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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 439 488
Rank change year-on-year -69 +49 +46
Contract jobs citing Swagger 100 93 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 1.34% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 73
10th Percentile £350 £425 £353
25th Percentile £363 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +10.09% -7.35%
75th Percentile £494 £685 £650
90th Percentile £578 £825 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -33.00% +9.09% -7.37%
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 8,931 6,922 9,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.68% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,977 4,485 6,445
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 88 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.63 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -67 90 £425 -32.00% 29
UK excluding London -50 53 £402 -33.00% 24
London -49 35 £400 -34.69% 7
North of England -34 32 £394 -21.25% 6
Work from Home -8 31 £470 -21.67% 13
North West -14 22 £394 -7.35% 3
South East -21 9 £475 -13.64% 8
Midlands -45 9 £470 -14.64% 3
West Midlands -50 7 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -58 7 £363 -51.67% 2
North East - 3 £475 - 1
Wales -4 2 - -
Scotland +7 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 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 12 (12.00%) Confluence
2 8 (8.00%) Appian
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
4 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) IIS
5 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) CPLEX
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.00%) Notion
1 1 (1.00%) PlantUML
1 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.00%) Shopify
3 1 (1.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) Azure
2 32 (32.00%) AWS
3 16 (16.00%) GitHub
4 14 (14.00%) Serverless
5 13 (13.00%) Apigee
5 13 (13.00%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (11.00%) GCP
7 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (10.00%) Kong
8 9 (9.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (9.00%) Power Automate
9 8 (8.00%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (8.00%) Azure AI
9 8 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.00%) Azure Functions
11 6 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.00%) Pinecone
5 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.00%) MySQL
7 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.00%) GIS
8 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (20.00%) JIRA
2 19 (19.00%) Postman
3 17 (17.00%) Git
4 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 14 (14.00%) GitLab
6 11 (11.00%) Mockito
7 10 (10.00%) JUnit
8 8 (8.00%) MLflow
9 7 (7.00%) Selenium
10 5 (5.00%) Cucumber
10 5 (5.00%) Gradle
11 4 (4.00%) JMeter
11 4 (4.00%) Maven
11 4 (4.00%) MSTest
11 4 (4.00%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.00%) Spinnaker
13 2 (2.00%) Liquibase
13 2 (2.00%) REST Assured
13 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 32 (32.00%) Finance
2 23 (23.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Billing
7 2 (2.00%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.00%) French Language
7 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Back Office
8 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Analyst
3 12 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 12 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (11.00%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Architect
5 10 (10.00%) Lead
6 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.00%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Python Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (67.00%) OpenAPI
2 55 (55.00%) REST
3 35 (35.00%) RESTful
4 26 (26.00%) JSON
5 22 (22.00%) OAuth
6 21 (21.00%) Spring
7 20 (20.00%) SOAP
8 19 (19.00%) JWT
8 19 (19.00%) XML
9 18 (18.00%) React
10 17 (17.00%) Spring Boot
11 14 (14.00%) Kafka
12 13 (13.00%) .NET
13 11 (11.00%) FastAPI
13 11 (11.00%) Node.js
13 11 (11.00%) pytest
14 10 (10.00%) Django
14 10 (10.00%) Flask
15 9 (9.00%) Pandas
15 9 (9.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Low-Code
3 7 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.00%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (2.00%) TM Forum
9 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.00%) CI/CD
2 37 (37.00%) Microservices
3 36 (36.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Validation
5 28 (28.00%) DevOps
6 27 (27.00%) Test Automation
7 26 (26.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 25 (25.00%) API Design
9 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (22.00%) Containerisation
10 22 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (20.00%) API Development
11 20 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
12 19 (19.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (17.00%) API Management
14 16 (16.00%) API Integration
14 16 (16.00%) API Testing
15 15 (15.00%) Data Modelling
15 15 (15.00%) Unit Testing
15 15 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.00%) Java
2 33 (33.00%) SQL
3 25 (25.00%) Python
4 15 (15.00%) C#
5 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.00%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.00%) Bash
9 4 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 4 (4.00%) Groovy
10 3 (3.00%) Bicep
10 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.00%) PHP
12 1 (1.00%) SOQL
12 1 (1.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 13 (13.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.00%) WCAG
3 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.00%) PSD2
4 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.00%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.00%) HL7
6 2 (2.00%) QA
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (34.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) Istio
4 3 (3.00%) Argo
4 3 (3.00%) Grafana
4 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.00%) Ansible
6 1 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (9.00%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.00%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (8.00%) OpenAI
3 8 (8.00%) UiPath
4 7 (7.00%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle
5 3 (3.00%) Google
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.00%) Veracode
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) New Relic
7 1 (1.00%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.00%) Okta
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk
7 1 (1.00%) Telerik