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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 119 137
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 21 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 0.52% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.85% 2.16% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £495 £595 £425
25th Percentile £575 £614 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +23.81% -9.29%
75th Percentile £800 £686 £675
90th Percentile - £706 £703
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £563
% change year-on-year +1.87% +4.71% -5.46%

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 433 509 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.56% 24.26% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 326 510
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £725
90th Percentile £741 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +62.34% -27.36% +11.58%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon S3
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
4 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 6 (28.57%) Serverless
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (23.81%) Datadog
5 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (19.05%) Azure
7 3 (14.29%) Apigee
7 3 (14.29%) Firebase
7 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (14.29%) Stackdriver
8 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (9.52%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) DynamoDB
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
1 3 (14.29%) Gradle
1 3 (14.29%) Maven
2 2 (9.52%) Snyk
3 1 (4.76%) Ant
3 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Front Office
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Mobile Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) REST
2 8 (38.10%) React
3 7 (33.33%) Node.js
3 7 (33.33%) WebSockets
4 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (23.81%) Kafka
4 5 (23.81%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (23.81%) Svelte
5 4 (19.05%) JWT
5 4 (19.05%) OAuth
5 4 (19.05%) OAuth2
6 3 (14.29%) Redux
6 3 (14.29%) Zustand
7 2 (9.52%) CSS
7 2 (9.52%) CSS3
7 2 (9.52%) HTML
7 2 (9.52%) HTML5
7 2 (9.52%) Next.js
7 2 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) IVR
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) User Experience
6 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (33.33%) Observability
7 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (23.81%) Clean Code
8 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven
8 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (19.05%) API Design
9 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
9 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.76%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.76%) PHP
6 1 (4.76%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) Rust
6 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (23.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Istio
4 3 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft