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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 446 494
Rank change year-on-year -38 +48 +46
Contract jobs citing Swagger 105 108 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 1.45% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 67 71
10th Percentile £350 £435 £363
25th Percentile £363 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -4.26%
75th Percentile £512 £694 £675
90th Percentile £575 £825 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £424 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -22.95% -6.38% +6.82%
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 8,305 7,429 9,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.92% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 4,710 6,717
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -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 -2.95% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 92 173
10th Percentile £31.10 £21.33 £32.60
25th Percentile £44.01 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -52 86 £450 -28.00% 27
London -15 48 £475 -24.00% 14
UK excluding London -46 45 £424 -22.95% 17
Work from Home +6 42 £475 -20.83% 11
North of England -54 14 £376 -25.68% 3
South East -24 11 £488 -11.36% 4
Midlands -33 10 £469 -14.73% 2
Wales +6 9 £375 - 3
West Midlands -28 7 £469 -14.73% 1
North West -29 7 £390 -8.24%
Yorkshire -44 5 £350 -45.10% 2
East Midlands - 3 £269 - 1
North East -6 2 £463 - 1
Scotland +1 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 10 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (8.57%) Oracle Service Bus
2 9 (8.57%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.90%) Apache
4 2 (1.90%) Mule
4 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.95%) Appian
5 1 (0.95%) CICS
5 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.81%) Endur
3 2 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.95%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.33%) AWS
2 30 (28.57%) Azure
3 18 (17.14%) GitHub
4 15 (14.29%) GCP
4 15 (14.29%) Serverless
5 11 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (9.52%) Apigee
7 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.71%) Stackdriver
11 5 (4.76%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Storage
11 5 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.86%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 10 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.62%) Redis
5 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.86%) MySQL
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.95%) DB2
9 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.95%) Parquet
9 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) Git
2 22 (20.95%) Postman
3 21 (20.00%) JIRA
4 17 (16.19%) Jenkins
5 12 (11.43%) GitLab
5 12 (11.43%) Mockito
6 9 (8.57%) JUnit
6 9 (8.57%) Selenium
6 9 (8.57%) SonarQube
7 8 (7.62%) REST Assured
8 7 (6.67%) Cucumber
8 7 (6.67%) Maven
9 5 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket
9 5 (4.76%) SoapUI
9 5 (4.76%) Subversion
9 5 (4.76%) Xcode
9 5 (4.76%) XCTest
10 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.86%) MSTest
General
1 30 (28.57%) Finance
2 29 (27.62%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 21 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.43%) Banking
6 5 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.81%) Automotive
7 4 (3.81%) Back Office
7 4 (3.81%) Front Office
8 2 (1.90%) Billing
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.90%) French Language
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (32.38%) Developer
2 13 (12.38%) Analyst
2 13 (12.38%) Lead
3 12 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 11 (10.48%) Senior
5 10 (9.52%) Consultant
6 9 (8.57%) Architect
6 9 (8.57%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (7.62%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Endur Architect
11 4 (3.81%) OpenLink Architect
11 4 (3.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (53.33%) OpenAPI
2 51 (48.57%) REST
3 33 (31.43%) JSON
4 32 (30.48%) RESTful
5 27 (25.71%) OAuth
6 26 (24.76%) SOAP
7 25 (23.81%) XML
8 23 (21.90%) Spring
8 23 (21.90%) Spring Boot
9 21 (20.00%) OAuth2
9 21 (20.00%) React
10 17 (16.19%) Kafka
11 16 (15.24%) Node.js
12 13 (12.38%) .NET
13 10 (9.52%) CSS
13 10 (9.52%) HTML
14 9 (8.57%) Spring Cloud
14 9 (8.57%) XSD
15 8 (7.62%) Middleware
15 8 (7.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.57%) Virtual Team
3 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.81%) Grid Computing
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.90%) NHS
8 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.95%) Derivative
9 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Unix
3 4 (3.81%) Windows
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) Agile
2 46 (43.81%) CI/CD
3 45 (42.86%) Microservices
4 44 (41.90%) DevOps
5 34 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (28.57%) API Design
7 25 (23.81%) Validation
8 22 (20.95%) Containerisation
8 22 (20.95%) SDLC
9 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 19 (18.10%) API Management
11 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (16.19%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (15.24%) Code Quality
13 16 (15.24%) TDD
14 14 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
15 13 (12.38%) API Testing
15 13 (12.38%) Mentoring
15 13 (12.38%) Thought Leadership
15 13 (12.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.62%) SQL
2 42 (40.00%) Java
3 24 (22.86%) Python
4 21 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.19%) C#
6 11 (10.48%) PL/SQL
7 9 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.62%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.67%) Bash
9 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.76%) Groovy
11 3 (2.86%) Bicep
11 3 (2.86%) Go
12 1 (0.95%) COBOL
12 1 (0.95%) JCL
12 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.95%) PHP
12 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.38%) Degree
4 10 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) WCAG
2 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.71%) QA
4 5 (4.76%) GDPR
5 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.86%) PSD2
6 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.90%) HL7
7 1 (0.95%) EMIR
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.95%) MiFID
7 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (35.24%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (32.38%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.05%) Terraform
3 11 (10.48%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Grafana
5 3 (2.86%) Istio
5 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.86%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.86%) Rundeck
5 3 (2.86%) Salt
6 2 (1.90%) Argo
6 2 (1.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.95%) Control-M
7 1 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) Oracle
2 9 (8.57%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.62%) Splunk
4 6 (5.71%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.81%) Charles River
7 3 (2.86%) Checkmarx
7 3 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.86%) VMware
8 2 (1.90%) IBM
8 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.95%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.95%) New Relic
9 1 (0.95%) Okta
9 1 (0.95%) Progress
9 1 (0.95%) Telerik