GraphQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 329 290
Rank change year-on-year -13 -39 -42
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 253 428 822
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.74% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 3.17% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 277 641
10th Percentile £325 £448 £425
25th Percentile £419 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +25.71%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,930 13,495 23,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.71% 23.23% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,831 17,461
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +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 244 153 234
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.15
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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 -55 202 £519 -13.54% 115
London -5 128 £558 -13.57% 55
Work from Home +32 120 £500 -13.04% 72
UK excluding London +31 80 £450 -14.29% 59
Midlands +41 19 £350 -30.00% 12
South East +4 16 £400 -32.20% 7
West Midlands +36 15 £350 -26.32% 7
South West +16 15 £438 -12.50% 6
Scotland +44 11 £519 -5.25% 1
North of England -9 11 £475 -13.64% 25
North West +20 9 £475 -13.64% 8
Wales +23 5 £438 -2.78% 1
East Midlands +19 4 £475 -9.95% 5
East of England -5 3 £650 +22.64% 6
North East +15 1 £650 - 4
Yorkshire -6 1 £300 -46.43% 13

GraphQL
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 17 (6.72%) CMS
2 14 (5.53%) Headless CMS
3 7 (2.77%) Kentico
4 6 (2.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.08%) AWS
2 54 (21.34%) Azure
3 29 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (8.30%) Serverless
6 19 (7.51%) GCP
7 11 (4.35%) Azure API Management
8 10 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (3.95%) NuGet
9 8 (3.16%) GitHub
10 7 (2.77%) SaaS
11 6 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.37%) npm
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.98%) Miro
13 4 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.58%) CloudFront
13 4 (1.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.58%) DNS
1 4 (1.58%) FTP
1 4 (1.58%) VPN
2 2 (0.79%) 5G
2 2 (0.79%) AMQP
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.98%) MySQL
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
12 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 47 (18.58%) Git
2 23 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 18 (7.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.53%) Postman
5 12 (4.74%) JIRA
6 8 (3.16%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.77%) NUnit
7 7 (2.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.98%) GitLab
8 5 (1.98%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.98%) Storybook
8 5 (1.98%) webpack
9 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.58%) Gradle
9 4 (1.58%) Mocha
9 4 (1.58%) Snyk
10 3 (1.19%) Selenium
10 3 (1.19%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 43 (17.00%) Finance
2 37 (14.62%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.53%) Banking
4 13 (5.14%) Retail
5 10 (3.95%) Front Office
6 8 (3.16%) Marketing
7 7 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Electronics
9 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.58%) German Language
11 3 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.79%) French Language
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 154 (60.87%) Developer
2 56 (22.13%) React Developer
3 44 (17.39%) Full Stack Developer
4 42 (16.60%) Senior
5 29 (11.46%) Architect
6 26 (10.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 21 (8.30%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.11%) Lead
9 16 (6.32%) Full Stack Engineer
10 15 (5.93%) JavaScript Developer
11 14 (5.53%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.74%) Technical Architect
13 11 (4.35%) Azure Developer
13 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Developer
14 10 (3.95%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 9 (3.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
16 8 (3.16%) .NET Developer
17 7 (2.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (54.94%) React
2 78 (30.83%) Node.js
3 61 (24.11%) REST
4 54 (21.34%) Next.js
5 43 (17.00%) CSS
6 40 (15.81%) Redux
7 37 (14.62%) HTML
8 28 (11.07%) AngularJS
9 24 (9.49%) .NET
10 18 (7.11%) RESTful
11 15 (5.93%) Kafka
11 15 (5.93%) Playwright
11 15 (5.93%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.53%) Spring
13 13 (5.14%) Express.js
13 13 (5.14%) Jest
13 13 (5.14%) SOAP
14 12 (4.74%) YAML
15 11 (4.35%) HTML5
15 11 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.56%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.37%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.19%) Wiki
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Android
1 7 (2.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.83%) Agile
2 75 (29.64%) Full Stack Development
3 60 (23.72%) CI/CD
3 60 (23.72%) DevOps
4 50 (19.76%) Software Engineering
5 37 (14.62%) TDD
6 36 (14.23%) Front End Development
6 36 (14.23%) Microservices
7 28 (11.07%) Test Automation
8 27 (10.67%) E-Commerce
9 25 (9.88%) Scrum
10 20 (7.91%) BDD
11 19 (7.51%) Unit Testing
12 18 (7.11%) Analytics
12 18 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (6.32%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (6.32%) Fintech
14 14 (5.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (5.53%) Kanban
14 14 (5.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 114 (45.06%) TypeScript
2 87 (34.39%) JavaScript
3 49 (19.37%) SQL
4 46 (18.18%) Java
4 46 (18.18%) Python
5 15 (5.93%) C#
6 14 (5.53%) Kotlin
7 13 (5.14%) Go
8 6 (2.37%) Bicep
8 6 (2.37%) PHP
8 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (5.93%) SC Cleared
1 15 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.77%) Degree
4 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.58%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (15.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.49%) Terraform
3 6 (2.37%) Grafana
3 6 (2.37%) Kibana
3 6 (2.37%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.58%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Istio
6 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) rkt
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
1 8 (3.16%) SAP
2 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.58%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.40%) Ariba
6 1 (0.40%) Dell
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) Intel
6 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.40%) New Relic
6 1 (0.40%) Okta
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk