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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 413 516
Rank change year-on-year -91 +103 +9
Contract jobs citing Swagger 106 105 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 1.57% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 61 60
10th Percentile £350 £457 £384
25th Percentile £364 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +5.77% -10.73%
75th Percentile £511 £663 £638
90th Percentile £588 £780 £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 9,301 6,707 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 22.69% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,525 6,239
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.98%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.86% +0.15% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 197
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £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 23 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 23 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 -96 95 £428 -26.45% 26
UK excluding London -64 57 £402 -19.60% 16
London -61 37 £463 -22.92% 14
North of England -50 32 £394 -23.54% 7
Work from Home -40 27 £470 -14.55% 13
North West -12 21 £394 -17.11% 5
Midlands -53 11 £470 -14.64%
South East -49 10 £475 -19.15% 6
West Midlands -51 8 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -65 7 £363 -51.67% 2
North East - 4 £463 -
Scotland +5 2 - -
Wales -5 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 13 (12.26%) Confluence
2 8 (7.55%) Appian
3 3 (2.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) IIS
4 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.94%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Notion
2 1 (0.94%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.94%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.79%) AWS
2 31 (29.25%) Azure
3 19 (17.92%) GitHub
4 16 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (13.21%) GCP
6 13 (12.26%) Apigee
7 12 (11.32%) Serverless
8 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (9.43%) Kong
10 9 (8.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (8.49%) Power Automate
11 8 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (7.55%) Azure AI
11 8 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (3.77%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) NaaS
2 2 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.32%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.49%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.55%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.89%) Flink
7 2 (1.89%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.89%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.98%) Git
2 18 (16.98%) JIRA
3 16 (15.09%) GitLab
4 15 (14.15%) Postman
5 14 (13.21%) Mockito
6 13 (12.26%) JUnit
7 10 (9.43%) Gradle
8 8 (7.55%) MLflow
9 6 (5.66%) Liquibase
10 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
10 5 (4.72%) Selenium
11 4 (3.77%) Maven
11 4 (3.77%) MSTest
12 3 (2.83%) Gatling
12 3 (2.83%) JMeter
12 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.83%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.89%) TestNG
13 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (28.30%) Finance
2 22 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (19.81%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Billing
5 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Law
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.89%) French Language
7 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Back Office
8 1 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Developer
2 14 (13.21%) Analyst
2 14 (13.21%) Java Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Architect
3 12 (11.32%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Lead
7 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.60%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior
9 6 (5.66%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (71.70%) OpenAPI
2 58 (54.72%) REST
3 36 (33.96%) RESTful
4 28 (26.42%) JSON
5 25 (23.58%) Spring
6 22 (20.75%) OAuth
6 22 (20.75%) Spring Boot
7 21 (19.81%) React
7 21 (19.81%) XML
8 20 (18.87%) JWT
8 20 (18.87%) Kafka
9 17 (16.04%) SOAP
10 12 (11.32%) .NET
10 12 (11.32%) Django
10 12 (11.32%) FastAPI
10 12 (11.32%) Flask
10 12 (11.32%) Node.js
11 11 (10.38%) NumPy
11 11 (10.38%) Pandas
12 10 (9.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.55%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.72%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) NHS
8 2 (1.89%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.94%) CMDB
9 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.94%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) CI/CD
2 42 (39.62%) Microservices
3 40 (37.74%) Agile
4 31 (29.25%) Validation
5 29 (27.36%) Containerisation
5 29 (27.36%) DevOps
6 27 (25.47%) API Design
7 26 (24.53%) Test Automation
8 25 (23.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (20.75%) API Development
10 22 (20.75%) Integration Patterns
10 22 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (19.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (16.98%) Observability
13 17 (16.04%) API Integration
13 17 (16.04%) API Management
13 17 (16.04%) Data Modelling
14 16 (15.09%) AI
14 16 (15.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.40%) Java
2 39 (36.79%) SQL
3 30 (28.30%) Python
4 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.21%) C#
6 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.66%) Bash
9 4 (3.77%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.83%) Bicep
10 3 (2.83%) Groovy
11 2 (1.89%) C++
11 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.94%) Go
12 1 (0.94%) PHP
12 1 (0.94%) SOQL
12 1 (0.94%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.15%) Degree
4 13 (12.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.49%) WCAG
2 7 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.66%) PSD2
4 4 (3.77%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) QA
5 3 (2.83%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.89%) HL7
6 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
7 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (36.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.26%) Terraform
3 7 (6.60%) Istio
4 6 (5.66%) Grafana
4 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.83%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.89%) Ansible
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (10.38%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.43%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.55%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.55%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.55%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.55%) UiPath
4 6 (5.66%) Oracle
5 3 (2.83%) Google
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.83%) Veracode
6 2 (1.89%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.89%) Ciena
6 2 (1.89%) IBM
6 2 (1.89%) New Relic
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.94%) BT
7 1 (0.94%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) Telerik