Swagger Job Trends

OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Swagger skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 624 651
Rank change year-on-year +41 +27 +112
Permanent jobs citing Swagger 89 79 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 0.72% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 38 43 126
10th Percentile £55,125 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £58,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £73,125 £117,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.96% +28.57% -14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,545 11,030 17,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 22.13% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,546 6,658 14,215
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Swagger
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Swagger relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Swagger job vacancy trend in the UK

Swagger
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Swagger.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Swagger

Swagger
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Swagger over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Swagger in the UK

Swagger
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Swagger within the UK over the 6 months to 12 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +39 78 £65,000 -7.14% 28
London +57 56 £65,000 -33.33% 7
Work from Home +51 40 £64,500 -0.77% 16
UK excluding London +17 31 £58,750 -12.96% 29
Scotland -2 11 - - 3
North of England -7 11 £57,500 +35.29% 10
North West +9 6 £65,750 +54.71% 8
South West -16 5 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Yorkshire -29 5 £57,500 -4.17%
South East +8 4 £65,000 -7.14% 9

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 12 (13.48%) Appian
2 5 (5.62%) Apache
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.49%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (64.04%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (19.10%) AWS
3 17 (19.10%) GCP
4 16 (17.98%) Power Automate
5 15 (16.85%) Serverless
6 12 (13.48%) Anthropic Claude
6 12 (13.48%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (13.48%) Azure AI
6 12 (13.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (12.36%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (12.36%) dbt
7 11 (12.36%) Snowflake
8 10 (11.24%) SaaS
9 6 (6.74%) GitHub
9 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.62%) Figma
10 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) AMQP
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 12 (13.48%) Pinecone
3 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.62%) Big Data
4 5 (5.62%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (5.62%) Hadoop
4 5 (5.62%) Power BI
5 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.49%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.25%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.12%) Metadata
8 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Postman
2 12 (13.48%) MLflow
3 6 (6.74%) JIRA
3 6 (6.74%) Selenium
4 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.62%) Storybook
5 4 (4.49%) GitLab
6 3 (3.37%) Git
6 3 (3.37%) JMeter
6 3 (3.37%) JUnit
6 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.25%) Checkstyle
7 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.25%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.25%) Maven
7 2 (2.25%) Mockito
7 2 (2.25%) Subversion
7 2 (2.25%) TestNG
7 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (38.20%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (21.35%) Law
4 6 (6.74%) Banking
4 6 (6.74%) Retail
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Back Office
5 5 (5.62%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.49%) Health Technology
6 4 (4.49%) Publishing
6 4 (4.49%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Analyst
2 19 (21.35%) Senior
3 18 (20.22%) Data Analyst
4 15 (16.85%) Developer
5 13 (14.61%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Architect
8 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Python Developer
11 3 (3.37%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.37%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.37%) React Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior .NET Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (85.39%) OpenAPI
2 46 (51.69%) RESTful
3 38 (42.70%) REST
4 28 (31.46%) OAuth
5 17 (19.10%) JWT
6 16 (17.98%) React
7 14 (15.73%) Web Services
8 12 (13.48%) Django
8 12 (13.48%) Faiss
8 12 (13.48%) FastAPI
8 12 (13.48%) Flask
8 12 (13.48%) GraphQL
8 12 (13.48%) Hugging Face
8 12 (13.48%) Node.js
8 12 (13.48%) NumPy
8 12 (13.48%) Pandas
8 12 (13.48%) pytest
8 12 (13.48%) PyTorch
8 12 (13.48%) scikit-learn
8 12 (13.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.60%) Data Structures
2 14 (15.73%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (13.48%) Low-Code
4 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
4 10 (11.24%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (7.87%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.74%) Mobile App
7 5 (5.62%) IoT
8 4 (4.49%) Blog
9 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) CentOS
2 5 (5.62%) Debian
2 5 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) CI/CD
2 32 (35.96%) Agile
2 32 (35.96%) Data Modelling
2 32 (35.96%) ETL
3 29 (32.58%) Software Engineering
4 26 (29.21%) API Development
4 26 (29.21%) API Integration
4 26 (29.21%) DevOps
5 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
6 24 (26.97%) OO
7 23 (25.84%) API Design
7 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (24.72%) AI
9 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
10 19 (21.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 19 (21.35%) Decision-Making
11 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
12 17 (19.10%) Open Source
13 16 (17.98%) Microservices
13 16 (17.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (61.80%) SQL
2 46 (51.69%) Python
3 24 (26.97%) C#
4 20 (22.47%) Java
5 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.37%) Bash
8 3 (3.37%) PHP
9 2 (2.25%) VB
10 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.37%) IIBA
6 2 (2.25%) PhD
7 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.99%) QA
3 3 (3.37%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) SEPA
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (29.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.60%) Terraform
3 5 (5.62%) Ansible
3 5 (5.62%) Puppet
4 2 (2.25%) Grafana
4 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.85%) Google
3 12 (13.48%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (13.48%) OpenAI
3 12 (13.48%) UiPath
4 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle
4 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.62%) SaltStack
5 4 (4.49%) Foundry
6 2 (2.25%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.25%) Splunk
6 2 (2.25%) webMethods
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) Intapp
7 1 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) Veracode