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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 400 501
Rank change year-on-year -105 +101 +47
Contract jobs citing Swagger 121 127 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.90% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 80 65
10th Percentile £350 £412 £388
25th Percentile £394 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +0.95% -9.48%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £625
90th Percentile £588 £689 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -15.25% -3.85% -13.33%

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 9,459 6,673 8,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.90% 22.78% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,254 4,570 6,171
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 114 238
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.70 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 5 May 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 15 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 5 May 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 -117 99 £438 -17.31% 33
UK excluding London -77 60 £424 -15.25% 19
London -76 39 £525 -0.94% 19
Work from Home -47 38 £478 -10.50% 14
North of England -52 32 £397 -25.07% 6
North West -29 21 £394 -25.71% 3
Midlands -58 13 £469 +31.01% 2
South East -50 11 £459 +0.60% 9
West Midlands - 10 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -48 7 £375 -50.00% 1
North East -16 4 £463 +37.04% 2
Wales -11 2 - -
Scotland -12 2 - -
East Midlands -32 2 - -
East of England -45 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 14 (11.57%) Confluence
2 8 (6.61%) Appian
3 5 (4.13%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.65%) IIS
5 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Notion
2 1 (0.83%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.48%) SAP MDG
2 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.71%) AWS
2 39 (32.23%) Azure
3 22 (18.18%) GitHub
4 17 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (12.40%) Apigee
6 14 (11.57%) GCP
7 12 (9.92%) Kong
7 12 (9.92%) Serverless
8 9 (7.44%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (7.44%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.61%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (4.96%) Boomi
10 6 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) HTTP
2 2 (1.65%) NaaS
2 2 (1.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.01%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.40%) SQL Server
3 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
4 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.61%) Pinecone
7 5 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.13%) MySQL
8 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.48%) Metadata
8 3 (2.48%) Redis
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.65%) Flink
9 2 (1.65%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.65%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.83%) GitLab
3 23 (19.01%) Git
4 22 (18.18%) JIRA
5 20 (16.53%) Postman
6 18 (14.88%) JUnit
7 15 (12.40%) Gradle
7 15 (12.40%) Mockito
8 10 (8.26%) Liquibase
9 8 (6.61%) MLflow
10 7 (5.79%) JMeter
11 4 (3.31%) Gatling
11 4 (3.31%) Maven
11 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.48%) Selenium
12 3 (2.48%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.65%) MSTest
13 2 (1.65%) TestNG
General
1 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Finance
3 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.44%) Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Billing
7 7 (5.79%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Publishing
9 3 (2.48%) Law
10 2 (1.65%) Back Office
10 2 (1.65%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.65%) French Language
10 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (27.27%) Developer
2 16 (13.22%) Java Engineer
3 15 (12.40%) Architect
4 14 (11.57%) Analyst
5 12 (9.92%) Business Analyst
5 12 (9.92%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Integration Architect
8 8 (6.61%) Lead
8 8 (6.61%) Senior
9 7 (5.79%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.96%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (4.13%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (4.13%) Payments Business Analyst
11 5 (4.13%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (76.86%) OpenAPI
2 65 (53.72%) REST
3 41 (33.88%) RESTful
4 37 (30.58%) JSON
5 31 (25.62%) Spring
6 29 (23.97%) Kafka
7 28 (23.14%) Spring Boot
8 27 (22.31%) OAuth
9 24 (19.83%) XML
10 23 (19.01%) JWT
10 23 (19.01%) React
11 18 (14.88%) SOAP
12 14 (11.57%) Django
12 14 (11.57%) FastAPI
13 13 (10.74%) Flask
13 13 (10.74%) Middleware
13 13 (10.74%) OAuth2
13 13 (10.74%) pytest
14 12 (9.92%) NumPy
14 12 (9.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.92%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.61%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.96%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.13%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.48%) NHS
8 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.83%) CMDB
10 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (64.46%) CI/CD
2 50 (41.32%) Agile
3 45 (37.19%) Microservices
4 43 (35.54%) DevOps
5 39 (32.23%) Test Automation
6 37 (30.58%) Validation
7 35 (28.93%) Containerisation
8 29 (23.97%) API Design
9 27 (22.31%) API Development
10 26 (21.49%) Observability
11 25 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (19.83%) Event-Driven
12 24 (19.83%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (19.01%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
14 22 (18.18%) TDD
15 21 (17.36%) API Management
15 21 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (15.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.80%) Java
2 42 (34.71%) Python
2 42 (34.71%) SQL
3 22 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 13 (10.74%) C#
5 12 (9.92%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.44%) Bash
8 4 (3.31%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.31%) DataWeave
8 4 (3.31%) Groovy
8 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.48%) Bicep
10 2 (1.65%) C++
10 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) C
11 1 (0.83%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) SOQL
11 1 (0.83%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 36 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 28 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) Degree
4 13 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.61%) QA
3 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.96%) PSD2
4 5 (4.13%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.13%) WCAG
5 3 (2.48%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.65%) GDPR
6 2 (1.65%) HL7
6 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (38.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (38.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.40%) Terraform
3 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 8 (6.61%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.79%) Istio
5 4 (3.31%) Ansible
6 2 (1.65%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.65%) Argo
6 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) Consul
7 1 (0.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) MuleSoft
1 15 (12.40%) Salesforce
2 10 (8.26%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.61%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.61%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.61%) UiPath
4 4 (3.31%) Oracle
4 4 (3.31%) SAP
4 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.48%) Dell
5 3 (2.48%) Google
5 3 (2.48%) Veracode
6 2 (1.65%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.65%) Ciena
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.65%) New Relic
6 2 (1.65%) Nokia
6 2 (1.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) BT
7 1 (0.83%) IBM