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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 399 484
Rank change year-on-year -99 +85 +33
Contract jobs citing Swagger 136 120 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.77% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 81 69
10th Percentile £350 £385 £391
25th Percentile £400 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +4.95% -8.18%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £589 £650 £870
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -19.60% -1.19% -15.67%

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 9,793 6,763 9,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.83% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,617 6,310
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 125 272
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.88 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.22 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -94 111 £459 -13.40% 35
UK excluding London -86 57 £402 -19.60% 25
London -80 52 £550 +3.77% 13
Work from Home -40 42 £525 -1.59% 15
North of England -63 27 £398 -22.74% 5
South East -47 16 £375 -18.92% 10
North West -38 15 £398 -24.93% 1
Yorkshire -49 8 £363 -17.14% 1
Midlands -52 7 £555 +58.88% 2
South West -24 5 £558 -32.42% 4
North East -32 4 £438 -7.84% 3
West Midlands - 4 £459 - 1
Scotland -12 2 - - 1
East Midlands -23 2 - - 1
East of England -31 1 - - 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 12 (8.82%) Confluence
2 8 (5.88%) Appian
3 5 (3.68%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.47%) IIS
5 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Notion
2 1 (0.74%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP MDG
1 4 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.44%) Azure
2 52 (38.24%) AWS
3 32 (23.53%) GitHub
4 25 (18.38%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.09%) Apigee
6 11 (8.09%) Serverless
7 10 (7.35%) GCP
8 9 (6.62%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.62%) Kong
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.88%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.15%) Boomi
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) HTTP
2 2 (1.47%) NaaS
2 2 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (30.15%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 14 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 14 (10.29%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.35%) Redis
6 8 (5.88%) Pinecone
7 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.68%) MySQL
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.21%) Metadata
11 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.47%) Flink
11 2 (1.47%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 43 (31.62%) Jenkins
2 34 (25.00%) Git
3 26 (19.12%) JUnit
4 25 (18.38%) JIRA
5 24 (17.65%) GitLab
6 23 (16.91%) Postman
7 21 (15.44%) Gradle
7 21 (15.44%) Mockito
8 18 (13.24%) Liquibase
9 10 (7.35%) JMeter
10 8 (5.88%) MLflow
11 6 (4.41%) Flyway
12 4 (2.94%) SonarQube
13 3 (2.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.21%) Cucumber
13 3 (2.21%) MSBuild
13 3 (2.21%) Robot Framework
13 3 (2.21%) SpecFlow
13 3 (2.21%) TeamCity
13 3 (2.21%) webpack
General
1 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Finance
3 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.82%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Law
7 6 (4.41%) Billing
7 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.94%) Publishing
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Military
10 2 (1.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (31.62%) Developer
2 20 (14.71%) Architect
3 16 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Java Engineer
5 13 (9.56%) Senior
6 12 (8.82%) Lead
7 11 (8.09%) Python Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Integration Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Tester
10 8 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) Business Analyst
11 7 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (77.94%) OpenAPI
2 71 (52.21%) REST
3 46 (33.82%) RESTful
4 39 (28.68%) Kafka
5 32 (23.53%) JSON
5 32 (23.53%) Spring
6 30 (22.06%) OAuth
6 30 (22.06%) Spring Boot
7 27 (19.85%) React
8 25 (18.38%) JWT
9 19 (13.97%) OAuth2
9 19 (13.97%) XML
10 18 (13.24%) Django
10 18 (13.24%) FastAPI
10 18 (13.24%) pytest
11 17 (12.50%) Flask
11 17 (12.50%) Pandas
12 16 (11.76%) NumPy
13 13 (9.56%) Node.js
13 13 (9.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.35%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.88%) Low-Code
5 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.21%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.74%) CMDB
10 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.74%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Android
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (66.91%) CI/CD
2 56 (41.18%) Agile
3 52 (38.24%) Microservices
4 51 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 50 (36.76%) DevOps
6 47 (34.56%) Test Automation
7 38 (27.94%) API Development
7 38 (27.94%) Validation
8 36 (26.47%) Observability
9 32 (23.53%) TDD
10 31 (22.79%) API Design
11 30 (22.06%) Event-Driven
12 28 (20.59%) Software Engineering
13 25 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (16.18%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (16.18%) Integration Patterns
16 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (13.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.65%) Java
2 50 (36.76%) Python
3 46 (33.82%) SQL
4 30 (22.06%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.03%) C#
6 12 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.09%) Bash
8 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.94%) DataWeave
9 4 (2.94%) Groovy
10 3 (2.21%) Go
11 2 (1.47%) Bicep
11 2 (1.47%) C++
11 2 (1.47%) PromQL
11 2 (1.47%) Rust
11 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.74%) C
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (8.82%) Degree
5 10 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 10 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.68%) WCAG
5 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.21%) PSD2
6 2 (1.47%) GDPR
6 2 (1.47%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (46.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (43.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.76%) Terraform
3 15 (11.03%) Grafana
3 15 (11.03%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.09%) Ansible
5 6 (4.41%) Istio
6 4 (2.94%) Argo
7 3 (2.21%) Consul
7 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.47%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.82%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.88%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.88%) UiPath
4 6 (4.41%) Oracle
5 5 (3.68%) SAP
5 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.94%) Dell
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.21%) Google
7 3 (2.21%) Splunk
7 3 (2.21%) Veracode
8 2 (1.47%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.47%) Ciena
8 2 (1.47%) Databricks
8 2 (1.47%) New Relic
8 2 (1.47%) Solace