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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 418 493
Rank change year-on-year -90 +75 +23
Contract jobs citing Swagger 107 103 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.55% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 59 65
10th Percentile £350 £457 £379
25th Percentile £363 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £638
90th Percentile £586 £789 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -19.60% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
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 9,284 6,651 8,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.34% 22.73% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,207 4,479 6,262
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 94 203
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.69 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -80 95 £425 -29.17% 29
UK excluding London -59 57 £402 -19.60% 19
London -66 37 £438 -28.57% 14
North of England -56 32 £394 -23.54% 9
Work from Home -41 28 £473 -14.09% 13
North West -19 21 £394 -17.11% 5
Midlands -54 11 £470 -14.64%
South East -49 10 £475 -19.15% 7
West Midlands -57 8 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -61 7 £363 -51.67% 3
North East - 4 £463 - 1
Scotland +5 2 - -
Wales -8 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -

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 13 (12.15%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) Appian
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) IIS
4 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Notion
2 1 (0.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.45%) AWS
2 32 (29.91%) Azure
3 19 (17.76%) GitHub
4 16 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (13.08%) GCP
6 13 (12.15%) Apigee
7 12 (11.21%) Serverless
8 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (9.35%) Kong
10 9 (8.41%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (8.41%) Power Automate
11 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (7.48%) Azure AI
11 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) NaaS
2 2 (1.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.76%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
3 13 (12.15%) Relational Database
4 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.48%) Pinecone
7 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.74%) MySQL
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.87%) Flink
8 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.87%) Redis
8 2 (1.87%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (20.56%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.76%) Git
2 19 (17.76%) JIRA
3 16 (14.95%) GitLab
3 16 (14.95%) Mockito
3 16 (14.95%) Postman
4 15 (14.02%) JUnit
5 11 (10.28%) Gradle
6 8 (7.48%) MLflow
7 7 (6.54%) Liquibase
8 5 (4.67%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.67%) Maven
8 5 (4.67%) Selenium
9 4 (3.74%) MSTest
9 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.80%) Gatling
10 3 (2.80%) JMeter
10 3 (2.80%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.80%) Spinnaker
11 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (28.97%) Finance
2 22 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Banking
5 4 (3.74%) Billing
5 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Law
6 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.87%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.87%) French Language
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (32.71%) Developer
2 14 (13.08%) Analyst
2 14 (13.08%) Java Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Business Analyst
3 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (10.28%) Architect
5 10 (9.35%) Lead
5 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.54%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Senior
8 6 (5.61%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Payments Analyst
9 5 (4.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (71.03%) OpenAPI
2 59 (55.14%) REST
3 36 (33.64%) RESTful
4 27 (25.23%) JSON
4 27 (25.23%) Spring
5 24 (22.43%) Spring Boot
6 22 (20.56%) Kafka
6 22 (20.56%) React
7 21 (19.63%) OAuth
8 20 (18.69%) XML
9 19 (17.76%) JWT
10 18 (16.82%) SOAP
11 12 (11.21%) .NET
11 12 (11.21%) Django
11 12 (11.21%) FastAPI
11 12 (11.21%) Flask
11 12 (11.21%) Node.js
12 11 (10.28%) NumPy
12 11 (10.28%) Pandas
13 10 (9.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.48%) Low-Code
5 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.67%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) NHS
9 2 (1.87%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.93%) CMDB
10 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.94%) CI/CD
2 44 (41.12%) Microservices
3 42 (39.25%) Agile
4 30 (28.04%) Containerisation
4 30 (28.04%) Validation
5 29 (27.10%) DevOps
6 27 (25.23%) API Design
7 26 (24.30%) Test Automation
8 25 (23.36%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (20.56%) API Development
10 22 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (20.56%) Integration Patterns
10 22 (20.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (16.82%) TDD
12 17 (15.89%) API Integration
12 17 (15.89%) Observability
13 16 (14.95%) AI
13 16 (14.95%) API Management
13 16 (14.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.86%) Java
2 40 (37.38%) SQL
3 30 (28.04%) Python
4 18 (16.82%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.08%) C#
6 10 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.61%) Bash
8 4 (3.74%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.74%) Groovy
9 3 (2.80%) Bicep
9 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.87%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.93%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) SOQL
11 1 (0.93%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.02%) Degree
4 13 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.41%) WCAG
2 7 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.61%) PSD2
4 4 (3.74%) GDPR
4 4 (3.74%) QA
5 3 (2.80%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.87%) HL7
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.93%) NCSC
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (38.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.15%) Terraform
3 7 (6.54%) Istio
4 6 (5.61%) Grafana
4 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.87%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.87%) Ansible
6 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Dynatrace
1 11 (10.28%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.48%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
2 8 (7.48%) UiPath
3 7 (6.54%) MuleSoft
3 7 (6.54%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Google
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Veracode
5 2 (1.87%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.87%) Ciena
5 2 (1.87%) IBM
5 2 (1.87%) New Relic
5 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) BT
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Telerik