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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 419 444
Rank change year-on-year -86 +25 +88
Contract jobs citing Swagger 175 138 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 1.66% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 94 77
10th Percentile £363 £359 £450
25th Percentile £425 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £688
90th Percentile £588 £646 £843
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.89% -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 11,783 8,312 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,566 6,315
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 180 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.20 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%

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 15 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 15 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 -112 123 £460 -10.24% 137
UK excluding London -85 74 £447 -5.89% 74
Work from Home -53 65 £500 - 65
London -87 61 £525 - 79
South East -52 25 £460 -8.00% 20
Midlands -35 16 £454 +33.38% 15
Scotland -4 14 £425 +0.47% 6
West Midlands -39 14 £460 -29.31% 10
North of England -78 11 £425 -12.77% 14
Yorkshire -26 8 £415 +14.48% 7
South West - 7 £575 - 9
East Midlands -14 2 £380 +24.59% 5
East of England -29 2 £480 -16.52% 5
North West -56 2 £425 -19.81% 7
North East -41 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 (5.14%) Anypoint
2 6 (3.43%) Confluence
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) Mule
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (4.57%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.86%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.57%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 87 (49.71%) Azure
2 84 (48.00%) AWS
3 49 (28.00%) GitHub
4 38 (21.71%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (13.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (9.71%) GCP
8 17 (9.71%) Kong
9 16 (9.14%) Boomi
10 15 (8.57%) Apigee
11 14 (8.00%) Entra ID
12 12 (6.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (6.86%) Serverless
13 11 (6.29%) Azure API Management
13 11 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
15 8 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (4.57%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.29%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (17.71%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.86%) NoSQL
4 17 (9.71%) Redis
5 12 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (6.86%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.29%) MySQL
8 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.71%) Metadata
9 3 (1.71%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (30.86%) Git
2 47 (26.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.57%) JIRA
4 27 (15.43%) JUnit
5 21 (12.00%) Mockito
5 21 (12.00%) Postman
6 20 (11.43%) GitLab
6 20 (11.43%) Gradle
7 18 (10.29%) Liquibase
8 13 (7.43%) SpecFlow
9 10 (5.71%) Cucumber
10 8 (4.57%) JMeter
10 8 (4.57%) Maven
10 8 (4.57%) Selenium
11 6 (3.43%) Flyway
12 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.71%) git-flow
12 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.71%) Storybook
13 2 (1.14%) MSBuild
General
1 24 (13.71%) Finance
1 24 (13.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.57%) Banking
4 8 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.00%) Publishing
5 7 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.86%) Billing
6 5 (2.86%) Law
7 4 (2.29%) Retail
8 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Military
9 2 (1.14%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.57%) French Language
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (40.57%) Developer
2 29 (16.57%) Architect
3 20 (11.43%) Senior
4 18 (10.29%) Lead
5 17 (9.71%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.14%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.86%) Python Developer
7 12 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Azure Developer
8 11 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (5.71%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.71%) Integration Architect
9 10 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Tester
11 7 (4.00%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (84.00%) OpenAPI
2 86 (49.14%) REST
3 66 (37.71%) RESTful
4 49 (28.00%) OAuth
5 47 (26.86%) JSON
6 45 (25.71%) Kafka
7 40 (22.86%) Spring Boot
8 39 (22.29%) React
8 39 (22.29%) Spring
9 38 (21.71%) OAuth2
10 29 (16.57%) JWT
11 28 (16.00%) Terraform
12 24 (13.71%) OpenID
13 22 (12.57%) Node.js
13 22 (12.57%) SOAP
13 22 (12.57%) XML
14 21 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (10.86%) Middleware
16 18 (10.29%) .NET
17 17 (9.71%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.57%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) NHS
9 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Android
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 79 (45.14%) DevOps
3 72 (41.14%) Agile
4 62 (35.43%) Microservices
5 52 (29.71%) Test Automation
6 49 (28.00%) Containerisation
7 46 (26.29%) Event-Driven
8 35 (20.00%) API Design
8 35 (20.00%) Observability
9 33 (18.86%) TDD
10 32 (18.29%) API Development
11 31 (17.71%) API Management
12 29 (16.57%) Validation
13 26 (14.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 26 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (13.71%) Software Engineering
15 23 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (12.57%) Integration Patterns
17 19 (10.86%) Acceptance Criteria
17 19 (10.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.29%) Java
2 47 (26.86%) Python
2 47 (26.86%) SQL
3 36 (20.57%) TypeScript
4 26 (14.86%) C#
5 22 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.29%) Go
7 7 (4.00%) Bash
7 7 (4.00%) Bicep
7 7 (4.00%) DataWeave
7 7 (4.00%) Lua
8 6 (3.43%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.14%) PromQL
11 2 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (1.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) OpenEdge ABL
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 50 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (8.57%) Degree
5 13 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) QA
2 15 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.00%) WCAG
4 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) SEPA
6 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 60 (34.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (41.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.71%) Prometheus
3 16 (9.14%) Grafana
4 11 (6.29%) Ansible
5 3 (1.71%) Consul
5 3 (1.71%) Kibana
6 2 (1.14%) Argo
6 2 (1.14%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.14%) Istio
6 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 32 (18.29%) MuleSoft
2 18 (10.29%) Oracle
3 13 (7.43%) Google
4 11 (6.29%) IBM
4 11 (6.29%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.57%) Informatica
5 8 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.57%) SAP
5 8 (4.57%) TIBCO
5 8 (4.57%) WSO2
6 6 (3.43%) Dell
7 5 (2.86%) Splunk
8 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.14%) Nokia
10 2 (1.14%) Okta
10 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.14%) Solace
10 2 (1.14%) webMethods