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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 460 446
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +66
Contract jobs citing Swagger 214 101 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.78% 1.17% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 71 77
10th Percentile £363 £356 £435
25th Percentile £425 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -10.45% -5.98%
75th Percentile £569 £536 £688
90th Percentile £617 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £437 £550
% change year-on-year +5.38% -20.64% -8.33%

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 12,042 8,639 9,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.78% 26.02% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,910 5,734 6,017
10th Percentile £377 £358 £355
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 188 169
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.18 £25.56
25th Percentile £50.38 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.90 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +13.04%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -52 153 £464 -7.28% 31
UK excluding London -44 91 £460 +5.38% 26
Work from Home -34 82 £525 +5.00% 16
London -48 77 £525 +5.00% 13
Midlands -25 29 £462 +35.74% 4
West Midlands -18 27 £463 -28.72% 4
South East -55 23 £460 -8.68% 7
Scotland -6 17 £425 +0.47% 4
North of England -70 11 £425 +17.24% 3
South West - 11 £545 - 6
Yorkshire -36 8 £425 +19.30%
East Midlands -14 2 £380 +24.59%
North West -49 2 £425 +25.00% 3
East of England -28 1 £480 -16.52% 2
North East -39 1 £426 -8.00%

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 17 (7.94%) Confluence
2 8 (3.74%) Anypoint
2 8 (3.74%) Traefik
3 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.40%) Mule
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.21%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.47%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 110 (51.40%) Azure
2 100 (46.73%) AWS
3 52 (24.30%) GitHub
4 42 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (18.69%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (9.81%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (9.81%) Boomi
8 20 (9.35%) GCP
8 20 (9.35%) Kong
9 16 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (7.48%) Entra ID
10 15 (7.01%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.07%) Apigee
12 12 (5.61%) Azure API Management
12 12 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (5.14%) Serverless
14 10 (4.67%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (4.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.09%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.49%) MongoDB
3 19 (8.88%) NoSQL
4 17 (7.94%) Redis
5 13 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (5.61%) MySQL
6 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.80%) Metadata
11 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.34%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.87%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.40%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.40%) Weaviate
14 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (28.04%) Git
2 46 (21.50%) Jenkins
3 45 (21.03%) JIRA
4 30 (14.02%) JUnit
5 25 (11.68%) Postman
6 22 (10.28%) Mockito
7 21 (9.81%) GitLab
8 19 (8.88%) Gradle
9 14 (6.54%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.07%) Cucumber
10 13 (6.07%) Maven
10 13 (6.07%) SpecFlow
11 8 (3.74%) JMeter
12 7 (3.27%) Selenium
13 6 (2.80%) Flyway
14 5 (2.34%) Storybook
15 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.87%) Fiddler
15 4 (1.87%) SonarQube
16 3 (1.40%) webpack
General
1 38 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.49%) Finance
2 31 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.28%) Banking
4 11 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.27%) Publishing
7 5 (2.34%) Billing
8 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.87%) Law
8 4 (1.87%) Retail
9 3 (1.40%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Back Office
10 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) French Language
11 1 (0.47%) German Language
11 1 (0.47%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 77 (35.98%) Developer
2 40 (18.69%) Architect
3 29 (13.55%) Senior
4 20 (9.35%) Java Developer
4 20 (9.35%) Lead
5 18 (8.41%) Integration Architect
5 18 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.07%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.61%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.14%) Analyst
8 11 (5.14%) Azure Developer
8 11 (5.14%) C# Developer
8 11 (5.14%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.21%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
11 8 (3.74%) Tester
12 6 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (85.05%) OpenAPI
2 111 (51.87%) REST
3 79 (36.92%) RESTful
4 62 (28.97%) OAuth
5 57 (26.64%) JSON
6 50 (23.36%) OAuth2
7 42 (19.63%) Spring
7 42 (19.63%) Spring Boot
8 41 (19.16%) SOAP
9 39 (18.22%) Kafka
9 39 (18.22%) React
10 35 (16.36%) JWT
11 34 (15.89%) OpenID
11 34 (15.89%) Terraform
12 29 (13.55%) XML
13 28 (13.08%) Middleware
14 24 (11.21%) Node.js
15 21 (9.81%) .NET
16 20 (9.35%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (7.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (28.50%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.21%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.27%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.27%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Android
1 2 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) macOS
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (60.28%) CI/CD
2 95 (44.39%) DevOps
3 90 (42.06%) Agile
4 67 (31.31%) Test Automation
5 64 (29.91%) Microservices
6 56 (26.17%) Event-Driven
7 53 (24.77%) Containerisation
8 46 (21.50%) Observability
9 44 (20.56%) API Management
10 42 (19.63%) API Design
11 41 (19.16%) Integration Patterns
12 37 (17.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 36 (16.82%) Validation
14 31 (14.49%) API Development
15 29 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (13.55%) TDD
16 26 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
17 25 (11.68%) Acceptance Criteria
18 24 (11.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.78%) Java
2 56 (26.17%) SQL
3 43 (20.09%) Python
4 36 (16.82%) TypeScript
5 28 (13.08%) C#
5 28 (13.08%) Go
5 28 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.67%) Lua
6 10 (4.67%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.74%) Bicep
8 7 (3.27%) DataWeave
9 6 (2.80%) Bash
9 6 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.34%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.40%) Scala
12 2 (0.93%) PromQL
12 2 (0.93%) Rust
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 68 (31.78%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.41%) Degree
5 16 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.89%) QA
2 21 (9.81%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.67%) WCAG
4 7 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.93%) NCSC
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (28.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (42.06%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.88%) Grafana
2 19 (8.88%) Prometheus
3 14 (6.54%) Ansible
4 8 (3.74%) Istio
5 6 (2.80%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) Consul
7 2 (0.93%) Argo
7 2 (0.93%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 37 (17.29%) MuleSoft
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle
3 16 (7.48%) SAP
4 15 (7.01%) Google
5 13 (6.07%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.61%) IBM
7 11 (5.14%) webMethods
8 10 (4.67%) Dell
8 10 (4.67%) Splunk
9 9 (4.21%) Informatica
9 9 (4.21%) TIBCO
9 9 (4.21%) WSO2
10 8 (3.74%) Salesforce
10 8 (3.74%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.80%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.40%) Solace
13 2 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.93%) Nokia
13 2 (0.93%) Okta