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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 398 497
Rank change year-on-year -99 +99 +26
Contract jobs citing Swagger 124 132 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 2.00% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 85 65
10th Percentile £350 £411 £388
25th Percentile £395 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +0.95% -9.48%
75th Percentile £565 £613 £625
90th Percentile £591 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -15.25% -3.85% -13.33%

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 9,407 6,607 8,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.82% 22.70% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,212 4,520 6,185
10th Percentile £359 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 113 241
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £82.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -108 103 £450 -15.09% 30
UK excluding London -82 61 £424 -15.25% 20
London -76 41 £525 -2.33% 16
Work from Home -41 40 £500 -6.28% 14
North of England -57 31 £401 -24.43% 6
North West -35 20 £397 -25.07% 4
South East -57 14 £425 -8.22% 9
Midlands -58 13 £469 +34.38% 2
West Midlands - 10 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -49 7 £375 -50.00% 1
North East -14 4 £463 +37.04% 1
Wales -8 2 - -
East Midlands -28 2 - -
Scotland -11 1 - -
East of England -31 1 - - 1

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 (10.48%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) Appian
3 5 (4.03%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.61%) IIS
5 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (4.03%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Notion
2 1 (0.81%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (3.23%) SAP MDG
2 4 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.06%) Azure
2 40 (32.26%) AWS
3 23 (18.55%) GitHub
4 20 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.29%) Apigee
6 14 (11.29%) GCP
7 11 (8.87%) Kong
7 11 (8.87%) Serverless
8 9 (7.26%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (7.26%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.45%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.65%) Boomi
11 6 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (1.61%) NaaS
2 2 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.97%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.10%) MongoDB
2 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.48%) Relational Database
4 12 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.45%) Pinecone
6 5 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.42%) Metadata
7 3 (2.42%) Redis
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.61%) Flink
8 2 (1.61%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.61%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 31 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.16%) GitLab
3 23 (18.55%) Git
3 23 (18.55%) Postman
4 22 (17.74%) JIRA
5 20 (16.13%) JUnit
6 17 (13.71%) Gradle
7 16 (12.90%) Mockito
8 12 (9.68%) Liquibase
9 9 (7.26%) JMeter
10 8 (6.45%) MLflow
11 4 (3.23%) Gatling
11 4 (3.23%) Maven
11 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.42%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.61%) Flyway
13 2 (1.61%) GoCD
13 2 (1.61%) MSTest
13 2 (1.61%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.61%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Finance
3 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.45%) Banking
5 8 (6.45%) Billing
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Publishing
8 3 (2.42%) Law
9 2 (1.61%) Back Office
9 2 (1.61%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.61%) French Language
9 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (27.42%) Developer
2 17 (13.71%) Java Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) Architect
4 13 (10.48%) Software Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Analyst
6 11 (8.87%) Business Analyst
6 11 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Integration Architect
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Senior
8 8 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (4.84%) Tester
10 5 (4.03%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.03%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (75.81%) OpenAPI
2 66 (53.23%) REST
3 43 (34.68%) RESTful
4 37 (29.84%) JSON
5 33 (26.61%) Spring
6 32 (25.81%) Kafka
7 30 (24.19%) Spring Boot
8 27 (21.77%) OAuth
9 23 (18.55%) React
9 23 (18.55%) XML
10 22 (17.74%) JWT
11 17 (13.71%) SOAP
12 15 (12.10%) Django
12 15 (12.10%) FastAPI
13 14 (11.29%) Flask
13 14 (11.29%) Middleware
13 14 (11.29%) OAuth2
13 14 (11.29%) pytest
14 13 (10.48%) NumPy
14 13 (10.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.45%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.03%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.42%) NHS
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.81%) CMDB
9 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 51 (41.13%) Agile
3 45 (36.29%) DevOps
4 44 (35.48%) Microservices
5 42 (33.87%) Test Automation
6 39 (31.45%) Containerisation
7 37 (29.84%) Validation
8 30 (24.19%) Observability
9 29 (23.39%) API Design
10 28 (22.58%) API Development
11 25 (20.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (20.16%) TDD
12 24 (19.35%) Event-Driven
13 23 (18.55%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (17.74%) Deployment Automation
15 21 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (16.94%) Requirements Gathering
15 21 (16.94%) Software Engineering
16 20 (16.13%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.55%) Java
2 44 (35.48%) Python
3 43 (34.68%) SQL
4 25 (20.16%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.29%) C#
6 12 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.87%) Bash
7 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.23%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.23%) DataWeave
8 4 (3.23%) Groovy
8 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.42%) Bicep
10 2 (1.61%) C++
10 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) PHP
11 1 (0.81%) SOQL
11 1 (0.81%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 38 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.48%) Degree
4 12 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 6 (4.84%) PSD2
3 5 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.23%) WCAG
5 3 (2.42%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.61%) GDPR
6 2 (1.61%) HL7
6 2 (1.61%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.81%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (39.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.10%) Terraform
3 10 (8.06%) Grafana
3 10 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.65%) Istio
5 6 (4.84%) Ansible
6 2 (1.61%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.61%) Argo
6 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) Consul
7 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (12.10%) MuleSoft
1 15 (12.10%) Salesforce
2 10 (8.06%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.45%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.45%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.45%) UiPath
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
4 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.23%) Dell
5 4 (3.23%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) Google
6 3 (2.42%) Splunk
6 3 (2.42%) Veracode
7 2 (1.61%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.61%) Ciena
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.61%) New Relic
7 2 (1.61%) Nokia
8 1 (0.81%) BT
8 1 (0.81%) IBM