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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 445 445
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 +63
Contract jobs citing Swagger 198 115 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.35% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 79 77
10th Percentile £363 £359 £435
25th Percentile £425 £403 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -1.84%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £685
90th Percentile £604 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £456 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -17.05% -8.33%

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 11,828 8,514 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.95% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,768 5,649 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.10 £25.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.95% -13.46% +10.53%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -73 138 £460 -8.00% 179
UK excluding London -66 80 £455 -0.38% 124
Work from Home -41 75 £525 +5.00% 117
London -70 72 £525 - 74
South East -45 24 £460 -5.64% 31
Midlands -27 21 £460 +35.29% 23
West Midlands -29 19 £463 -28.77% 18
Scotland -8 16 £425 +0.47% 12
North of England -74 10 £425 -5.56% 25
South West - 9 £575 - 15
Yorkshire -31 7 £425 +17.24% 8
East Midlands -11 2 £380 +24.59% 5
North West -51 2 £425 -19.81% 14
East of England -26 1 £480 -16.52% 12
North East -40 1 £426 -8.00% 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 10 (5.05%) Confluence
2 8 (4.04%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.53%) Traefik
5 3 (1.52%) Mule
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.51%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (5.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.01%) Azure
2 92 (46.46%) AWS
3 50 (25.25%) GitHub
4 39 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (12.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (10.61%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (10.61%) Boomi
6 21 (10.61%) Kong
7 18 (9.09%) GCP
8 16 (8.08%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (8.08%) Entra ID
9 13 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (6.57%) Apigee
10 12 (6.06%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.06%) Azure API Management
10 12 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.56%) Serverless
12 10 (5.05%) Amazon MSK
12 10 (5.05%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.71%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.59%) Redis
5 13 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.04%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.54%) MySQL
10 6 (3.03%) Metadata
10 6 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.02%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.52%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.52%) Weaviate
14 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 58 (29.29%) Git
2 44 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 38 (19.19%) JIRA
4 26 (13.13%) JUnit
5 24 (12.12%) Postman
6 20 (10.10%) Mockito
7 19 (9.60%) GitLab
8 17 (8.59%) Gradle
9 14 (7.07%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.57%) SpecFlow
11 11 (5.56%) Cucumber
12 10 (5.05%) Maven
13 7 (3.54%) JMeter
13 7 (3.54%) Selenium
14 6 (3.03%) Flyway
15 5 (2.53%) Storybook
16 4 (2.02%) Bitbucket
17 3 (1.52%) Balsamiq
17 3 (1.52%) MSBuild
17 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (15.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.15%) Finance
3 26 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.04%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.54%) Publishing
7 5 (2.53%) Billing
8 4 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.02%) Law
8 4 (2.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Military
10 2 (1.01%) Back Office
10 2 (1.01%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.51%) French Language
11 1 (0.51%) German Language
11 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (37.88%) Developer
2 38 (19.19%) Architect
3 25 (12.63%) Senior
4 19 (9.60%) Java Developer
4 19 (9.60%) Lead
5 18 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (8.08%) Integration Architect
7 12 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.56%) Azure Developer
8 11 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 11 (5.56%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 9 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Tester
12 6 (3.03%) Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (84.85%) OpenAPI
2 101 (51.01%) REST
3 75 (37.88%) RESTful
4 60 (30.30%) OAuth
5 53 (26.77%) JSON
6 48 (24.24%) OAuth2
7 39 (19.70%) Kafka
7 39 (19.70%) Spring
7 39 (19.70%) Spring Boot
8 37 (18.69%) React
9 34 (17.17%) JWT
10 33 (16.67%) OpenID
11 32 (16.16%) Terraform
12 29 (14.65%) SOAP
13 27 (13.64%) Middleware
14 24 (12.12%) Node.js
14 24 (12.12%) XML
15 21 (10.61%) .NET
15 21 (10.61%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (7.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 60 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.04%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.01%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.44%) DevOps
3 80 (40.40%) Agile
4 60 (30.30%) Microservices
4 60 (30.30%) Test Automation
5 50 (25.25%) Containerisation
6 48 (24.24%) Event-Driven
7 42 (21.21%) Observability
8 39 (19.70%) API Design
9 37 (18.69%) API Management
10 34 (17.17%) Validation
11 33 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
12 32 (16.16%) API Development
13 29 (14.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 29 (14.65%) TDD
14 28 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
15 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (11.11%) Scrum
16 22 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.82%) Java
2 50 (25.25%) SQL
3 42 (21.21%) Python
4 35 (17.68%) TypeScript
5 28 (14.14%) C#
6 25 (12.63%) Go
6 25 (12.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.05%) Lua
8 8 (4.04%) Bicep
9 7 (3.54%) DataWeave
9 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.03%) Bash
10 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.52%) Scala
13 2 (1.01%) PromQL
13 2 (1.01%) Rust
14 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 60 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 56 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.59%) Degree
5 15 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.14%) QA
2 20 (10.10%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.05%) WCAG
4 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (29.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (41.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.60%) Grafana
2 19 (9.60%) Prometheus
3 12 (6.06%) Ansible
4 6 (3.03%) Istio
5 5 (2.53%) Kibana
6 3 (1.52%) Consul
7 2 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.01%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.01%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (18.69%) MuleSoft
2 25 (12.63%) Oracle
3 14 (7.07%) Google
3 14 (7.07%) SAP
4 12 (6.06%) IBM
4 12 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.05%) Dell
5 10 (5.05%) Splunk
6 9 (4.55%) Informatica
6 9 (4.55%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.55%) WSO2
7 8 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.03%) webMethods
9 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.01%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.01%) Nokia
10 2 (1.01%) Okta
10 2 (1.01%) Solace