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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 413 437
Rank change year-on-year -120 +24 +81
Contract jobs citing Swagger 149 147 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 1.76% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 105 78
10th Percentile £355 £360 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £569 £545 £687
90th Percentile £597 £645 £829
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% -10.42%

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 11,770 8,376 9,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.42% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,653 6,407
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £79.48 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 30 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 30 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 -122 103 £510 -2.86% 68
UK excluding London -85 61 £450 -5.26% 47
Work from Home -67 54 £525 +5.00% 34
London -92 50 £525 -0.47% 33
South East -49 25 £460 -8.00% 10
Scotland -12 10 £425 +0.47% 8
North of England -82 10 £426 -14.90% 9
Midlands -47 9 £467 +37.35% 9
West Midlands -38 7 £535 -17.69% 6
South West - 7 £575 - 8
Yorkshire -42 6 £400 +10.34% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £380 +24.59% 3
North East -39 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -68 2 £425 -19.81% 7
East of England -24 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 9 (6.04%) Anypoint
2 5 (3.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.01%) Mule
3 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.67%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (5.37%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.36%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.67%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 77 (51.68%) AWS
2 76 (51.01%) Azure
3 47 (31.54%) GitHub
4 38 (25.50%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (12.08%) GCP
7 16 (10.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (10.07%) Boomi
9 13 (8.72%) Apigee
10 10 (6.71%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.71%) Kong
11 9 (6.04%) Azure API Management
12 8 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.37%) Serverless
13 7 (4.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (4.70%) iPaaS
14 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) NaaS
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.54%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (17.45%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.41%) Redis
4 16 (10.74%) NoSQL
5 13 (8.72%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.01%) Metadata
9 3 (2.01%) MySQL
9 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (31.54%) Jenkins
2 46 (30.87%) Git
3 28 (18.79%) JIRA
4 26 (17.45%) JUnit
5 21 (14.09%) Postman
6 20 (13.42%) Mockito
7 19 (12.75%) Gradle
7 19 (12.75%) Liquibase
8 17 (11.41%) GitLab
9 11 (7.38%) SpecFlow
10 8 (5.37%) JMeter
11 7 (4.70%) Cucumber
11 7 (4.70%) Selenium
12 6 (4.03%) Flyway
13 5 (3.36%) Maven
14 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.01%) git-flow
14 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
15 2 (1.34%) MSBuild
15 2 (1.34%) Robot Framework
General
1 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.08%) Finance
2 18 (12.08%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.05%) Banking
4 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.70%) Law
5 7 (4.70%) Publishing
6 6 (4.03%) Billing
7 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.68%) Retail
9 3 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.01%) Military
10 2 (1.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (38.93%) Developer
2 29 (19.46%) Architect
3 18 (12.08%) Senior
4 15 (10.07%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.40%) Lead
6 13 (8.72%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Python Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.38%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Integration Architect
9 10 (6.71%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Azure Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Tester
11 8 (5.37%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 5 (3.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (3.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Software Developer
14 4 (2.68%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (83.89%) OpenAPI
2 77 (51.68%) REST
3 57 (38.26%) RESTful
4 43 (28.86%) Kafka
5 40 (26.85%) JSON
6 37 (24.83%) OAuth
7 33 (22.15%) Spring Boot
8 32 (21.48%) React
8 32 (21.48%) Spring
9 28 (18.79%) OAuth2
10 25 (16.78%) JWT
11 20 (13.42%) Terraform
12 19 (12.75%) Node.js
12 19 (12.75%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (12.75%) SOAP
12 19 (12.75%) XML
13 17 (11.41%) Jest
13 17 (11.41%) Middleware
14 14 (9.40%) hapi
14 14 (9.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.71%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.37%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) FPGA
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) LIMS
9 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Android
1 1 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 68 (45.64%) DevOps
3 67 (44.97%) Agile
4 57 (38.26%) Microservices
5 48 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 44 (29.53%) Test Automation
7 38 (25.50%) Event-Driven
8 33 (22.15%) API Design
8 33 (22.15%) TDD
9 32 (21.48%) Observability
10 31 (20.81%) API Development
11 23 (15.44%) API Management
11 23 (15.44%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.44%) Validation
12 21 (14.09%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (14.09%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (12.75%) Acceptance Criteria
13 19 (12.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (11.41%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.21%) Java
2 42 (28.19%) SQL
3 41 (27.52%) Python
4 30 (20.13%) TypeScript
5 21 (14.09%) C#
6 15 (10.07%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.71%) Go
8 7 (4.70%) Bash
8 7 (4.70%) DataWeave
9 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.36%) Lua
11 4 (2.68%) Bicep
12 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.34%) PromQL
13 2 (1.34%) Rust
14 1 (0.67%) Groovy
14 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.67%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.67%) Ruby
14 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 44 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (6.71%) Degree
5 9 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) QA
2 13 (8.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.68%) WCAG
4 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) NCSC
4 2 (1.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.67%) SEPA
5 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (38.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (40.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.74%) Prometheus
3 14 (9.40%) Grafana
4 11 (7.38%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Consul
6 2 (1.34%) Argo
6 2 (1.34%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.34%) Kibana
6 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.34%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.67%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 29 (19.46%) MuleSoft
2 14 (9.40%) Oracle
3 12 (8.05%) Google
4 10 (6.71%) IBM
5 9 (6.04%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.37%) SAP
7 7 (4.70%) Informatica
7 7 (4.70%) Microsoft
7 7 (4.70%) TIBCO
7 7 (4.70%) WSO2
8 6 (4.03%) Dell
9 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.36%) Splunk
10 4 (2.68%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.34%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.34%) Nokia
11 2 (1.34%) Solace
12 1 (0.67%) Ciena
12 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.67%) Red Hat