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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 424 489
Rank change year-on-year -67 +65 +39
Contract jobs citing Swagger 97 92 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.32% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 58 68
10th Percentile £350 £444 £375
25th Percentile £360 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +9.09% -5.58%
75th Percentile £508 £685 £674
90th Percentile £588 £829 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -27.05% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.36
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.53

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 8,140 6,989 9,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.37% 21.99% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,444 6,566
10th Percentile £356 £353 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year - +19.74% -19.70%

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 11 January 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 14 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 11 January 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 -43 82 £450 -28.00% 21
UK excluding London -51 45 £401 -27.05% 20
London -12 43 £475 -24.00% 5
Work from Home -4 37 £470 -21.01% 15
North of England -38 16 £358 -29.28% 5
South East 0 11 £488 -11.36% 7
North West -20 10 £358 -15.76% 2
Midlands -32 10 £469 -14.73%
Wales +7 7 £375 - 2
West Midlands -25 7 £469 -14.73%
Yorkshire -51 5 £350 -45.10% 2
East Midlands - 3 £269 -
Scotland -2 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £475 - 1

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 7 (7.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle Service Bus
2 6 (6.19%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.12%) Appian
4 2 (2.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Mule
4 2 (2.06%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.03%) CICS
5 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.06%) Shopify
3 1 (1.03%) Endur
3 1 (1.03%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.93%) AWS
2 29 (29.90%) Azure
3 15 (15.46%) GitHub
3 15 (15.46%) Serverless
4 13 (13.40%) Apigee
4 13 (13.40%) GCP
5 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.22%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (6.19%) Kong
8 6 (6.19%) Stackdriver
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Storage
9 5 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (5.15%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.34%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.28%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.28%) Oracle Database
5 6 (6.19%) Redis
6 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.12%) Pinecone
8 3 (3.09%) MySQL
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.03%) DB2
10 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.03%) Parquet
10 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (21.65%) Git
2 18 (18.56%) JIRA
2 18 (18.56%) Postman
3 16 (16.49%) Jenkins
4 13 (13.40%) GitLab
5 10 (10.31%) Mockito
6 9 (9.28%) Selenium
7 7 (7.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (7.22%) JUnit
7 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
8 6 (6.19%) REST Assured
9 5 (5.15%) Maven
10 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.12%) Gradle
10 4 (4.12%) MLflow
11 3 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (3.09%) MSTest
11 3 (3.09%) SoapUI
11 3 (3.09%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (29.90%) Finance
2 23 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
4 19 (19.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.31%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Billing
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Dutch Language
6 2 (2.06%) French Language
6 2 (2.06%) Front Office
6 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (32.99%) Developer
2 13 (13.40%) Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.37%) Lead
4 11 (11.34%) Senior
5 10 (10.31%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.25%) Consultant
6 8 (8.25%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (57.73%) OpenAPI
2 52 (53.61%) REST
3 32 (32.99%) RESTful
4 30 (30.93%) JSON
5 28 (28.87%) OAuth
6 24 (24.74%) SOAP
7 23 (23.71%) XML
8 21 (21.65%) Spring
8 21 (21.65%) Spring Boot
9 17 (17.53%) React
10 16 (16.49%) Kafka
10 16 (16.49%) Node.js
10 16 (16.49%) OAuth2
11 13 (13.40%) JWT
12 11 (11.34%) .NET
13 8 (8.25%) CSS
13 8 (8.25%) HTML
13 8 (8.25%) pytest
14 7 (7.22%) Middleware
14 7 (7.22%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.19%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.12%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.06%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) NHS
7 2 (2.06%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.03%) Derivative
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.52%) Agile
2 47 (48.45%) CI/CD
3 39 (40.21%) DevOps
4 38 (39.18%) Microservices
5 29 (29.90%) Validation
6 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (22.68%) API Design
8 21 (21.65%) Test Automation
9 19 (19.59%) API Management
9 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
10 17 (17.53%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (16.49%) API Testing
11 16 (16.49%) Integration Patterns
11 16 (16.49%) SDLC
12 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (13.40%) API Development
13 13 (13.40%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (12.37%) TDD
15 11 (11.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (49.48%) SQL
2 37 (38.14%) Java
3 27 (27.84%) Python
4 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.37%) C#
6 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.25%) PL/SQL
7 8 (8.25%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.22%) Bash
9 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.09%) Bicep
10 3 (3.09%) Go
10 3 (3.09%) Groovy
11 1 (1.03%) COBOL
11 1 (1.03%) JCL
11 1 (1.03%) PHP
11 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.43%) Degree
4 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) WCAG
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.09%) PSD2
5 2 (2.06%) HL7
6 1 (1.03%) EMIR
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
6 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (32.99%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.49%) Terraform
3 8 (8.25%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) Istio
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.09%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.09%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.09%) Salt
6 2 (2.06%) Argo
6 2 (2.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.03%) Control-M
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
7 1 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Oracle
2 9 (9.28%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.25%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.19%) Splunk
5 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.12%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (4.12%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.12%) UiPath
7 3 (3.09%) Checkmarx
7 3 (3.09%) Google
7 3 (3.09%) VMware
8 2 (2.06%) Charles River
8 2 (2.06%) New Relic
8 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.03%) DevExpress
9 1 (1.03%) IBM
9 1 (1.03%) Progress
9 1 (1.03%) Telerik