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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 456 439
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 +64
Contract jobs citing Swagger 206 102 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.19% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 70 77
10th Percentile £363 £357 £435
25th Percentile £425 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £496 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% -9.77% -3.51%
75th Percentile £569 £536 £688
90th Percentile £609 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% -18.18% -8.33%

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 11,824 8,547 9,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.67% 25.96% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,758 5,676 6,036
10th Percentile £380 £356 £353
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 189 172
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.20 £25.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £51.44 £64.18
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% -19.85% +7.83%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.60 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +12.07%

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 October 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 12 October 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 -60 145 £463 -7.34% 106
UK excluding London -51 87 £460 +2.22% 50
Work from Home -24 78 £525 +5.00% 43
London -61 73 £525 +5.00% 59
Midlands -18 26 £463 +36.27% 9
West Midlands -22 24 £464 -28.57% 9
South East -53 24 £460 -8.68% 17
Scotland -5 17 £425 +0.47% 5
North of England -64 10 £425 +17.24% 10
South West - 10 £550 - 6
Yorkshire -26 7 £425 +21.43% 5
East Midlands -15 2 £380 +24.59%
North West -46 2 £425 +25.00% 4
East of England -24 1 £480 -16.52% 2
North East -42 1 £426 -8.00% 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 13 (6.31%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.91%) Traefik
5 3 (1.46%) Mule
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.91%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.49%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.37%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 106 (51.46%) Azure
2 96 (46.60%) AWS
3 50 (24.27%) GitHub
4 41 (19.90%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (18.93%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (12.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (10.19%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (10.19%) Boomi
8 20 (9.71%) GCP
8 20 (9.71%) Kong
9 16 (7.77%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (7.77%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.31%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.31%) Apigee
11 12 (5.83%) Azure API Management
11 12 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (5.34%) Serverless
13 10 (4.85%) Amazon MSK
13 10 (4.85%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.22%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.87%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.53%) MongoDB
3 20 (9.71%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.25%) Redis
5 13 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (4.85%) MySQL
7 10 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.37%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.91%) Metadata
11 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.43%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.46%) Weaviate
14 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.49%) GIS
Development Applications
1 60 (29.13%) Git
2 45 (21.84%) Jenkins
3 41 (19.90%) JIRA
4 27 (13.11%) JUnit
5 24 (11.65%) Postman
6 21 (10.19%) Mockito
7 19 (9.22%) GitLab
8 18 (8.74%) Gradle
9 14 (6.80%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.31%) SpecFlow
11 12 (5.83%) Cucumber
12 11 (5.34%) Maven
13 7 (3.40%) JMeter
13 7 (3.40%) Selenium
14 6 (2.91%) Flyway
15 5 (2.43%) Storybook
16 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
16 4 (1.94%) SonarQube
17 3 (1.46%) MSBuild
17 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.56%) Finance
3 29 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.68%) Banking
5 10 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.88%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.40%) Publishing
8 5 (2.43%) Billing
9 4 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.94%) Law
9 4 (1.94%) Retail
10 3 (1.46%) Military
11 2 (0.97%) Back Office
11 2 (0.97%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) German Language
12 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 77 (37.38%) Developer
2 40 (19.42%) Architect
3 28 (13.59%) Senior
4 20 (9.71%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.22%) Lead
6 18 (8.74%) Integration Architect
6 18 (8.74%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.31%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.34%) Azure Developer
8 11 (5.34%) C# Developer
8 11 (5.34%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.34%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.37%) Analyst
10 9 (4.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 9 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.88%) Tester
12 6 (2.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (85.44%) OpenAPI
2 107 (51.94%) REST
3 79 (38.35%) RESTful
4 61 (29.61%) OAuth
5 54 (26.21%) JSON
6 49 (23.79%) OAuth2
7 40 (19.42%) Kafka
7 40 (19.42%) Spring
7 40 (19.42%) Spring Boot
8 38 (18.45%) React
9 36 (17.48%) SOAP
10 35 (16.99%) JWT
11 34 (16.50%) OpenID
12 33 (16.02%) Terraform
13 27 (13.11%) Middleware
14 26 (12.62%) XML
15 24 (11.65%) Node.js
16 21 (10.19%) .NET
16 21 (10.19%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (7.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 62 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.71%) Product Ownership
3 17 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.91%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.43%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.97%) Android
1 2 (0.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.49%) macOS
2 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (61.17%) CI/CD
2 92 (44.66%) DevOps
3 85 (41.26%) Agile
4 64 (31.07%) Test Automation
5 62 (30.10%) Microservices
6 52 (25.24%) Containerisation
6 52 (25.24%) Event-Driven
7 45 (21.84%) Observability
8 42 (20.39%) API Design
8 42 (20.39%) API Management
9 38 (18.45%) Integration Patterns
10 34 (16.50%) Validation
11 33 (16.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 32 (15.53%) API Development
13 30 (14.56%) TDD
14 29 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (11.17%) Acceptance Criteria
16 23 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (11.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (31.07%) Java
2 51 (24.76%) SQL
3 43 (20.87%) Python
4 36 (17.48%) TypeScript
5 28 (13.59%) C#
6 27 (13.11%) Go
6 27 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.85%) Lua
8 8 (3.88%) Bicep
8 8 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.40%) DataWeave
10 6 (2.91%) Bash
10 6 (2.91%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.43%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.46%) Scala
13 2 (0.97%) PromQL
13 2 (0.97%) Rust
14 1 (0.49%) Groovy
14 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 63 (30.58%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.74%) Degree
5 16 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.34%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.56%) QA
2 20 (9.71%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.85%) WCAG
4 7 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
5 2 (0.97%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 60 (29.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (42.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.22%) Grafana
2 19 (9.22%) Prometheus
3 13 (6.31%) Ansible
4 6 (2.91%) Istio
5 5 (2.43%) Kibana
6 3 (1.46%) Consul
7 2 (0.97%) Argo
7 2 (0.97%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.97%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 37 (17.96%) MuleSoft
2 26 (12.62%) Oracle
3 16 (7.77%) SAP
4 15 (7.28%) Google
5 13 (6.31%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.83%) IBM
7 10 (4.85%) Dell
7 10 (4.85%) Splunk
8 9 (4.37%) Informatica
8 9 (4.37%) TIBCO
8 9 (4.37%) webMethods
8 9 (4.37%) WSO2
9 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
9 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.91%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.97%) Nokia
12 2 (0.97%) Okta
12 2 (0.97%) Solace