GraphQL Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

GraphQL
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.26% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 1.37% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £673 £337 -
25th Percentile £675 £341 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £354 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.50% - -
75th Percentile £693 £363 -
90th Percentile £694 £364 -
North West median daily rate £650 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +52.94% -5.56% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 82 146 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.51% 24.50% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 118 57
10th Percentile £375 £313 £311
25th Percentile £417 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £384 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.72% -14.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £623 £467 £507
90th Percentile £693 £558 £620
North West median daily rate £525 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +17.45% -10.60% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +46.17%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in Cheshire

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Knutsford +6 2 £685 +93.50%
GraphQL
North West

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On