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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 427 498
Rank change year-on-year -59 +71 +7
Contract jobs citing Swagger 98 92 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.30% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 54 66
10th Percentile £350 £457 £369
25th Percentile £394 £500 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £500 £685 £675
90th Percentile £575 £825 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -21.82% -1.84% +1.87%
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 8,446 7,076 9,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.38% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,623 4,495 6,655
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.47% -5.57%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 92 187
10th Percentile £34.80 £22.31 £26.47
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.97 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.15% +18.18% -15.38%

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 24 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 13 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 24 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 -52 89 £433 -30.72% 59
UK excluding London -49 50 £430 -21.82% 65
London -22 38 £438 -28.57% 6
Work from Home -20 35 £473 -20.59% 19
North of England -48 27 £401 -18.89% 16
North West -15 20 £397 -6.56% 10
South East -15 11 £504 -8.41% 20
Midlands -41 8 £470 -14.64% 6
West Midlands -44 7 £469 -14.73% 1
Yorkshire -64 4 £356 -43.00% 4
Wales -3 3 - - 4
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Scotland -4 1 - - 6

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 11 (11.22%) Confluence
2 5 (5.10%) Appian
3 4 (4.08%) Apache
4 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.04%) Shopify
3 1 (1.02%) Endur
3 1 (1.02%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.59%) AWS
1 29 (29.59%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) GitHub
3 13 (13.27%) Apigee
3 13 (13.27%) Serverless
4 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.20%) GCP
5 9 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.16%) Kong
7 7 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.10%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Storage
9 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (5.10%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.10%) Pinecone
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.08%) Redis
7 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.04%) MySQL
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.02%) GIS
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) JIRA
1 19 (19.39%) Postman
2 18 (18.37%) GitLab
3 17 (17.35%) Git
4 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
5 12 (12.24%) Mockito
6 9 (9.18%) JUnit
6 9 (9.18%) Selenium
7 7 (7.14%) Cucumber
8 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
9 5 (5.10%) MLflow
10 4 (4.08%) Gradle
10 4 (4.08%) Maven
10 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.06%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.06%) JMeter
11 3 (3.06%) MSTest
11 3 (3.06%) Spinnaker
12 2 (2.04%) Locust
12 2 (2.04%) XCTest
General
1 30 (30.61%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
3 22 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
5 10 (10.20%) Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Billing
7 2 (2.04%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.04%) French Language
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Front Office
8 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) Developer
2 14 (14.29%) Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Lead
4 10 (10.20%) Java Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.18%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior
6 8 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Technical Business Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) React Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Payments Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (60.20%) OpenAPI
2 49 (50.00%) REST
3 38 (38.78%) RESTful
4 26 (26.53%) JSON
5 23 (23.47%) OAuth
6 22 (22.45%) SOAP
6 22 (22.45%) Spring
7 19 (19.39%) Spring Boot
7 19 (19.39%) XML
8 16 (16.33%) React
9 14 (14.29%) JWT
9 14 (14.29%) Node.js
10 13 (13.27%) .NET
11 11 (11.22%) Kafka
12 10 (10.20%) OAuth2
13 9 (9.18%) CSS
13 9 (9.18%) YAML
14 8 (8.16%) FastAPI
14 8 (8.16%) Hibernate
14 8 (8.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.18%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.08%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) NHS
7 2 (2.04%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.02%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
1 4 (4.08%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) Unix
3 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
2 48 (48.98%) Agile
3 39 (39.80%) Microservices
4 32 (32.65%) DevOps
5 26 (26.53%) Validation
6 25 (25.51%) Test Automation
7 24 (24.49%) API Design
7 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 20 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
10 19 (19.39%) API Development
11 17 (17.35%) Integration Patterns
11 17 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (14.29%) API Management
13 14 (14.29%) API Testing
13 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (14.29%) TDD
13 14 (14.29%) Unit Testing
14 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.88%) Java
2 40 (40.82%) SQL
3 25 (25.51%) Python
4 18 (18.37%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.29%) C#
6 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.12%) Bash
8 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.06%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.06%) Bicep
9 3 (3.06%) Go
9 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.04%) Groovy
10 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.02%) PHP
11 1 (1.02%) SOQL
11 1 (1.02%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.29%) Degree
4 12 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) WCAG
2 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
2 5 (5.10%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.10%) PSD2
3 3 (3.06%) ISO 8583
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) HL7
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.31%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Grafana
4 3 (3.06%) Istio
4 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.06%) Rundeck
4 3 (3.06%) Salt
5 2 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (1.02%) Puppet
6 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.02%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle
1 10 (10.20%) Salesforce
2 9 (9.18%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (5.10%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.10%) UiPath
5 4 (4.08%) Splunk
6 3 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.06%) Veracode
6 3 (3.06%) VMware
7 2 (2.04%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) New Relic
8 1 (1.02%) Charles River
8 1 (1.02%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.02%) IBM
8 1 (1.02%) Okta
8 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.02%) Telerik