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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 416 510
Rank change year-on-year -104 +94 +14
Contract jobs citing Swagger 111 117 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.77% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 71 61
10th Percentile £350 £413 £385
25th Percentile £363 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £534 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% +3.59% -12.34%
75th Percentile £526 £638 £638
90th Percentile £584 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -19.60% -6.54% -10.83%

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 9,507 6,620 8,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 22.65% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,334 4,527 6,271
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 98 171
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.47
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.13 £31.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.43 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 5 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 5 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 -105 99 £428 -19.87% 22
UK excluding London -70 60 £402 -19.60% 15
London -78 38 £475 -15.18% 10
North of England -61 35 £394 -25.71% 7
Work from Home -49 27 £470 -11.90% 12
North West -36 21 £394 -23.54% 5
Midlands - 11 £470 -
Yorkshire -56 10 £356 -52.50% 2
South East -42 9 £475 -19.15% 5
West Midlands - 8 £469 -
North East - 4 £463 -
Scotland +6 2 - -
Wales -12 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England - 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 (12.61%) Confluence
2 8 (7.21%) Appian
3 3 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.80%) IIS
4 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.90%) Notion
2 1 (0.90%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) AWS
2 32 (28.83%) Azure
3 21 (18.92%) GitHub
4 16 (14.41%) Apigee
4 16 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (13.51%) GCP
5 15 (13.51%) Serverless
6 11 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.91%) Kong
7 9 (8.11%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (8.11%) Power Automate
8 8 (7.21%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.31%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (3.60%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
2 2 (1.80%) NaaS
2 2 (1.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.71%) Relational Database
4 11 (9.91%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.21%) Pinecone
7 5 (4.50%) MySQL
8 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.80%) Flink
10 2 (1.80%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.80%) Redis
10 2 (1.80%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (19.82%) Jenkins
2 20 (18.02%) GitLab
3 19 (17.12%) Git
3 19 (17.12%) JIRA
4 17 (15.32%) Postman
5 15 (13.51%) Mockito
6 14 (12.61%) JUnit
7 12 (10.81%) Gradle
8 8 (7.21%) MLflow
9 7 (6.31%) Liquibase
10 6 (5.41%) Selenium
11 5 (4.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (4.50%) Maven
12 4 (3.60%) Gatling
12 4 (3.60%) JMeter
12 4 (3.60%) MSTest
13 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
13 3 (2.70%) Spinnaker
14 2 (1.80%) Robot Framework
14 2 (1.80%) webpack
General
1 30 (27.03%) Finance
2 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Billing
5 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Law
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.80%) French Language
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (30.63%) Developer
2 15 (13.51%) Java Engineer
3 14 (12.61%) Analyst
4 12 (10.81%) Architect
4 12 (10.81%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (9.91%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
7 8 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (72.97%) OpenAPI
2 60 (54.05%) REST
3 38 (34.23%) RESTful
4 31 (27.93%) JSON
5 28 (25.23%) Spring
6 25 (22.52%) Kafka
6 25 (22.52%) Spring Boot
7 24 (21.62%) OAuth
8 23 (20.72%) JWT
8 23 (20.72%) React
9 22 (19.82%) XML
10 18 (16.22%) SOAP
11 13 (11.71%) Node.js
12 12 (10.81%) .NET
12 12 (10.81%) Django
12 12 (10.81%) FastAPI
12 12 (10.81%) Flask
13 11 (9.91%) NumPy
13 11 (9.91%) Pandas
13 11 (9.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.21%) Low-Code
4 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.50%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.70%) NHS
8 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) TM Forum
9 1 (0.90%) CMDB
9 1 (0.90%) LIMS
9 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (58.56%) CI/CD
2 44 (39.64%) Microservices
3 43 (38.74%) Agile
4 33 (29.73%) Validation
5 32 (28.83%) DevOps
6 30 (27.03%) Containerisation
6 30 (27.03%) Test Automation
7 27 (24.32%) API Design
8 24 (21.62%) API Development
8 24 (21.62%) Requirements Gathering
9 23 (20.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (19.82%) Integration Patterns
10 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (18.02%) Observability
12 19 (17.12%) Event-Driven
13 18 (16.22%) API Integration
13 18 (16.22%) API Management
14 17 (15.32%) Software Engineering
14 17 (15.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.14%) Java
2 41 (36.94%) SQL
3 34 (30.63%) Python
4 20 (18.02%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.71%) C#
6 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.01%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.31%) Bash
9 4 (3.60%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.70%) Bicep
10 3 (2.70%) Groovy
11 2 (1.80%) C++
11 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.90%) Go
12 1 (0.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.90%) SOQL
12 1 (0.90%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) Degree
4 13 (11.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.11%) WCAG
2 7 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.41%) PSD2
3 6 (5.41%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 3 (2.70%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.80%) HL7
5 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.90%) NIST
6 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 42 (37.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.61%) Terraform
3 7 (6.31%) Istio
4 5 (4.50%) Grafana
4 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.80%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.80%) Argo
5 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.90%) Ansible
6 1 (0.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (9.91%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.01%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.21%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.21%) MuleSoft
3 8 (7.21%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.21%) UiPath
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Google
5 3 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.70%) Veracode
6 2 (1.80%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.80%) Ciena
6 2 (1.80%) IBM
6 2 (1.80%) New Relic
6 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.90%) BT
7 1 (0.90%) Databricks
7 1 (0.90%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.90%) Telerik