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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 432 507
Rank change year-on-year -47 +75 +43
Contract jobs citing Swagger 95 118 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.50% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 70 77
10th Percentile £354 £446 £358
25th Percentile £363 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £570
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -1.32% -0.87%
75th Percentile £536 £687 £675
90th Percentile £630 £825 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -29.09% -6.38% +12.55%
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 7,915 7,875 10,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 21.73% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 4,973 7,499
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.70% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 111 191
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 -58 75 £475 -20.83% 119
London -14 46 £475 -20.83% 63
Work from Home +8 39 £500 -11.11% 50
UK excluding London -43 32 £390 -29.09% 100
South East +5 9 £504 -8.41% 72
North of England -37 9 £369 -26.62% 11
Wales - 8 £375 - 1
Midlands -24 5 £270 -50.91% 4
Yorkshire -33 5 £350 -30.69% 1
East Midlands - 3 £269 - 1
North East -9 2 £500 -
North West -12 2 £390 +4.00% 10
West Midlands -31 2 £650 +18.18% 2
Scotland -5 1 - - 6

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 11 (11.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (11.58%) WebLogic
2 10 (10.53%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (5.26%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Mule
4 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.05%) CICS
5 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.05%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (4.21%) Endur
3 1 (1.05%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) AWS
2 22 (23.16%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) GitHub
4 12 (12.63%) Serverless
5 10 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.47%) GCP
7 7 (7.37%) SaaS
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
9 5 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.26%) Apigee
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.16%) Stackdriver
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.84%) Oracle Database
3 12 (12.63%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.47%) Redis
5 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.11%) MySQL
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.05%) DB2
9 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.05%) Parquet
9 1 (1.05%) Power BI
9 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (23.16%) Git
2 20 (21.05%) Postman
3 18 (18.95%) JIRA
4 15 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 15 (15.79%) Mockito
5 13 (13.68%) JUnit
6 10 (10.53%) SonarQube
7 9 (9.47%) REST Assured
7 9 (9.47%) Selenium
8 7 (7.37%) Cucumber
8 7 (7.37%) GitLab
8 7 (7.37%) Maven
9 6 (6.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (6.32%) Gradle
9 6 (6.32%) Liquibase
9 6 (6.32%) SoapUI
9 6 (6.32%) Subversion
9 6 (6.32%) Xcode
9 6 (6.32%) XCTest
10 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (29.47%) Finance
2 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 23 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.84%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.58%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Automotive
6 4 (4.21%) Back Office
6 4 (4.21%) Front Office
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Developer
2 14 (14.74%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Consultant
4 12 (12.63%) Lead
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Analyst
6 9 (9.47%) Oracle Consultant
7 7 (7.37%) Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Designer
8 6 (6.32%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.26%) SOA Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (49.47%) OpenAPI
2 44 (46.32%) REST
3 27 (28.42%) JSON
4 25 (26.32%) OAuth
5 23 (24.21%) React
5 23 (24.21%) RESTful
5 23 (24.21%) SOAP
5 23 (24.21%) Spring Boot
6 22 (23.16%) OAuth2
6 22 (23.16%) XML
7 19 (20.00%) Spring
8 18 (18.95%) Kafka
9 12 (12.63%) Node.js
10 10 (10.53%) .NET
10 10 (10.53%) XSD
11 9 (9.47%) CSS
11 9 (9.47%) HTML
12 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
12 8 (8.42%) JPA
12 8 (8.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 8 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.21%) Grid Computing
7 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.05%) Derivative
9 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Linux
1 6 (6.32%) Unix
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.89%) Agile
2 42 (44.21%) DevOps
3 39 (41.05%) Microservices
4 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 30 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (26.32%) API Design
7 24 (25.26%) SDLC
8 21 (22.11%) TDD
8 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
9 20 (21.05%) Containerisation
10 19 (20.00%) Validation
11 16 (16.84%) Unit Testing
12 15 (15.79%) Code Quality
13 14 (14.74%) API Management
13 14 (14.74%) Thought Leadership
14 13 (13.68%) Mentoring
14 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
15 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (12.63%) Requirements Gathering
16 11 (11.58%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.42%) SQL
2 39 (41.05%) Java
3 22 (23.16%) Python
4 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.74%) C#
6 13 (13.68%) PL/SQL
7 12 (12.63%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.37%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.32%) Groovy
9 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 5 (5.26%) Bash
11 3 (3.16%) Go
12 1 (1.05%) C
12 1 (1.05%) COBOL
12 1 (1.05%) JCL
12 1 (1.05%) Korn
12 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.05%) Scala
12 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 8 (8.42%) WCAG
3 7 (7.37%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.21%) GDPR
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) EMIR
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) MiFID
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (34.74%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.74%) Terraform
3 10 (10.53%) Ansible
4 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (3.16%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.16%) Rundeck
4 3 (3.16%) Salt
5 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.11%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) Argo
6 1 (1.05%) Control-M
6 1 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (25.26%) Oracle
2 9 (9.47%) Splunk
3 7 (7.37%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (6.32%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.21%) Charles River
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.21%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.16%) Checkmarx
6 3 (3.16%) Google
6 3 (3.16%) Hitachi
6 3 (3.16%) VMware
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.05%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.05%) Progress
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) Trillium
8 1 (1.05%) webMethods