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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 420 442
Rank change year-on-year -104 +22 +87
Contract jobs citing Swagger 144 140 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.87% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 98 77
10th Percentile £349 £361 £413
25th Percentile £430 £414 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -13.25%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £672
90th Percentile £597 £650 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -6.16% -6.13% -15.67%

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 10,178 7,470 8,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.15% 22.56% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,634 5,045 5,852
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £665
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 166 248
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.13 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% +2.21% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £79.35 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.10%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -119 103 £515 -2.83% 53
UK excluding London -87 54 £446 -6.16% 29
Work from Home -61 51 £525 -1.59% 30
London -77 49 £530 - 26
South East -53 23 £459 -2.08% 5
North of England -77 13 £400 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire -39 9 £375 +3.45% 2
Midlands -44 8 £459 +50.49% 2
South West - 7 £575 - 11
West Midlands -55 5 £467 - 2
Scotland -3 3 £368 -13.12% 2
East Midlands -17 3 £425 +39.34%
North East -40 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -63 2 £425 -19.81% 4
East of England -16 1 - - 2

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 9 (6.25%) Anypoint
2 8 (5.56%) Confluence
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.08%) Mule
4 2 (1.39%) IIS
4 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) Appian
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.69%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.25%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.69%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.69%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.39%) Azure
2 67 (46.53%) AWS
3 51 (35.42%) GitHub
4 42 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (21.53%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (12.50%) GCP
7 13 (9.03%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (7.64%) Apigee
8 11 (7.64%) Boomi
9 10 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (6.94%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.25%) Azure API Management
10 9 (6.25%) Serverless
11 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (3.47%) iPaaS
13 5 (3.47%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.42%) HTTP
2 2 (1.39%) NaaS
2 2 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (34.03%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.81%) Redis
4 16 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 13 (9.03%) Relational Database
6 10 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.78%) MySQL
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.08%) Metadata
10 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.39%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (34.03%) Jenkins
2 44 (30.56%) Git
3 30 (20.83%) JIRA
4 24 (16.67%) JUnit
5 23 (15.97%) Postman
6 20 (13.89%) Gradle
7 19 (13.19%) Liquibase
7 19 (13.19%) Mockito
8 15 (10.42%) GitLab
9 10 (6.94%) JMeter
9 10 (6.94%) SpecFlow
10 7 (4.86%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.17%) Flyway
12 5 (3.47%) Selenium
13 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
13 4 (2.78%) Gatling
14 3 (2.08%) git-flow
14 3 (2.08%) MSBuild
14 3 (2.08%) Robot Framework
14 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.03%) Finance
4 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.56%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Billing
6 7 (4.86%) Law
6 7 (4.86%) Publishing
7 5 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.08%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (39.58%) Developer
2 27 (18.75%) Architect
3 17 (11.81%) Senior
4 14 (9.72%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Python Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Integration Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Lead
6 11 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.94%) Node.js Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Azure Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Tester
9 8 (5.56%) C# Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (81.25%) OpenAPI
2 81 (56.25%) REST
3 48 (33.33%) RESTful
4 44 (30.56%) Kafka
5 39 (27.08%) JSON
6 31 (21.53%) React
7 29 (20.14%) OAuth
7 29 (20.14%) Spring Boot
8 28 (19.44%) Spring
9 25 (17.36%) OAuth2
10 20 (13.89%) JWT
10 20 (13.89%) XML
11 19 (13.19%) Node.js
12 17 (11.81%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (11.81%) SOAP
13 16 (11.11%) Jest
14 15 (10.42%) .NET
14 15 (10.42%) FastAPI
15 13 (9.03%) hapi
15 13 (9.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.64%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.86%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.69%) CMDB
10 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) Android
1 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 63 (43.75%) DevOps
3 62 (43.06%) Agile
4 54 (37.50%) Microservices
5 49 (34.03%) Containerisation
6 43 (29.86%) Test Automation
7 36 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 34 (23.61%) Observability
8 34 (23.61%) TDD
9 32 (22.22%) API Development
10 30 (20.83%) API Design
11 25 (17.36%) Software Engineering
12 23 (15.97%) Validation
13 22 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
16 19 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
17 18 (12.50%) API Management
18 17 (11.81%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (33.33%) Python
2 46 (31.94%) Java
3 42 (29.17%) SQL
4 32 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 23 (15.97%) C#
6 12 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.94%) Bash
9 7 (4.86%) DataWeave
10 4 (2.78%) Go
10 4 (2.78%) Groovy
11 3 (2.08%) Bicep
11 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.39%) C++
12 2 (1.39%) PromQL
12 2 (1.39%) Rust
13 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.69%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.69%) Ruby
13 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 45 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Degree
4 10 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.11%) QA
2 14 (9.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.47%) WCAG
4 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.08%) NCSC
5 2 (1.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.69%) SEPA
6 1 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (42.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.81%) Terraform
3 15 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 14 (9.72%) Grafana
5 11 (7.64%) Ansible
6 5 (3.47%) Istio
7 3 (2.08%) Argo
7 3 (2.08%) Consul
8 2 (1.39%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.39%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.39%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) MuleSoft
2 10 (6.94%) Google
2 10 (6.94%) Oracle
2 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.86%) SAP
4 6 (4.17%) IBM
4 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.47%) Dell
5 5 (3.47%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.47%) Splunk
6 3 (2.08%) Informatica
6 3 (2.08%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.08%) WSO2
7 2 (1.39%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.39%) Ciena
7 2 (1.39%) Databricks
7 2 (1.39%) Nokia
7 2 (1.39%) Solace