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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 416 458
Rank change year-on-year -86 +42 +73
Contract jobs citing Swagger 151 139 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.42% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.88% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 95 81
10th Percentile £349 £360 £393
25th Percentile £425 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +3.55% -10.86%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £653
90th Percentile £595 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £503
% change year-on-year -10.47% -5.47% -16.25%

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 10,316 7,411 8,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 22.61% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,748 5,004 6,164
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.20% -2.18%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.80% -5.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 154 268
10th Percentile £29.81 £30.08 £22.68
25th Percentile £46.80 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -2.04%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -112 112 £460 -13.21% 27
UK excluding London -88 63 £425 -10.47% 21
Work from Home -63 52 £500 -6.28% 10
London -84 50 £540 +1.89% 8
North of England -69 23 £402 -19.60% 6
South East -51 22 £383 -17.30% 7
North West -51 12 £414 -21.98% 5
Yorkshire -42 9 £375 +3.45% 1
Midlands -45 8 £459 +31.52%
South West -33 7 £575 -30.30% 4
West Midlands -58 4 £459 -
East Midlands -12 3 £425 +21.78%
Scotland -16 3 £368 +75.00% 1
North East -38 2 £438 -5.35%
East of England -17 1 - - 3

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 15 (9.93%) Confluence
2 9 (5.96%) Anypoint
3 4 (2.65%) Appian
4 3 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.99%) IIS
4 3 (1.99%) Mule
5 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (5.96%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Notion
2 1 (0.66%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.66%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.02%) Azure
2 62 (41.06%) AWS
3 47 (31.13%) GitHub
4 40 (26.49%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (19.87%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.61%) GCP
7 11 (7.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (5.96%) Apigee
9 9 (5.96%) Boomi
9 9 (5.96%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.96%) Serverless
10 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.64%) Azure API Management
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.31%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.95%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) NaaS
2 2 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.13%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.22%) MongoDB
3 16 (10.60%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.60%) Redis
3 16 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.62%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.65%) MySQL
6 4 (2.65%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.99%) Metadata
7 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) Flink
8 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 47 (31.13%) Jenkins
2 42 (27.81%) Git
3 37 (24.50%) JIRA
4 27 (17.88%) Postman
5 26 (17.22%) JUnit
6 21 (13.91%) GitLab
6 21 (13.91%) Mockito
7 19 (12.58%) Gradle
8 18 (11.92%) Liquibase
9 11 (7.28%) SpecFlow
10 10 (6.62%) JMeter
11 6 (3.97%) Cucumber
11 6 (3.97%) Flyway
11 6 (3.97%) Selenium
12 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket
12 4 (2.65%) MLflow
12 4 (2.65%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.99%) Maven
13 3 (1.99%) MSBuild
13 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.57%) Finance
3 15 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.95%) Banking
6 8 (5.30%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.64%) Billing
7 7 (4.64%) Law
8 6 (3.97%) Publishing
9 5 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.65%) Retail
11 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.99%) Military
12 2 (1.32%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) Automotive
13 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (39.07%) Developer
2 24 (15.89%) Architect
3 17 (11.26%) Senior
4 14 (9.27%) Software Engineer
5 13 (8.61%) Python Developer
6 12 (7.95%) Lead
7 11 (7.28%) Integration Architect
8 10 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.62%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) Azure Developer
9 9 (5.96%) Node.js Developer
9 9 (5.96%) Tester
10 8 (5.30%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.30%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.30%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Analyst
12 6 (3.97%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.31%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (78.81%) OpenAPI
2 83 (54.97%) REST
3 57 (37.75%) RESTful
4 41 (27.15%) Kafka
5 40 (26.49%) JSON
6 30 (19.87%) React
7 28 (18.54%) OAuth
7 28 (18.54%) Spring Boot
8 27 (17.88%) Spring
9 23 (15.23%) OAuth2
10 21 (13.91%) XML
11 19 (12.58%) JWT
11 19 (12.58%) SOAP
12 18 (11.92%) FastAPI
12 18 (11.92%) Node.js
13 16 (10.60%) .NET
14 15 (9.93%) Django
14 15 (9.93%) Jest
14 15 (9.93%) pytest
14 15 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.18%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.28%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.96%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.99%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.66%) CMDB
10 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Android
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (64.90%) CI/CD
2 66 (43.71%) Agile
3 61 (40.40%) DevOps
4 51 (33.77%) Containerisation
4 51 (33.77%) Microservices
4 51 (33.77%) Test Automation
5 39 (25.83%) API Development
6 35 (23.18%) TDD
7 34 (22.52%) API Design
7 34 (22.52%) Event-Driven
7 34 (22.52%) Observability
8 28 (18.54%) Validation
9 26 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (17.22%) Software Engineering
10 24 (15.89%) Integration Patterns
10 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (13.91%) Unit Testing
12 19 (12.58%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (34.44%) Java
2 51 (33.77%) Python
3 44 (29.14%) SQL
4 32 (21.19%) TypeScript
5 25 (16.56%) C#
6 13 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.28%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.62%) Bash
9 7 (4.64%) DataWeave
10 4 (2.65%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.65%) Go
10 4 (2.65%) Groovy
11 3 (1.99%) Bicep
11 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) C++
12 2 (1.32%) PromQL
12 2 (1.32%) Rust
12 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 47 (31.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.27%) Degree
4 13 (8.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.26%) QA
2 12 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.65%) WCAG
5 3 (1.99%) NCSC
5 3 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.99%) PSD2
6 2 (1.32%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.66%) GDPR
7 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.66%) SEPA
7 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (40.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (37.09%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.60%) Terraform
3 15 (9.93%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.27%) Grafana
5 11 (7.28%) Ansible
6 5 (3.31%) Istio
7 3 (1.99%) Argo
7 3 (1.99%) Consul
7 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.32%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) MuleSoft
2 16 (10.60%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.30%) Oracle
4 7 (4.64%) SAP
5 6 (3.97%) Google
5 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.31%) Dell
6 5 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.31%) Splunk
7 4 (2.65%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.65%) UiPath
8 3 (1.99%) IBM
8 3 (1.99%) Veracode
9 2 (1.32%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.32%) Ciena
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Nokia