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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 424 513
Rank change year-on-year -57 +89 +31
Contract jobs citing Swagger 102 124 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 1.56% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 72 70
10th Percentile £350 £451 £350
25th Percentile £363 £500 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £688 £675
90th Percentile £598 £780 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -29.09% -8.33% +11.63%
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 8,206 7,948 10,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.77% 21.79% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,447 5,004 7,222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 122 186
10th Percentile £30.75 £22.00 £35.13
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +19.27% -16.15%

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 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 26 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 -55 81 £475 -24.00% 28
London -21 46 £475 -24.00% 17
Work from Home +5 40 £500 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London -48 39 £390 -29.09% 25
North of England -53 13 £363 -27.50% 2
South East -3 9 £504 -8.41% 17
Wales - 9 £375 - 1
Midlands -28 7 £346 -37.05% 1
North West -21 5 £358 -15.76% 1
Yorkshire -42 5 £350 -33.33% 1
West Midlands -21 4 £536 -2.50% 1
North East -5 3 £475 -
East Midlands - 3 £269 -
Scotland -6 1 - - 3

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 (10.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 11 (10.78%) WebLogic
2 10 (9.80%) Oracle Service Bus
3 4 (3.92%) Confluence
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Mule
4 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.98%) CICS
5 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.98%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.92%) Endur
3 1 (0.98%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) AWS
2 25 (24.51%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) GitHub
4 13 (12.75%) GCP
4 13 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (12.75%) Serverless
5 9 (8.82%) Apigee
6 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 6 (5.88%) SaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.90%) Stackdriver
9 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.94%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.71%) Oracle Database
3 13 (12.75%) NoSQL
4 9 (8.82%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.84%) Redis
5 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.96%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.96%) MySQL
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.98%) DB2
8 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.98%) Parquet
8 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (22.55%) Git
2 19 (18.63%) Postman
3 18 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 17 (16.67%) JIRA
5 15 (14.71%) Mockito
6 13 (12.75%) JUnit
7 10 (9.80%) GitLab
8 9 (8.82%) Selenium
8 9 (8.82%) SonarQube
9 8 (7.84%) REST Assured
10 7 (6.86%) Cucumber
10 7 (6.86%) Maven
11 6 (5.88%) Gradle
11 6 (5.88%) Liquibase
12 5 (4.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.90%) SoapUI
12 5 (4.90%) Subversion
12 5 (4.90%) Xcode
12 5 (4.90%) XCTest
General
1 30 (29.41%) Finance
2 28 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.78%) Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.92%) Automotive
7 4 (3.92%) Back Office
7 4 (3.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.98%) French Language
9 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) Developer
2 15 (14.71%) Java Developer
2 15 (14.71%) Senior
3 12 (11.76%) Lead
4 11 (10.78%) Analyst
4 11 (10.78%) Consultant
4 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Oracle Consultant
6 8 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Architect
7 7 (6.86%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.86%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.88%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Designer
9 5 (4.90%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.90%) SOA Consultant
9 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (55.88%) OpenAPI
2 50 (49.02%) REST
3 31 (30.39%) JSON
4 27 (26.47%) OAuth
4 27 (26.47%) RESTful
4 27 (26.47%) Spring Boot
5 25 (24.51%) React
5 25 (24.51%) SOAP
6 24 (23.53%) XML
7 23 (22.55%) Spring
8 22 (21.57%) OAuth2
9 19 (18.63%) Kafka
10 14 (13.73%) Node.js
11 11 (10.78%) .NET
12 10 (9.80%) XSD
13 9 (8.82%) CSS
13 9 (8.82%) HTML
13 9 (8.82%) Spring Cloud
14 8 (7.84%) JPA
15 7 (6.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.80%) Virtual Team
3 9 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.86%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.92%) Grid Computing
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.98%) Derivative
9 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.98%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.98%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Unix
3 4 (3.92%) Windows
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.82%) Agile
2 49 (48.04%) DevOps
3 45 (44.12%) Microservices
4 44 (43.14%) CI/CD
5 32 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (26.47%) API Design
7 24 (23.53%) Containerisation
8 23 (22.55%) SDLC
8 23 (22.55%) TDD
9 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 21 (20.59%) Validation
10 18 (17.65%) API Management
11 17 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 15 (14.71%) Code Quality
12 15 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (13.73%) Thought Leadership
14 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
15 12 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.04%) SQL
2 43 (42.16%) Java
3 25 (24.51%) Python
4 19 (18.63%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.69%) C#
6 13 (12.75%) PL/SQL
6 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.86%) Bash
9 5 (4.90%) Groovy
10 3 (2.94%) Go
11 2 (1.96%) Bicep
12 1 (0.98%) COBOL
12 1 (0.98%) JCL
12 1 (0.98%) Korn
12 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.98%) PHP
12 1 (0.98%) Scala
12 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) Degree
4 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 9 (8.82%) WCAG
3 8 (7.84%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.92%) GDPR
5 2 (1.96%) HL7
6 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.98%) EMIR
6 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.98%) MiFID
6 1 (0.98%) NIST
6 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.98%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (35.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (28.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.69%) Terraform
3 10 (9.80%) Ansible
4 3 (2.94%) Grafana
4 3 (2.94%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.94%) Rundeck
4 3 (2.94%) Salt
5 2 (1.96%) Istio
5 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.98%) Argo
6 1 (0.98%) Control-M
6 1 (0.98%) Kibana
6 1 (0.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Oracle
2 8 (7.84%) Splunk
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
4 6 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.92%) Charles River
7 3 (2.94%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.94%) Google
7 3 (2.94%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.94%) VMware
8 2 (1.96%) IBM
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.98%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.98%) Progress
9 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) Telerik
9 1 (0.98%) webMethods