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 requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 17 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 1.21% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.58% 4.69% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 6
10th Percentile £461 £495 £363
25th Percentile £525 £575 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -1.92% +25.30%
75th Percentile £731 £800 £708
90th Percentile £850 - £722
Central London median daily rate £588 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -7.84% -1.92% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 475 469 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.46% 25.88% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 304 348
10th Percentile £410 £404 £411
25th Percentile £475 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £706
90th Percentile £775 £762 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £23.93 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.57% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
% change year-on-year -42.78% - -

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 4 July 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 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Magento
1 1 (5.88%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.88%) AtomSphere
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Boomi
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) webpack
4 1 (5.88%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (5.88%) PHPUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Vite
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
2 3 (17.65%) Retail Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Mobile
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Magento Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) REST
2 8 (47.06%) React
3 5 (29.41%) DOM
4 4 (23.53%) Jest
4 4 (23.53%) Node.js
4 4 (23.53%) React Native
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) Next.js
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) Spring
5 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.76%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (11.76%) Kafka
6 2 (11.76%) Middleware
6 2 (11.76%) NgRx
6 2 (11.76%) Sass
6 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Observability
3 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Micro Frontends
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
5 4 (23.53%) Fintech
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 3 (17.65%) Line Management
6 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
6 3 (17.65%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Workday