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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 399 478
Rank change year-on-year -92 +79 +50
Contract jobs citing Swagger 129 125 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.91% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 80 68
10th Percentile £350 £408 £390
25th Percentile £400 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +4.48% -9.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £598 £688 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -14.90% -1.43% -15.46%

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 9,460 6,532 8,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.58% 22.67% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,225 4,475 6,189
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £729 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 107 248
10th Percentile £31.33 £29.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.80 £82.44 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 22 May 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 16 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 22 May 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 -101 107 £464 -12.45% 26
UK excluding London -89 60 £426 -14.90% 17
London -72 46 £530 - 10
Work from Home -37 44 £500 -6.28% 16
North of England -59 30 £402 -21.94% 8
North West -41 17 £401 -24.29% 5
South East -47 14 £425 -8.22% 6
Midlands -58 11 £469 +34.38%
Yorkshire -46 8 £363 -27.50% 1
West Midlands - 8 £469 -
North East -25 5 £450 +33.33% 2
Wales -13 2 - -
East Midlands -24 2 - -
South West -28 2 - - 2
Scotland -7 1 - -
East of England -29 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 13 (10.08%) Confluence
2 8 (6.20%) Appian
3 5 (3.88%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.55%) IIS
5 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.88%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Notion
2 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (3.10%) SAP MDG
2 4 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.55%) Shopify
4 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.11%) AWS
2 43 (33.33%) Azure
3 25 (19.38%) GitHub
4 18 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (10.08%) Serverless
6 11 (8.53%) GCP
7 10 (7.75%) Apigee
8 9 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.98%) Kong
8 9 (6.98%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.20%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.43%) Boomi
11 6 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) HTTP
2 2 (1.55%) NaaS
2 2 (1.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 15 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.85%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.08%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.20%) Pinecone
6 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.88%) MySQL
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.10%) Redis
9 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.33%) Metadata
10 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.55%) Flink
10 2 (1.55%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.55%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 35 (27.13%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.71%) Git
3 26 (20.16%) Postman
4 23 (17.83%) GitLab
4 23 (17.83%) JIRA
4 23 (17.83%) JUnit
5 18 (13.95%) Gradle
5 18 (13.95%) Mockito
6 15 (11.63%) Liquibase
7 11 (8.53%) JMeter
8 8 (6.20%) MLflow
9 4 (3.10%) Flyway
9 4 (3.10%) Gatling
9 4 (3.10%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.33%) git-flow
10 3 (2.33%) Maven
10 3 (2.33%) Robot Framework
10 3 (2.33%) Selenium
11 2 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.38%) Finance
3 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.75%) Banking
6 8 (6.20%) Billing
7 6 (4.65%) Law
7 6 (4.65%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Publishing
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.55%) Back Office
10 2 (1.55%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.55%) French Language
10 2 (1.55%) Military
11 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Developer
2 17 (13.18%) Architect
2 17 (13.18%) Java Engineer
3 14 (10.85%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Lead
5 12 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.75%) Senior
7 9 (6.98%) Analyst
7 9 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.98%) Integration Architect
8 8 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.20%) Tester
9 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (73.64%) OpenAPI
2 66 (51.16%) REST
3 43 (33.33%) RESTful
4 35 (27.13%) JSON
4 35 (27.13%) Spring
5 34 (26.36%) Kafka
6 32 (24.81%) Spring Boot
7 28 (21.71%) OAuth
8 27 (20.93%) React
9 23 (17.83%) JWT
10 21 (16.28%) XML
11 17 (13.18%) OAuth2
12 15 (11.63%) Django
12 15 (11.63%) FastAPI
12 15 (11.63%) pytest
12 15 (11.63%) SOAP
13 14 (10.85%) Flask
13 14 (10.85%) Middleware
13 14 (10.85%) Pandas
14 13 (10.08%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.53%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Low-Code
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.43%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.88%) Digital Wallet
5 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) NHS
8 2 (1.55%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.78%) CMDB
9 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) LIMS
9 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (65.89%) CI/CD
2 53 (41.09%) Agile
3 47 (36.43%) Microservices
4 46 (35.66%) DevOps
5 45 (34.88%) Test Automation
6 43 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 40 (31.01%) Validation
8 33 (25.58%) Observability
9 31 (24.03%) API Design
10 29 (22.48%) API Development
11 28 (21.71%) Event-Driven
11 28 (21.71%) TDD
12 25 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (17.83%) Software Engineering
13 23 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
15 21 (16.28%) Integration Patterns
15 21 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (14.73%) Data Modelling
16 19 (14.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Java
2 46 (35.66%) SQL
3 45 (34.88%) Python
4 27 (20.93%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.08%) C#
5 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.30%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.53%) Bash
8 4 (3.10%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.10%) DataWeave
8 4 (3.10%) Groovy
9 2 (1.55%) C++
9 2 (1.55%) PromQL
9 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) Degree
4 13 (10.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) Data Quality
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.88%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.88%) PSD2
3 5 (3.88%) WCAG
4 3 (2.33%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) HL7
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (41.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (41.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.63%) Grafana
2 15 (11.63%) Prometheus
3 14 (10.85%) Terraform
4 10 (7.75%) Ansible
5 6 (4.65%) Istio
6 3 (2.33%) Argo
6 3 (2.33%) Consul
6 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.55%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.55%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Salesforce
2 13 (10.08%) MuleSoft
3 8 (6.20%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.20%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.20%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.20%) UiPath
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) SAP
5 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.10%) Dell
7 3 (2.33%) Google
7 3 (2.33%) Splunk
7 3 (2.33%) Veracode
8 2 (1.55%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.55%) Ciena
8 2 (1.55%) Databricks
8 2 (1.55%) New Relic
8 2 (1.55%) Nokia
8 2 (1.55%) Solace
9 1 (0.78%) SimCorp