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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 387 495
Rank change year-on-year -113 +108 +28
Contract jobs citing Swagger 125 130 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.98% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 82 65
10th Percentile £350 £410 £388
25th Percentile £395 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +0.95% -7.69%
75th Percentile £573 £586 £625
90th Percentile £591 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -15.00% -3.85% -13.33%

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 9,267 6,568 8,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.63% 22.66% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,115 4,502 6,154
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +3.84% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 109 242
10th Percentile £33.75 £30.05 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £82.27 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -111 104 £450 -15.09% 44
UK excluding London -81 61 £425 -15.00% 27
Work from Home -50 42 £500 -6.28% 16
London -80 42 £530 - 21
North of England -68 32 £401 -24.29% 10
North West -31 20 £397 -25.07% 5
South East -44 14 £425 -8.22% 12
Midlands -44 12 £469 +34.38% 2
West Midlands - 9 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -53 7 £375 -50.00% 2
North East -16 5 £450 +33.33% 3
Wales -10 2 - - 1
East Midlands -28 2 - -
Scotland +1 1 - -
East of England -30 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 13 (10.40%) Confluence
2 8 (6.40%) Appian
3 5 (4.00%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.40%) Apache
5 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.60%) IIS
5 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Notion
2 1 (0.80%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (3.20%) SAP MDG
2 4 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.40%) AWS
2 41 (32.80%) Azure
3 23 (18.40%) GitHub
4 20 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (14.40%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.20%) Apigee
6 14 (11.20%) GCP
7 11 (8.80%) Kong
7 11 (8.80%) Serverless
8 9 (7.20%) Anthropic Claude
8 9 (7.20%) Power Automate
9 8 (6.40%) Azure AI
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.60%) Boomi
11 6 (4.80%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) HTTP
2 2 (1.60%) NaaS
2 2 (1.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.40%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 12 (9.60%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.40%) Pinecone
6 5 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.00%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Redis
8 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.40%) Metadata
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.60%) Flink
9 2 (1.60%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.60%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.80%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (26.40%) Jenkins
2 25 (20.00%) GitLab
3 24 (19.20%) Postman
4 22 (17.60%) Git
4 22 (17.60%) JIRA
5 21 (16.80%) JUnit
6 18 (14.40%) Gradle
7 17 (13.60%) Mockito
8 13 (10.40%) Liquibase
9 10 (8.00%) JMeter
10 8 (6.40%) MLflow
11 4 (3.20%) Gatling
11 4 (3.20%) Maven
11 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.40%) Spinnaker
13 2 (1.60%) Flyway
13 2 (1.60%) GoCD
13 2 (1.60%) MSTest
13 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.60%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.00%) Finance
3 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Billing
6 7 (5.60%) Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Law
7 4 (3.20%) Publishing
8 2 (1.60%) Back Office
8 2 (1.60%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.60%) French Language
8 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (28.00%) Developer
2 17 (13.60%) Java Engineer
3 16 (12.80%) Architect
4 14 (11.20%) Software Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Business Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (7.20%) Integration Architect
6 9 (7.20%) Lead
6 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Senior
7 8 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Python Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Tester
9 6 (4.80%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (76.00%) OpenAPI
2 66 (52.80%) REST
3 42 (33.60%) RESTful
4 36 (28.80%) JSON
5 34 (27.20%) Kafka
5 34 (27.20%) Spring
6 30 (24.00%) Spring Boot
7 27 (21.60%) OAuth
8 24 (19.20%) React
9 23 (18.40%) XML
10 22 (17.60%) JWT
11 17 (13.60%) SOAP
12 15 (12.00%) Django
12 15 (12.00%) FastAPI
13 14 (11.20%) Flask
13 14 (11.20%) Middleware
13 14 (11.20%) OAuth2
13 14 (11.20%) pytest
14 13 (10.40%) NumPy
14 13 (10.40%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.40%) Low-Code
4 7 (5.60%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.00%) Digital Wallet
7 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.40%) NHS
9 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.60%) TM Forum
10 1 (0.80%) CMDB
10 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 51 (40.80%) Agile
3 46 (36.80%) DevOps
4 45 (36.00%) Microservices
5 43 (34.40%) Test Automation
6 42 (33.60%) Containerisation
7 38 (30.40%) Validation
8 32 (25.60%) Observability
9 30 (24.00%) API Design
10 27 (21.60%) API Development
10 27 (21.60%) TDD
11 25 (20.00%) Event-Driven
11 25 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (18.40%) Integration Patterns
13 22 (17.60%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (17.60%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (17.60%) Software Engineering
14 21 (16.80%) Requirements Gathering
15 20 (16.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.00%) Java
2 45 (36.00%) Python
3 43 (34.40%) SQL
4 26 (20.80%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.20%) C#
6 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 12 (9.60%) Bash
8 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.20%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.20%) DataWeave
9 4 (3.20%) Groovy
10 3 (2.40%) Bicep
10 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.60%) C++
11 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.80%) C
12 1 (0.80%) Go
12 1 (0.80%) PHP
12 1 (0.80%) SOQL
12 1 (0.80%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 38 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.40%) Degree
4 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (8.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.20%) QA
2 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.00%) PSD2
3 4 (3.20%) WCAG
4 3 (2.40%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.60%) HL7
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.80%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (40.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.00%) Terraform
3 12 (9.60%) Grafana
3 12 (9.60%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.40%) Istio
5 7 (5.60%) Ansible
6 2 (1.60%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.60%) Argo
6 2 (1.60%) Kibana
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.80%) Consul
Vendors
1 15 (12.00%) MuleSoft
1 15 (12.00%) Salesforce
2 10 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.40%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (6.40%) OpenAI
3 8 (6.40%) UiPath
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
4 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Dell
6 3 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) Splunk
6 3 (2.40%) Veracode
7 2 (1.60%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.60%) Ciena
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.60%) New Relic
7 2 (1.60%) Nokia
8 1 (0.80%) BT
8 1 (0.80%) IBM