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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 392 499
Rank change year-on-year -118 +107 +32
Contract jobs citing Swagger 112 129 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.44% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.93% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 79 59
10th Percentile £349 £411 £391
25th Percentile £376 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £530 £508
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% +4.43% -13.62%
75th Percentile £534 £595 £631
90th Percentile £588 £690 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -19.60% -4.76% -12.50%

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 9,443 6,673 8,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.45% 22.68% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,288 4,575 6,210
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.06% -4.49%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 102 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.14 £20.72
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £36.96
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -107 98 £430 -18.87% 24
UK excluding London -91 59 £402 -19.60% 15
London -73 38 £510 -6.42% 12
North of England -68 33 £394 -25.71% 4
Work from Home -51 29 £475 -10.97% 13
North West -39 21 £394 -25.71% 3
Midlands -57 11 £470 +31.15% 3
South East -42 10 £433 -5.21% 7
Yorkshire -57 8 £363 -51.67% 1
West Midlands - 8 £469 - 2
North East - 4 £463 -
Scotland +1 2 - -
Wales -7 2 - -
East Midlands -30 2 - - 1
East of England - 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 14 (12.50%) Confluence
2 8 (7.14%) Appian
3 3 (2.68%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.68%) Apache
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.79%) IIS
4 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.89%) Notion
2 1 (0.89%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.82%) AWS
2 34 (30.36%) Azure
3 20 (17.86%) GitHub
4 15 (13.39%) Apigee
4 15 (13.39%) GCP
4 15 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (11.61%) Serverless
6 12 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.71%) Kong
7 9 (8.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (8.04%) Power Automate
8 8 (7.14%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) HTTP
2 2 (1.79%) NaaS
2 2 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.39%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.61%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.14%) Pinecone
7 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.57%) MySQL
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.79%) Flink
9 2 (1.79%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.79%) Redis
9 2 (1.79%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.89%) GIS
10 1 (0.89%) Metadata
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 20 (17.86%) GitLab
3 19 (16.96%) Git
3 19 (16.96%) JIRA
4 17 (15.18%) Postman
5 14 (12.50%) JUnit
6 13 (11.61%) Mockito
7 12 (10.71%) Gradle
8 8 (7.14%) MLflow
9 7 (6.25%) Liquibase
10 5 (4.46%) Maven
11 4 (3.57%) Gatling
11 4 (3.57%) JMeter
11 4 (3.57%) MSTest
11 4 (3.57%) Selenium
12 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.68%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
13 2 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 30 (26.79%) Finance
2 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.04%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Billing
6 5 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Law
9 2 (1.79%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.79%) French Language
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Publishing
10 1 (0.89%) Back Office
10 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (30.36%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) Java Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) Analyst
4 12 (10.71%) Architect
4 12 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Lead
7 8 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (5.36%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Senior
9 6 (5.36%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (74.11%) OpenAPI
2 63 (56.25%) REST
3 39 (34.82%) RESTful
4 33 (29.46%) JSON
5 28 (25.00%) Spring
6 26 (23.21%) Kafka
7 25 (22.32%) Spring Boot
8 24 (21.43%) OAuth
8 24 (21.43%) XML
9 23 (20.54%) JWT
10 21 (18.75%) React
11 18 (16.07%) SOAP
12 13 (11.61%) Django
12 13 (11.61%) FastAPI
12 13 (11.61%) Flask
13 12 (10.71%) .NET
13 12 (10.71%) NumPy
13 12 (10.71%) Pandas
13 12 (10.71%) pytest
14 10 (8.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (9.82%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.46%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.68%) NHS
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.89%) CMDB
9 1 (0.89%) LIMS
9 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 44 (39.29%) Agile
3 42 (37.50%) Microservices
4 34 (30.36%) DevOps
5 33 (29.46%) Validation
6 31 (27.68%) Containerisation
6 31 (27.68%) Test Automation
7 28 (25.00%) API Design
8 26 (23.21%) API Development
9 24 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
10 23 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (20.54%) Integration Patterns
10 23 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (18.75%) Event-Driven
12 20 (17.86%) Observability
13 19 (16.96%) API Management
14 18 (16.07%) API Integration
14 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
14 18 (16.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (44.64%) Java
2 41 (36.61%) SQL
3 36 (32.14%) Python
4 20 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.50%) C#
6 12 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.25%) Bash
9 4 (3.57%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.68%) Bicep
10 3 (2.68%) Groovy
11 2 (1.79%) C++
11 2 (1.79%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.89%) Go
12 1 (0.89%) PHP
12 1 (0.89%) SOQL
12 1 (0.89%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) Degree
4 13 (11.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.25%) WCAG
3 6 (5.36%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.36%) PSD2
3 6 (5.36%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
4 3 (2.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.79%) HL7
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) NIST
6 1 (0.89%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.89%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (38.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (6.25%) Istio
4 5 (4.46%) Grafana
4 5 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.79%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.79%) Argo
5 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.89%) Ansible
6 1 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) Salesforce
2 10 (8.93%) Dynatrace
2 10 (8.93%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.14%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.14%) UiPath
4 6 (5.36%) Oracle
5 3 (2.68%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.68%) Veracode
6 2 (1.79%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.79%) Ciena
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
6 2 (1.79%) New Relic
6 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.89%) BT
7 1 (0.89%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.89%) Nokia
7 1 (0.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) Telerik