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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 413 475
Rank change year-on-year -93 +62 +55
Contract jobs citing Swagger 154 139 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% 1.88% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 93 77
10th Percentile £349 £363 £405
25th Percentile £421 £423 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.45% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £672
90th Percentile £592 £650 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -10.42% -6.31% -15.50%

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 10,251 7,385 9,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.60% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,718 4,986 6,286
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -100 116 £470 -11.32% 62
UK excluding London -70 66 £426 -10.42% 39
Work from Home -58 55 £500 -6.28% 16
London -79 49 £540 +1.89% 28
North of England -69 26 £425 -15.00% 11
South East -57 22 £383 -17.30% 12
North West -51 14 £428 -19.34% 7
Midlands -44 8 £459 +31.52% 2
Yorkshire -46 8 £363 -17.14% 1
South West -27 7 £575 -30.30% 8
North East -34 4 £438 -5.35% 3
West Midlands -62 4 £459 -
East Midlands -13 3 £425 +21.78% 2
Scotland -15 3 £368 +75.00% 2
East of England -22 1 - - 3

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 15 (9.74%) Confluence
2 9 (5.84%) Anypoint
3 4 (2.60%) Appian
4 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.95%) IIS
4 3 (1.95%) Mule
5 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Notion
2 1 (0.65%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.65%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 70 (45.45%) Azure
2 61 (39.61%) AWS
3 46 (29.87%) GitHub
4 39 (25.32%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (8.44%) GCP
7 11 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (6.49%) Serverless
9 9 (5.84%) Apigee
9 9 (5.84%) Boomi
9 9 (5.84%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.55%) Azure API Management
10 7 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.90%) Kong
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.25%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.79%) HTTP
2 2 (1.30%) NaaS
2 2 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (30.52%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (16.88%) MongoDB
3 16 (10.39%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.39%) Redis
4 15 (9.74%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.60%) MySQL
8 4 (2.60%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.95%) Metadata
10 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.30%) Flink
10 2 (1.30%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (30.52%) Jenkins
2 42 (27.27%) Git
3 37 (24.03%) JIRA
4 26 (16.88%) JUnit
4 26 (16.88%) Postman
5 21 (13.64%) GitLab
5 21 (13.64%) Mockito
6 19 (12.34%) Gradle
7 18 (11.69%) Liquibase
8 10 (6.49%) JMeter
8 10 (6.49%) SpecFlow
9 6 (3.90%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.90%) Flyway
9 6 (3.90%) Selenium
10 4 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.60%) MLflow
10 4 (2.60%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.95%) MSBuild
11 3 (1.95%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.95%) webpack
General
1 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.79%) Banking
6 8 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.55%) Billing
7 7 (4.55%) Law
8 6 (3.90%) Publishing
9 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.60%) Retail
11 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.95%) Military
12 2 (1.30%) Back Office
13 1 (0.65%) Automotive
13 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (38.96%) Developer
2 24 (15.58%) Architect
3 16 (10.39%) Senior
3 16 (10.39%) Software Engineer
4 14 (9.09%) Lead
5 13 (8.44%) Python Developer
6 12 (7.79%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Integration Architect
8 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Azure Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Node.js Developer
9 9 (5.84%) Tester
10 8 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.90%) Analyst
12 6 (3.90%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (77.27%) OpenAPI
2 82 (53.25%) REST
3 54 (35.06%) RESTful
4 41 (26.62%) Kafka
5 39 (25.32%) JSON
6 31 (20.13%) Spring
7 30 (19.48%) React
8 29 (18.83%) Spring Boot
9 28 (18.18%) OAuth
10 23 (14.94%) OAuth2
11 20 (12.99%) XML
12 19 (12.34%) JWT
13 18 (11.69%) FastAPI
13 18 (11.69%) Node.js
13 18 (11.69%) SOAP
14 15 (9.74%) .NET
14 15 (9.74%) Django
14 15 (9.74%) Jest
14 15 (9.74%) pytest
14 15 (9.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.84%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.60%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.95%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.65%) Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Android
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (62.99%) CI/CD
2 67 (43.51%) Agile
3 59 (38.31%) DevOps
4 56 (36.36%) Microservices
5 53 (34.42%) Containerisation
6 51 (33.12%) Test Automation
7 40 (25.97%) API Development
8 35 (22.73%) TDD
9 34 (22.08%) API Design
10 33 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 33 (21.43%) Observability
11 28 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 28 (18.18%) Validation
12 24 (15.58%) Integration Patterns
12 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (13.64%) Unit Testing
14 20 (12.99%) Clean Code
15 19 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.36%) Java
2 51 (33.12%) Python
3 43 (27.92%) SQL
4 32 (20.78%) TypeScript
5 24 (15.58%) C#
6 13 (8.44%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.49%) Bash
9 7 (4.55%) DataWeave
10 4 (2.60%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.60%) Go
10 4 (2.60%) Groovy
11 3 (1.95%) Bicep
11 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.30%) C++
12 2 (1.30%) PromQL
12 2 (1.30%) Rust
12 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 48 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (8.44%) Degree
4 11 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.39%) QA
2 12 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.60%) WCAG
5 3 (1.95%) NCSC
5 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.95%) PSD2
6 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) GDPR
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.65%) SEPA
7 1 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.39%) Terraform
3 14 (9.09%) Grafana
3 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 11 (7.14%) Ansible
5 5 (3.25%) Istio
6 3 (1.95%) Argo
6 3 (1.95%) Consul
6 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.30%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.30%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.30%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (11.69%) MuleSoft
2 16 (10.39%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.55%) Oracle
3 7 (4.55%) SAP
4 6 (3.90%) Google
4 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.25%) Dell
5 5 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.25%) Splunk
6 4 (2.60%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.60%) UiPath
7 3 (1.95%) IBM
7 3 (1.95%) Veracode
8 2 (1.30%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.30%) Ciena
8 2 (1.30%) Databricks
8 2 (1.30%) Nokia