GraphQL Contracts in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 303 296
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 -68
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 205 401 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.82% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 3.54% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 279 525
10th Percentile £325 £448 £425
25th Percentile £416 £501 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £665
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -15.97% +3.48% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £56.20 £39.50 -
25th Percentile £58.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £72.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £77.00 -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% +40.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

GraphQL 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 advertised in England 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 7,500 11,325 18,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.40% 23.02% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,320 8,400 14,211
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 213
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -23 127 £550 -14.73% 34
Midlands +40 19 £350 -30.00% 12
South West +10 19 £533 +6.60% 4
South East +14 16 £400 -32.20% 8
West Midlands +27 15 £350 -26.32% 8
North of England -15 11 £475 -13.64% 19
North West +17 9 £475 -13.64% 8
East Midlands +22 4 £475 -9.95% 4
East of England -2 3 £650 +22.64% 6
North East +14 1 £650 - 2
Yorkshire -12 1 £300 -46.43% 9
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (5.37%) CMS
2 9 (4.39%) Headless CMS
3 7 (3.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Kentico
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (42.93%) AWS
2 49 (23.90%) Azure
3 23 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.78%) GCP
4 18 (8.78%) Serverless
5 15 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.83%) GitHub
7 10 (4.88%) Azure API Management
8 9 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (4.39%) NuGet
9 8 (3.90%) Amazon Cognito
10 7 (3.41%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.41%) SaaS
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.44%) Miro
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (1.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) HTTP
2 4 (1.95%) DNS
2 4 (1.95%) FTP
2 4 (1.95%) VPN
3 2 (0.98%) AMQP
3 2 (0.98%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (6.34%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.93%) Triplestore
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.95%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.95%) MySQL
8 4 (1.95%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Jackrabbit
11 1 (0.49%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 35 (17.07%) Git
2 22 (10.73%) Cypress.io
3 13 (6.34%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.37%) GitLab
5 9 (4.39%) Postman
6 8 (3.90%) Visual Studio
7 7 (3.41%) JIRA
7 7 (3.41%) NUnit
8 4 (1.95%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.95%) Gradle
8 4 (1.95%) Mocha
8 4 (1.95%) Snyk
9 3 (1.46%) Selenium
9 3 (1.46%) Storybook
9 3 (1.46%) Subversion
10 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.98%) Maven
10 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 41 (20.00%) Finance
2 31 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.34%) Banking
3 13 (6.34%) Retail
4 10 (4.88%) Front Office
5 8 (3.90%) Marketing
6 7 (3.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.93%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.44%) Electronics
8 5 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.98%) French Language
11 1 (0.49%) Aviation
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 119 (58.05%) Developer
2 43 (20.98%) React Developer
3 38 (18.54%) Senior
4 29 (14.15%) Full Stack Developer
5 21 (10.24%) Architect
6 20 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 17 (8.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 14 (6.83%) Full Stack Engineer
8 14 (6.83%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.34%) Lead
10 10 (4.88%) AWS Architect
10 10 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
10 10 (4.88%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.90%) E-Commerce Developer
12 8 (3.90%) Java Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 7 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (47.80%) React
2 55 (26.83%) REST
3 54 (26.34%) Node.js
4 37 (18.05%) Redux
5 35 (17.07%) Next.js
6 31 (15.12%) CSS
7 27 (13.17%) AngularJS
7 27 (13.17%) HTML
8 23 (11.22%) .NET
9 19 (9.27%) Kafka
10 16 (7.80%) RESTful
11 12 (5.85%) SOAP
12 11 (5.37%) Express.js
12 11 (5.37%) YAML
13 10 (4.88%) gRPC
13 10 (4.88%) HTML5
13 10 (4.88%) React Native
14 9 (4.39%) Material-UI
14 9 (4.39%) Playwright
14 9 (4.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.39%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.98%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.98%) Wiki
7 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.49%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.49%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.49%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.49%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.41%) Android
1 7 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (32.20%) Agile
2 59 (28.78%) CI/CD
3 55 (26.83%) DevOps
3 55 (26.83%) Full Stack Development
4 45 (21.95%) Software Engineering
5 36 (17.56%) TDD
6 27 (13.17%) Test Automation
7 23 (11.22%) Front End Development
7 23 (11.22%) Microservices
8 19 (9.27%) BDD
8 19 (9.27%) E-Commerce
8 19 (9.27%) Scrum
9 16 (7.80%) Analytics
10 15 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (7.32%) Fintech
10 15 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (6.83%) Kanban
12 13 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (6.34%) Unit Testing
13 12 (5.85%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 90 (43.90%) TypeScript
2 69 (33.66%) JavaScript
3 42 (20.49%) Python
4 37 (18.05%) Java
4 37 (18.05%) SQL
5 14 (6.83%) Kotlin
6 13 (6.34%) C#
6 13 (6.34%) Go
7 6 (2.93%) SPARQL
8 5 (2.44%) Bicep
8 5 (2.44%) PHP
8 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.49%) DataFlex
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
1 14 (6.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.39%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.93%) Degree
4 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 32 (15.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.76%) Terraform
3 6 (2.93%) Grafana
3 6 (2.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.95%) Ansible
5 2 (0.98%) Istio
6 1 (0.49%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.49%) Kibana
6 1 (0.49%) Puppet
6 1 (0.49%) rkt
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.90%) SAP
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.95%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.98%) Adobe
7 1 (0.49%) Ariba
7 1 (0.49%) Dell
7 1 (0.49%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) Intel
7 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.49%) New Relic
7 1 (0.49%) Okta
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Splunk