Swagger Contracts

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Swagger skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Swagger over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 497 523
Rank change year-on-year +100 +26 +25
Contract jobs citing Swagger 132 90 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.01% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 65 104
10th Percentile £411 £388 £458
25th Percentile £457 £450 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -9.48% +5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £641
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,605 8,912 13,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 20.66% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,522 6,184 9,928
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 241 153
10th Percentile £29.45 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £51.06 £40.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £75.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +29.29%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Daily rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swagger over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Swagger.

Hourly rate trend for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Top 16 Contract 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 8 May 2025. 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 +96 103 £530 +0.95% 68
London +54 59 £538 -2.27% 37
Work from Home +51 52 £534 +7.78% 45
UK excluding London +79 47 £500 -3.85% 43
North of England +41 26 £530 +1.92% 6
North West +26 16 £530 +2.91% 2
Yorkshire +12 8 £750 - 2
South East +41 5 £463 -15.91% 17
Scotland +19 5 £317 -49.36% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 3
South West +41 3 £825 +29.92% 4
East of England +34 2 £575 +76.92% 2
Midlands +15 2 £349 -28.70% 8
East Midlands +7 2 £349 -28.70% 6
North East -2 2 £338 -38.64% 2
Wales - 1 - -

Swagger
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (19.70%) Confluence
2 9 (6.82%) Anypoint
3 7 (5.30%) Mule
4 3 (2.27%) JBoss
4 3 (2.27%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.52%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.52%) Apache
5 2 (1.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 22 (16.67%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) Slack
4 16 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (10.61%) Serverless
6 13 (9.85%) GCP
7 10 (7.58%) Apigee
8 9 (6.82%) GitHub
9 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.30%) SaaS
10 6 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.79%) Figma
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.03%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.03%) SonarCloud
13 3 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.27%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.64%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.52%) 4G
2 2 (1.52%) 5G
2 2 (1.52%) Firewall
2 2 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (48.48%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 34 (25.76%) MongoDB
4 27 (20.45%) MySQL
5 17 (12.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.55%) Redis
8 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.27%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.52%) GIS
10 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.52%) Tableau
11 1 (0.76%) Adabas
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.76%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 63 (47.73%) JUnit
2 47 (35.61%) Jenkins
3 43 (32.58%) Mockito
4 39 (29.55%) Gradle
5 37 (28.03%) Git
6 36 (27.27%) Liquibase
7 34 (25.76%) JIRA
8 20 (15.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (12.88%) Jasmine
10 16 (12.12%) GitLab
11 14 (10.61%) Postman
12 8 (6.06%) Maven
13 7 (5.30%) SonarQube
14 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
15 4 (3.03%) Selenium
16 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
16 3 (2.27%) Eclipse
16 3 (2.27%) IntelliJ
16 3 (2.27%) Mocha
16 3 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 45 (34.09%) Finance
2 44 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.94%) Telecoms
4 22 (16.67%) Electronics
4 22 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 22 (16.67%) Marketing
5 19 (14.39%) Social Skills
6 9 (6.82%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (59.85%) Developer
2 46 (34.85%) Java Developer
3 31 (23.48%) Senior
4 24 (18.18%) Lead
5 21 (15.91%) Senior Developer
6 20 (15.15%) Lead Developer
7 18 (13.64%) Software Engineer
8 17 (12.88%) Java Engineer
8 17 (12.88%) Lead Java Developer
8 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 17 (12.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (11.36%) React Developer
10 14 (10.61%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 8 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (6.06%) MuleSoft Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Designer
14 5 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
15 4 (3.03%) AWS Developer
15 4 (3.03%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 70 (53.03%) Spring Boot
3 68 (51.52%) Spring
4 50 (37.88%) Kafka
5 48 (36.36%) RESTful
6 47 (35.61%) React
7 30 (22.73%) REST
8 20 (15.15%) Spring Security
9 18 (13.64%) OAuth
10 16 (12.12%) RAML
10 16 (12.12%) Spring Batch
11 15 (11.36%) JSON
12 14 (10.61%) XML
13 13 (9.85%) HTML
14 11 (8.33%) AngularJS
15 10 (7.58%) Node.js
16 8 (6.06%) CSS
16 8 (6.06%) Hibernate
16 8 (6.06%) OAuth2
16 8 (6.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.30%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Genomics
4 4 (3.03%) LIMS
4 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.27%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 17 (12.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.03%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Windows
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (67.42%) Microservices
2 74 (56.06%) Containerisation
3 73 (55.30%) CI/CD
4 65 (49.24%) Agile
5 62 (46.97%) DevOps
6 61 (46.21%) TDD
7 59 (44.70%) Software Engineering
8 44 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (28.03%) Migration
9 37 (28.03%) Test Automation
10 27 (20.45%) API Design
11 26 (19.70%) API Development
12 22 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
12 22 (16.67%) Programme Management
13 21 (15.91%) API Management
14 20 (15.15%) Mentoring
15 19 (14.39%) Event-Driven
16 18 (13.64%) BDD
16 18 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 89 (67.42%) Java
2 62 (46.97%) SQL
3 45 (34.09%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.88%) Bash
6 14 (10.61%) Python
7 7 (5.30%) C#
7 7 (5.30%) Go
8 6 (4.55%) DataWeave
9 5 (3.79%) Ruby
10 4 (3.03%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.52%) C++
12 2 (1.52%) Groovy
12 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) COBOL
13 1 (0.76%) JCL
13 1 (0.76%) Natural
13 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (49.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.58%) Degree
4 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.52%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (61.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 46 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.30%) Terraform
3 3 (2.27%) Grafana
3 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (16.67%) SAP
2 15 (11.36%) MuleSoft
3 8 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.30%) Oracle
5 5 (3.79%) Google
5 5 (3.79%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.03%) LabVantage
7 3 (2.27%) Splunk
8 2 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.76%) Dell
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.76%) WSO2