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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 439 482
Rank change year-on-year -47 +43 +21
Contract jobs citing Swagger 98 90 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.27% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 54 65
10th Percentile £350 £457 £368
25th Percentile £389 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £500 £685 £674
90th Percentile £575 £825 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -21.64% -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 8,429 7,067 9,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.30% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,618 4,497 6,583
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 91 182
10th Percentile £33.20 £22.00 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 23 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 23 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 -38 89 £441 -29.44% 62
UK excluding London -47 50 £431 -21.64% 67
London -35 39 £450 -26.53% 6
Work from Home -1 34 £475 -20.17% 19
North of England -44 25 £401 -18.89% 19
North West -15 18 £397 -6.56% 13
South East -12 12 £500 -9.09% 20
Midlands -42 9 £469 -14.73% 6
West Midlands -42 7 £469 -14.73% 1
Yorkshire -55 4 £356 -43.00% 4
Wales 0 3 - - 4
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Scotland +3 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 5

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 (10.20%) 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 30 (30.61%) AWS
2 29 (29.59%) Azure
3 15 (15.31%) GitHub
4 13 (13.27%) Apigee
4 13 (13.27%) Serverless
5 12 (12.24%) GCP
6 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.16%) Kong
9 7 (7.14%) Azure Functions
10 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
10 6 (6.12%) Stackdriver
11 5 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.10%) Pinecone
6 5 (5.10%) Redis
7 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.06%) MySQL
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.02%) GIS
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) Postman
2 18 (18.37%) JIRA
3 17 (17.35%) Git
3 17 (17.35%) GitLab
4 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
5 11 (11.22%) Mockito
6 9 (9.18%) Selenium
7 8 (8.16%) JUnit
8 7 (7.14%) Cucumber
9 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
10 5 (5.10%) MLflow
11 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
11 4 (4.08%) Gradle
11 4 (4.08%) Maven
11 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.06%) JMeter
12 3 (3.06%) MSTest
12 3 (3.06%) Spinnaker
13 2 (2.04%) GoCD
13 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (31.63%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
3 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
5 11 (11.22%) Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Billing
7 2 (2.04%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.04%) French Language
7 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
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
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Developer
2 14 (14.29%) Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Lead
4 10 (10.20%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.20%) Java Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior
6 8 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
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%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Payments Business Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (59.18%) OpenAPI
2 48 (48.98%) REST
3 38 (38.78%) RESTful
4 26 (26.53%) JSON
5 24 (24.49%) OAuth
6 23 (23.47%) Spring
7 21 (21.43%) SOAP
8 20 (20.41%) Spring Boot
9 19 (19.39%) XML
10 16 (16.33%) React
11 15 (15.31%) Node.js
12 14 (14.29%) JWT
13 13 (13.27%) .NET
14 12 (12.24%) Kafka
15 11 (11.22%) OAuth2
16 8 (8.16%) CSS
16 8 (8.16%) FastAPI
16 8 (8.16%) Hibernate
16 8 (8.16%) pytest
16 8 (8.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.12%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) NHS
7 2 (2.04%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
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 47 (47.96%) Agile
3 41 (41.84%) Microservices
4 34 (34.69%) DevOps
5 26 (26.53%) Validation
6 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (23.47%) API Design
7 23 (23.47%) Containerisation
7 23 (23.47%) Test Automation
8 20 (20.41%) Requirements Gathering
9 17 (17.35%) API Development
9 17 (17.35%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (14.29%) API Management
10 14 (14.29%) API Testing
10 14 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (13.27%) API Integration
11 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
11 13 (13.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.86%) Java
1 42 (42.86%) SQL
2 26 (26.53%) Python
3 18 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 14 (14.29%) C#
5 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.12%) Bash
7 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.06%) Bicep
8 3 (3.06%) Go
8 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.04%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.04%) Groovy
9 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.02%) PHP
10 1 (1.02%) SOQL
10 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 8 (8.16%) 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 36 (36.73%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (34.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.33%) Terraform
3 8 (8.16%) Ansible
4 4 (4.08%) Grafana
5 3 (3.06%) Istio
5 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.06%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.06%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.06%) Salt
6 2 (2.04%) Argo
6 2 (2.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Kibana
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle
2 9 (9.18%) MuleSoft
2 9 (9.18%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 5 (5.10%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.10%) Splunk
4 5 (5.10%) UiPath
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.06%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) VMware
7 2 (2.04%) New Relic
7 2 (2.04%) Veracode
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