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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 429 490
Rank change year-on-year -90 +61 +25
Contract jobs citing Swagger 100 98 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 1.43% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 68
10th Percentile £350 £457 £378
25th Percentile £363 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £494 £666 £653
90th Percentile £588 £825 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £412 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -17.55% -9.91% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
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 9,240 6,844 9,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 22.76% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,186 4,506 6,319
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 94 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.73 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -69 89 £425 -29.17% 30
UK excluding London -61 54 £412 -17.55% 20
London -63 33 £400 -36.00% 11
North of England -41 32 £394 -21.25% 5
Work from Home -39 28 £473 -14.09% 14
North West -17 21 £394 -7.35% 2
Midlands -58 11 £470 -14.64% 2
South East -37 8 £475 -13.64% 5
West Midlands -50 8 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -62 7 £363 -51.67% 1
North East - 4 £463 - 2
Wales -6 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Scotland +5 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 (13.00%) Confluence
2 8 (8.00%) Appian
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
4 2 (2.00%) IIS
4 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) CPLEX
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.00%) Notion
1 1 (1.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.00%) Shopify
3 1 (1.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) AWS
2 31 (31.00%) Azure
3 18 (18.00%) GitHub
4 15 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (13.00%) Apigee
6 12 (12.00%) GCP
7 11 (11.00%) Serverless
8 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (10.00%) Kong
9 9 (9.00%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (9.00%) Power Automate
10 8 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.00%) Azure AI
10 8 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) NaaS
2 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (8.00%) Pinecone
6 6 (6.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.00%) Redis
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.00%) Flink
9 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.00%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (19.00%) JIRA
2 18 (18.00%) Git
3 17 (17.00%) Postman
4 16 (16.00%) Jenkins
5 15 (15.00%) GitLab
6 11 (11.00%) Mockito
7 10 (10.00%) JUnit
8 8 (8.00%) MLflow
9 6 (6.00%) Gradle
10 5 (5.00%) Cucumber
10 5 (5.00%) Maven
10 5 (5.00%) Selenium
11 4 (4.00%) MSTest
11 4 (4.00%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.00%) Gatling
12 3 (3.00%) JMeter
12 3 (3.00%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.00%) Spinnaker
13 2 (2.00%) TestNG
13 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 23 (23.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 19 (19.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Billing
8 2 (2.00%) Dutch Language
8 2 (2.00%) French Language
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (34.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Analyst
3 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 11 (11.00%) Java Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Lead
7 9 (9.00%) Architect
8 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 7 (7.00%) Senior
9 7 (7.00%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (7.00%) Test Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) Payments Business Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Python Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (67.00%) OpenAPI
2 57 (57.00%) REST
3 34 (34.00%) RESTful
4 27 (27.00%) JSON
5 22 (22.00%) Spring
6 21 (21.00%) OAuth
7 20 (20.00%) XML
8 19 (19.00%) JWT
9 18 (18.00%) React
9 18 (18.00%) SOAP
9 18 (18.00%) Spring Boot
10 15 (15.00%) Kafka
11 12 (12.00%) .NET
11 12 (12.00%) Node.js
12 11 (11.00%) FastAPI
13 10 (10.00%) Django
13 10 (10.00%) Flask
13 10 (10.00%) pytest
14 9 (9.00%) Pandas
14 9 (9.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Low-Code
3 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.00%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (2.00%) TM Forum
9 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (39.00%) Microservices
3 36 (36.00%) Agile
4 30 (30.00%) Validation
5 27 (27.00%) DevOps
5 27 (27.00%) Test Automation
6 26 (26.00%) API Design
7 25 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 24 (24.00%) Containerisation
8 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (21.00%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (20.00%) API Development
11 20 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (17.00%) API Management
13 16 (16.00%) API Integration
14 15 (15.00%) AI
14 15 (15.00%) Clean Code
14 15 (15.00%) Observability
14 15 (15.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.00%) Java
2 35 (35.00%) SQL
3 28 (28.00%) Python
4 14 (14.00%) C#
5 13 (13.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.00%) Bash
8 4 (4.00%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.00%) Groovy
9 3 (3.00%) Bicep
9 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.00%) C++
11 1 (1.00%) Go
11 1 (1.00%) PHP
11 1 (1.00%) SOQL
11 1 (1.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 13 (13.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (9.00%) WCAG
2 7 (7.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.00%) PSD2
4 4 (4.00%) GDPR
5 3 (3.00%) ISO 8583
5 3 (3.00%) QA
6 2 (2.00%) HL7
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) Istio
4 5 (5.00%) Grafana
4 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Argo
6 2 (2.00%) Ansible
6 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 10 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 8 (8.00%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (8.00%) OpenAI
2 8 (8.00%) UiPath
3 7 (7.00%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.00%) Veracode
5 2 (2.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.00%) New Relic
6 1 (1.00%) Amdocs
6 1 (1.00%) BT
6 1 (1.00%) Ciena
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Telerik