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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 429 504
Rank change year-on-year -59 +75 +22
Contract jobs citing Swagger 104 97 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.40% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 55 63
10th Percentile £350 £438 £353
25th Percentile £385 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% +9.09% -6.50%
75th Percentile £500 £685 £669
90th Percentile £575 £825 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.36
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.53

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 8,626 6,926 9,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.12% 22.42% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,755 4,420 6,583
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.69 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 February 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 14 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 February 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 -57 95 £431 -31.12% 27
UK excluding London -50 56 £425 -29.17% 28
Work from Home -4 36 £475 -20.83% 18
London -52 36 £425 -29.17% 7
North of England -38 30 £394 -21.25% 10
North West -5 22 £394 -7.35% 8
South East -14 14 £488 -11.36% 11
Midlands -41 9 £470 -14.64% 1
West Midlands -44 7 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -62 5 £350 -53.33% 1
North East - 3 £475 - 1
Wales -1 2 - - 1
Scotland +7 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 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 14 (13.46%) Confluence
2 7 (6.73%) Appian
3 3 (2.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.96%) IIS
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.96%) Notion
1 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.92%) Shopify
3 1 (0.96%) Endur
3 1 (0.96%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) Azure
2 30 (28.85%) AWS
3 14 (13.46%) GitHub
4 13 (12.50%) Serverless
5 12 (11.54%) Apigee
6 11 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.65%) GCP
8 8 (7.69%) Kong
8 8 (7.69%) Power Automate
9 7 (6.73%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (6.73%) Azure AI
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.81%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.65%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.73%) Pinecone
5 5 (4.81%) Redis
6 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.92%) MySQL
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.96%) GIS
9 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (22.12%) JIRA
1 23 (22.12%) Postman
2 20 (19.23%) Git
3 18 (17.31%) GitLab
4 16 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 12 (11.54%) Mockito
6 11 (10.58%) JUnit
7 10 (9.62%) Selenium
8 7 (6.73%) Cucumber
8 7 (6.73%) MLflow
9 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
10 5 (4.81%) Gradle
10 5 (4.81%) Maven
10 5 (4.81%) MSTest
10 5 (4.81%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.85%) JMeter
12 3 (2.88%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
13 2 (1.92%) Locust
13 2 (1.92%) XCTest
General
1 35 (33.65%) Finance
2 23 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.15%) Public Sector
4 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Banking
6 5 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Billing
7 2 (1.92%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.92%) French Language
8 1 (0.96%) Automotive
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Developer
2 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) Lead
4 11 (10.58%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.58%) Java Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Architect
8 7 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.73%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.81%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.81%) Salesforce Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (61.54%) OpenAPI
2 54 (51.92%) REST
3 40 (38.46%) RESTful
4 28 (26.92%) JSON
5 22 (21.15%) OAuth
5 22 (21.15%) SOAP
5 22 (21.15%) Spring
6 21 (20.19%) XML
7 19 (18.27%) Spring Boot
8 17 (16.35%) React
9 16 (15.38%) JWT
10 14 (13.46%) .NET
11 13 (12.50%) Kafka
12 12 (11.54%) Node.js
13 11 (10.58%) FastAPI
13 11 (10.58%) pytest
14 10 (9.62%) Django
14 10 (9.62%) Flask
15 9 (8.65%) Hibernate
15 9 (8.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.65%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.73%) Low-Code
5 5 (4.81%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) NHS
8 2 (1.92%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.96%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 44 (42.31%) Agile
3 37 (35.58%) Microservices
4 31 (29.81%) DevOps
5 30 (28.85%) Test Automation
6 29 (27.88%) Validation
7 25 (24.04%) API Design
7 25 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (24.04%) Requirements Gathering
8 22 (21.15%) API Development
8 22 (21.15%) Containerisation
9 20 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (18.27%) Integration Patterns
11 17 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (15.38%) API Integration
12 16 (15.38%) API Testing
12 16 (15.38%) Unit Testing
13 15 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (14.42%) TDD
13 15 (14.42%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.27%) Java
2 39 (37.50%) SQL
3 29 (27.88%) Python
4 16 (15.38%) C#
4 16 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.73%) Bash
8 4 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.88%) Bicep
9 3 (2.88%) Go
9 3 (2.88%) Groovy
10 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) SOQL
11 1 (0.96%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) Degree
4 13 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) Data Quality
1 7 (6.73%) WCAG
2 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 6 (5.77%) PSD2
3 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.81%) GDPR
4 4 (3.85%) QA
5 3 (2.88%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.92%) HL7
7 1 (0.96%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.42%) Terraform
3 5 (4.81%) Ansible
4 4 (3.85%) Grafana
4 4 (3.85%) Istio
4 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.88%) Argo
5 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.88%) Rundeck
5 3 (2.88%) Salt
6 1 (0.96%) Kibana
6 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle
1 11 (10.58%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.73%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (6.73%) MuleSoft
3 7 (6.73%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.73%) UiPath
4 3 (2.88%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.88%) Veracode
4 3 (2.88%) VMware
5 2 (1.92%) New Relic
5 2 (1.92%) Splunk
6 1 (0.96%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) IBM
6 1 (0.96%) Okta
6 1 (0.96%) Telerik