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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 427 487
Rank change year-on-year -75 +60 +34
Contract jobs citing Swagger 99 93 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.35% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 50 68
10th Percentile £350 £454 £359
25th Percentile £363 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.25% +0.68% -6.70%
75th Percentile £491 £683 £663
90th Percentile £580 £826 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -26.91% -1.79% -6.67%
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 9,094 6,871 9,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.76% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,072 4,489 6,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.54%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 88 226
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.94
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.34 £75.77
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 2 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 2 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 -79 88 £423 -29.58% 26
UK excluding London -59 51 £402 -26.91% 22
London -58 35 £400 -36.00% 8
North of England -43 31 £394 -21.25% 5
Work from Home -25 29 £470 -14.55% 10
North West -18 21 £394 -7.35% 2
Midlands -49 10 £470 -14.64% 2
South East -29 7 £475 -13.64% 6
West Midlands -46 7 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -63 7 £363 -51.67% 1
North East - 3 £475 - 2
Wales -3 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Scotland +9 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 13 (13.13%) Confluence
2 8 (8.08%) Appian
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.01%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) CPLEX
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.01%) Notion
1 1 (1.01%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.02%) Shopify
3 1 (1.01%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.32%) AWS
1 32 (32.32%) Azure
2 17 (17.17%) GitHub
3 14 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (13.13%) Apigee
5 12 (12.12%) GCP
5 12 (12.12%) Serverless
6 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.10%) Kong
7 9 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 8 (8.08%) Azure AI
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Functions
12 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (1.01%) NaaS
2 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 8 (8.08%) Pinecone
5 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.03%) MySQL
6 3 (3.03%) Redis
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.01%) Flink
8 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.01%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.01%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) JIRA
2 18 (18.18%) Git
3 17 (17.17%) Postman
4 15 (15.15%) GitLab
4 15 (15.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (11.11%) Mockito
6 10 (10.10%) JUnit
7 8 (8.08%) MLflow
8 7 (7.07%) Selenium
9 6 (6.06%) Gradle
10 5 (5.05%) Cucumber
10 5 (5.05%) JMeter
10 5 (5.05%) Maven
11 4 (4.04%) MSTest
11 4 (4.04%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.03%) Gatling
12 3 (3.03%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.03%) Spinnaker
13 2 (2.02%) GoCD
13 2 (2.02%) Liquibase
General
1 31 (31.31%) Finance
2 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.20%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.10%) Banking
6 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Billing
8 2 (2.02%) Dutch Language
8 2 (2.02%) French Language
8 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.01%) Back Office
9 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) Developer
2 14 (14.14%) Analyst
3 12 (12.12%) Business Analyst
4 11 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Lead
6 9 (9.09%) Architect
7 8 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Senior
8 7 (7.07%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (7.07%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (68.69%) OpenAPI
2 57 (57.58%) REST
3 32 (32.32%) RESTful
4 26 (26.26%) JSON
5 21 (21.21%) OAuth
5 21 (21.21%) Spring
6 20 (20.20%) XML
7 19 (19.19%) JWT
8 18 (18.18%) SOAP
9 17 (17.17%) Spring Boot
10 16 (16.16%) React
11 15 (15.15%) Kafka
12 12 (12.12%) Node.js
13 11 (11.11%) .NET
13 11 (11.11%) FastAPI
14 10 (10.10%) Django
14 10 (10.10%) Flask
14 10 (10.10%) pytest
15 9 (9.09%) NumPy
15 9 (9.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.08%) Low-Code
3 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) NHS
7 2 (2.02%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.01%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 37 (37.37%) Microservices
3 36 (36.36%) Agile
4 30 (30.30%) Validation
5 28 (28.28%) Test Automation
6 27 (27.27%) DevOps
7 25 (25.25%) API Design
7 25 (25.25%) Requirements Gathering
8 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (21.21%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (20.20%) API Development
12 18 (18.18%) API Management
12 18 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (16.16%) API Integration
14 15 (15.15%) Clean Code
14 15 (15.15%) Data Modelling
14 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (15.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.41%) Java
2 33 (33.33%) SQL
3 26 (26.26%) Python
4 13 (13.13%) C#
5 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.06%) Bash
9 4 (4.04%) Apex Code
9 4 (4.04%) Groovy
10 3 (3.03%) Bicep
10 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.01%) C++
11 1 (1.01%) Go
11 1 (1.01%) PHP
11 1 (1.01%) SOQL
11 1 (1.01%) SOSL
11 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.15%) Degree
4 13 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.08%) WCAG
3 6 (6.06%) GDPR
3 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.06%) PSD2
4 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.03%) ISO 8583
5 3 (3.03%) QA
6 2 (2.02%) HL7
7 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.01%) NCSC
7 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (35.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (35.35%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.14%) Terraform
3 7 (7.07%) Istio
4 5 (5.05%) Grafana
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.03%) Argo
6 2 (2.02%) Ansible
7 1 (1.01%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.01%) Kibana
7 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) Salesforce
2 10 (10.10%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.08%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (8.08%) OpenAI
3 8 (8.08%) UiPath
4 7 (7.07%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.07%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) Google
5 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.03%) Veracode
6 2 (2.02%) IBM
6 2 (2.02%) New Relic
7 1 (1.01%) Amdocs
7 1 (1.01%) BT
7 1 (1.01%) Ciena
7 1 (1.01%) Databricks
7 1 (1.01%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.01%) Splunk
7 1 (1.01%) Telerik