8.91%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.92%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.92%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.92%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.92%) UiPath
4 7 (6.93%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.97%) Google
6 3 (2.97%) Veracode
7 2 (1.98%) New Relic
8 1 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.99%) Databricks
8 1 (0.99%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.99%) IBM
8 1 (0.99%) Okta
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) Telerik