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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 438 492
Rank change year-on-year -47 +54 +47
Contract jobs citing Swagger 103 104 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.43% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 63 68
10th Percentile £350 £457 £359
25th Percentile £361 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +13.64% -5.17%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £665
90th Percentile £575 £825 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -25.05% -3.51% +4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.36
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,335 7,252 9,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.86% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,605 6,619
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 86 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £29.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -51 85 £438 -30.00% 35
UK excluding London -50 46 £412 -25.05% 18
London -24 45 £463 -26.00% 22
Work from Home +3 42 £469 -21.83% 19
North of England -54 16 £360 -28.84% 5
South East -6 11 £488 -11.36% 2
Midlands -30 10 £469 -14.73% 2
North West -23 9 £358 -15.76% 2
Wales +6 8 £375 - 3
West Midlands -27 7 £469 -14.73% 2
Yorkshire -57 5 £350 -45.10% 2
East Midlands - 3 £269 -
North East - 2 £463 - 1
Scotland +6 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 9 (8.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (7.77%) Oracle Service Bus
2 8 (7.77%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.94%) Appian
4 2 (1.94%) Mule
4 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.97%) CICS
5 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.94%) Endur
2 2 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.97%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 34 (33.01%) AWS
2 32 (31.07%) Azure
3 18 (17.48%) GitHub
4 15 (14.56%) GCP
4 15 (14.56%) Serverless
5 12 (11.65%) Apigee
6 11 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.80%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.83%) Stackdriver
11 5 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.85%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
11 5 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.85%) Kong
12 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (12.62%) Oracle Database
3 12 (11.65%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.77%) Redis
5 8 (7.77%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.91%) MySQL
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.94%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.94%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.97%) DB2
9 1 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.97%) GIS
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.97%) Parquet
9 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (25.24%) Git
2 21 (20.39%) JIRA
2 21 (20.39%) Postman
3 18 (17.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (12.62%) GitLab
5 12 (11.65%) Mockito
6 9 (8.74%) JUnit
6 9 (8.74%) Selenium
6 9 (8.74%) SonarQube
7 8 (7.77%) REST Assured
8 7 (6.80%) Cucumber
8 7 (6.80%) Maven
9 5 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
9 5 (4.85%) SoapUI
9 5 (4.85%) Subversion
9 5 (4.85%) Xcode
9 5 (4.85%) XCTest
10 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.88%) Gradle
General
1 30 (29.13%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
4 21 (20.39%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.65%) Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) Automotive
7 2 (1.94%) Back Office
7 2 (1.94%) Billing
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.94%) French Language
7 2 (1.94%) Front Office
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (33.98%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Lead
3 12 (11.65%) Analyst
3 12 (11.65%) Java Developer
3 12 (11.65%) Senior
4 10 (9.71%) Consultant
5 9 (8.74%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.77%) Java Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Oracle Consultant
6 8 (7.77%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Architect
7 7 (6.80%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.88%) Oracle SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (57.28%) OpenAPI
2 54 (52.43%) REST
3 33 (32.04%) RESTful
4 32 (31.07%) JSON
5 29 (28.16%) OAuth
6 27 (26.21%) SOAP
7 24 (23.30%) XML
8 23 (22.33%) Spring
8 23 (22.33%) Spring Boot
9 20 (19.42%) OAuth2
10 19 (18.45%) React
11 18 (17.48%) Kafka
12 16 (15.53%) Node.js
13 13 (12.62%) .NET
14 10 (9.71%) CSS
14 10 (9.71%) HTML
14 10 (9.71%) JWT
15 9 (8.74%) Spring Cloud
16 8 (7.77%) Middleware
16 8 (7.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.77%) Virtual Team
4 7 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.94%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.94%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.94%) NHS
7 2 (1.94%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Derivative
8 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.97%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Unix
3 4 (3.88%) Windows
4 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) Agile
2 48 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 44 (42.72%) DevOps
3 44 (42.72%) Microservices
4 32 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (27.18%) API Design
5 28 (27.18%) Validation
6 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
6 21 (20.39%) SDLC
7 20 (19.42%) API Management
7 20 (19.42%) Test Automation
8 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (16.50%) Integration Patterns
8 17 (16.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 16 (15.53%) Code Quality
9 16 (15.53%) TDD
10 15 (14.56%) API Testing
11 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.62%) Computer Science
12 13 (12.62%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.54%) SQL
2 41 (39.81%) Java
3 25 (24.27%) Python
4 21 (20.39%) JavaScript
5 15 (14.56%) C#
6 10 (9.71%) PL/SQL
7 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.80%) Bash
9 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.85%) Groovy
11 3 (2.91%) Bicep
11 3 (2.91%) Go
12 1 (0.97%) COBOL
12 1 (0.97%) JCL
12 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.97%) PHP
12 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.59%) Degree
4 11 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) WCAG
2 7 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.83%) QA
4 5 (4.85%) GDPR
5 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.91%) PSD2
6 2 (1.94%) HL7
7 1 (0.97%) EMIR
7 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.97%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.97%) MiFID
7 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (34.95%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (32.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.45%) Terraform
3 9 (8.74%) Ansible
4 4 (3.88%) Grafana
5 3 (2.91%) Istio
5 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.91%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.91%) Rundeck
5 3 (2.91%) Salt
6 2 (1.94%) Argo
6 2 (1.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.97%) Control-M
7 1 (0.97%) Kibana
7 1 (0.97%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Oracle
2 10 (9.71%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.77%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.77%) Splunk
4 6 (5.83%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.91%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.91%) Google
7 3 (2.91%) VMware
8 2 (1.94%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.94%) Charles River
8 2 (1.94%) New Relic
8 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.94%) UiPath
9 1 (0.97%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.97%) IBM
9 1 (0.97%) Okta
9 1 (0.97%) Progress