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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 428 449
Rank change year-on-year -58 +21 +76
Contract jobs citing Swagger 197 125 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 1.46% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 86 79
10th Percentile £363 £359 £443
25th Percentile £425 £410 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -1.89%
75th Percentile £564 £545 £688
90th Percentile £600 £644 £840
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -14.77% -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 11,912 8,557 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 26.06% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,841 5,694 6,057
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 188 187
10th Percentile £28.75 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 30 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 30 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 -85 139 £460 -8.00% 117
UK excluding London -67 79 £449 -4.21% 68
Work from Home -49 74 £513 +3.27% 54
London -66 73 £525 - 57
South East -47 24 £460 -5.64% 16
Midlands -25 21 £460 +35.29% 12
West Midlands -29 19 £463 -28.77% 11
Scotland -5 15 £425 +0.47% 5
North of England -86 11 £425 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -37 8 £425 +17.24% 6
South West - 7 £575 - 14
East Midlands -20 2 £380 +24.59% 1
East of England -26 2 £480 -16.52% 5
North West -57 2 £425 -19.81% 9
North East -42 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 10 (5.08%) Confluence
2 8 (4.06%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.54%) Traefik
5 3 (1.52%) Mule
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (3.05%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.51%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.57%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 100 (50.76%) Azure
2 92 (46.70%) AWS
3 50 (25.38%) GitHub
4 40 (20.30%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (12.18%) Azure Service Bus
7 22 (11.17%) Kong
8 21 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (10.66%) Boomi
9 19 (9.64%) GCP
10 15 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (7.61%) Entra ID
11 14 (7.11%) Apigee
12 13 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (6.09%) Amazon S3
13 12 (6.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (5.58%) Azure API Management
15 10 (5.08%) Amazon MSK
15 10 (5.08%) iPaaS
15 10 (5.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.32%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.23%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.14%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.63%) Redis
5 13 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.57%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.06%) MySQL
8 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.05%) Metadata
10 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.52%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.52%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (29.44%) Git
2 45 (22.84%) Jenkins
3 38 (19.29%) JIRA
4 27 (13.71%) JUnit
5 24 (12.18%) Postman
6 21 (10.66%) Mockito
7 20 (10.15%) GitLab
8 19 (9.64%) Gradle
9 15 (7.61%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.60%) SpecFlow
11 11 (5.58%) Cucumber
11 11 (5.58%) Maven
12 7 (3.55%) JMeter
12 7 (3.55%) Selenium
13 6 (3.05%) Flyway
14 5 (2.54%) Storybook
15 4 (2.03%) Bitbucket
16 3 (1.52%) git-flow
16 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
16 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.23%) Finance
3 24 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.17%) Banking
5 9 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.55%) Publishing
8 5 (2.54%) Billing
9 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.03%) Law
9 4 (2.03%) Retail
10 3 (1.52%) Military
11 2 (1.02%) Back Office
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) German Language
12 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (38.07%) Developer
2 37 (18.78%) Architect
3 24 (12.18%) Senior
4 20 (10.15%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.64%) Lead
6 17 (8.63%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.12%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.09%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.58%) Azure Developer
9 11 (5.58%) Node.js Developer
10 10 (5.08%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (4.57%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
11 9 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Tester
13 6 (3.05%) Analyst
13 6 (3.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (85.28%) OpenAPI
2 100 (50.76%) REST
3 74 (37.56%) RESTful
4 61 (30.96%) OAuth
5 51 (25.89%) JSON
6 49 (24.87%) OAuth2
7 42 (21.32%) Kafka
8 41 (20.81%) Spring
8 41 (20.81%) Spring Boot
9 38 (19.29%) React
10 35 (17.77%) JWT
11 32 (16.24%) OpenID
12 29 (14.72%) SOAP
12 29 (14.72%) Terraform
13 26 (13.20%) Middleware
14 24 (12.18%) Node.js
15 23 (11.68%) XML
16 22 (11.17%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (9.64%) .NET
18 15 (7.61%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 58 (29.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.61%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.06%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.51%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 86 (43.65%) DevOps
3 81 (41.12%) Agile
4 62 (31.47%) Microservices
5 60 (30.46%) Test Automation
6 51 (25.89%) Containerisation
7 47 (23.86%) Event-Driven
8 42 (21.32%) Observability
9 38 (19.29%) API Design
10 37 (18.78%) API Management
11 34 (17.26%) API Development
11 34 (17.26%) Validation
12 31 (15.74%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (15.23%) TDD
14 28 (14.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (13.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (11.17%) Scrum
17 21 (10.66%) Software Engineering
17 21 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.49%) Java
2 51 (25.89%) SQL
3 43 (21.83%) Python
4 35 (17.77%) TypeScript
5 27 (13.71%) C#
6 24 (12.18%) JavaScript
7 23 (11.68%) Go
8 10 (5.08%) Lua
9 7 (3.55%) Bicep
9 7 (3.55%) DataWeave
10 6 (3.05%) Bash
10 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.52%) Scala
13 2 (1.02%) PromQL
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
14 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (26.90%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.63%) Degree
5 15 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.21%) QA
2 20 (10.15%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.08%) WCAG
4 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) SEPA
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (30.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (41.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.64%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.14%) Grafana
4 11 (5.58%) Ansible
5 6 (3.05%) Istio
6 5 (2.54%) Kibana
7 3 (1.52%) Consul
8 2 (1.02%) Argo
8 2 (1.02%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.02%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (18.78%) MuleSoft
2 24 (12.18%) Oracle
3 14 (7.11%) Google
3 14 (7.11%) SAP
4 12 (6.09%) IBM
5 11 (5.58%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.08%) Dell
6 10 (5.08%) Splunk
7 9 (4.57%) Informatica
7 9 (4.57%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.57%) WSO2
8 8 (4.06%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.05%) webMethods
10 5 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.02%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.02%) Nokia
12 2 (1.02%) Okta
12 2 (1.02%) Solace