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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 442 446
Rank change year-on-year -48 +4 +69
Contract jobs citing Swagger 196 126 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.47% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 88 78
10th Percentile £363 £359 £439
25th Percentile £425 £410 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £565 £545 £688
90th Percentile £600 £641 £841
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -14.77% -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 11,836 8,577 9,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.66% 25.95% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,793 5,714 6,185
10th Percentile £375 £353 £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 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 188 190
10th Percentile £28.96 £31.25 £25.58
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.11%

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 27 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 27 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 -73 138 £460 -8.00% 123
UK excluding London -61 80 £449 -4.21% 71
Work from Home -29 74 £513 +3.27% 53
London -63 71 £525 +5.00% 60
South East -54 24 £460 -5.64% 17
Midlands -23 21 £460 +35.29% 13
West Midlands -28 19 £463 -28.77% 12
Scotland -10 15 £425 +0.47% 4
North of England -71 12 £425 -10.53% 17
Yorkshire -39 9 £382 +5.38% 5
South West - 7 £575 - 15
East Midlands -18 2 £380 +24.59% 1
East of England -20 2 £480 -16.52% 5
North West -60 2 £425 -19.81% 12
North East -40 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 10 (5.10%) Confluence
2 8 (4.08%) Anypoint
3 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.55%) Traefik
5 3 (1.53%) Mule
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.51%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (5.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.59%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.00%) Azure
2 93 (47.45%) AWS
3 51 (26.02%) GitHub
4 40 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (18.88%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (12.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 21 (10.71%) Boomi
7 21 (10.71%) Kong
8 20 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (9.69%) GCP
10 16 (8.16%) Apigee
11 15 (7.65%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (7.14%) Entra ID
13 12 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (6.12%) Amazon S3
13 12 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (6.12%) Serverless
14 11 (5.61%) Azure API Management
15 10 (5.10%) iPaaS
16 9 (4.59%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.31%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.18%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.67%) Redis
5 13 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.59%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.08%) MySQL
8 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.06%) Metadata
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.53%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.53%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (30.61%) Git
2 45 (22.96%) Jenkins
3 37 (18.88%) JIRA
4 27 (13.78%) JUnit
5 24 (12.24%) Postman
6 22 (11.22%) GitLab
7 21 (10.71%) Mockito
8 19 (9.69%) Gradle
9 15 (7.65%) Liquibase
10 13 (6.63%) SpecFlow
11 11 (5.61%) Cucumber
11 11 (5.61%) Maven
12 7 (3.57%) JMeter
12 7 (3.57%) Selenium
13 6 (3.06%) Flyway
14 5 (2.55%) Storybook
15 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.53%) git-flow
15 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
16 2 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 31 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.80%) Finance
3 24 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.20%) Banking
5 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.57%) Publishing
8 5 (2.55%) Billing
9 4 (2.04%) Law
9 4 (2.04%) Retail
10 3 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.53%) Military
11 2 (1.02%) Back Office
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Automotive
12 1 (0.51%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) German Language
12 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 76 (38.78%) Developer
2 37 (18.88%) Architect
3 23 (11.73%) Senior
4 20 (10.20%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.69%) Lead
6 17 (8.67%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (8.16%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Azure Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Node.js Developer
10 10 (5.10%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
12 8 (4.08%) Tester
13 7 (3.57%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.06%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (85.20%) OpenAPI
2 101 (51.53%) REST
3 73 (37.24%) RESTful
4 60 (30.61%) OAuth
5 53 (27.04%) JSON
6 48 (24.49%) OAuth2
7 44 (22.45%) Kafka
8 41 (20.92%) Spring
8 41 (20.92%) Spring Boot
9 39 (19.90%) React
10 33 (16.84%) JWT
11 31 (15.82%) OpenID
12 30 (15.31%) Terraform
13 29 (14.80%) SOAP
14 26 (13.27%) Middleware
15 24 (12.24%) Node.js
16 23 (11.73%) XML
17 22 (11.22%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (9.18%) .NET
19 17 (8.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 57 (29.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.55%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.53%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.02%) NHS
10 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.73%) CI/CD
2 87 (44.39%) DevOps
3 82 (41.84%) Agile
4 62 (31.63%) Microservices
4 62 (31.63%) Test Automation
5 51 (26.02%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 42 (21.43%) Observability
8 39 (19.90%) API Design
9 36 (18.37%) API Management
10 34 (17.35%) API Development
11 33 (16.84%) Validation
12 30 (15.31%) Integration Patterns
12 30 (15.31%) TDD
13 29 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (11.73%) Software Engineering
16 22 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (11.22%) Scrum
17 21 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.65%) Java
2 51 (26.02%) SQL
3 45 (22.96%) Python
4 36 (18.37%) TypeScript
5 26 (13.27%) C#
6 24 (12.24%) JavaScript
7 22 (11.22%) Go
8 9 (4.59%) Lua
9 7 (3.57%) Bicep
9 7 (3.57%) DataWeave
10 6 (3.06%) Bash
10 6 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.06%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.53%) Scala
13 2 (1.02%) PromQL
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
14 1 (0.51%) OpenEdge ABL
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (8.67%) Degree
5 15 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.10%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.78%) QA
2 18 (9.18%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.59%) WCAG
4 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) SEPA
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (31.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 81 (41.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.18%) Grafana
4 11 (5.61%) Ansible
5 6 (3.06%) Istio
6 5 (2.55%) Kibana
7 3 (1.53%) Consul
8 2 (1.02%) Argo
8 2 (1.02%) CloudHub
8 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.02%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (18.88%) MuleSoft
2 24 (12.24%) Oracle
3 14 (7.14%) Google
3 14 (7.14%) SAP
4 12 (6.12%) IBM
5 11 (5.61%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.10%) Dell
6 10 (5.10%) Splunk
7 9 (4.59%) Informatica
7 9 (4.59%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.59%) WSO2
8 8 (4.08%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.06%) webMethods
10 5 (2.55%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.53%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.02%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.02%) Nokia
12 2 (1.02%) Okta
12 2 (1.02%) Solace