OpenAPI Swagger
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Swagger skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swagger over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 548 541
Rank change year-on-year +47 -7 -80
Contract jobs citing Swagger 90 173 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 1.26% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 106 226
10th Percentile £388 £458 £406
25th Percentile £450 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +7.84%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £634
90th Percentile £738 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Swagger is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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 4 May 2024.

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 15 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 4 May 2024. 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 +70 79 £525 -11.39% 45
London +88 55 £550 +1.15% 18
Work from Home +70 43 £495 -16.10% 36
UK excluding London +12 22 £520 -13.33% 31
Midlands +32 6 £490 +20.12% 3
South East -3 6 £550 -15.38% 6
East Midlands +26 5 £490 +84.72% 1
North of England +22 5 £520 -13.33% 9
Scotland +32 3 £625 +19.05% 6
North West +19 3 £515 - 6
West Midlands +25 1 - - 2
South West +22 1 £635 +45.14% 5
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 2
East of England +10 1 £325 -38.10%
North East - 1 £550 - 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 6 (6.67%) Anypoint
1 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.33%) nginx
4 2 (2.22%) Apache
4 2 (2.22%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.56%) Azure
2 26 (28.89%) AWS
3 19 (21.11%) Serverless
4 14 (15.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (14.44%) Azure API Management
5 13 (14.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (13.33%) PaaS
7 11 (12.22%) OpenShift
8 10 (11.11%) Apigee
9 9 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (10.00%) Azure Storage
9 9 (10.00%) Entra ID
10 8 (8.89%) GCP
10 8 (8.89%) SaaS
11 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.78%) Azure Functions
12 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (5.56%) Google Analytics
13 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (2.22%) FTP
3 2 (2.22%) Internet
4 1 (1.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 5 (5.56%) Looker
4 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.56%) Power BI
4 5 (5.56%) Tableau
5 4 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (30.00%) Git
2 24 (26.67%) Postman
3 19 (21.11%) Jenkins
4 12 (13.33%) Maven
5 8 (8.89%) JIRA
5 8 (8.89%) TeamCity
6 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.33%) EasyMock
8 3 (3.33%) GitLab
8 3 (3.33%) JUnit
8 3 (3.33%) Mockito
8 3 (3.33%) Selenium
8 3 (3.33%) TestNG
8 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.22%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (1.11%) Gradle
General
1 25 (27.78%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Banking
4 9 (10.00%) Retail
5 7 (7.78%) Marketing
5 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Advertising
7 5 (5.56%) Front Office
8 3 (3.33%) Aviation
8 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.22%) Electronics
9 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (54.44%) Developer
2 10 (11.11%) Architect
2 10 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 10 (11.11%) Senior
3 9 (10.00%) Analyst
3 9 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Developer
5 7 (7.78%) C# Developer
6 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Backend Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.44%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Angular Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (47.78%) REST
2 42 (46.67%) OpenAPI
3 22 (24.44%) JSON
4 19 (21.11%) SOAP
5 18 (20.00%) Node.js
6 16 (17.78%) Web Services
7 15 (16.67%) RAML
8 13 (14.44%) CSS
9 12 (13.33%) HTML
9 12 (13.33%) Spring
10 10 (11.11%) YAML
11 9 (10.00%) .NET
11 9 (10.00%) jQuery
11 9 (10.00%) RESTful
12 7 (7.78%) Kafka
12 7 (7.78%) XML
13 6 (6.67%) .NET Framework
13 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
13 6 (6.67%) Apache Camel
13 6 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Agile
2 39 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.67%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.56%) API Management
4 23 (25.56%) TDD
5 19 (21.11%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 17 (18.89%) DevOps
8 15 (16.67%) API Design
9 14 (15.56%) Computer Science
9 14 (15.56%) Microservices
9 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Data Modelling
11 10 (11.11%) Configuration Management
11 10 (11.11%) Migration
11 10 (11.11%) Scrum
12 9 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
13 8 (8.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) SQL
2 29 (32.22%) Python
3 23 (25.56%) Java
4 17 (18.89%) JavaScript
5 16 (17.78%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.33%) C
7 3 (3.33%) Groovy
7 3 (3.33%) PHP
8 2 (2.22%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (15.56%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.78%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.22%) MBA
6 2 (2.22%) PhD
7 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Docker
2 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.33%) Terraform
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Podman
5 4 (4.44%) Packer
6 3 (3.33%) Grafana
6 3 (3.33%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.22%) Kibana
8 1 (1.11%) Anchore
8 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.11%) Istio
8 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) Google
3 11 (12.22%) SAP
4 10 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 10 (11.11%) Oracle
5 9 (10.00%) Salesforce
6 7 (7.78%) Red Hat
7 6 (6.67%) WSO2
8 5 (5.56%) Adobe
8 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
8 5 (5.56%) Ensighten
8 5 (5.56%) Monetate
8 5 (5.56%) Omniture
8 5 (5.56%) Optimizely
8 5 (5.56%) Splunk
8 5 (5.56%) Tealium
9 3 (3.33%) IBM
10 2 (2.22%) Databricks