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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 425 442
Rank change year-on-year -83 +17 +65
Contract jobs citing Swagger 179 133 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 1.56% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 92 78
10th Percentile £363 £359 £439
25th Percentile £425 £410 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £560 £545 £688
90th Percentile £587 £636 £841
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.47% -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 11,775 8,520 9,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.64% 25.86% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,736 5,696 6,345
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 187 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.20 £74.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +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 18 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 18 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 -85 125 £460 -9.36% 130
UK excluding London -82 75 £449 -5.47% 70
Work from Home -49 68 £500 - 61
London -72 62 £525 - 70
South East -50 24 £460 -5.64% 17
Midlands -35 18 £459 +35.00% 16
West Midlands -30 16 £460 -29.23% 13
Scotland -9 14 £425 +0.47% 4
North of England -71 11 £425 -12.77% 14
Yorkshire -31 8 £415 +14.48% 6
South West - 7 £575 - 12
East Midlands -18 2 £380 +24.59% 3
East of England -29 2 £480 -16.52% 5
North West -59 2 £425 -19.81% 8
North East -49 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 (5.03%) Anypoint
2 6 (3.35%) Confluence
2 6 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.68%) Mule
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 10 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (5.03%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 92 (51.40%) Azure
2 86 (48.04%) AWS
3 49 (27.37%) GitHub
4 38 (21.23%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (20.11%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (13.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (11.73%) Boomi
8 19 (10.61%) GCP
9 18 (10.06%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (10.06%) Kong
10 15 (8.38%) Apigee
10 15 (8.38%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
12 12 (6.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (6.70%) Serverless
13 11 (6.15%) Azure API Management
14 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.03%) iPaaS
15 8 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.47%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (16.20%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.50%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.50%) Redis
4 12 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.23%) Metadata
8 4 (2.23%) MySQL
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (32.96%) Git
2 45 (25.14%) Jenkins
3 33 (18.44%) JIRA
4 25 (13.97%) JUnit
4 25 (13.97%) Postman
5 20 (11.17%) GitLab
6 19 (10.61%) Mockito
7 18 (10.06%) Gradle
8 16 (8.94%) Liquibase
9 13 (7.26%) SpecFlow
10 10 (5.59%) Cucumber
11 8 (4.47%) JMeter
11 8 (4.47%) Maven
11 8 (4.47%) Selenium
12 6 (3.35%) Flyway
13 5 (2.79%) Storybook
14 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.68%) git-flow
14 3 (1.68%) SonarQube
15 2 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 27 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.41%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.38%) Banking
5 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.91%) Publishing
6 7 (3.91%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.79%) Billing
7 5 (2.79%) Law
8 4 (2.23%) Retail
9 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.68%) Military
10 2 (1.12%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) German Language
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (39.11%) Developer
2 33 (18.44%) Architect
3 20 (11.17%) Senior
4 18 (10.06%) Lead
5 17 (9.50%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.50%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (7.26%) Integration Architect
7 11 (6.15%) Azure Developer
7 11 (6.15%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.15%) Node.js Developer
7 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.59%) C# Developer
8 10 (5.59%) Python Developer
8 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 8 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Tester
11 7 (3.91%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (84.36%) OpenAPI
2 93 (51.96%) REST
3 64 (35.75%) RESTful
4 57 (31.84%) OAuth
5 52 (29.05%) JSON
6 45 (25.14%) OAuth2
7 43 (24.02%) Kafka
8 39 (21.79%) React
9 38 (21.23%) Spring Boot
10 37 (20.67%) Spring
11 31 (17.32%) JWT
12 28 (15.64%) Terraform
13 27 (15.08%) OpenID
14 25 (13.97%) Middleware
15 24 (13.41%) Node.js
16 23 (12.85%) SOAP
16 23 (12.85%) XML
17 21 (11.73%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (10.06%) .NET
19 17 (9.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.61%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.35%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) NHS
9 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.56%) Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) FPGA
10 1 (0.56%) LIMS
10 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Android
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.25%) CI/CD
2 82 (45.81%) DevOps
3 74 (41.34%) Agile
4 60 (33.52%) Microservices
5 58 (32.40%) Test Automation
6 47 (26.26%) Event-Driven
7 46 (25.70%) Containerisation
8 40 (22.35%) Observability
9 37 (20.67%) API Design
10 33 (18.44%) API Management
11 32 (17.88%) API Development
12 31 (17.32%) Validation
13 30 (16.76%) TDD
14 28 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (15.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 24 (13.41%) Integration Patterns
17 23 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 22 (12.29%) Software Engineering
19 19 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
19 19 (10.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (32.40%) Java
2 46 (25.70%) SQL
3 45 (25.14%) Python
4 36 (20.11%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.53%) C#
6 24 (13.41%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.06%) Go
8 7 (3.91%) Bash
8 7 (3.91%) Bicep
8 7 (3.91%) DataWeave
8 7 (3.91%) Lua
9 6 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.12%) PromQL
12 2 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (1.12%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) OpenEdge ABL
13 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 48 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (8.94%) Degree
5 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.73%) QA
2 17 (9.50%) Accessibility
3 9 (5.03%) WCAG
4 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.56%) SEPA
6 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (31.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (40.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.06%) Prometheus
3 17 (9.50%) Grafana
4 11 (6.15%) Ansible
5 3 (1.68%) Consul
5 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 2 (1.12%) Argo
6 2 (1.12%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.12%) Istio
6 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (20.67%) MuleSoft
2 19 (10.61%) Oracle
3 14 (7.82%) Google
4 12 (6.70%) IBM
4 12 (6.70%) SAP
5 11 (6.15%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.59%) Dell
6 10 (5.59%) Splunk
7 9 (5.03%) Informatica
7 9 (5.03%) TIBCO
7 9 (5.03%) WSO2
8 8 (4.47%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.12%) Nokia
10 2 (1.12%) Okta
10 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.12%) Solace
10 2 (1.12%) webMethods