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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 408 452
Rank change year-on-year -122 +44 +96
Contract jobs citing Swagger 141 139 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 1.86% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 98 76
10th Percentile £353 £361 £413
25th Percentile £439 £413 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +1.03% -7.77%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £676
90th Percentile £598 £641 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -4.32% -5.94% -15.83%

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 10,240 7,471 8,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.11% 22.55% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,667 5,028 5,796
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 171 242
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.55% -17.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.78
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.48% -1.32%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -125 100 £510 -3.77% 59
UK excluding London -83 52 £455 -4.32% 23
Work from Home -71 49 £525 - 27
London -103 49 £528 -0.47% 34
South East -50 23 £460 -1.87% 4
North of England -73 12 £425 -15.00% 7
Yorkshire -32 8 £375 +3.45% 2
Midlands -51 7 £459 +50.49% 3
South West - 7 £575 - 7
West Midlands -46 5 £467 - 2
Scotland -7 3 £368 -13.12%
East Midlands -13 2 £425 +39.34% 1
North East -45 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -57 2 £425 -19.81% 5
East of England -20 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 9 (6.38%) Anypoint
2 7 (4.96%) Confluence
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.13%) Mule
4 2 (1.42%) IIS
4 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.67%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.71%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.19%) Azure
2 70 (49.65%) AWS
3 49 (34.75%) GitHub
4 40 (28.37%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.18%) GCP
7 15 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (9.22%) Boomi
9 11 (7.80%) Apigee
10 10 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (7.09%) Azure API Management
10 10 (7.09%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.38%) Serverless
12 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.96%) iPaaS
13 6 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.26%) Kong
14 5 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.42%) NaaS
2 2 (1.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.44%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.35%) Redis
4 15 (10.64%) NoSQL
5 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.26%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.84%) MySQL
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.13%) Metadata
10 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.42%) Flink
11 2 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.42%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.42%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 42 (29.79%) Git
3 29 (20.57%) JIRA
4 23 (16.31%) JUnit
5 20 (14.18%) Postman
6 19 (13.48%) Gradle
6 19 (13.48%) Liquibase
6 19 (13.48%) Mockito
7 14 (9.93%) GitLab
8 10 (7.09%) SpecFlow
9 9 (6.38%) JMeter
10 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.26%) Flyway
12 5 (3.55%) Selenium
13 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.13%) Gatling
14 3 (2.13%) git-flow
14 3 (2.13%) MSBuild
14 3 (2.13%) Robot Framework
14 3 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.22%) Finance
4 9 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.67%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Billing
6 7 (4.96%) Law
6 7 (4.96%) Publishing
7 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.84%) Retail
9 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Military
10 2 (1.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (39.72%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Architect
3 16 (11.35%) Senior
4 14 (9.93%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Integration Architect
7 11 (7.80%) Lead
8 10 (7.09%) Node.js Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Azure Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Tester
10 8 (5.67%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.67%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (81.56%) OpenAPI
2 81 (57.45%) REST
3 48 (34.04%) RESTful
4 44 (31.21%) Kafka
5 38 (26.95%) JSON
6 31 (21.99%) OAuth
7 30 (21.28%) React
8 29 (20.57%) Spring Boot
9 28 (19.86%) Spring
10 25 (17.73%) OAuth2
11 23 (16.31%) JWT
12 19 (13.48%) Node.js
12 19 (13.48%) SOAP
12 19 (13.48%) XML
13 18 (12.77%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (11.35%) Jest
15 15 (10.64%) Middleware
16 14 (9.93%) FastAPI
17 13 (9.22%) .NET
17 13 (9.22%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.09%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.67%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.71%) CMDB
10 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Android
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 62 (43.97%) Agile
2 62 (43.97%) DevOps
3 55 (39.01%) Microservices
4 48 (34.04%) Containerisation
5 42 (29.79%) Test Automation
6 38 (26.95%) Event-Driven
7 33 (23.40%) TDD
8 32 (22.70%) Observability
9 31 (21.99%) API Design
9 31 (21.99%) API Development
10 23 (16.31%) Software Engineering
11 22 (15.60%) Integration Patterns
11 22 (15.60%) Validation
12 21 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (14.18%) API Management
13 20 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 18 (12.77%) Acceptance Criteria
16 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.91%) Java
1 45 (31.91%) Python
2 41 (29.08%) SQL
3 31 (21.99%) TypeScript
4 21 (14.89%) C#
5 12 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.38%) Bash
7 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.96%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.84%) Go
10 3 (2.13%) Bicep
10 3 (2.13%) Groovy
10 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.42%) C++
11 2 (1.42%) PromQL
11 2 (1.42%) Rust
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge ABL
12 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) Degree
4 10 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.64%) QA
2 14 (9.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.55%) WCAG
4 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.13%) NCSC
5 2 (1.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.71%) SEPA
6 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (40.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (39.01%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.64%) Terraform
3 14 (9.93%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.22%) Grafana
5 11 (7.80%) Ansible
6 4 (2.84%) Istio
7 3 (2.13%) Consul
8 2 (1.42%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.42%) Argo
8 2 (1.42%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.42%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (16.31%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.51%) Google
3 10 (7.09%) Oracle
3 10 (7.09%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.38%) IBM
5 7 (4.96%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.96%) SAP
6 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.55%) Dell
7 5 (3.55%) Informatica
7 5 (3.55%) Splunk
7 5 (3.55%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.55%) WSO2
8 4 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.42%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.42%) Ciena
9 2 (1.42%) Databricks
9 2 (1.42%) Nokia
9 2 (1.42%) Solace