Swagger Contracts

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Swagger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swagger over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 510 539
Rank change year-on-year +117 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing Swagger 126 90 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 1.00% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 103
10th Percentile £412 £387 £458
25th Percentile £459 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £650
90th Percentile £689 £728 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Hourly rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 +86 102 £530 +0.95% 48
London +42 61 £538 -2.27% 25
Work from Home +55 49 £534 +7.78% 36
UK excluding London +75 43 £500 -3.85% 25
North of England +47 24 £530 +1.92% 5
North West +23 15 £530 +2.91% 3
Yorkshire +22 8 £750 - 1
South East +41 4 £456 -17.05% 7
Scotland +10 4 £210 -66.40% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 2
South West +47 3 £825 +29.92% 4
East of England +34 2 £575 +76.92% 1
Midlands +19 1 £358 -26.86% 4
East Midlands +6 1 £358 -26.86% 4
North East 0 1 £475 -13.64% 1
Wales - 1 - -

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (21.43%) Confluence
2 9 (7.14%) Anypoint
3 6 (4.76%) Mule
4 3 (2.38%) JBoss
4 3 (2.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.98%) AWS
2 21 (16.67%) Azure
3 18 (14.29%) Slack
4 17 (13.49%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (11.11%) Serverless
6 13 (10.32%) GCP
7 10 (7.94%) Apigee
8 8 (6.35%) GitHub
9 7 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.76%) SaaS
11 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.97%) Figma
12 4 (3.17%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.17%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.17%) SonarCloud
13 3 (2.38%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.38%) Kong
14 2 (1.59%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.29%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.59%) 4G
2 2 (1.59%) 5G
2 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (32.54%) Relational Database
3 31 (24.60%) MongoDB
4 26 (20.63%) MySQL
5 18 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.97%) Redis
9 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.38%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.59%) Tableau
12 1 (0.79%) Adabas
12 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.79%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 59 (46.83%) JUnit
2 43 (34.13%) Jenkins
3 39 (30.95%) Mockito
4 36 (28.57%) Gradle
5 35 (27.78%) JIRA
6 34 (26.98%) Git
7 33 (26.19%) Liquibase
8 21 (16.67%) Cucumber
9 18 (14.29%) Jasmine
10 16 (12.70%) GitLab
10 16 (12.70%) Postman
11 7 (5.56%) Maven
12 6 (4.76%) SonarQube
13 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
13 4 (3.17%) Selenium
14 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
14 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
14 3 (2.38%) IntelliJ
14 3 (2.38%) Mocha
14 3 (2.38%) TestNG
General
1 46 (36.51%) Finance
2 41 (32.54%) Public Sector
3 25 (19.84%) Telecoms
4 22 (17.46%) Electronics
4 22 (17.46%) Manufacturing
4 22 (17.46%) Marketing
5 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
6 9 (7.14%) Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Publishing
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (57.94%) Developer
2 44 (34.92%) Java Developer
3 30 (23.81%) Senior
4 26 (20.63%) Lead
5 20 (15.87%) Lead Developer
5 20 (15.87%) Senior Developer
6 18 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 17 (13.49%) Java Engineer
7 17 (13.49%) Lead Java Developer
7 17 (13.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 17 (13.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (10.32%) React Developer
10 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) MuleSoft Developer
12 5 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.97%) Designer
13 4 (3.17%) AWS Software Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.17%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 65 (51.59%) Spring Boot
3 64 (50.79%) Spring
4 49 (38.89%) RESTful
5 46 (36.51%) Kafka
6 41 (32.54%) React
7 26 (20.63%) REST
8 21 (16.67%) Spring Security
9 17 (13.49%) OAuth
10 16 (12.70%) Spring Batch
11 15 (11.90%) RAML
12 14 (11.11%) JSON
13 12 (9.52%) XML
14 9 (7.14%) AngularJS
14 9 (7.14%) HTML
14 9 (7.14%) Web Services
15 8 (6.35%) Node.js
15 8 (6.35%) OAuth2
15 8 (6.35%) SOAP
16 7 (5.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.17%) Genomics
4 4 (3.17%) LIMS
4 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.67%) Linux
2 18 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.17%) Android
4 3 (2.38%) Windows
4 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.87%) Microservices
2 70 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 68 (53.97%) CI/CD
4 63 (50.00%) Agile
5 59 (46.83%) DevOps
5 59 (46.83%) Software Engineering
6 58 (46.03%) TDD
7 43 (34.13%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (29.37%) Test Automation
9 36 (28.57%) Migration
10 27 (21.43%) API Design
11 24 (19.05%) API Development
12 22 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (17.46%) Digital Marketing
12 22 (17.46%) Programme Management
13 21 (16.67%) API Management
14 19 (15.08%) BDD
14 19 (15.08%) Mentoring
15 18 (14.29%) OWASP
16 17 (13.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 84 (66.67%) Java
2 61 (48.41%) SQL
3 40 (31.75%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.29%) Bash
4 18 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.90%) Python
6 7 (5.56%) C#
6 7 (5.56%) Go
7 6 (4.76%) DataWeave
8 5 (3.97%) Ruby
9 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.38%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.59%) C++
11 2 (1.59%) Groovy
11 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.79%) COBOL
12 1 (0.79%) JCL
12 1 (0.79%) Natural
12 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 63 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 62 (49.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.94%) Degree
4 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) OCP
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (61.11%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (34.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.76%) Terraform
3 4 (3.17%) Grafana
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (17.46%) SAP
2 15 (11.90%) MuleSoft
3 8 (6.35%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.76%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.17%) LabVantage
7 3 (2.38%) Splunk
8 2 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.59%) Informatica
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.79%) Dell
9 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) WSO2