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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 416 445
Rank change year-on-year -113 +29 +87
Contract jobs citing Swagger 143 138 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.85% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 77
10th Percentile £349 £361 £413
25th Percentile £435 £413 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.45% -13.25%
75th Percentile £571 £553 £672
90th Percentile £598 £644 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.13% -15.67%

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 10,149 7,460 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.67% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 5,030 5,830
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £671
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 168 245
10th Percentile £28.79 £29.78 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.83 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 6 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 6 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 -91 102 £493 -7.08% 59
UK excluding London -101 54 £450 -5.26% 23
Work from Home -67 49 £525 - 31
London -71 49 £528 -0.47% 33
South East -39 24 £460 -1.87% 3
North of England -76 12 £425 -15.00% 6
Yorkshire -41 8 £375 +3.45% 2
Midlands -50 8 £459 +50.49% 3
South West - 7 £575 - 8
West Midlands -51 5 £467 - 2
Scotland -2 3 £368 -13.12% 1
East Midlands -9 3 £425 +39.34% 1
North East -42 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -62 2 £425 -19.81% 4
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 (6.29%) Anypoint
2 8 (5.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) Mule
4 2 (1.40%) IIS
4 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.70%) Appian
5 1 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.29%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.70%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.15%) Azure
2 70 (48.95%) AWS
3 50 (34.97%) GitHub
4 41 (28.67%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (13.99%) GCP
7 15 (10.49%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (9.09%) Boomi
9 11 (7.69%) Apigee
10 10 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.99%) Azure API Management
10 10 (6.99%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.29%) Serverless
12 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.90%) iPaaS
13 6 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (4.20%) Kong
14 5 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.40%) NaaS
2 2 (1.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (33.57%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.88%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.19%) NoSQL
3 16 (11.19%) Redis
4 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.80%) MySQL
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.10%) Metadata
9 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.40%) Flink
10 2 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.40%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.40%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (33.57%) Jenkins
2 44 (30.77%) Git
3 30 (20.98%) JIRA
4 24 (16.78%) JUnit
5 21 (14.69%) Postman
6 20 (13.99%) Gradle
7 19 (13.29%) Liquibase
7 19 (13.29%) Mockito
8 15 (10.49%) GitLab
9 10 (6.99%) JMeter
9 10 (6.99%) SpecFlow
10 7 (4.90%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.20%) Flyway
12 5 (3.50%) Selenium
13 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
13 4 (2.80%) Gatling
14 3 (2.10%) git-flow
14 3 (2.10%) Maven
14 3 (2.10%) MSBuild
14 3 (2.10%) webpack
General
1 22 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.09%) Finance
4 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.29%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.59%) Banking
6 7 (4.90%) Billing
6 7 (4.90%) Law
6 7 (4.90%) Publishing
7 5 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.80%) Retail
9 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.10%) Military
10 2 (1.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (39.86%) Developer
2 30 (20.98%) Architect
3 16 (11.19%) Senior
4 14 (9.79%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 13 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Integration Architect
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
7 10 (6.99%) Node.js Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Azure Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Tester
9 8 (5.59%) C# Developer
9 8 (5.59%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (3.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (81.82%) OpenAPI
2 82 (57.34%) REST
3 49 (34.27%) RESTful
4 45 (31.47%) Kafka
5 39 (27.27%) JSON
6 31 (21.68%) OAuth
7 30 (20.98%) React
8 29 (20.28%) Spring Boot
9 28 (19.58%) Spring
10 25 (17.48%) OAuth2
11 23 (16.08%) JWT
12 20 (13.99%) XML
13 19 (13.29%) Node.js
13 19 (13.29%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (13.29%) SOAP
14 16 (11.19%) Jest
15 15 (10.49%) FastAPI
15 15 (10.49%) Middleware
16 13 (9.09%) .NET
16 13 (9.09%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.29%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.70%) CMDB
10 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Android
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (65.73%) CI/CD
2 63 (44.06%) DevOps
3 62 (43.36%) Agile
4 55 (38.46%) Microservices
5 49 (34.27%) Containerisation
6 43 (30.07%) Test Automation
7 38 (26.57%) Event-Driven
8 34 (23.78%) TDD
9 33 (23.08%) Observability
10 32 (22.38%) API Development
11 31 (21.68%) API Design
12 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering
13 23 (16.08%) Validation
14 22 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
15 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (13.99%) API Management
16 20 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
17 19 (13.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 18 (12.59%) Acceptance Criteria
18 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.17%) Java
1 46 (32.17%) Python
2 41 (28.67%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) TypeScript
4 21 (14.69%) C#
5 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.29%) Bash
7 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.90%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.80%) Go
10 3 (2.10%) Bicep
10 3 (2.10%) Groovy
10 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.40%) C++
11 2 (1.40%) PromQL
11 2 (1.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge ABL
12 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Degree
4 10 (6.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.19%) QA
2 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.50%) WCAG
4 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.40%) SLA
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.70%) SEPA
6 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (40.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (39.16%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.49%) Terraform
3 14 (9.79%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.09%) Grafana
5 11 (7.69%) Ansible
6 4 (2.80%) Istio
7 3 (2.10%) Consul
8 2 (1.40%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.40%) Argo
8 2 (1.40%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.40%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (16.08%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.39%) Google
3 10 (6.99%) Oracle
3 10 (6.99%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.29%) IBM
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.90%) SAP
6 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.50%) Dell
7 5 (3.50%) Informatica
7 5 (3.50%) Splunk
7 5 (3.50%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.50%) WSO2
8 4 (2.80%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.40%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.40%) Ciena
9 2 (1.40%) Databricks
9 2 (1.40%) Nokia
9 2 (1.40%) Solace