Swagger Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenAPI Swagger
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 301 374
Rank change year-on-year +45 +73 +76
Contract jobs citing Swagger 48 44 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 1.20% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 66
10th Percentile £413 £375 -
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £495 £590
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -16.10% +12.38%
75th Percentile £596 £620 £675
90th Percentile £688 £638 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £520 £580
% change year-on-year +1.92% -10.34% +5.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Swagger as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Swagger trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Swagger.

Swagger daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Swagger over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Swagger daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Swagger.

Swagger hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (14.58%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) JBoss
2 3 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.17%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.08%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Serverless
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (12.50%) Slack
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.17%) Apigee
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.17%) Route 53
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.17%) 3GPP
2 2 (4.17%) 4G
2 2 (4.17%) 5G
2 2 (4.17%) Wireless
3 1 (2.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.08%) Relational Database
3 10 (20.83%) MongoDB
3 10 (20.83%) MySQL
4 6 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (10.42%) Redis
6 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.25%) Neo4j
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.08%) Adabas
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.08%) Metadata
8 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) JUnit
2 15 (31.25%) JIRA
3 14 (29.17%) Git
3 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (29.17%) Mockito
4 12 (25.00%) Gradle
5 9 (18.75%) Liquibase
6 8 (16.67%) Postman
7 7 (14.58%) Cucumber
8 6 (12.50%) Jasmine
8 6 (12.50%) Maven
8 6 (12.50%) SonarQube
9 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.25%) Cypress.io
10 3 (6.25%) GitLab
10 3 (6.25%) IntelliJ
10 3 (6.25%) Mocha
10 3 (6.25%) Selenium
10 3 (6.25%) TestNG
10 3 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (70.83%) Developer
2 20 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 17 (35.42%) Senior
4 14 (29.17%) Lead
5 13 (27.08%) Senior Developer
6 12 (25.00%) Lead Developer
6 12 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (22.92%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (6.25%) AWS Software Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Digital Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (87.50%) OpenAPI
2 24 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 23 (47.92%) Spring
4 17 (35.42%) Kafka
4 17 (35.42%) REST
4 17 (35.42%) RESTful
5 15 (31.25%) React
6 8 (16.67%) OAuth
7 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
8 6 (12.50%) CSS
8 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 6 (12.50%) HTML
8 6 (12.50%) Node.js
9 5 (10.42%) GraphQL
9 5 (10.42%) HTML5
9 5 (10.42%) Spring Batch
9 5 (10.42%) Spring Security
10 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (6.25%) Vue
11 3 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.25%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (72.92%) Microservices
2 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 25 (52.08%) Containerisation
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
3 22 (45.83%) DevOps
4 21 (43.75%) Software Engineering
5 19 (39.58%) TDD
6 16 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
8 11 (22.92%) API Development
8 11 (22.92%) Migration
9 9 (18.75%) API Design
9 9 (18.75%) High Availability
9 9 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (16.67%) API Management
11 6 (12.50%) BDD
11 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (12.50%) Kernel Tuning
11 6 (12.50%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Java
2 22 (45.83%) SQL
3 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
4 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.50%) Bash
5 6 (12.50%) Python
6 5 (10.42%) Go
7 3 (6.25%) C#
7 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Groovy
8 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.08%) COBOL
9 1 (2.08%) DataWeave
9 1 (2.08%) JCL
9 1 (2.08%) Natural
9 1 (2.08%) PHP
9 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) OCP
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (58.33%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) WSO2