GraphQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

GraphQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London citing GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 97 117
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 15 20 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 1.19% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 4.30% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 4
10th Percentile £396 £495 £595
25th Percentile £428 £528 £614
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £709 £769 £678
90th Percentile £763 £800 £684
Central London median daily rate £535 £600 £589
% change year-on-year -10.83% +1.87% -1.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 550 465 564
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 26.20% 27.71% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 322 346
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £675 £703
90th Percentile £763 £762 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £597
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.73% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £51.88 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +62.34% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £76.25 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £83.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £56.97 £38.50
% change year-on-year -8.29% +47.97% -23.00%

GraphQL Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

GraphQL Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GraphQL

GraphQL Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the City of London

GraphQL Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GraphQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GraphQL

GraphQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1REST66.7%10
2React33.3%5
3OAuth26.7%4
3OAuth226.7%4
5AngularJS20.0%3
5Jest20.0%3
5Middleware20.0%3
5Node.js20.0%3
5React Native20.0%3
10Android Jetpack13.3%2
10Apollo GraphQL13.3%2
10CSS13.3%2
10DOM13.3%2
10gRPC13.3%2
10HTML13.3%2
10Jetpack Compose13.3%2
10JSON13.3%2
10JWT13.3%2
10Kafka13.3%2
10NgRx13.3%2