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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 452 443
Rank change year-on-year -32 -9 +59
Contract jobs citing Swagger 204 106 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 1.23% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 74 78
10th Percentile £363 £358 £439
25th Percentile £425 £382 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £687
90th Percentile £611 £650 £829
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% -18.18% -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 11,839 8,614 9,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 25.97% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 5,717 6,085
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 186 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.50 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +10.11%

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 9 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 9 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 -50 143 £463 -7.34% 130
UK excluding London -49 86 £460 +2.22% 56
Work from Home -30 78 £525 +5.00% 50
London -66 72 £525 - 75
Midlands -24 25 £464 +36.36% 8
South East -48 24 £460 -8.00% 17
West Midlands -23 23 £465 -28.46% 8
Scotland -9 17 £425 +0.47% 4
North of England -65 10 £425 +13.33% 14
South West - 10 £550 - 7
Yorkshire -30 7 £425 +21.43% 6
East Midlands -21 2 £380 +24.59%
North West -52 2 £425 -2.30% 7
East of England -29 1 £480 -16.52% 5
North East -43 1 £426 -8.00% 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 (6.37%) Confluence
2 8 (3.92%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.43%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.94%) Traefik
5 3 (1.47%) Mule
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.49%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.41%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.49%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.47%) Azure
2 95 (46.57%) AWS
3 50 (24.51%) GitHub
4 41 (20.10%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (19.12%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (12.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (10.29%) Boomi
8 20 (9.80%) Kong
9 19 (9.31%) GCP
10 16 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (7.84%) Entra ID
11 13 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.37%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.37%) Apigee
12 12 (5.88%) Azure API Management
12 12 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (5.39%) Serverless
14 10 (4.90%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (4.90%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (15.20%) MongoDB
3 19 (9.31%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.33%) Redis
5 13 (6.37%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.41%) MySQL
9 8 (3.92%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.94%) Metadata
12 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.45%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.96%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.47%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (1.47%) Pinecone
14 3 (1.47%) Weaviate
15 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 1 (0.49%) GIS
Development Applications
1 59 (28.92%) Git
2 44 (21.57%) Jenkins
3 41 (20.10%) JIRA
4 26 (12.75%) JUnit
5 24 (11.76%) Postman
6 20 (9.80%) Mockito
7 19 (9.31%) GitLab
8 17 (8.33%) Gradle
9 14 (6.86%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.37%) SpecFlow
11 11 (5.39%) Cucumber
12 10 (4.90%) Maven
13 7 (3.43%) JMeter
13 7 (3.43%) Selenium
14 6 (2.94%) Flyway
15 5 (2.45%) Storybook
16 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket
17 3 (1.47%) Balsamiq
17 3 (1.47%) MSBuild
17 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.71%) Finance
3 29 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.78%) Banking
5 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.43%) Publishing
8 5 (2.45%) Billing
9 4 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.96%) Law
9 4 (1.96%) Retail
10 3 (1.47%) Military
11 2 (0.98%) Back Office
11 2 (0.98%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) German Language
12 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (37.25%) Developer
2 40 (19.61%) Architect
3 27 (13.24%) Senior
4 19 (9.31%) Java Developer
4 19 (9.31%) Lead
5 18 (8.82%) Integration Architect
5 18 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.39%) Azure Developer
7 11 (5.39%) C# Developer
7 11 (5.39%) Java Engineer
7 11 (5.39%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
9 9 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Analyst
10 8 (3.92%) Tester
11 6 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (85.29%) OpenAPI
2 106 (51.96%) REST
3 78 (38.24%) RESTful
4 61 (29.90%) OAuth
5 54 (26.47%) JSON
6 49 (24.02%) OAuth2
7 39 (19.12%) Kafka
7 39 (19.12%) Spring
7 39 (19.12%) Spring Boot
8 38 (18.63%) React
9 35 (17.16%) JWT
10 34 (16.67%) OpenID
10 34 (16.67%) SOAP
11 33 (16.18%) Terraform
12 27 (13.24%) Middleware
13 25 (12.25%) XML
14 24 (11.76%) Node.js
15 21 (10.29%) .NET
15 21 (10.29%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (7.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (29.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.31%) Product Ownership
3 16 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.98%) Android
2 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (61.27%) CI/CD
2 91 (44.61%) DevOps
3 83 (40.69%) Agile
4 63 (30.88%) Test Automation
5 61 (29.90%) Microservices
6 51 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 50 (24.51%) Event-Driven
8 44 (21.57%) Observability
9 41 (20.10%) API Design
9 41 (20.10%) API Management
10 37 (18.14%) Integration Patterns
11 34 (16.67%) Validation
12 32 (15.69%) API Development
13 31 (15.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 29 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (14.22%) TDD
15 25 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
17 22 (10.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.88%) Java
2 50 (24.51%) SQL
3 43 (21.08%) Python
4 36 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 28 (13.73%) C#
6 27 (13.24%) Go
6 27 (13.24%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.90%) Lua
8 8 (3.92%) Bicep
8 8 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.43%) DataWeave
10 6 (2.94%) Bash
10 6 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.47%) Scala
13 2 (0.98%) PromQL
13 2 (0.98%) Rust
14 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.49%) Ruby
14 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 61 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.33%) Degree
5 15 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.39%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) QA
2 20 (9.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.90%) WCAG
4 7 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.98%) NCSC
5 2 (0.98%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (28.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 86 (42.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.31%) Grafana
2 19 (9.31%) Prometheus
3 13 (6.37%) Ansible
4 6 (2.94%) Istio
5 5 (2.45%) Kibana
6 3 (1.47%) Consul
7 2 (0.98%) Argo
7 2 (0.98%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.98%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 37 (18.14%) MuleSoft
2 26 (12.75%) Oracle
3 16 (7.84%) SAP
4 14 (6.86%) Google
5 12 (5.88%) IBM
5 12 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.90%) Dell
6 10 (4.90%) Splunk
7 9 (4.41%) Informatica
7 9 (4.41%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.41%) webMethods
7 9 (4.41%) WSO2
8 8 (3.92%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.94%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.98%) Nokia
11 2 (0.98%) Okta
11 2 (0.98%) Solace