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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 424 506
Rank change year-on-year -72 +82 +16
Contract jobs citing Swagger 99 96 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.36% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 67
10th Percentile £350 £441 £350
25th Percentile £392 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.83% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £500 £685 £668
90th Percentile £575 £831 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -22.27% -0.90% +0.91%
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 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 30 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 30 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 -63 90 £431 -31.04% 61
UK excluding London -48 51 £428 -22.27% 65
London -39 37 £425 -29.17% 7
Work from Home -6 36 £473 -20.59% 16
North of England -47 29 £397 -19.57% 14
North West -4 22 £394 -7.35% 8
South East -16 11 £504 -8.41% 22
Midlands -46 8 £470 -14.64% 8
West Midlands -33 7 £469 -14.73% 1
Yorkshire -60 4 £356 -43.00% 4
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Wales 0 2 - - 4
Scotland +1 1 - - 4

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 (13.13%) Confluence
2 6 (6.06%) Appian
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Notion
1 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.02%) Shopify
3 1 (1.01%) Endur
3 1 (1.01%) Exchequer
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.30%) AWS
1 30 (30.30%) Azure
2 13 (13.13%) GitHub
2 13 (13.13%) Serverless
3 12 (12.12%) Apigee
4 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.09%) GCP
5 9 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.08%) Kong
7 7 (7.07%) Azure Functions
7 7 (7.07%) Power Automate
8 6 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.06%) Azure AI
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.08%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.06%) Pinecone
5 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.04%) Redis
6 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.02%) MySQL
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.01%) GIS
8 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (21.21%) JIRA
2 20 (20.20%) Postman
3 18 (18.18%) GitLab
4 17 (17.17%) Git
5 15 (15.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (12.12%) Mockito
7 10 (10.10%) JUnit
8 9 (9.09%) Selenium
9 7 (7.07%) Cucumber
10 6 (6.06%) MLflow
10 6 (6.06%) SonarQube
11 4 (4.04%) Gradle
11 4 (4.04%) Maven
11 4 (4.04%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.03%) JMeter
12 3 (3.03%) MSTest
12 3 (3.03%) Spinnaker
13 2 (2.02%) GoCD
13 2 (2.02%) Liquibase
13 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (33.33%) Finance
2 22 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 19 (19.19%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Banking
5 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Billing
6 2 (2.02%) Dutch Language
6 2 (2.02%) French Language
7 1 (1.01%) Automotive
7 1 (1.01%) Back Office
7 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.01%) Front Office
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Developer
2 15 (15.15%) Analyst
3 12 (12.12%) Business Analyst
3 12 (12.12%) Lead
4 11 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.09%) Senior
7 7 (7.07%) Architect
7 7 (7.07%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Payments Business Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (60.61%) OpenAPI
2 50 (50.51%) REST
3 38 (38.38%) RESTful
4 25 (25.25%) JSON
5 22 (22.22%) SOAP
5 22 (22.22%) Spring
6 21 (21.21%) OAuth
7 19 (19.19%) Spring Boot
7 19 (19.19%) XML
8 16 (16.16%) React
9 15 (15.15%) JWT
10 13 (13.13%) .NET
10 13 (13.13%) Node.js
11 11 (11.11%) Kafka
12 9 (9.09%) FastAPI
12 9 (9.09%) Hibernate
12 9 (9.09%) pytest
12 9 (9.09%) YAML
13 8 (8.08%) CSS
13 8 (8.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.06%) Low-Code
4 5 (5.05%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) NHS
6 2 (2.02%) TM Forum
7 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Linux
3 2 (2.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.47%) Agile
3 38 (38.38%) Microservices
4 30 (30.30%) DevOps
5 27 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 27 (27.27%) Validation
6 24 (24.24%) API Design
6 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 21 (21.21%) API Development
8 21 (21.21%) Containerisation
9 19 (19.19%) Integration Patterns
9 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (17.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (15.15%) API Integration
11 15 (15.15%) Unit Testing
12 14 (14.14%) API Testing
12 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
12 14 (14.14%) TDD
12 14 (14.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.45%) Java
2 38 (38.38%) SQL
3 25 (25.25%) Python
4 16 (16.16%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.14%) C#
6 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.06%) Bash
8 4 (4.04%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.03%) Bicep
9 3 (3.03%) Go
10 2 (2.02%) Groovy
10 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.01%) PHP
11 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.01%) SOQL
11 1 (1.01%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.15%) Degree
4 13 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) WCAG
2 6 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 6 (6.06%) PSD2
3 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.05%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) ISO 8583
4 3 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (2.02%) HL7
6 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (35.35%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (32.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.14%) Terraform
3 6 (6.06%) Ansible
4 3 (3.03%) Grafana
4 3 (3.03%) Istio
4 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.03%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.03%) Rundeck
4 3 (3.03%) Salt
5 2 (2.02%) Argo
6 1 (1.01%) Kibana
6 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.01%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 8 (8.08%) MuleSoft
2 8 (8.08%) Oracle
3 7 (7.07%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.06%) Automation Anywhere
4 6 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.06%) UiPath
5 3 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.03%) Splunk
5 3 (3.03%) Veracode
5 3 (3.03%) VMware
6 2 (2.02%) New Relic
7 1 (1.01%) Charles River
7 1 (1.01%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) IBM
7 1 (1.01%) Okta
7 1 (1.01%) Telerik