GraphQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

GraphQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 228 260 233
Rank change year-on-year +32 -27 0
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 120 217 511
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.86% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.31% 3.42% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 143 400
10th Percentile £331 £450 £425
25th Percentile £411 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £580 £700 £650
90th Percentile £684 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.50 -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £75.50 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

GraphQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GraphQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL.

GraphQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

GraphQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL.

GraphQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.17%) CMS
2 9 (7.50%) Headless CMS
3 5 (4.17%) Kentico
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.83%) AWS
2 27 (22.50%) Azure
3 18 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) GCP
5 9 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.83%) Azure API Management
6 7 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (5.83%) NuGet
6 7 (5.83%) Serverless
7 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.33%) GitHub
8 4 (3.33%) npm
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.50%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) FTP
1 3 (2.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Git
2 11 (9.17%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.17%) Storybook
3 5 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.50%) JIRA
5 3 (2.50%) NUnit
5 3 (2.50%) Postman
5 3 (2.50%) Snyk
5 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.50%) webpack
6 1 (0.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.83%) Gradle
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 28 (23.33%) Finance
2 12 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.33%) Front Office
4 8 (6.67%) Retail
5 7 (5.83%) Marketing
6 6 (5.00%) Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Retail Banking
7 5 (4.17%) Electronics
7 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.33%) German Language
9 3 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (67.50%) Developer
2 34 (28.33%) React Developer
3 30 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (12.50%) Architect
5 14 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.83%) Full Stack Engineer
6 13 (10.83%) JavaScript Developer
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Developer
7 11 (9.17%) E-Commerce Developer
8 10 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Senior
10 8 (6.67%) Lead
10 8 (6.67%) Technical Architect
11 7 (5.83%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.00%) .NET Developer
13 5 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.17%) HTML Developer
13 5 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (54.17%) React
2 40 (33.33%) Node.js
3 35 (29.17%) REST
4 25 (20.83%) Next.js
5 23 (19.17%) CSS
6 21 (17.50%) HTML
7 17 (14.17%) Redux
8 15 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 12 (10.00%) .NET
10 10 (8.33%) Spring Boot
11 9 (7.50%) HTML5
11 9 (7.50%) Material-UI
11 9 (7.50%) React Native
11 9 (7.50%) Web Services
11 9 (7.50%) YAML
12 8 (6.67%) Spring
13 7 (5.83%) SOAP
14 6 (5.00%) Fastify
14 6 (5.00%) Kafka
15 5 (4.17%) GatsbyJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Fixed Income
2 8 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.67%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Android
1 6 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
2 38 (31.67%) Agile
3 37 (30.83%) Software Engineering
4 33 (27.50%) DevOps
5 22 (18.33%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 20 (16.67%) Microservices
7 18 (15.00%) TDD
8 14 (11.67%) Fintech
8 14 (11.67%) Front End Development
9 13 (10.83%) Analytics
9 13 (10.83%) Scrum
10 10 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.50%) Asset Management
11 9 (7.50%) BDD
11 9 (7.50%) Investment Management
11 9 (7.50%) Performance Attribution
11 9 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (7.50%) Risk Analytics
12 8 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.67%) TypeScript
2 46 (38.33%) JavaScript
3 26 (21.67%) Java
4 21 (17.50%) Python
4 21 (17.50%) SQL
5 10 (8.33%) C#
6 9 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.17%) Go
7 5 (4.17%) PHP
8 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) DataFlex
10 1 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (11.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.33%) Ansible
3 3 (2.50%) Grafana
3 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (5.00%) SAP
2 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.67%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe
4 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Splunk