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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 406 443
Rank change year-on-year -127 +37 +99
Contract jobs citing Swagger 137 140 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.89% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 99 74
10th Percentile £351 £362 £413
25th Percentile £437 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.69% -6.14%
75th Percentile £570 £555 £684
90th Percentile £594 £650 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.94% -15.83%

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 10,110 7,404 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 22.46% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,592 4,974 5,801
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £631 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 173 241
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £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 12 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 12 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 -115 96 £475 -10.38% 86
UK excluding London -96 51 £450 -5.26% 37
Work from Home -63 48 £513 -2.38% 40
London -86 47 £528 -0.47% 54
South East -50 23 £460 -1.87% 10
North of England -79 12 £425 -15.00% 9
Yorkshire -37 8 £375 +3.45% 3
South West - 7 £575 - 6
Midlands -51 6 £450 +47.62% 4
West Midlands -43 4 £459 - 2
Scotland -5 3 £368 -13.12% 2
East Midlands -10 2 £425 +39.34% 2
North East -44 2 £438 -5.35% 1
North West -57 2 £425 -19.81% 5
East of England -19 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 (6.57%) Anypoint
2 7 (5.11%) Confluence
3 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.19%) Mule
4 2 (1.46%) IIS
4 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.73%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.73%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.73%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.82%) Azure
2 69 (50.36%) AWS
3 49 (35.77%) GitHub
4 40 (29.20%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.60%) GCP
7 13 (9.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (9.49%) Boomi
8 11 (8.03%) Apigee
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.57%) Azure API Management
10 9 (6.57%) Entra ID
11 8 (5.84%) Serverless
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.38%) iPaaS
14 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.65%) Kong
15 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.68%) HTTP
2 2 (1.46%) NaaS
2 2 (1.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (34.31%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.98%) MongoDB
3 16 (11.68%) Redis
4 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
5 12 (8.76%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.92%) MySQL
8 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.19%) Metadata
9 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.46%) Flink
10 2 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.46%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.46%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (35.04%) Jenkins
2 42 (30.66%) Git
3 28 (20.44%) JIRA
4 23 (16.79%) JUnit
5 20 (14.60%) Postman
6 19 (13.87%) Gradle
6 19 (13.87%) Liquibase
6 19 (13.87%) Mockito
7 14 (10.22%) GitLab
8 10 (7.30%) SpecFlow
9 9 (6.57%) JMeter
10 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.38%) Flyway
12 5 (3.65%) Selenium
13 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.19%) Gatling
13 3 (2.19%) git-flow
13 3 (2.19%) Robot Framework
14 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
14 2 (1.46%) webpack
General
1 20 (14.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.03%) Finance
4 9 (6.57%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Billing
6 7 (5.11%) Law
6 7 (5.11%) Publishing
7 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.92%) Retail
9 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Military
10 2 (1.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.73%) Automotive
11 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (39.42%) Developer
2 29 (21.17%) Architect
3 16 (11.68%) Senior
4 14 (10.22%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) Python Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Lead
8 10 (7.30%) Integration Architect
8 10 (7.30%) Node.js Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Tester
10 8 (5.84%) Azure Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.11%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.65%) Lead Developer
13 5 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (82.48%) OpenAPI
2 78 (56.93%) REST
3 46 (33.58%) RESTful
4 43 (31.39%) Kafka
5 38 (27.74%) JSON
6 30 (21.90%) OAuth
7 29 (21.17%) React
7 29 (21.17%) Spring Boot
8 28 (20.44%) Spring
9 25 (18.25%) OAuth2
10 21 (15.33%) JWT
11 19 (13.87%) Node.js
11 19 (13.87%) SOAP
11 19 (13.87%) XML
12 18 (13.14%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (11.68%) Jest
14 15 (10.95%) Middleware
15 13 (9.49%) FastAPI
15 13 (9.49%) hapi
16 11 (8.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.84%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.46%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.73%) CMDB
9 1 (0.73%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.73%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.73%) Android
1 1 (0.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (65.69%) CI/CD
2 62 (45.26%) Agile
2 62 (45.26%) DevOps
3 55 (40.15%) Microservices
4 47 (34.31%) Containerisation
5 40 (29.20%) Test Automation
6 37 (27.01%) Event-Driven
7 33 (24.09%) TDD
8 32 (23.36%) Observability
9 31 (22.63%) API Design
10 30 (21.90%) API Development
11 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
12 21 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (15.33%) Integration Patterns
12 21 (15.33%) Validation
13 19 (13.87%) API Management
13 19 (13.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 19 (13.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (13.14%) Acceptance Criteria
15 17 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.85%) Java
2 43 (31.39%) Python
3 39 (28.47%) SQL
4 30 (21.90%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.87%) C#
6 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.57%) Bash
8 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.11%) DataWeave
10 4 (2.92%) Go
11 3 (2.19%) Bicep
11 3 (2.19%) Groovy
11 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.46%) C++
12 2 (1.46%) PromQL
12 2 (1.46%) Rust
13 1 (0.73%) C
13 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.73%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 42 (30.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (7.30%) Degree
4 8 (5.84%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) QA
2 13 (9.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) WCAG
4 3 (2.19%) NCSC
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) NIST
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) SEPA
6 1 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (40.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.95%) Terraform
3 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.49%) Grafana
5 11 (8.03%) Ansible
6 4 (2.92%) Istio
7 3 (2.19%) Consul
8 2 (1.46%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (1.46%) Argo
8 2 (1.46%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.46%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) MuleSoft
2 12 (8.76%) Google
3 10 (7.30%) Oracle
3 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.57%) IBM
5 7 (5.11%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.11%) SAP
6 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.65%) Dell
7 5 (3.65%) Informatica
7 5 (3.65%) Splunk
7 5 (3.65%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.65%) WSO2
8 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.46%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.46%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.46%) Ciena
9 2 (1.46%) Nokia
9 2 (1.46%) Solace
10 1 (0.73%) Red Hat