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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 399 507
Rank change year-on-year -99 +108 +29
Contract jobs citing Swagger 120 127 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 1.90% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 79 64
10th Percentile £350 £412 £387
25th Percentile £392 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +1.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £538 £601 £625
90th Percentile £589 £690 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -15.25% -3.85% -13.33%

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 9,460 6,673 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.00% 22.75% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,266 4,573 6,200
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 114 234
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.70 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 2 May 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 15 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 2 May 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 -104 99 £433 -18.30% 29
UK excluding London -85 60 £424 -15.25% 16
London -88 39 £525 -0.94% 17
Work from Home -50 37 £478 -10.50% 10
North of England -52 32 £397 -25.07% 4
North West -32 21 £394 -25.71% 3
Midlands -57 13 £469 +31.01% 2
South East -48 11 £459 +0.60% 9
West Midlands - 10 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -49 7 £375 -50.00% 1
North East -16 4 £463 -2.63%
Scotland -1 2 - -
Wales -6 2 - -
East Midlands -34 2 - -
East of England -33 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 14 (11.67%) Confluence
2 8 (6.67%) Appian
3 5 (4.17%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.50%) Apache
5 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.67%) IIS
5 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Notion
2 1 (0.83%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.67%) SAP MDG
2 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.00%) AWS
2 39 (32.50%) Azure
3 22 (18.33%) GitHub
4 17 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.50%) Apigee
7 14 (11.67%) GCP
8 12 (10.00%) Kong
8 12 (10.00%) Serverless
9 9 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (7.50%) Power Automate
10 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.67%) Azure AI
10 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.17%) Boomi
13 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) HTTP
2 2 (1.67%) NaaS
2 2 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 14 (11.67%) MongoDB
4 13 (10.83%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.17%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.67%) Pinecone
7 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.17%) MySQL
8 3 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.50%) Metadata
8 3 (2.50%) Redis
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.67%) Flink
9 2 (1.67%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.67%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 24 (20.00%) GitLab
3 23 (19.17%) Git
4 21 (17.50%) JIRA
5 19 (15.83%) Postman
6 17 (14.17%) JUnit
7 14 (11.67%) Gradle
7 14 (11.67%) Mockito
8 9 (7.50%) Liquibase
9 8 (6.67%) MLflow
10 7 (5.83%) JMeter
11 4 (3.33%) Gatling
11 4 (3.33%) Maven
11 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.50%) Selenium
12 3 (2.50%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.67%) MSTest
13 2 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 29 (24.17%) Finance
2 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.67%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Billing
6 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Publishing
8 3 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (1.67%) Back Office
9 2 (1.67%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.67%) French Language
9 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (28.33%) Developer
2 16 (13.33%) Java Engineer
3 14 (11.67%) Analyst
3 14 (11.67%) Architect
4 12 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (9.17%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
7 8 (6.67%) Senior
8 7 (5.83%) Integration Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Python Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (76.67%) OpenAPI
2 65 (54.17%) REST
3 41 (34.17%) RESTful
4 36 (30.00%) JSON
5 30 (25.00%) Spring
6 28 (23.33%) Kafka
7 27 (22.50%) Spring Boot
8 26 (21.67%) OAuth
9 24 (20.00%) XML
10 23 (19.17%) JWT
10 23 (19.17%) React
11 18 (15.00%) SOAP
12 14 (11.67%) Django
12 14 (11.67%) FastAPI
13 13 (10.83%) Flask
13 13 (10.83%) pytest
14 12 (10.00%) Middleware
14 12 (10.00%) NumPy
14 12 (10.00%) OAuth2
14 12 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.17%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.50%) NHS
9 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.67%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.83%) CMDB
10 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 48 (40.00%) Agile
3 44 (36.67%) Microservices
4 42 (35.00%) DevOps
5 38 (31.67%) Test Automation
5 38 (31.67%) Validation
6 34 (28.33%) Containerisation
7 29 (24.17%) API Design
8 27 (22.50%) API Development
9 25 (20.83%) Observability
10 24 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 24 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
10 24 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (18.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 21 (17.50%) API Management
13 21 (17.50%) TDD
14 20 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
15 18 (15.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (43.33%) Java
2 42 (35.00%) Python
3 41 (34.17%) SQL
4 22 (18.33%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.83%) C#
5 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.50%) Bash
8 4 (3.33%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.33%) DataWeave
8 4 (3.33%) Groovy
8 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.50%) Bicep
10 2 (1.67%) C++
10 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) C
11 1 (0.83%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) SOQL
11 1 (0.83%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 35 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.67%) Degree
4 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (9.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.67%) QA
3 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.00%) PSD2
4 6 (5.00%) WCAG
5 5 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.50%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.67%) GDPR
7 2 (1.67%) HL7
7 2 (1.67%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.83%) NCSC
8 1 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (38.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.50%) Terraform
3 8 (6.67%) Grafana
3 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.83%) Istio
5 4 (3.33%) Ansible
6 2 (1.67%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.67%) Argo
6 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) Consul
7 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 14 (11.67%) MuleSoft
3 10 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.67%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.67%) UiPath
5 4 (3.33%) Oracle
6 3 (2.50%) Google
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.50%) SAP
6 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.50%) Veracode
7 2 (1.67%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.67%) Ciena
7 2 (1.67%) Dell
7 2 (1.67%) New Relic
7 2 (1.67%) Nokia
8 1 (0.83%) BT
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Telerik