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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 406 483
Rank change year-on-year -110 +77 +52
Contract jobs citing Swagger 139 128 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.83% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 86 72
10th Percentile £349 £372 £395
25th Percentile £410 £448 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £530 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +5.47% -10.67%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £641
90th Percentile £594 £650 £839
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £475 £503
% change year-on-year -10.42% -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 10,036 7,006 9,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.53% 22.78% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,579 4,748 6,340
10th Percentile £363 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 143 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.81 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.40 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.81 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 1 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 1 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 -106 109 £463 -12.74% 43
UK excluding London -77 60 £426 -10.42% 32
Work from Home -52 47 £529 -0.84% 16
London -80 47 £550 +3.77% 15
North of England -67 26 £414 -19.71% 8
South East -50 19 £375 -18.92% 11
North West -38 14 £416 -21.51% 4
Yorkshire -44 8 £363 -17.14% 1
Midlands -54 7 £555 +58.88% 1
South West -26 6 £600 -27.27% 6
North East -31 4 £438 -7.84% 3
West Midlands -49 4 £459 - 1
Scotland -7 2 - - 1
East Midlands -12 2 - -
East of England -22 1 - - 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 11 (7.91%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.32%) Appian
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) IIS
4 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.47%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Notion
2 1 (0.72%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) SAP MDG
1 4 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.88%) Azure
2 56 (40.29%) AWS
3 38 (27.34%) GitHub
4 32 (23.02%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.91%) GCP
7 10 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (7.19%) Apigee
7 10 (7.19%) Serverless
8 7 (5.04%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (5.04%) Boomi
8 7 (5.04%) Kong
9 6 (4.32%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.32%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.32%) Power Automate
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) HTTP
2 2 (1.44%) NaaS
2 2 (1.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.09%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.99%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.51%) NoSQL
4 15 (10.79%) Redis
4 15 (10.79%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.32%) Pinecone
8 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.88%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.88%) MySQL
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.16%) Metadata
11 2 (1.44%) Flink
11 2 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.44%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (34.53%) Jenkins
2 39 (28.06%) Git
3 29 (20.86%) JIRA
4 26 (18.71%) JUnit
5 23 (16.55%) Postman
6 22 (15.83%) GitLab
7 21 (15.11%) Mockito
8 20 (14.39%) Gradle
9 18 (12.95%) Liquibase
10 10 (7.19%) JMeter
11 6 (4.32%) Flyway
11 6 (4.32%) MLflow
12 4 (2.88%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.88%) SpecFlow
13 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
13 3 (2.16%) git-flow
13 3 (2.16%) MSBuild
13 3 (2.16%) Robot Framework
13 3 (2.16%) webpack
General
1 29 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.39%) Finance
3 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.63%) Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.04%) Law
7 6 (4.32%) Billing
7 6 (4.32%) Publishing
8 5 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Military
10 2 (1.44%) Back Office
10 2 (1.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (35.97%) Developer
2 21 (15.11%) Architect
3 16 (11.51%) Software Engineer
4 13 (9.35%) Java Engineer
4 13 (9.35%) Lead
5 12 (8.63%) Senior
6 11 (7.91%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.47%) Integration Architect
8 9 (6.47%) Node.js Developer
8 9 (6.47%) Tester
9 8 (5.76%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.04%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.60%) Analyst
12 5 (3.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (78.42%) OpenAPI
2 73 (52.52%) REST
3 48 (34.53%) RESTful
4 38 (27.34%) Kafka
5 31 (22.30%) JSON
5 31 (22.30%) Spring
6 29 (20.86%) OAuth
6 29 (20.86%) Spring Boot
7 27 (19.42%) React
8 22 (15.83%) JWT
8 22 (15.83%) OAuth2
9 17 (12.23%) Django
9 17 (12.23%) FastAPI
9 17 (12.23%) Node.js
9 17 (12.23%) pytest
9 17 (12.23%) XML
10 16 (11.51%) Flask
10 16 (11.51%) Pandas
11 15 (10.79%) NumPy
12 14 (10.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.91%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.47%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.32%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.16%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.44%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.72%) CMDB
10 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.72%) Android
1 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (64.03%) CI/CD
2 59 (42.45%) Agile
3 57 (41.01%) Microservices
4 55 (39.57%) Containerisation
5 53 (38.13%) DevOps
6 46 (33.09%) Test Automation
7 39 (28.06%) API Development
8 34 (24.46%) Observability
9 32 (23.02%) TDD
9 32 (23.02%) Validation
10 31 (22.30%) API Design
11 30 (21.58%) Event-Driven
12 28 (20.14%) Software Engineering
13 25 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (15.83%) Clean Code
15 22 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (15.11%) Unit Testing
17 20 (14.39%) Deployment Automation
17 20 (14.39%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.29%) Java
2 47 (33.81%) Python
3 43 (30.94%) SQL
4 29 (20.86%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.23%) C#
6 12 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.91%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.19%) Bash
9 4 (2.88%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.88%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.88%) Groovy
10 3 (2.16%) Bicep
10 3 (2.16%) Go
11 2 (1.44%) C++
11 2 (1.44%) PromQL
11 2 (1.44%) Rust
11 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.72%) C
12 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 48 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.65%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (7.91%) Degree
5 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 8 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.88%) WCAG
5 3 (2.16%) NCSC
5 3 (2.16%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.16%) PSD2
6 2 (1.44%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.72%) GDPR
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.72%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (47.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (44.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.23%) Terraform
3 14 (10.07%) Grafana
3 14 (10.07%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.19%) Ansible
5 5 (3.60%) Istio
6 3 (2.16%) Argo
6 3 (2.16%) Consul
6 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.44%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.44%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (10.07%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.63%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.32%) Automation Anywhere
3 6 (4.32%) Dynatrace
3 6 (4.32%) OpenAI
3 6 (4.32%) Oracle
3 6 (4.32%) UiPath
4 5 (3.60%) Google
4 5 (3.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.60%) SAP
4 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.88%) Dell
6 3 (2.16%) Splunk
6 3 (2.16%) Veracode
7 2 (1.44%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.44%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.44%) Databricks
7 2 (1.44%) IBM
7 2 (1.44%) Nokia
7 2 (1.44%) Solace