Swagger Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

OpenAPI Swagger
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Swagger skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 109 119
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 +63
Contract jobs citing Swagger 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.32% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 1.80% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 396 333 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.04% 17.68% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 180 214
10th Percentile £373 £374 £325
25th Percentile £447 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £739 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Swagger relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Swagger job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Swagger
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Swagger.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Swagger

Swagger
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Swagger
England

Swagger
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Tuxedo
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Trillium
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods