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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 384 477
Rank change year-on-year -120 +93 +42
Contract jobs citing Swagger 129 126 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.91% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 69
10th Percentile £350 £410 £391
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +4.54% -10.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £597 £688 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -14.95% -1.43% -15.46%

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 9,425 6,613 8,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.64% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,532 6,201
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 109 246
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.21 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.13 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £82.27 £74.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 May 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 16 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 May 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 -94 107 £459 -13.40% 40
UK excluding London -86 60 £425 -14.95% 23
London -74 46 £530 - 20
Work from Home -46 44 £500 -6.28% 17
North of England -57 30 £402 -21.94% 8
North West -36 18 £401 -24.29% 3
South East -52 14 £425 -8.22% 11
Midlands -52 12 £469 +34.38%
West Midlands - 9 £469 -
Yorkshire -48 7 £375 -25.00% 2
North East -18 5 £450 +33.33% 3
Wales -10 2 - - 1
East Midlands -30 2 - -
Scotland -8 1 - -
South West -27 1 - - 3
East of England -29 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 13 (10.08%) Confluence
2 8 (6.20%) Appian
3 5 (3.88%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.55%) IIS
5 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Notion
2 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (3.10%) SAP MDG
2 4 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.55%) Shopify
4 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.11%) AWS
1 44 (34.11%) Azure
2 24 (18.60%) GitHub
3 21 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (10.85%) GCP
6 12 (9.30%) Apigee
6 12 (9.30%) Serverless
7 9 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.98%) Kong
7 9 (6.98%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.20%) Azure AI
9 7 (5.43%) Boomi
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) HTTP
2 2 (1.55%) NaaS
2 2 (1.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 15 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.85%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.08%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.20%) Pinecone
6 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.88%) MySQL
8 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.10%) Redis
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.33%) Metadata
10 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.55%) Flink
10 2 (1.55%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.55%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 26 (20.16%) Postman
3 25 (19.38%) Git
3 25 (19.38%) GitLab
4 23 (17.83%) JIRA
5 22 (17.05%) JUnit
6 18 (13.95%) Gradle
7 17 (13.18%) Mockito
8 13 (10.08%) Liquibase
9 11 (8.53%) JMeter
10 8 (6.20%) MLflow
11 4 (3.10%) Gatling
11 4 (3.10%) Maven
11 4 (3.10%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.33%) Robot Framework
12 3 (2.33%) Selenium
12 3 (2.33%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.55%) MSBuild
13 2 (1.55%) MSTest
13 2 (1.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.60%) Finance
3 19 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.98%) Banking
6 8 (6.20%) Billing
7 7 (5.43%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Law
8 4 (3.10%) Publishing
9 2 (1.55%) Back Office
9 2 (1.55%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.55%) French Language
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Military
10 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Developer
2 17 (13.18%) Java Engineer
3 16 (12.40%) Architect
4 14 (10.85%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (8.53%) Lead
6 9 (6.98%) Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Integration Architect
6 9 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Senior
7 8 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Tester
8 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Payments Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Payments Business Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (74.42%) OpenAPI
2 66 (51.16%) REST
3 43 (33.33%) RESTful
4 35 (27.13%) JSON
4 35 (27.13%) Kafka
4 35 (27.13%) Spring
5 31 (24.03%) Spring Boot
6 25 (19.38%) OAuth
6 25 (19.38%) React
7 21 (16.28%) JWT
7 21 (16.28%) XML
8 15 (11.63%) Django
8 15 (11.63%) FastAPI
8 15 (11.63%) pytest
8 15 (11.63%) SOAP
9 14 (10.85%) Flask
9 14 (10.85%) Middleware
9 14 (10.85%) OAuth2
9 14 (10.85%) Pandas
10 13 (10.08%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Low-Code
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.43%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.88%) Digital Wallet
5 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.33%) NHS
8 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.78%) CMDB
9 1 (0.78%) LIMS
9 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (65.89%) CI/CD
2 52 (40.31%) Agile
3 46 (35.66%) DevOps
4 45 (34.88%) Microservices
4 45 (34.88%) Test Automation
5 43 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 38 (29.46%) Validation
7 33 (25.58%) Observability
8 31 (24.03%) API Design
9 28 (21.71%) API Development
9 28 (21.71%) TDD
10 26 (20.16%) Event-Driven
11 23 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (17.83%) Software Engineering
11 23 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
13 21 (16.28%) Integration Patterns
13 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (14.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.19%) Java
2 47 (36.43%) Python
3 44 (34.11%) SQL
4 27 (20.93%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.63%) C#
6 14 (10.85%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.08%) Bash
8 12 (9.30%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.10%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.10%) DataWeave
9 4 (3.10%) Groovy
10 3 (2.33%) Bicep
10 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.55%) C++
11 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.78%) C
12 1 (0.78%) Go
12 1 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (9.30%) Degree
4 10 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) Data Quality
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.88%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.88%) PSD2
3 5 (3.88%) WCAG
4 3 (2.33%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.55%) GDPR
5 2 (1.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (41.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (41.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.63%) Terraform
3 13 (10.08%) Grafana
3 13 (10.08%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.20%) Ansible
4 8 (6.20%) Istio
5 2 (1.55%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.55%) Argo
5 2 (1.55%) Kibana
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) Consul
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Salesforce
2 13 (10.08%) MuleSoft
3 10 (7.75%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.20%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.20%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.20%) UiPath
5 6 (4.65%) Oracle
6 5 (3.88%) SAP
6 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.10%) Dell
8 3 (2.33%) Google
8 3 (2.33%) Splunk
8 3 (2.33%) Veracode
9 2 (1.55%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.55%) Ciena
9 2 (1.55%) Databricks
9 2 (1.55%) New Relic
9 2 (1.55%) Nokia
10 1 (0.78%) BT
10 1 (0.78%) SimCorp