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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 409 494
Rank change year-on-year -118 +85 +26
Contract jobs citing Swagger 102 102 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.51% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 69
10th Percentile £350 £454 £373
25th Percentile £363 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £494 £644 £650
90th Percentile £588 £785 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -17.55% -9.91% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
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 9,374 6,749 8,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 22.70% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,249 4,526 6,251
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 96 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -92 90 £425 -24.11% 21
UK excluding London -56 55 £412 -17.55% 14
London -65 34 £413 -31.25% 10
North of England -46 32 £394 -23.54% 5
Work from Home -40 28 £473 -14.09% 8
North West -14 21 £394 -17.11% 2
Midlands -47 11 £470 -14.64%
South East -46 8 £475 -13.64% 6
West Midlands -57 8 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -58 7 £363 -51.67% 2
North East - 4 £463 - 1
Scotland +8 2 - -
Wales -10 2 - -
East Midlands - 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 (12.75%) Confluence
2 8 (7.84%) Appian
3 3 (2.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.96%) IIS
4 2 (1.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.98%) Notion
1 1 (0.98%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.96%) Shopify
3 1 (0.98%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.25%) AWS
2 31 (30.39%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) GitHub
4 16 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (13.73%) GCP
6 13 (12.75%) Apigee
7 12 (11.76%) Serverless
8 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.80%) Kong
9 9 (8.82%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (8.82%) Power Automate
10 8 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (7.84%) Azure AI
10 8 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.96%) NaaS
2 2 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.80%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.84%) Pinecone
5 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.96%) Flink
7 2 (1.96%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.96%) Redis
7 2 (1.96%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.98%) GIS
8 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Jenkins
1 19 (18.63%) JIRA
2 18 (17.65%) Git
3 16 (15.69%) GitLab
3 16 (15.69%) Postman
4 13 (12.75%) Mockito
5 12 (11.76%) JUnit
6 8 (7.84%) Gradle
6 8 (7.84%) MLflow
7 5 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.90%) Maven
7 5 (4.90%) Selenium
8 4 (3.92%) Liquibase
8 4 (3.92%) MSTest
8 4 (3.92%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.94%) Gatling
9 3 (2.94%) JMeter
9 3 (2.94%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.94%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (30.39%) Finance
2 22 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
4 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.80%) Banking
6 4 (3.92%) Billing
6 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.96%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.96%) French Language
8 2 (1.96%) Law
8 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Developer
2 14 (13.73%) Analyst
3 13 (12.75%) Java Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 12 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (10.78%) Architect
6 10 (9.80%) Lead
7 8 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.86%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Senior
9 6 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.90%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (69.61%) OpenAPI
2 59 (57.84%) REST
3 33 (32.35%) RESTful
4 27 (26.47%) JSON
5 24 (23.53%) Spring
6 21 (20.59%) OAuth
6 21 (20.59%) Spring Boot
7 20 (19.61%) XML
8 19 (18.63%) JWT
8 19 (18.63%) React
9 18 (17.65%) Kafka
9 18 (17.65%) SOAP
10 12 (11.76%) .NET
10 12 (11.76%) Node.js
11 10 (9.80%) Django
11 10 (9.80%) FastAPI
11 10 (9.80%) Flask
12 9 (8.82%) Hibernate
12 9 (8.82%) NumPy
12 9 (8.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.90%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.98%) CMDB
9 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.84%) CI/CD
2 40 (39.22%) Microservices
3 39 (38.24%) Agile
4 30 (29.41%) Validation
5 27 (26.47%) API Design
5 27 (26.47%) DevOps
6 26 (25.49%) Test Automation
7 25 (24.51%) Containerisation
7 25 (24.51%) Requirements Gathering
8 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (21.57%) API Development
9 22 (21.57%) Integration Patterns
9 22 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (16.67%) API Integration
11 17 (16.67%) Observability
12 16 (15.69%) AI
12 16 (15.69%) API Management
12 16 (15.69%) Data Modelling
13 15 (14.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.12%) Java
2 38 (37.25%) SQL
3 28 (27.45%) Python
4 15 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.73%) C#
6 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.80%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.88%) Bash
8 4 (3.92%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.92%) Groovy
9 3 (2.94%) Bicep
9 3 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.96%) C++
10 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) PHP
11 1 (0.98%) SOQL
11 1 (0.98%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.71%) Degree
4 13 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.82%) WCAG
2 7 (6.86%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.88%) PSD2
4 4 (3.92%) GDPR
5 3 (2.94%) ISO 8583
5 3 (2.94%) QA
6 2 (1.96%) HL7
7 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.98%) NCSC
7 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (36.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (36.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.75%) Terraform
3 7 (6.86%) Istio
4 6 (5.88%) Grafana
4 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.94%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.96%) Ansible
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (10.78%) Dynatrace
1 11 (10.78%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.84%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (7.84%) OpenAI
2 8 (7.84%) UiPath
3 7 (6.86%) MuleSoft
3 7 (6.86%) Oracle
4 3 (2.94%) Google
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.94%) Veracode
5 2 (1.96%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.96%) Ciena
5 2 (1.96%) IBM
5 2 (1.96%) New Relic
5 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) BT
6 1 (0.98%) Databricks
6 1 (0.98%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.98%) Splunk
6 1 (0.98%) Telerik