GraphQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

GraphQL
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 56 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 1 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.12% 1.47% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 8.73% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £385 £310
25th Percentile £588 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £579
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -22.25% +28.61%
75th Percentile £663 £475 £703
90th Percentile - - £720
South West median daily rate £650 £450 £648
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.50% +29.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

GraphQL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 138 126 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 17.16% 16.87% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 64 132
10th Percentile £269 £343 £301
25th Percentile £374 £394 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.68% -15.48%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £648 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 16
10th Percentile £62.30 - £55.63
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £75.63
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GraphQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

GraphQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR