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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 429 496
Rank change year-on-year -63 +67 +33
Contract jobs citing Swagger 94 91 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.30% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 63
10th Percentile £350 £463 £375
25th Percentile £385 £503 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.98% +11.36% -5.98%
75th Percentile £500 £685 £675
90th Percentile £581 £834 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -29.17% +7.02% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.36
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,205 7,000 9,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.19% 22.23% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,452 4,443 6,581
10th Percentile £356 £356 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 90 179
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.00 £27.58
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.44 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.22 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.46% +18.18% -15.38%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -54 84 £450 -28.00% 61
UK excluding London -41 45 £425 -29.17% 63
London -29 40 £475 -24.00% 7
Work from Home +2 36 £478 -20.42% 15
North of England -41 19 £390 -21.01% 17
North West -18 12 £374 -12.00% 10
South East -9 11 £488 -11.36% 18
Midlands -32 10 £469 -14.73% 6
West Midlands -30 7 £469 -14.73% 1
Wales -1 4 - - 4
Yorkshire -50 4 £356 -43.00% 5
North East - 3 £475 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £269 - 5
Scotland +7 1 - - 4

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 6 (6.38%) Confluence
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
3 4 (4.26%) Appian
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.13%) Mule
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (2.13%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.13%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.13%) Shopify
3 1 (1.06%) Endur
3 1 (1.06%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.85%) AWS
2 28 (29.79%) Azure
3 15 (15.96%) GitHub
4 14 (14.89%) Serverless
5 13 (13.83%) Apigee
6 12 (12.77%) GCP
7 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.51%) Azure Functions
9 7 (7.45%) Kong
10 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.38%) Stackdriver
11 5 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
12 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.70%) MongoDB
2 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.32%) Oracle Database
4 5 (5.32%) Redis
4 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.26%) Pinecone
6 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.19%) MySQL
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.13%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.06%) GIS
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (20.21%) Git
2 16 (17.02%) Postman
3 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 15 (15.96%) JIRA
4 13 (13.83%) GitLab
5 9 (9.57%) Mockito
5 9 (9.57%) Selenium
6 7 (7.45%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.38%) JUnit
7 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.26%) Gradle
8 4 (4.26%) Maven
8 4 (4.26%) MLflow
8 4 (4.26%) REST Assured
9 3 (3.19%) JMeter
9 3 (3.19%) MSTest
9 3 (3.19%) Spinnaker
10 2 (2.13%) Xcode
General
1 27 (28.72%) Finance
2 23 (24.47%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Billing
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Dutch Language
6 2 (2.13%) French Language
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Automotive
7 1 (1.06%) Back Office
7 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (36.17%) Developer
2 13 (13.83%) Lead
3 12 (12.77%) Analyst
3 12 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.64%) Java Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Senior
5 9 (9.57%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Python Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Technical Business Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (56.38%) OpenAPI
2 47 (50.00%) REST
3 32 (34.04%) RESTful
4 25 (26.60%) JSON
4 25 (26.60%) Spring
5 24 (25.53%) OAuth
6 22 (23.40%) Spring Boot
7 19 (20.21%) SOAP
8 18 (19.15%) XML
9 16 (17.02%) React
10 15 (15.96%) Node.js
11 14 (14.89%) Kafka
12 13 (13.83%) JWT
13 12 (12.77%) .NET
13 12 (12.77%) OAuth2
14 8 (8.51%) Hibernate
15 7 (7.45%) CSS
15 7 (7.45%) FastAPI
15 7 (7.45%) HTML
15 7 (7.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.26%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) NHS
4 2 (2.13%) TM Forum
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 43 (45.74%) Agile
3 41 (43.62%) Microservices
4 34 (36.17%) DevOps
5 24 (25.53%) Validation
6 21 (22.34%) Containerisation
6 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.28%) Test Automation
8 18 (19.15%) API Design
9 17 (18.09%) Requirements Gathering
10 15 (15.96%) API Development
10 15 (15.96%) API Management
10 15 (15.96%) Integration Patterns
11 14 (14.89%) API Testing
11 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (12.77%) Computer Science
14 11 (11.70%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.70%) SDLC
14 11 (11.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) SQL
2 40 (42.55%) Java
3 25 (26.60%) Python
4 18 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.83%) C#
6 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.38%) Bash
9 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.19%) Bicep
10 3 (3.19%) Go
11 2 (2.13%) Groovy
12 1 (1.06%) PHP
12 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) Degree
4 11 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.13%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) WCAG
2 5 (5.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.32%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.19%) PSD2
4 3 (3.19%) QA
5 2 (2.13%) HL7
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.02%) Terraform
3 8 (8.51%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Istio
5 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.19%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.19%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.19%) Salt
6 2 (2.13%) Argo
6 2 (2.13%) Puppet
7 1 (1.06%) Kibana
7 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (12.77%) Oracle
2 9 (9.57%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.45%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.32%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.26%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.26%) UiPath
6 3 (3.19%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.19%) Checkmarx
6 3 (3.19%) Google
6 3 (3.19%) VMware
7 2 (2.13%) New Relic
7 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.06%) Charles River
8 1 (1.06%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.06%) IBM
8 1 (1.06%) Okta
8 1 (1.06%) Telerik