GraphQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 316 369
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 -40
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 84 123 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 2.94% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 82 114
10th Percentile £313 £414 £392
25th Percentile £375 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £533 £600 £638
90th Percentile £590 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,247 4,185 6,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.03% 18.26% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,127 4,351
10th Percentile £320 £354 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 147
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.65
90th Percentile £74.48 £79.19 £76.79
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South West +7 21 £515 +3.00% 4
Midlands +32 19 £350 -30.00% 15
South East +14 16 £400 -32.20% 17
North of England -7 15 £475 -13.64% 17
West Midlands +24 14 £350 -26.32% 11
North West +22 9 £475 -13.64% 8
Scotland +37 5 £498 -9.13%
East Midlands +19 5 £438 -17.06% 4
Yorkshire -8 5 £505 -9.82% 7
Wales - 5 £438 - 1
East of England +4 3 £650 +22.64% 7
North East +9 1 £650 - 2
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (5.95%) Apache
1 5 (5.95%) CMS
2 4 (4.76%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.38%) Kentico
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (41.67%) AWS
2 23 (27.38%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) Serverless
4 8 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.33%) GCP
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub
6 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.76%) CloudFront
8 4 (4.76%) npm
9 3 (3.57%) SaaS
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.19%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.19%) Figma
10 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.19%) PaaS
10 1 (1.19%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.95%) Triplestore
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.57%) MySQL
4 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.19%) Jackrabbit
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Git
2 7 (8.33%) GitLab
2 7 (8.33%) JIRA
2 7 (8.33%) Postman
3 6 (7.14%) Visual Studio
4 5 (5.95%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.95%) NUnit
5 4 (4.76%) webpack
6 3 (3.57%) Subversion
7 2 (2.38%) Selenium
7 2 (2.38%) VersionOne
7 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.19%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (13.10%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Aviation
7 1 (1.19%) Electronics
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (61.90%) Developer
2 15 (17.86%) Senior
3 14 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (16.67%) React Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
7 7 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Angular Developer
9 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.38%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.38%) JavaScript Developer
11 2 (2.38%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (51.19%) React
2 23 (27.38%) Next.js
3 21 (25.00%) REST
4 20 (23.81%) Node.js
5 17 (20.24%) Redux
6 16 (19.05%) CSS
6 16 (19.05%) HTML
7 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 10 (11.90%) RESTful
9 9 (10.71%) gRPC
9 9 (10.71%) Kafka
10 8 (9.52%) OAuth
11 7 (8.33%) .NET
11 7 (8.33%) Apollo GraphQL
11 7 (8.33%) Express.js
11 7 (8.33%) Playwright
12 6 (7.14%) JWT
12 6 (7.14%) Vue
13 5 (5.95%) NgRx
13 5 (5.95%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.19%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 23 (27.38%) Full Stack Development
3 20 (23.81%) DevOps
4 19 (22.62%) Agile
5 15 (17.86%) Scrum
6 12 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 12 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 11 (13.10%) TDD
8 10 (11.90%) Kanban
8 10 (11.90%) Waterfall
9 9 (10.71%) BDD
10 8 (9.52%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.33%) Data Modelling
11 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 6 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (7.14%) Computer Science
13 5 (5.95%) Load Testing
13 5 (5.95%) Performance Testing
13 5 (5.95%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.24%) TypeScript
2 26 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.29%) SQL
4 11 (13.10%) Python
5 8 (9.52%) Java
6 5 (5.95%) SPARQL
7 4 (4.76%) Go
8 1 (1.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 22 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) Kibana
3 1 (1.19%) rkt
3 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.95%) Google
2 3 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) Ariba
4 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.19%) Okta
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud