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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 435 448
Rank change year-on-year -72 +13 +67
Contract jobs citing Swagger 199 119 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.38% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 82 80
10th Percentile £363 £359 £446
25th Percentile £425 £406 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -12.05% -
75th Percentile £569 £545 £688
90th Percentile £604 £649 £839
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £456 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -17.05% -8.33%

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 11,884 8,631 9,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 26.04% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 5,738 6,150
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.11%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -78 139 £460 -8.00% 190
UK excluding London -81 81 £455 -0.38% 170
Work from Home -46 74 £513 +4.06% 156
London -55 72 £525 +2.44% 78
South East -49 24 £460 -5.64% 33
Midlands -35 21 £460 +35.29% 24
West Midlands -23 19 £463 -28.77% 19
Scotland -10 16 £425 +0.47% 30
North of England -77 10 £425 -5.56% 27
South West - 9 £575 - 19
Yorkshire -32 7 £425 +17.24% 9
East Midlands -20 2 £380 +24.59% 5
East of England -24 2 £480 -16.52% 11
North West -55 2 £425 -19.81% 14
North East -48 1 £426 -8.00% 4

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 10 (5.03%) Confluence
2 8 (4.02%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.51%) Traefik
5 3 (1.51%) Mule
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.52%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.50%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 100 (50.25%) Azure
2 92 (46.23%) AWS
3 50 (25.13%) GitHub
4 40 (20.10%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (12.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (10.55%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (10.55%) Boomi
7 21 (10.55%) Kong
8 18 (9.05%) GCP
9 15 (7.54%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (7.54%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.53%) Apigee
11 12 (6.03%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (5.53%) Azure API Management
13 10 (5.03%) Amazon MSK
13 10 (5.03%) iPaaS
13 10 (5.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.11%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.08%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.05%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.54%) Redis
5 13 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.52%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.02%) MySQL
8 8 (4.02%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.52%) Metadata
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.51%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.51%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.51%) Weaviate
12 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (29.15%) Git
2 45 (22.61%) Jenkins
3 38 (19.10%) JIRA
4 27 (13.57%) JUnit
5 24 (12.06%) Postman
6 21 (10.55%) Mockito
7 20 (10.05%) GitLab
8 18 (9.05%) Gradle
9 15 (7.54%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.53%) SpecFlow
11 11 (5.53%) Cucumber
12 10 (5.03%) Maven
13 7 (3.52%) JMeter
13 7 (3.52%) Selenium
14 6 (3.02%) Flyway
15 5 (2.51%) Storybook
16 4 (2.01%) Bitbucket
17 3 (1.51%) Balsamiq
17 3 (1.51%) MSBuild
17 3 (1.51%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (15.08%) Finance
1 30 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.56%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.06%) Banking
4 8 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.02%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.52%) Publishing
6 5 (2.51%) Billing
7 4 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.01%) Law
7 4 (2.01%) Retail
8 3 (1.51%) Military
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
9 2 (1.01%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.50%) French Language
10 1 (0.50%) German Language
10 1 (0.50%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (38.19%) Developer
2 37 (18.59%) Architect
3 24 (12.06%) Senior
4 20 (10.05%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.55%) Lead
6 17 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.04%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.03%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.53%) Azure Developer
9 11 (5.53%) C# Developer
9 11 (5.53%) Java Engineer
9 11 (5.53%) Node.js Developer
10 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (4.52%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
11 9 (4.52%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Tester
13 6 (3.02%) Analyst
13 6 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (84.92%) OpenAPI
2 100 (50.25%) REST
3 76 (38.19%) RESTful
4 60 (30.15%) OAuth
5 52 (26.13%) JSON
6 48 (24.12%) OAuth2
7 40 (20.10%) Kafka
7 40 (20.10%) Spring
7 40 (20.10%) Spring Boot
8 38 (19.10%) React
9 34 (17.09%) JWT
10 32 (16.08%) OpenID
11 31 (15.58%) Terraform
12 29 (14.57%) SOAP
13 27 (13.57%) Middleware
14 24 (12.06%) XML
15 23 (11.56%) Node.js
16 21 (10.55%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (10.05%) .NET
18 15 (7.54%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.65%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.51%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.50%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.01%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (61.31%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.22%) DevOps
3 81 (40.70%) Agile
4 60 (30.15%) Microservices
5 59 (29.65%) Test Automation
6 50 (25.13%) Containerisation
7 47 (23.62%) Event-Driven
8 41 (20.60%) Observability
9 39 (19.60%) API Design
10 36 (18.09%) API Management
11 34 (17.09%) Validation
12 33 (16.58%) API Development
13 32 (16.08%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (15.08%) TDD
15 28 (14.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (11.06%) Scrum
18 21 (10.55%) Software Engineering
18 21 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.16%) Java
2 51 (25.63%) SQL
3 43 (21.61%) Python
4 35 (17.59%) TypeScript
5 28 (14.07%) C#
6 25 (12.56%) Go
7 24 (12.06%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.03%) Lua
9 7 (3.52%) Bicep
9 7 (3.52%) DataWeave
9 7 (3.52%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.02%) Bash
10 6 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.51%) Scala
13 2 (1.01%) PromQL
13 2 (1.01%) Rust
14 1 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.50%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.54%) Degree
5 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.07%) QA
2 20 (10.05%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.03%) WCAG
4 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (29.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (41.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.55%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.05%) Grafana
4 12 (6.03%) Ansible
5 6 (3.02%) Istio
6 5 (2.51%) Kibana
7 3 (1.51%) Consul
8 2 (1.01%) Argo
8 2 (1.01%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.01%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (18.59%) MuleSoft
2 24 (12.06%) Oracle
3 14 (7.04%) Google
3 14 (7.04%) SAP
4 12 (6.03%) IBM
5 11 (5.53%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.03%) Dell
6 10 (5.03%) Splunk
7 9 (4.52%) Informatica
7 9 (4.52%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.52%) WSO2
8 8 (4.02%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.02%) webMethods
10 5 (2.51%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.01%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.01%) Nokia
12 2 (1.01%) Okta
12 2 (1.01%) Solace