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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 410 455
Rank change year-on-year -118 +45 +81
Contract jobs citing Swagger 146 147 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.77% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 106 71
10th Percentile £353 £361 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £569 £545 £694
90th Percentile £598 £644 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.31% -15.50%

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 11,706 8,290 9,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.31% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,705 5,607 6,426
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 182 205
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.30 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.00 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £78.33 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -117 101 £513 -3.30% 94
UK excluding London -90 59 £450 -5.26% 55
Work from Home -70 53 £525 +2.44% 50
London -87 49 £525 -0.94% 53
South East -43 24 £460 -5.64% 11
North of England -79 10 £426 -14.90% 12
Scotland -7 9 £425 +0.47% 7
Midlands -51 9 £467 +37.35% 9
West Midlands -44 7 £535 -17.69% 5
South West - 7 £575 - 10
Yorkshire -45 6 £400 +10.34% 3
East Midlands -18 2 £380 +24.59% 4
North East -43 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -57 2 £425 -19.81% 9
East of England -23 1 - - 3

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 9 (6.16%) Anypoint
2 5 (3.42%) Confluence
3 3 (2.05%) Mule
4 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.37%) IIS
4 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.42%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.05%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.68%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.37%) AWS
2 74 (50.68%) Azure
3 46 (31.51%) GitHub
4 38 (26.03%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (21.23%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.64%) GCP
7 14 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (9.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (9.59%) Boomi
8 12 (8.22%) Apigee
9 9 (6.16%) Azure API Management
9 9 (6.16%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.16%) Kong
10 7 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.79%) Serverless
11 6 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (4.11%) iPaaS
12 5 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.96%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) NaaS
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (32.19%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.81%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.64%) Redis
4 15 (10.27%) NoSQL
5 13 (8.90%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.16%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.05%) Metadata
9 3 (2.05%) MySQL
9 3 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (32.19%) Jenkins
2 46 (31.51%) Git
3 28 (19.18%) JIRA
4 26 (17.81%) JUnit
5 21 (14.38%) Postman
6 20 (13.70%) Mockito
7 19 (13.01%) Gradle
7 19 (13.01%) Liquibase
8 17 (11.64%) GitLab
9 11 (7.53%) SpecFlow
10 8 (5.48%) JMeter
11 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
11 7 (4.79%) Selenium
12 6 (4.11%) Flyway
13 5 (3.42%) Maven
14 3 (2.05%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.05%) git-flow
14 3 (2.05%) SonarQube
15 2 (1.37%) MSBuild
15 2 (1.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.64%) Finance
4 12 (8.22%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.79%) Law
6 7 (4.79%) Publishing
7 6 (4.11%) Billing
8 5 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.74%) Retail
10 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.05%) Military
11 2 (1.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (39.04%) Developer
2 28 (19.18%) Architect
3 18 (12.33%) Senior
4 14 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.90%) Lead
5 13 (8.90%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.53%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.53%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (6.85%) Integration Architect
8 10 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.16%) Azure Developer
9 9 (6.16%) Tester
10 8 (5.48%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.74%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (83.56%) OpenAPI
2 76 (52.05%) REST
3 55 (37.67%) RESTful
4 42 (28.77%) Kafka
5 39 (26.71%) JSON
6 35 (23.97%) OAuth
7 33 (22.60%) Spring Boot
8 32 (21.92%) React
8 32 (21.92%) Spring
9 27 (18.49%) OAuth2
10 24 (16.44%) JWT
11 19 (13.01%) Node.js
12 18 (12.33%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (12.33%) SOAP
12 18 (12.33%) Terraform
12 18 (12.33%) XML
13 17 (11.64%) Jest
14 16 (10.96%) Middleware
15 14 (9.59%) hapi
16 13 (8.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) NHS
8 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.68%) Clustering
9 1 (0.68%) CMDB
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) FPGA
9 1 (0.68%) LIMS
9 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Android
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 67 (45.89%) Agile
2 67 (45.89%) DevOps
3 57 (39.04%) Microservices
4 48 (32.88%) Containerisation
5 44 (30.14%) Test Automation
6 36 (24.66%) Event-Driven
7 33 (22.60%) TDD
8 32 (21.92%) API Design
9 31 (21.23%) API Development
9 31 (21.23%) Observability
10 23 (15.75%) Software Engineering
10 23 (15.75%) Validation
11 21 (14.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (13.70%) API Management
12 20 (13.70%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (13.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 18 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 17 (11.64%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.88%) Java
2 42 (28.77%) SQL
3 40 (27.40%) Python
4 30 (20.55%) TypeScript
5 20 (13.70%) C#
6 15 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.16%) Go
8 7 (4.79%) Bash
8 7 (4.79%) DataWeave
9 6 (4.11%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.74%) Lua
11 3 (2.05%) Bicep
11 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.37%) PromQL
12 2 (1.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.68%) Groovy
13 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.68%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.68%) Ruby
13 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 44 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (6.85%) Degree
5 9 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.27%) QA
2 13 (8.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.37%) NCSC
4 2 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.68%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (39.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (41.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.96%) Prometheus
3 14 (9.59%) Grafana
4 11 (7.53%) Ansible
5 3 (2.05%) Consul
6 2 (1.37%) Argo
6 2 (1.37%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.37%) Kibana
6 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.37%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.68%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (18.49%) MuleSoft
2 13 (8.90%) Oracle
3 11 (7.53%) Google
4 9 (6.16%) IBM
4 9 (6.16%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.48%) SAP
6 6 (4.11%) Dell
6 6 (4.11%) Informatica
6 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.11%) TIBCO
6 6 (4.11%) WSO2
7 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.42%) Splunk
8 4 (2.74%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.37%) Nokia
9 2 (1.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.68%) Amdocs
10 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.68%) webMethods