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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 409 496
Rank change year-on-year -103 +87 +23
Contract jobs citing Swagger 107 109 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.65% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 64 60
10th Percentile £350 £435 £384
25th Percentile £365 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -21.73% +5.77% -10.73%
75th Percentile £519 £644 £638
90th Percentile £586 £779 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -19.60% -8.26% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
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 9,325 6,599 8,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.71% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,498 6,258
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.20% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 190
10th Percentile £35.25 £26.25 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -92 95 £428 -23.32% 22
UK excluding London -75 57 £402 -19.60% 15
London -64 37 £463 -22.92% 10
North of England -50 32 £394 -25.71% 7
Work from Home -52 27 £470 -14.55% 12
North West -26 21 £394 -21.64% 5
Midlands -52 11 £470 -
South East -44 10 £475 -19.15% 5
West Midlands -55 8 £469 -
Yorkshire -55 7 £363 -51.67% 2
North East - 4 £463 -
Scotland +7 2 - -
Wales -10 2 - -
East Midlands - 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 14 (13.08%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) Appian
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) IIS
4 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Notion
2 1 (0.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.38%) AWS
2 31 (28.97%) Azure
3 19 (17.76%) GitHub
4 16 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (13.08%) GCP
6 13 (12.15%) Apigee
6 13 (12.15%) Serverless
7 11 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.35%) Kong
9 9 (8.41%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (8.41%) Power Automate
10 8 (7.48%) Azure AI
10 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) NaaS
2 2 (1.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.21%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.48%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.74%) MySQL
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.87%) Flink
8 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.87%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) GIS
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (19.63%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.76%) JIRA
3 18 (16.82%) Git
4 17 (15.89%) GitLab
5 16 (14.95%) Postman
6 14 (13.08%) Mockito
7 13 (12.15%) JUnit
8 10 (9.35%) Gradle
9 8 (7.48%) MLflow
10 6 (5.61%) Liquibase
10 6 (5.61%) Selenium
11 5 (4.67%) Cucumber
12 4 (3.74%) Gatling
12 4 (3.74%) JMeter
12 4 (3.74%) Maven
12 4 (3.74%) MSTest
13 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
13 3 (2.80%) Spinnaker
14 2 (1.87%) Robot Framework
14 2 (1.87%) webpack
General
1 30 (28.04%) Finance
2 22 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.63%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Banking
5 4 (3.74%) Billing
5 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Law
6 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.87%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.87%) French Language
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (30.84%) Developer
2 14 (13.08%) Analyst
2 14 (13.08%) Java Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Architect
3 12 (11.21%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Lead
7 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Senior
9 6 (5.61%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (71.96%) OpenAPI
2 59 (55.14%) REST
3 36 (33.64%) RESTful
4 29 (27.10%) JSON
5 25 (23.36%) Spring
6 22 (20.56%) OAuth
6 22 (20.56%) Spring Boot
7 21 (19.63%) React
7 21 (19.63%) XML
8 20 (18.69%) JWT
8 20 (18.69%) Kafka
9 17 (15.89%) SOAP
10 12 (11.21%) .NET
10 12 (11.21%) Django
10 12 (11.21%) FastAPI
10 12 (11.21%) Flask
10 12 (11.21%) Node.js
11 11 (10.28%) NumPy
11 11 (10.28%) Pandas
11 11 (10.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.48%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.67%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (1.87%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.93%) CMDB
9 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.94%) CI/CD
2 42 (39.25%) Microservices
3 41 (38.32%) Agile
4 32 (29.91%) Validation
5 30 (28.04%) Containerisation
5 30 (28.04%) DevOps
6 27 (25.23%) API Design
6 27 (25.23%) Test Automation
7 25 (23.36%) Requirements Gathering
8 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (20.56%) API Development
9 22 (20.56%) Integration Patterns
9 22 (20.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (17.76%) Observability
12 17 (15.89%) API Integration
12 17 (15.89%) API Management
12 17 (15.89%) Data Modelling
13 16 (14.95%) AI
13 16 (14.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.99%) Java
2 39 (36.45%) SQL
3 31 (28.97%) Python
4 17 (15.89%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.08%) C#
6 10 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.54%) Bash
8 4 (3.74%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.80%) Bicep
9 3 (2.80%) Groovy
10 2 (1.87%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.93%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) SOQL
11 1 (0.93%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.02%) Degree
4 13 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.41%) WCAG
2 7 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.61%) PSD2
4 5 (4.67%) QA
5 4 (3.74%) GDPR
6 3 (2.80%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.87%) HL7
7 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.93%) NCSC
8 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (37.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.08%) Terraform
3 7 (6.54%) Istio
4 6 (5.61%) Grafana
4 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.87%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.87%) Ansible
6 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.35%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.48%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.48%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.48%) UiPath
4 6 (5.61%) Oracle
5 3 (2.80%) Google
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) Veracode
6 2 (1.87%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.87%) Ciena
6 2 (1.87%) IBM
6 2 (1.87%) New Relic
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) BT
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Telerik