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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 263 216
Rank change year-on-year +38 -47 +6
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 117 214 556
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.88% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.22% 3.53% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 148 443
10th Percentile £331 £450 £425
25th Percentile £431 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £691 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -15.97% +3.48% +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 3,636 6,056 13,209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.98% 24.99% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 4,543 9,818
10th Percentile £341 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.82% +10.50%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 77 110
10th Percentile £23.88 £24.45 £22.50
25th Percentile - £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £75.00 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.10 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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 3 June 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

GraphQL
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 12 (10.26%) CMS
2 10 (8.55%) Headless CMS
3 5 (4.27%) Kentico
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.01%) AWS
2 29 (24.79%) Azure
3 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.40%) GCP
5 9 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.98%) Azure API Management
6 7 (5.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (5.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (5.98%) GitHub
6 7 (5.98%) NuGet
7 5 (4.27%) Serverless
8 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.42%) npm
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.56%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.56%) Miro
9 3 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) HTTP
2 3 (2.56%) DNS
2 3 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
1 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.56%) MariaDB
2 3 (2.56%) Triplestore
3 2 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.85%) GIS
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (17.09%) Git
2 10 (8.55%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.27%) Storybook
3 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.42%) GitLab
4 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.42%) JIRA
5 3 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.56%) NUnit
5 3 (2.56%) Postman
5 3 (2.56%) Snyk
5 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.56%) webpack
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 23 (19.66%) Finance
2 14 (11.97%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.84%) Retail
4 7 (5.98%) Banking
4 7 (5.98%) Front Office
5 6 (5.13%) Retail Banking
6 5 (4.27%) Marketing
6 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Electronics
7 3 (2.56%) German Language
7 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (62.39%) Developer
2 28 (23.93%) React Developer
3 24 (20.51%) Full Stack Developer
4 12 (10.26%) Architect
4 12 (10.26%) JavaScript Developer
5 11 (9.40%) E-Commerce Developer
5 11 (9.40%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Azure Developer
7 9 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (7.69%) Senior
8 8 (6.84%) Lead
9 7 (5.98%) Angular Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.27%) CMS Developer
11 5 (4.27%) DevOps Developer
11 5 (4.27%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (48.72%) React
2 38 (32.48%) REST
3 37 (31.62%) Node.js
4 27 (23.08%) CSS
5 24 (20.51%) HTML
5 24 (20.51%) Next.js
6 15 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 15 (12.82%) Redux
7 12 (10.26%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.55%) .NET
8 10 (8.55%) React Native
9 9 (7.69%) HTML5
10 8 (6.84%) Spring
11 7 (5.98%) Kafka
11 7 (5.98%) SOAP
11 7 (5.98%) Web Services
11 7 (5.98%) YAML
12 6 (5.13%) Express.js
12 6 (5.13%) Material-UI
12 6 (5.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.84%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.71%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.27%) Android
1 5 (4.27%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.90%) Full Stack Development
2 34 (29.06%) DevOps
3 33 (28.21%) Agile
3 33 (28.21%) Software Engineering
4 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
5 20 (17.09%) Microservices
6 17 (14.53%) E-Commerce
7 15 (12.82%) TDD
8 13 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 13 (11.11%) Scrum
9 11 (9.40%) Analytics
9 11 (9.40%) Fintech
9 11 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.55%) Test Automation
11 8 (6.84%) BDD
11 8 (6.84%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (5.98%) API Management
12 7 (5.98%) Containerisation
12 7 (5.98%) Kanban
12 7 (5.98%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (50.43%) TypeScript
2 47 (40.17%) JavaScript
3 25 (21.37%) Java
4 21 (17.95%) SQL
5 18 (15.38%) Python
6 8 (6.84%) C#
7 6 (5.13%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.27%) Go
8 5 (4.27%) PHP
9 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.56%) Bicep
10 3 (2.56%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.85%) DataFlex
11 1 (0.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.27%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) GDPR
3 2 (1.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (17.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.84%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Grafana
4 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
1 4 (3.42%) SAP
2 2 (1.71%) Google
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.71%) Spotify
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe
3 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.85%) Mapbox
3 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.85%) Splunk