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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 404 460
Rank change year-on-year -133 +56 +71
Contract jobs citing Swagger 136 148 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 2.01% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 107 70
10th Percentile £359 £361 £413
25th Percentile £454 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £688
90th Percentile £588 £643 £839
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -3.26% -6.13% -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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 August 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 August 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 -141 95 £513 -3.30% 81
UK excluding London -103 50 £460 -3.26% 39
Work from Home -73 49 £525 - 40
London -88 46 £530 - 48
South East -54 24 £460 -5.64% 9
North of England -75 10 £426 -14.90% 10
South West - 7 £575 - 7
Yorkshire -39 6 £400 +10.34% 2
Midlands -46 6 £450 +47.62% 3
West Midlands -42 4 £459 - 2
Scotland -14 3 £368 -13.12% 5
East Midlands -18 2 £425 +39.34% 1
North East -45 2 £438 -5.35% 1
North West -61 2 £425 -19.81% 7
East of England -20 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 9 (6.62%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.21%) Mule
4 2 (1.47%) IIS
4 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.74%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.68%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.74%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 73 (53.68%) Azure
2 70 (51.47%) AWS
3 48 (35.29%) GitHub
4 39 (28.68%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (22.79%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (13.24%) GCP
7 14 (10.29%) Boomi
8 13 (9.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.62%) Apigee
10 9 (6.62%) Azure API Management
10 9 (6.62%) Entra ID
11 8 (5.88%) Serverless
12 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.41%) iPaaS
14 5 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.68%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (1.47%) NaaS
2 2 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (19.85%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.50%) Redis
4 15 (11.03%) NoSQL
5 12 (8.82%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.94%) MySQL
8 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.21%) Metadata
9 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.47%) Flink
10 2 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.47%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 46 (33.82%) Jenkins
2 43 (31.62%) Git
3 28 (20.59%) JIRA
4 23 (16.91%) JUnit
5 21 (15.44%) Postman
6 19 (13.97%) Gradle
6 19 (13.97%) Liquibase
6 19 (13.97%) Mockito
7 14 (10.29%) GitLab
8 10 (7.35%) SpecFlow
9 9 (6.62%) JMeter
10 7 (5.15%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.41%) Flyway
12 5 (3.68%) Selenium
13 3 (2.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.21%) Gatling
13 3 (2.21%) git-flow
13 3 (2.21%) Robot Framework
14 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
14 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (13.97%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.09%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Billing
6 7 (5.15%) Law
6 7 (5.15%) Publishing
7 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.94%) Retail
9 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Military
10 2 (1.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (40.44%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Architect
3 17 (12.50%) Senior
4 15 (11.03%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.56%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 11 (8.09%) Lead
7 11 (8.09%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Integration Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Tester
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.15%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (82.35%) OpenAPI
2 77 (56.62%) REST
3 46 (33.82%) RESTful
4 43 (31.62%) Kafka
5 38 (27.94%) JSON
6 29 (21.32%) OAuth
6 29 (21.32%) React
6 29 (21.32%) Spring Boot
7 28 (20.59%) Spring
8 23 (16.91%) OAuth2
9 21 (15.44%) JWT
10 20 (14.71%) Node.js
11 18 (13.24%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (13.24%) SOAP
11 18 (13.24%) XML
12 17 (12.50%) Jest
13 16 (11.76%) Middleware
14 14 (10.29%) hapi
15 13 (9.56%) FastAPI
16 11 (8.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.35%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.15%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.74%) CMDB
9 1 (0.74%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Android
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 63 (46.32%) Agile
2 63 (46.32%) DevOps
3 54 (39.71%) Microservices
4 47 (34.56%) Containerisation
5 40 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 37 (27.21%) Event-Driven
7 33 (24.26%) TDD
8 32 (23.53%) API Design
9 30 (22.06%) API Development
9 30 (22.06%) Observability
10 23 (16.91%) Software Engineering
11 21 (15.44%) Integration Patterns
11 21 (15.44%) Validation
12 19 (13.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (13.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (13.24%) Acceptance Criteria
14 17 (12.50%) API Management
14 17 (12.50%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.09%) Java
2 41 (30.15%) Python
3 39 (28.68%) SQL
4 30 (22.06%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.97%) C#
6 12 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.15%) Bash
7 7 (5.15%) DataWeave
8 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.94%) Go
10 3 (2.21%) Bicep
10 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) C++
11 2 (1.47%) PromQL
11 2 (1.47%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) Groovy
12 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) OpenEdge ABL
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
5 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) QA
2 13 (9.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.94%) WCAG
4 3 (2.21%) NCSC
5 2 (1.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.74%) SEPA
6 1 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (41.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.29%) Prometheus
3 13 (9.56%) Grafana
3 13 (9.56%) Terraform
4 11 (8.09%) Ansible
5 3 (2.21%) Consul
6 2 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.47%) Argo
6 2 (1.47%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.47%) Istio
6 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.47%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (17.65%) MuleSoft
2 11 (8.09%) Google
2 11 (8.09%) Oracle
3 10 (7.35%) IBM
3 10 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.88%) SAP
5 6 (4.41%) Dell
5 6 (4.41%) Informatica
5 6 (4.41%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.41%) TIBCO
5 6 (4.41%) WSO2
6 5 (3.68%) Splunk
7 2 (1.47%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.47%) Ciena
7 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.47%) Nokia
7 2 (1.47%) Solace
8 1 (0.74%) Planon