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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 405 457
Rank change year-on-year -136 +52 +79
Contract jobs citing Swagger 141 151 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.80% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 109 71
10th Percentile £355 £362 £413
25th Percentile £430 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £569 £550 £694
90th Percentile £588 £640 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.31% -15.50%

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 11,722 8,376 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.85% 25.39% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,701 5,659 6,433
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 185 208
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £79.48 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% +4.17%

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 24 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 24 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 -130 99 £493 -7.08% 31
UK excluding London -101 54 £450 -5.26% 32
Work from Home -77 50 £525 - 21
London -93 49 £525 -0.94% 9
South East -54 24 £460 -5.64% 5
North of England -74 10 £426 -14.90% 6
Midlands -46 7 £442 +29.85% 4
South West - 7 £575 - 9
Scotland -13 6 £375 -11.35% 7
Yorkshire -33 6 £400 +10.34%
West Midlands -44 4 £459 -29.38% 3
East Midlands -14 3 £380 +24.59% 1
North East -41 2 £438 -5.35%
North West -56 2 £425 -19.81% 6
East of England -25 1 - - 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 9 (6.38%) Anypoint
2 6 (4.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.13%) Mule
4 2 (1.42%) IIS
4 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (5.67%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.55%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.71%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.77%) AWS
1 73 (51.77%) Azure
2 48 (34.04%) GitHub
3 39 (27.66%) GitHub Actions
4 31 (21.99%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (12.77%) GCP
6 14 (9.93%) Boomi
7 13 (9.22%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (9.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (8.51%) Apigee
9 9 (6.38%) Azure API Management
9 9 (6.38%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.96%) Kong
10 7 (4.96%) Serverless
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.26%) iPaaS
12 5 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.55%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.42%) NaaS
2 2 (1.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (34.04%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (19.15%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.06%) Redis
4 16 (11.35%) NoSQL
5 13 (9.22%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.84%) MySQL
8 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.13%) Metadata
9 3 (2.13%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.42%) Flink
10 2 (1.42%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 44 (31.21%) Git
3 29 (20.57%) JIRA
4 24 (17.02%) JUnit
5 21 (14.89%) Postman
6 20 (14.18%) Gradle
7 19 (13.48%) Liquibase
7 19 (13.48%) Mockito
8 15 (10.64%) GitLab
9 10 (7.09%) SpecFlow
10 9 (6.38%) JMeter
11 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
12 6 (4.26%) Flyway
12 6 (4.26%) Selenium
13 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.13%) Gatling
13 3 (2.13%) git-flow
13 3 (2.13%) Maven
13 3 (2.13%) Robot Framework
13 3 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (14.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.93%) Finance
4 9 (6.38%) Banking
4 9 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.96%) Billing
5 7 (4.96%) Law
5 7 (4.96%) Publishing
6 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.84%) Retail
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Military
9 2 (1.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (39.72%) Developer
2 29 (20.57%) Architect
3 18 (12.77%) Senior
4 14 (9.93%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (9.22%) Lead
5 13 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.51%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.80%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Integration Architect
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Tester
10 8 (5.67%) Azure Developer
11 7 (4.96%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 5 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 5 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.55%) Software Developer
14 4 (2.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (82.98%) OpenAPI
2 77 (54.61%) REST
3 51 (36.17%) RESTful
4 43 (30.50%) Kafka
5 38 (26.95%) JSON
6 31 (21.99%) Spring Boot
7 30 (21.28%) OAuth
7 30 (21.28%) React
7 30 (21.28%) Spring
8 24 (17.02%) OAuth2
9 22 (15.60%) JWT
10 20 (14.18%) Node.js
11 18 (12.77%) SOAP
11 18 (12.77%) XML
12 17 (12.06%) Jest
12 17 (12.06%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (11.35%) Middleware
13 16 (11.35%) Terraform
14 14 (9.93%) hapi
15 13 (9.22%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.08%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.22%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.09%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.67%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.42%) NHS
8 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.71%) CMDB
9 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.71%) LIMS
9 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Android
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (65.25%) CI/CD
2 65 (46.10%) DevOps
3 64 (45.39%) Agile
4 55 (39.01%) Microservices
5 47 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 42 (29.79%) Test Automation
7 38 (26.95%) Event-Driven
8 33 (23.40%) API Design
8 33 (23.40%) TDD
9 31 (21.99%) API Development
9 31 (21.99%) Observability
10 23 (16.31%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.89%) Integration Patterns
11 21 (14.89%) Validation
12 20 (14.18%) API Management
12 20 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (13.48%) Acceptance Criteria
13 19 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (12.06%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.62%) Java
2 41 (29.08%) Python
2 41 (29.08%) SQL
3 30 (21.28%) TypeScript
4 19 (13.48%) C#
5 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.96%) Bash
6 7 (4.96%) DataWeave
6 7 (4.96%) Go
7 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.13%) Bicep
8 3 (2.13%) Lua
8 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.42%) C++
9 2 (1.42%) PromQL
9 2 (1.42%) Rust
10 1 (0.71%) Groovy
10 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge ABL
10 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.38%) Degree
5 8 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.64%) QA
2 13 (9.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.84%) WCAG
4 2 (1.42%) NCSC
4 2 (1.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.71%) SEPA
5 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (41.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (39.72%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.64%) Prometheus
3 13 (9.22%) Grafana
4 11 (7.80%) Ansible
5 3 (2.13%) Consul
6 2 (1.42%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
6 2 (1.42%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.42%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.71%) Istio
7 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (19.15%) MuleSoft
2 13 (9.22%) Oracle
3 11 (7.80%) Google
4 10 (7.09%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.38%) IBM
6 8 (5.67%) SAP
7 6 (4.26%) Dell
7 6 (4.26%) Informatica
7 6 (4.26%) Microsoft
7 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.26%) TIBCO
7 6 (4.26%) WSO2
8 5 (3.55%) Splunk
9 2 (1.42%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.42%) Ciena
9 2 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.42%) Nokia
9 2 (1.42%) Solace
10 1 (0.71%) Planon