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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 432 499
Rank change year-on-year -47 +67 +19
Contract jobs citing Swagger 95 92 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.33% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 67
10th Percentile £350 £444 £375
25th Percentile £359 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -5.58%
75th Percentile £511 £685 £675
90th Percentile £590 £829 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -26.91% -2.71% +2.78%
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 8,101 6,934 9,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.35% 22.00% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,405 6,555
10th Percentile £356 £353 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £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 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.36 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +16.82% -17.69%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -63 82 £450 -28.00% 20
UK excluding London -41 44 £402 -26.91% 19
London -17 43 £475 -24.00% 5
Work from Home -7 36 £470 -21.01% 19
North of England -46 16 £358 -29.28% 5
South East -9 11 £488 -11.36% 7
North West -25 10 £358 -15.76% 2
Midlands -37 10 £469 -14.73%
West Midlands -30 7 £469 -14.73%
Wales +5 6 - - 2
Yorkshire -43 5 £350 -45.10% 1
East Midlands - 3 £269 -
Scotland 0 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £475 - 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 6 (6.32%) Confluence
1 6 (6.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.26%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.21%) Appian
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Mule
4 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.05%) CICS
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.11%) Shopify
3 1 (1.05%) Endur
3 1 (1.05%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.53%) AWS
2 28 (29.47%) Azure
3 15 (15.79%) GitHub
4 14 (14.74%) Serverless
5 13 (13.68%) Apigee
6 12 (12.63%) GCP
7 9 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Functions
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.32%) Kong
9 6 (6.32%) Stackdriver
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (5.26%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.21%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.21%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.58%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.47%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.42%) Oracle Database
6 6 (6.32%) Redis
7 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.21%) Pinecone
9 3 (3.16%) MySQL
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.05%) DB2
11 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (1.05%) GIS
11 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Git
2 17 (17.89%) JIRA
2 17 (17.89%) Postman
3 16 (16.84%) Jenkins
4 13 (13.68%) GitLab
5 10 (10.53%) Mockito
6 9 (9.47%) Selenium
7 7 (7.37%) Cucumber
7 7 (7.37%) JUnit
7 7 (7.37%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.26%) Maven
8 5 (5.26%) REST Assured
9 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (4.21%) Gradle
9 4 (4.21%) MLflow
10 3 (3.16%) MSTest
10 3 (3.16%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.16%) Spinnaker
10 3 (3.16%) XCTest
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 19 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.53%) Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Billing
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Dutch Language
6 2 (2.11%) French Language
6 2 (2.11%) Front Office
6 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Back Office
7 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) Developer
2 13 (13.68%) Analyst
3 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Lead
4 10 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.53%) Senior
5 8 (8.42%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Consultant
6 7 (7.37%) Python Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (7.37%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (56.84%) OpenAPI
2 50 (52.63%) REST
3 32 (33.68%) RESTful
4 28 (29.47%) JSON
5 27 (28.42%) OAuth
6 23 (24.21%) SOAP
7 22 (23.16%) XML
8 21 (22.11%) Spring
8 21 (22.11%) Spring Boot
9 17 (17.89%) React
10 16 (16.84%) Kafka
10 16 (16.84%) Node.js
11 15 (15.79%) OAuth2
12 13 (13.68%) JWT
13 11 (11.58%) .NET
14 8 (8.42%) CSS
14 8 (8.42%) HTML
15 7 (7.37%) Middleware
15 7 (7.37%) pytest
15 7 (7.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.21%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.11%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) NHS
8 2 (2.11%) TM Forum
9 1 (1.05%) Derivative
9 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Unix
4 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.53%) Agile
2 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
3 38 (40.00%) DevOps
3 38 (40.00%) Microservices
4 28 (29.47%) Validation
5 25 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (22.11%) API Design
7 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 19 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 18 (18.95%) API Management
10 17 (17.89%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (16.84%) Integration Patterns
12 15 (15.79%) API Testing
12 15 (15.79%) SDLC
13 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (13.68%) API Development
14 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (12.63%) Computer Science
15 12 (12.63%) TDD
16 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (49.47%) SQL
2 36 (37.89%) Java
3 26 (27.37%) Python
4 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.63%) C#
6 9 (9.47%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.37%) Bash
8 7 (7.37%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.16%) Bicep
10 3 (3.16%) Go
10 3 (3.16%) Groovy
11 1 (1.05%) COBOL
11 1 (1.05%) JCL
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
11 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.68%) Degree
4 11 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) WCAG
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
2 5 (5.26%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.16%) PSD2
5 2 (2.11%) HL7
6 1 (1.05%) EMIR
6 1 (1.05%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.05%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.05%) MiFID
6 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (33.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.84%) Terraform
3 8 (8.42%) Ansible
4 4 (4.21%) Grafana
5 3 (3.16%) Istio
5 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.16%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.16%) Salt
6 2 (2.11%) Argo
6 2 (2.11%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) Control-M
7 1 (1.05%) Kibana
7 1 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Oracle
2 9 (9.47%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.42%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.32%) Splunk
5 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.21%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (4.21%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.21%) UiPath
7 3 (3.16%) Checkmarx
7 3 (3.16%) Google
7 3 (3.16%) VMware
8 2 (2.11%) Charles River
8 2 (2.11%) New Relic
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.05%) IBM
9 1 (1.05%) Okta
9 1 (1.05%) Telerik