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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 419 455
Rank change year-on-year -105 +36 +80
Contract jobs citing Swagger 162 142 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 1.70% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 99 77
10th Percentile £357 £359 £435
25th Percentile £425 £411 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £560 £545 £688
90th Percentile £588 £640 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -8.33%

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 11,774 8,333 9,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.79% 25.48% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 5,603 6,381
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £434 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 182 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.66 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +9.22%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -112 113 £463 -10.69% 91
UK excluding London -84 66 £450 -5.26% 57
Work from Home -57 60 £500 - 42
London -78 57 £525 - 49
South East -61 24 £460 -8.00% 14
Scotland -17 12 £425 +0.47% 9
Midlands -50 12 £462 +35.74% 12
West Midlands -37 10 £463 -28.72% 10
North of England -81 10 £425 -15.00% 9
Yorkshire -32 7 £380 +4.83% 2
South West - 7 £575 - 8
East Midlands -19 2 £380 +24.59% 2
East of England -23 2 £480 -16.52% 3
North West -67 2 £425 -19.81% 7
North East -42 1 £426 -8.00%

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 (5.56%) Anypoint
2 6 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.85%) Mule
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.62%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (4.94%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.09%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.62%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.62%) AWS
1 82 (50.62%) Azure
2 49 (30.25%) GitHub
3 38 (23.46%) GitHub Actions
4 32 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (12.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (11.11%) GCP
7 17 (10.49%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (9.26%) Boomi
9 14 (8.64%) Apigee
10 13 (8.02%) Entra ID
10 13 (8.02%) Kong
11 12 (7.41%) Serverless
12 11 (6.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (6.17%) Azure API Management
13 10 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.32%) iPaaS
15 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) NaaS
2 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 20 (12.35%) NoSQL
4 17 (10.49%) Redis
5 12 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.47%) MySQL
10 3 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.85%) Metadata
10 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (32.10%) Git
2 49 (30.25%) Jenkins
3 28 (17.28%) JIRA
3 28 (17.28%) JUnit
4 22 (13.58%) Mockito
5 21 (12.96%) Gradle
6 20 (12.35%) Liquibase
7 19 (11.73%) GitLab
7 19 (11.73%) Postman
8 12 (7.41%) SpecFlow
9 9 (5.56%) Cucumber
10 8 (4.94%) JMeter
10 8 (4.94%) Selenium
11 7 (4.32%) Maven
12 6 (3.70%) Flyway
13 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.85%) git-flow
13 3 (1.85%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.85%) Storybook
14 2 (1.23%) MSBuild
General
1 23 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.96%) Finance
3 19 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.02%) Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.32%) Law
6 7 (4.32%) Publishing
7 6 (3.70%) Billing
7 6 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.47%) Retail
9 3 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.85%) Military
10 2 (1.23%) Back Office
11 1 (0.62%) Automotive
11 1 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (39.51%) Developer
2 29 (17.90%) Architect
3 20 (12.35%) Senior
4 16 (9.88%) Lead
5 15 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Python Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Azure Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Integration Architect
9 10 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.56%) C# Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.94%) Tester
12 6 (3.70%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 5 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (85.80%) OpenAPI
2 83 (51.23%) REST
3 61 (37.65%) RESTful
4 46 (28.40%) Kafka
4 46 (28.40%) OAuth
5 42 (25.93%) JSON
6 37 (22.84%) React
7 36 (22.22%) OAuth2
7 36 (22.22%) Spring Boot
8 35 (21.60%) Spring
9 27 (16.67%) JWT
10 25 (15.43%) Terraform
11 22 (13.58%) Node.js
11 22 (13.58%) OpenID
12 20 (12.35%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (12.35%) XML
13 19 (11.73%) SOAP
14 17 (10.49%) Jest
14 17 (10.49%) Middleware
15 16 (9.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.17%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.94%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.94%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 2 (1.23%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.62%) Clustering
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) FPGA
8 1 (0.62%) LIMS
8 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Android
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (66.05%) CI/CD
2 73 (45.06%) DevOps
3 71 (43.83%) Agile
4 59 (36.42%) Microservices
5 51 (31.48%) Test Automation
6 48 (29.63%) Containerisation
7 43 (26.54%) Event-Driven
8 35 (21.60%) Observability
9 33 (20.37%) TDD
10 32 (19.75%) API Design
10 32 (19.75%) API Development
11 28 (17.28%) API Management
12 26 (16.05%) Software Engineering
12 26 (16.05%) Validation
13 23 (14.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 23 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (12.96%) Integration Patterns
16 19 (11.73%) Acceptance Criteria
17 18 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.72%) Java
2 44 (27.16%) Python
2 44 (27.16%) SQL
3 34 (20.99%) TypeScript
4 24 (14.81%) C#
5 19 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.02%) Go
7 7 (4.32%) Bash
7 7 (4.32%) DataWeave
8 6 (3.70%) Bicep
8 6 (3.70%) Lua
8 6 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.23%) PromQL
10 2 (1.23%) Rust
11 1 (0.62%) Groovy
11 1 (0.62%) OpenEdge ABL
11 1 (0.62%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (7.41%) Degree
5 11 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.11%) QA
2 15 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.32%) WCAG
4 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.23%) NCSC
5 2 (1.23%) SLA
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.62%) SEPA
6 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 60 (37.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (39.51%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.49%) Prometheus
3 16 (9.88%) Grafana
4 11 (6.79%) Ansible
5 3 (1.85%) Consul
5 3 (1.85%) Kibana
6 2 (1.23%) Argo
6 2 (1.23%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.23%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.62%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.62%) Istio
7 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.52%) MuleSoft
2 15 (9.26%) Oracle
3 12 (7.41%) Google
4 10 (6.17%) IBM
5 9 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.94%) SAP
7 7 (4.32%) Informatica
7 7 (4.32%) TIBCO
7 7 (4.32%) WSO2
8 6 (3.70%) Dell
9 5 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.09%) Splunk
10 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.23%) Nokia
11 2 (1.23%) Solace
12 1 (0.62%) Ciena
12 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.62%) Red Hat