Swagger Contracts

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Swagger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swagger over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 473 532
Rank change year-on-year +55 +59 +33
Contract jobs citing Swagger 130 112 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.20% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 74 99
10th Percentile £374 £399 £431
25th Percentile £444 £488 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £503 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -10.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £572 £649 £638
90th Percentile £650 £816 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £503 £600
% change year-on-year -5.47% -16.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 7,230 9,297 12,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.47% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,373 9,354
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 283 161
10th Percentile £28.60 £22.55 £30.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.35 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Hourly rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Top 17 Contract 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 6 July 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 +48 97 £530 +4.74% 65
London +19 57 £530 -3.64% 41
Work from Home +37 50 £534 +6.70% 34
UK excluding London +63 41 £475 -5.47% 35
North of England +9 19 £500 -0.99% 6
North West +19 13 £530 +63.08% 2
South East +43 5 £463 - 5
North East +1 4 £463 -15.91%
Scotland - 4 £210 - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 2
Midlands +10 3 £349 -28.78% 2
Wales - 3 £375 - 3
South West +39 2 £825 +29.92% 11
East of England +29 2 £575 +76.92% 1
Yorkshire -2 2 £438 -13.37% 4
East Midlands -2 2 £349 -28.70% 1
West Midlands +7 1 - - 1

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.92%) Anypoint
2 7 (5.38%) Mule
3 5 (3.85%) Confluence
4 4 (3.08%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.31%) JBoss
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.31%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.54%) Alfresco
6 2 (1.54%) Apache
6 2 (1.54%) Camunda
7 1 (0.77%) CMS
7 1 (0.77%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.54%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.54%) AWS
2 21 (16.15%) Azure
3 14 (10.77%) GitHub
4 13 (10.00%) GCP
4 13 (10.00%) SaaS
5 12 (9.23%) Serverless
6 10 (7.69%) Apigee
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (2.31%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.31%) Kong
10 3 (2.31%) npm
10 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) HTTP
2 2 (1.54%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.54%) 4G
2 2 (1.54%) 5G
2 2 (1.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (42.31%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (32.31%) Relational Database
3 20 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 10 (7.69%) MySQL
4 10 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.38%) Redis
6 6 (4.62%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.31%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.54%) GIS
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.77%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.77%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.77%) Metadata
9 1 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 51 (39.23%) JUnit
2 49 (37.69%) Jenkins
3 46 (35.38%) Mockito
4 42 (32.31%) Gradle
5 39 (30.00%) Liquibase
6 19 (14.62%) Git
7 16 (12.31%) GitLab
8 15 (11.54%) Postman
9 14 (10.77%) JIRA
10 9 (6.92%) Maven
10 9 (6.92%) SonarQube
11 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.08%) Selenium
12 3 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (2.31%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
12 3 (2.31%) Mocha
12 3 (2.31%) SoapUI
12 3 (2.31%) Subversion
12 3 (2.31%) TestNG
General
1 49 (37.69%) Finance
2 35 (26.92%) Public Sector
3 27 (20.77%) Telecoms
4 25 (19.23%) Social Skills
5 22 (16.92%) Electronics
5 22 (16.92%) Manufacturing
5 22 (16.92%) Marketing
6 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.54%) Automotive
7 2 (1.54%) Back Office
7 2 (1.54%) Front Office
8 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (51.54%) Developer
2 36 (27.69%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.46%) Senior
4 19 (14.62%) Lead
5 18 (13.85%) Senior Developer
6 17 (13.08%) Lead Developer
7 16 (12.31%) Software Engineer
8 15 (11.54%) React Developer
8 15 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 14 (10.77%) Lead Java Developer
10 13 (10.00%) Java Engineer
10 13 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (8.46%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (7.69%) Designer
12 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (6.15%) MuleSoft Developer
15 7 (5.38%) Analyst
16 5 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
16 5 (3.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (76.15%) OpenAPI
2 63 (48.46%) Spring Boot
3 56 (43.08%) Spring
4 54 (41.54%) Kafka
5 53 (40.77%) React
6 42 (32.31%) REST
7 27 (20.77%) RESTful
8 18 (13.85%) JSON
9 17 (13.08%) OAuth
9 17 (13.08%) XML
10 15 (11.54%) RAML
11 13 (10.00%) SOAP
12 12 (9.23%) AngularJS
12 12 (9.23%) HTML
13 10 (7.69%) Web Services
14 9 (6.92%) CSS
14 9 (6.92%) Next.js
14 9 (6.92%) Node.js
14 9 (6.92%) OAuth2
15 8 (6.15%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.08%) Genomics
4 4 (3.08%) LIMS
4 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.31%) Vector Graphics
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.54%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Unix
2 3 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.77%) Android
3 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (63.08%) Microservices
2 76 (58.46%) DevOps
3 74 (56.92%) Agile
4 62 (47.69%) Containerisation
5 60 (46.15%) CI/CD
6 53 (40.77%) TDD
7 51 (39.23%) Software Engineering
8 37 (28.46%) Migration
9 31 (23.85%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (17.69%) API Development
11 22 (16.92%) API Management
11 22 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (16.92%) Digital Marketing
11 22 (16.92%) Programme Management
12 21 (16.15%) API Design
12 21 (16.15%) Test Automation
13 19 (14.62%) Event-Driven
14 18 (13.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (62.31%) Java
2 54 (41.54%) SQL
3 49 (37.69%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.62%) Python
6 8 (6.15%) C#
7 7 (5.38%) Go
7 7 (5.38%) PL/SQL
8 6 (4.62%) DataWeave
9 4 (3.08%) Ruby
9 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.31%) Groovy
11 2 (1.54%) Bash
11 2 (1.54%) C++
12 1 (0.77%) C
12 1 (0.77%) COBOL
12 1 (0.77%) JCL
12 1 (0.77%) Korn
12 1 (0.77%) Scala
12 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (43.85%) Security Cleared
2 56 (43.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.23%) Degree
4 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) OCP
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (53.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 37 (28.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.92%) Terraform
3 3 (2.31%) Grafana
3 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.77%) Argo
5 1 (0.77%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) SAP
2 14 (10.77%) MuleSoft
3 12 (9.23%) Oracle
4 8 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.85%) Google
6 4 (3.08%) LabVantage
6 4 (3.08%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.08%) Splunk
7 3 (2.31%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) Charles River
8 2 (1.54%) Checkmarx
8 2 (1.54%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.77%) Dell
9 1 (0.77%) IBM
9 1 (0.77%) Trillium
9 1 (0.77%) webMethods
9 1 (0.77%) WSO2