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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 433 446
Rank change year-on-year -69 +13 +70
Contract jobs citing Swagger 181 132 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% 1.56% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 91 78
10th Percentile £361 £359 £439
25th Percentile £425 £411 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £560 £545 £688
90th Percentile £586 £638 £841
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.47% -13.64% -8.33%

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 11,740 8,473 9,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.60% 25.94% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,723 5,664 6,299
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -96 127 £460 -9.36% 157
UK excluding London -77 75 £449 -5.47% 86
Work from Home -48 69 £500 - 73
London -80 64 £525 - 89
South East -51 24 £460 -5.64% 21
Midlands -35 18 £459 +35.00% 16
West Midlands -32 16 £460 -29.23% 12
Scotland -14 14 £425 +0.47% 11
North of England -74 11 £425 -12.77% 18
Yorkshire -33 8 £415 +14.48% 7
South West - 7 £575 - 11
East Midlands -17 2 £380 +24.59% 4
East of England -27 2 £480 -16.52% 5
North West -59 2 £425 -19.81% 11
North East -43 1 £426 -8.00%

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 8 (4.42%) Anypoint
2 6 (3.31%) Confluence
2 6 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.66%) Mule
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.55%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.97%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.55%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 93 (51.38%) Azure
2 87 (48.07%) AWS
3 50 (27.62%) GitHub
4 39 (21.55%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (13.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (11.60%) Boomi
8 20 (11.05%) Kong
9 19 (10.50%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (10.50%) GCP
10 15 (8.29%) Apigee
10 15 (8.29%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (7.73%) Entra ID
12 13 (7.18%) Serverless
13 12 (6.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (6.08%) Azure API Management
15 9 (4.97%) Amazon S3
15 9 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (4.97%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.20%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (16.57%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.94%) NoSQL
4 17 (9.39%) Redis
5 13 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.97%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.21%) Metadata
10 4 (2.21%) MySQL
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.66%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.66%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (33.15%) Git
2 45 (24.86%) Jenkins
3 33 (18.23%) JIRA
4 25 (13.81%) JUnit
4 25 (13.81%) Postman
5 21 (11.60%) GitLab
6 19 (10.50%) Mockito
7 18 (9.94%) Gradle
8 15 (8.29%) Liquibase
9 13 (7.18%) SpecFlow
10 11 (6.08%) Cucumber
11 9 (4.97%) Maven
12 8 (4.42%) JMeter
12 8 (4.42%) Selenium
13 6 (3.31%) Flyway
14 5 (2.76%) Storybook
15 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.66%) git-flow
15 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
16 2 (1.10%) Gatling
General
1 27 (14.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.39%) Banking
5 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.87%) Publishing
6 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.76%) Billing
8 4 (2.21%) Law
8 4 (2.21%) Retail
9 3 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.66%) Military
10 2 (1.10%) Back Office
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.55%) French Language
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (39.78%) Developer
2 32 (17.68%) Architect
3 20 (11.05%) Senior
4 19 (10.50%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.94%) Lead
6 17 (9.39%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.63%) Integration Architect
8 11 (6.08%) Azure Developer
8 11 (6.08%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (5.52%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.52%) Java Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.52%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.52%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
11 8 (4.42%) Tester
12 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (83.98%) OpenAPI
2 94 (51.93%) REST
3 65 (35.91%) RESTful
4 57 (31.49%) OAuth
5 52 (28.73%) JSON
6 45 (24.86%) OAuth2
7 43 (23.76%) Kafka
8 39 (21.55%) React
9 38 (20.99%) Spring
9 38 (20.99%) Spring Boot
10 31 (17.13%) JWT
11 29 (16.02%) Terraform
12 28 (15.47%) OpenID
13 25 (13.81%) Middleware
14 24 (13.26%) Node.js
15 23 (12.71%) SOAP
16 22 (12.15%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (12.15%) XML
17 18 (9.94%) .NET
18 17 (9.39%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 54 (29.83%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.42%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
9 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.55%) FPGA
10 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.55%) LIMS
10 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Android
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (64.09%) CI/CD
2 83 (45.86%) DevOps
3 74 (40.88%) Agile
4 60 (33.15%) Microservices
5 58 (32.04%) Test Automation
6 47 (25.97%) Containerisation
6 47 (25.97%) Event-Driven
7 40 (22.10%) Observability
8 37 (20.44%) API Design
9 33 (18.23%) API Management
10 32 (17.68%) API Development
11 31 (17.13%) Validation
12 30 (16.57%) TDD
13 29 (16.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (14.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (12.71%) Integration Patterns
16 21 (11.60%) Software Engineering
17 20 (11.05%) Scrum
18 19 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (33.15%) Java
2 46 (25.41%) Python
3 45 (24.86%) SQL
4 36 (19.89%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.36%) C#
6 25 (13.81%) JavaScript
7 20 (11.05%) Go
8 8 (4.42%) Lua
9 7 (3.87%) Bash
9 7 (3.87%) Bicep
9 7 (3.87%) DataWeave
10 6 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.66%) Scala
13 2 (1.10%) PromQL
13 2 (1.10%) Rust
14 1 (0.55%) Groovy
14 1 (0.55%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (28.73%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.07%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (9.39%) Degree
5 15 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.15%) QA
2 17 (9.39%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.97%) WCAG
4 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.55%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (32.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (41.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.50%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.94%) Grafana
4 11 (6.08%) Ansible
5 3 (1.66%) Consul
5 3 (1.66%) Kibana
6 2 (1.10%) Argo
6 2 (1.10%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.10%) Istio
6 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.10%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 36 (19.89%) MuleSoft
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle
3 14 (7.73%) Google
4 12 (6.63%) IBM
5 11 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 11 (6.08%) SAP
6 10 (5.52%) Dell
6 10 (5.52%) Splunk
7 9 (4.97%) Informatica
7 9 (4.97%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.97%) WSO2
8 8 (4.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.10%) Nokia
11 2 (1.10%) Okta
11 2 (1.10%) Solace
11 2 (1.10%) webMethods