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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 435 509
Rank change year-on-year -71 +74 +12
Contract jobs citing Swagger 107 97 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.39% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 54 68
10th Percentile £350 £435 £359
25th Percentile £364 £500 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +9.59% -7.12%
75th Percentile £506 £685 £663
90th Percentile £575 £825 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -29.38% +9.09% -6.38%
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 8,900 6,991 9,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.25% 22.57% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,938 4,502 6,513
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
75th Percentile £621 £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 218 85 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.65 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.44 £39.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.15 £77.96 £76.72
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 13 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 13 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 -64 99 £428 -31.60% 28
UK excluding London -44 59 £424 -29.38% 29
London -39 36 £400 -33.33% 7
Work from Home -9 35 £473 -21.25% 16
North of England -39 32 £394 -21.25% 10
North West -16 22 £394 -7.35% 8
South East -26 14 £488 -11.36% 9
Midlands -48 10 £470 -14.55% 2
West Midlands -43 8 £470 -14.64%
Yorkshire -64 7 £363 -51.67%
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Wales -3 2 - - 1
Scotland +6 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 (13.08%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) Appian
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) CPLEX
1 1 (0.93%) Notion
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
3 1 (0.93%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.64%) Azure
2 30 (28.04%) AWS
3 16 (14.95%) GitHub
4 14 (13.08%) Apigee
4 14 (13.08%) Serverless
5 13 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.28%) GCP
7 9 (8.41%) Kong
7 9 (8.41%) Power Automate
8 8 (7.48%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (7.48%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (7.48%) Azure Functions
8 8 (7.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.67%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.41%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.48%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.48%) Pinecone
5 5 (4.67%) Redis
6 4 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.87%) MySQL
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.93%) GIS
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) JIRA
2 22 (20.56%) Postman
3 19 (17.76%) Git
4 18 (16.82%) Jenkins
5 17 (15.89%) GitLab
6 12 (11.21%) Mockito
7 11 (10.28%) JUnit
8 9 (8.41%) Selenium
9 8 (7.48%) MLflow
10 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.61%) SonarQube
12 5 (4.67%) Gradle
12 5 (4.67%) Maven
12 5 (4.67%) MSTest
12 5 (4.67%) REST Assured
13 4 (3.74%) JMeter
14 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.80%) Spinnaker
15 2 (1.87%) GoCD
15 2 (1.87%) Liquibase
General
1 36 (33.64%) Finance
2 22 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
4 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.28%) Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Billing
7 2 (1.87%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.87%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (32.71%) Developer
2 13 (12.15%) Analyst
3 11 (10.28%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Business Analyst
3 11 (10.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Java Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Lead
4 9 (8.41%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.41%) Senior
5 8 (7.48%) Architect
5 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Python Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.61%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Payments Business Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (61.68%) OpenAPI
2 57 (53.27%) REST
3 42 (39.25%) RESTful
4 26 (24.30%) JSON
5 22 (20.56%) OAuth
5 22 (20.56%) Spring
6 21 (19.63%) SOAP
7 19 (17.76%) XML
8 18 (16.82%) JWT
8 18 (16.82%) React
8 18 (16.82%) Spring Boot
9 16 (14.95%) .NET
10 14 (13.08%) Kafka
11 12 (11.21%) FastAPI
11 12 (11.21%) pytest
12 11 (10.28%) Django
12 11 (10.28%) Flask
12 11 (10.28%) Node.js
13 10 (9.35%) Web Services
14 9 (8.41%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.48%) Low-Code
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.67%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) NHS
7 2 (1.87%) TM Forum
8 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Windows
2 3 (2.80%) Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.07%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.32%) Agile
3 37 (34.58%) Microservices
4 31 (28.97%) Test Automation
5 30 (28.04%) DevOps
5 30 (28.04%) Validation
6 26 (24.30%) Requirements Gathering
7 25 (23.36%) API Design
8 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (21.50%) API Development
9 23 (21.50%) Containerisation
10 21 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (18.69%) Integration Patterns
12 18 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (14.95%) API Integration
14 16 (14.95%) API Management
14 16 (14.95%) API Testing
14 16 (14.95%) Unit Testing
15 15 (14.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.12%) Java
2 40 (37.38%) SQL
3 33 (30.84%) Python
4 18 (16.82%) C#
5 16 (14.95%) JavaScript
6 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
8 9 (8.41%) Bash
9 5 (4.67%) Groovy
10 4 (3.74%) Apex Code
10 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.80%) Bicep
11 3 (2.80%) Go
12 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.93%) PHP
13 1 (0.93%) SOQL
13 1 (0.93%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.08%) Degree
4 13 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) WCAG
3 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.61%) PSD2
4 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.80%) ISO 8583
5 3 (2.80%) QA
6 2 (1.87%) HL7
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (36.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.89%) Terraform
3 6 (5.61%) Istio
4 5 (4.67%) Ansible
5 4 (3.74%) Grafana
5 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.80%) Argo
6 3 (2.80%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.80%) Rundeck
6 3 (2.80%) Salt
7 1 (0.93%) Kibana
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.35%) Dynatrace
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle
3 8 (7.48%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.48%) UiPath
4 7 (6.54%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.80%) Google
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) Veracode
5 3 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.87%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.87%) New Relic
6 2 (1.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Okta
7 1 (0.93%) Telerik