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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 396 472
Rank change year-on-year -105 +76 +66
Contract jobs citing Swagger 151 141 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 1.92% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 94 78
10th Percentile £349 £360 £407
25th Percentile £425 £414 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £528 £516
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +2.18% -9.23%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £667
90th Percentile £595 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -10.53% -6.31% -15.50%

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 10,266 7,335 9,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.58% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,717 4,951 6,252
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 159 274
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -1.74%

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 16 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 16 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 -101 112 £465 -12.26% 29
UK excluding London -85 62 £425 -10.53% 24
Work from Home -73 53 £513 -3.94% 10
London -81 50 £540 +1.89% 8
South East -43 22 £383 -17.30% 7
North of England -79 22 £398 -20.43% 7
North West -52 12 £414 -21.98% 4
Yorkshire -46 8 £363 - 1
Midlands -55 8 £459 +31.52%
South West -23 7 £575 -30.30% 5
West Midlands -53 4 £459 -
East Midlands -10 3 £425 +21.78%
Scotland -12 3 £368 +75.00% 1
North East -40 2 £438 -5.35% 2
East of England -22 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 72 (47.68%) Azure
2 62 (41.06%) AWS
3 46 (30.46%) GitHub
4 39 (25.83%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (19.87%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.61%) GCP
7 12 (7.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (6.62%) Serverless
9 9 (5.96%) Apigee
9 9 (5.96%) Boomi
9 9 (5.96%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.64%) Azure API Management
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (3.97%) Kong
12 5 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
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
4 15 (9.93%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (7.28%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.65%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.99%) Metadata
8 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) Flink
9 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
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 13 (8.61%) 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 16 (10.60%) Senior
4 14 (9.27%) Software Engineer
5 13 (8.61%) Lead
5 13 (8.61%) Python Developer
6 11 (7.28%) Integration Architect
7 10 (6.62%) Azure Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Node.js Developer
8 9 (5.96%) Tester
9 8 (5.30%) C# Developer
9 8 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.64%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.97%) Analyst
11 6 (3.97%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.97%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (78.15%) OpenAPI
2 84 (55.63%) REST
3 56 (37.09%) RESTful
4 41 (27.15%) Kafka
5 40 (26.49%) JSON
6 30 (19.87%) React
7 28 (18.54%) OAuth
8 27 (17.88%) Spring Boot
9 26 (17.22%) Spring
10 23 (15.23%) OAuth2
11 21 (13.91%) XML
12 19 (12.58%) JWT
12 19 (12.58%) SOAP
13 18 (11.92%) FastAPI
13 18 (11.92%) Node.js
14 17 (11.26%) .NET
15 15 (9.93%) Django
15 15 (9.93%) Jest
15 15 (9.93%) pytest
15 15 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.52%) 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 65 (43.05%) Agile
3 60 (39.74%) DevOps
4 52 (34.44%) Test Automation
5 51 (33.77%) Containerisation
5 51 (33.77%) Microservices
6 39 (25.83%) API Development
7 35 (23.18%) TDD
8 34 (22.52%) API Design
8 34 (22.52%) Event-Driven
9 33 (21.85%) Observability
10 28 (18.54%) Validation
11 26 (17.22%) Software Engineering
12 25 (16.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (15.89%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (13.91%) Unit Testing
15 19 (12.58%) Deployment Automation
15 19 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.77%) Java
1 51 (33.77%) Python
2 44 (29.14%) SQL
3 32 (21.19%) TypeScript
4 26 (17.22%) C#
5 13 (8.61%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.28%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.62%) Bash
8 7 (4.64%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.65%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.65%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) Groovy
10 3 (1.99%) Bicep
10 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) PromQL
11 2 (1.32%) Rust
11 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.66%) C
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
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 55 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.60%) Terraform
3 14 (9.27%) Grafana
3 14 (9.27%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.28%) Ansible
5 5 (3.31%) Istio
6 3 (1.99%) Argo
6 3 (1.99%) Consul
6 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.32%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) MuleSoft
2 16 (10.60%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.64%) Oracle
3 7 (4.64%) SAP
4 6 (3.97%) Google
4 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.31%) Dell
5 5 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.31%) Splunk
6 4 (2.65%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.65%) UiPath
7 3 (1.99%) IBM
7 3 (1.99%) Veracode
8 2 (1.32%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.32%) Ciena
8 2 (1.32%) Databricks
8 2 (1.32%) Nokia