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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 424 499
Rank change year-on-year -56 +75 +38
Contract jobs citing Swagger 102 119 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.53% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 73 73
10th Percentile £350 £453 £365
25th Percentile £363 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.48% +6.38% +2.26%
75th Percentile £512 £703 £675
90th Percentile £575 £825 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +11.11%
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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 -64 82 £469 -24.96% 29
UK excluding London -43 45 £425 -22.73% 22
London -24 44 £475 -24.00% 15
Work from Home -3 41 £484 -17.66% 8
North of England -47 12 £360 -27.95% 3
South East -10 11 £488 -11.36% 12
Midlands -25 11 £469 -14.73% 2
Wales +11 10 £375 -
West Midlands -22 8 £469 -14.73% 1
North West -16 5 £358 -15.76%
Yorkshire -47 5 £350 -33.33% 2
East Midlands - 3 £269 - 1
North East -2 2 £463 - 1
Scotland +2 1 - - 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 11 (10.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (10.78%) WebLogic
2 10 (9.80%) Oracle Service Bus
3 4 (3.92%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Mule
4 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.98%) CICS
5 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.92%) Endur
3 1 (0.98%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.35%) AWS
2 25 (24.51%) Azure
3 16 (15.69%) GitHub
4 13 (12.75%) GCP
4 13 (12.75%) Serverless
5 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.82%) Apigee
7 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.88%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.90%) Stackdriver
10 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.92%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.92%) SaaS
11 3 (2.94%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.71%) Oracle Database
3 13 (12.75%) MongoDB
4 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.84%) Redis
6 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.96%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.96%) MySQL
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.98%) DB2
9 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.98%) Parquet
9 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 19 (18.63%) Postman
3 18 (17.65%) JIRA
4 16 (15.69%) Jenkins
5 13 (12.75%) Mockito
6 11 (10.78%) JUnit
7 10 (9.80%) GitLab
8 9 (8.82%) Selenium
8 9 (8.82%) SonarQube
9 8 (7.84%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.86%) Cucumber
10 7 (6.86%) Maven
11 5 (4.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
11 5 (4.90%) SoapUI
11 5 (4.90%) Subversion
11 5 (4.90%) Xcode
11 5 (4.90%) XCTest
12 4 (3.92%) Cypress.io
12 4 (3.92%) Gradle
General
1 29 (28.43%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (28.43%) Finance
2 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.78%) Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.92%) Automotive
6 4 (3.92%) Back Office
6 4 (3.92%) Front Office
7 2 (1.96%) Billing
7 2 (1.96%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.96%) French Language
7 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (34.31%) Developer
2 13 (12.75%) Java Developer
2 13 (12.75%) Lead
2 13 (12.75%) Senior
3 11 (10.78%) Analyst
3 11 (10.78%) Consultant
4 9 (8.82%) Architect
4 9 (8.82%) Oracle Consultant
4 9 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Test Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Oracle SOA Consultant
7 5 (4.90%) Python Developer
7 5 (4.90%) SOA Consultant
7 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Endur Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (53.92%) OpenAPI
2 48 (47.06%) REST
3 33 (32.35%) JSON
4 29 (28.43%) RESTful
5 27 (26.47%) OAuth
6 26 (25.49%) SOAP
6 26 (25.49%) Spring Boot
7 25 (24.51%) Spring
8 24 (23.53%) XML
9 23 (22.55%) React
10 22 (21.57%) OAuth2
11 17 (16.67%) Kafka
12 14 (13.73%) Node.js
13 12 (11.76%) .NET
14 10 (9.80%) CSS
14 10 (9.80%) HTML
14 10 (9.80%) XSD
15 9 (8.82%) Spring Cloud
16 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
16 7 (6.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.80%) Virtual Team
3 9 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.92%) Grid Computing
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.96%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.98%) Derivative
9 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Unix
3 4 (3.92%) Windows
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.82%) Agile
2 46 (45.10%) Microservices
3 45 (44.12%) DevOps
4 43 (42.16%) CI/CD
5 33 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.49%) API Design
7 23 (22.55%) SDLC
8 22 (21.57%) Containerisation
9 21 (20.59%) Validation
10 18 (17.65%) API Management
10 18 (17.65%) TDD
10 18 (17.65%) Test Automation
11 15 (14.71%) Code Quality
11 15 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (13.73%) Thought Leadership
12 14 (13.73%) Unit Testing
13 12 (11.76%) API Testing
13 12 (11.76%) Mentoring
13 12 (11.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.00%) SQL
2 43 (42.16%) Java
3 22 (21.57%) Python
4 20 (19.61%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.69%) C#
6 13 (12.75%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.84%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.86%) Bash
9 5 (4.90%) Groovy
10 3 (2.94%) Go
11 2 (1.96%) Bicep
12 1 (0.98%) COBOL
12 1 (0.98%) JCL
12 1 (0.98%) Korn
12 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.98%) Scala
12 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.76%) Degree
4 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) WCAG
2 7 (6.86%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.86%) QA
3 4 (3.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.96%) HL7
5 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.98%) EMIR
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.98%) MiFID
5 1 (0.98%) NIST
5 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.98%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (35.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.69%) Terraform
3 10 (9.80%) Ansible
4 3 (2.94%) Grafana
4 3 (2.94%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.94%) Rundeck
4 3 (2.94%) Salt
5 2 (1.96%) Istio
5 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.98%) Argo
6 1 (0.98%) Control-M
6 1 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 8 (7.84%) Splunk
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.92%) Charles River
7 3 (2.94%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.94%) Google
7 3 (2.94%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.94%) VMware
8 2 (1.96%) IBM
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.98%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.98%) Progress
9 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) Telerik
9 1 (0.98%) webMethods