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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 99 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +37
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 13 21 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 1.20% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 4.39% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 7
10th Percentile £200 £585 £325
25th Percentile £366 £624 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +92.86% -34.12%
75th Percentile £763 £688 £559
90th Percentile £850 £800 £721
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £350
% change year-on-year -14.81% +92.86% -38.60%
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 451 478 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.58% 27.38% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 305 343
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £467 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £689
90th Percentile £750 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £550
% change year-on-year -0.36% +0.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

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

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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 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the City of London

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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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Magento
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Vite
2 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Magento Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Web Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) REST
2 7 (53.85%) React
3 4 (30.77%) DOM
3 4 (30.77%) React Native
4 3 (23.08%) Next.js
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) Django
5 2 (15.38%) Jest
5 2 (15.38%) Node.js
6 1 (7.69%) .NET
6 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 1 (7.69%) CSS
6 1 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (7.69%) jQuery
6 1 (7.69%) Kafka
6 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware
6 1 (7.69%) SOAP
6 1 (7.69%) Spring
6 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Observability
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Micro Frontends
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
5 4 (30.77%) Fintech
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
6 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 3 (23.08%) Line Management
6 3 (23.08%) Software Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe