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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 402 498
Rank change year-on-year -105 +96 +45
Contract jobs citing Swagger 116 129 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.44% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.94% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 81 60
10th Percentile £350 £413 £392
25th Percentile £385 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% +1.92% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £625
90th Percentile £588 £688 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -17.55% -3.85% -13.33%

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 9,430 6,657 8,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.18% 22.67% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,268 4,567 6,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £780 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 111 218
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.11 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.96 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.90%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -102 99 £431 -18.68% 16
UK excluding London -68 60 £412 -17.55% 10
London -95 39 £525 -3.67% 9
North of England -60 33 £394 -25.71% 3
Work from Home -41 32 £476 -10.73% 16
North West -29 21 £394 -25.71% 2
Midlands -46 12 £469 +31.01% 1
South East -58 10 £433 -5.21% 6
West Midlands - 9 £469 - 1
Yorkshire -61 8 £363 -51.67% 1
North East -15 4 £463 -2.63%
Scotland +7 2 - -
Wales -7 2 - -
East Midlands -36 2 - -
East of England -34 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 (12.07%) Confluence
2 8 (6.90%) Appian
3 5 (4.31%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.72%) IIS
5 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Notion
2 1 (0.86%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.21%) AWS
2 36 (31.03%) Azure
3 20 (17.24%) GitHub
4 15 (12.93%) Apigee
4 15 (12.93%) GCP
4 15 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (11.21%) Serverless
6 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.34%) Kong
7 9 (7.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.76%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.90%) Azure AI
8 8 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) HTTP
2 2 (1.72%) NaaS
2 2 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.34%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.90%) Pinecone
7 5 (4.31%) MySQL
8 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.72%) Flink
10 2 (1.72%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.72%) Metadata
10 2 (1.72%) Redis
10 2 (1.72%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 22 (18.97%) GitLab
3 21 (18.10%) Git
4 19 (16.38%) JIRA
5 17 (14.66%) Postman
6 16 (13.79%) JUnit
7 14 (12.07%) Mockito
8 13 (11.21%) Gradle
9 8 (6.90%) Liquibase
9 8 (6.90%) MLflow
10 6 (5.17%) JMeter
11 4 (3.45%) Gatling
11 4 (3.45%) Maven
11 4 (3.45%) Selenium
11 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.59%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.72%) MSTest
13 2 (1.72%) TestNG
General
1 29 (25.00%) Finance
2 25 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Banking
6 8 (6.90%) Billing
7 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.45%) Publishing
9 3 (2.59%) Law
10 2 (1.72%) Back Office
10 2 (1.72%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.72%) French Language
10 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (28.45%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) Java Engineer
3 14 (12.07%) Analyst
4 13 (11.21%) Architect
5 12 (10.34%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.48%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Lead
7 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior
10 6 (5.17%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (75.86%) OpenAPI
2 63 (54.31%) REST
3 40 (34.48%) RESTful
4 33 (28.45%) JSON
5 29 (25.00%) Spring
6 27 (23.28%) Kafka
7 26 (22.41%) Spring Boot
8 24 (20.69%) OAuth
8 24 (20.69%) XML
9 23 (19.83%) React
10 22 (18.97%) JWT
11 18 (15.52%) SOAP
12 13 (11.21%) Django
12 13 (11.21%) FastAPI
12 13 (11.21%) Flask
13 12 (10.34%) NumPy
13 12 (10.34%) Pandas
13 12 (10.34%) pytest
14 10 (8.62%) OAuth2
14 10 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.31%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.59%) NHS
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.86%) CMDB
9 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 44 (37.93%) Agile
2 44 (37.93%) Microservices
3 37 (31.90%) DevOps
4 35 (30.17%) Validation
5 33 (28.45%) Containerisation
5 33 (28.45%) Test Automation
6 29 (25.00%) API Design
7 27 (23.28%) API Development
8 24 (20.69%) Integration Patterns
9 23 (19.83%) Event-Driven
9 23 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (18.97%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (18.10%) API Management
11 21 (18.10%) Observability
12 19 (16.38%) TDD
13 18 (15.52%) API Integration
13 18 (15.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.97%) Java
2 39 (33.62%) Python
2 39 (33.62%) SQL
3 21 (18.10%) TypeScript
4 13 (11.21%) C#
4 13 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.90%) Bash
7 4 (3.45%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.45%) DataWeave
7 4 (3.45%) Groovy
8 3 (2.59%) Bicep
8 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.72%) C++
9 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.86%) Go
10 1 (0.86%) PHP
10 1 (0.86%) SOQL
10 1 (0.86%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 31 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.07%) Degree
4 13 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.03%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) WCAG
3 6 (5.17%) PSD2
4 5 (4.31%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.59%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.72%) GDPR
6 2 (1.72%) HL7
6 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.86%) NCSC
7 1 (0.86%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.86%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (37.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (37.07%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.93%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) Grafana
3 7 (6.03%) Istio
3 7 (6.03%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.72%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.72%) Argo
5 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.86%) Consul
6 1 (0.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (12.93%) Salesforce
2 12 (10.34%) MuleSoft
3 10 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.90%) UiPath
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle
6 3 (2.59%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.59%) Veracode
7 2 (1.72%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.72%) Ciena
7 2 (1.72%) IBM
7 2 (1.72%) New Relic
7 2 (1.72%) Nokia
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) BT
8 1 (0.86%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.86%) SAP
8 1 (0.86%) Telerik