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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 105 113
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 13 21 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 1.22% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.38% 4.38% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 5
10th Percentile £394 £495 £599
25th Percentile £469 £544 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £741 £800 £688
90th Percentile £788 - £706
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.15% +3.25%

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 546 480 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.53% 27.86% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 332 354
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £708
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.13% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -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

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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 11 October 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%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) AtomSphere
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Boomi
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.69%) Bitrise
5 1 (7.69%) IBM Watson
5 1 (7.69%) Miro
5 1 (7.69%) Sentry
5 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) webpack
3 2 (15.38%) Xcode
4 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
4 1 (7.69%) fastlane
4 1 (7.69%) Jasmine
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (7.69%) Vite
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Retail Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Web Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) React
3 4 (30.77%) OAuth
3 4 (30.77%) OAuth2
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) Jest
4 3 (23.08%) Middleware
4 3 (23.08%) Node.js
4 3 (23.08%) React Native
5 2 (15.38%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (15.38%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (15.38%) gRPC
5 2 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (15.38%) JWT
5 2 (15.38%) Kafka
5 2 (15.38%) NgRx
5 2 (15.38%) OpenID
5 2 (15.38%) Sass
5 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (15.38%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Android
1 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) API Management
3 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (23.08%) Wealth Management
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Backends for Frontends
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 2 (15.38%) Product Discovery
4 2 (15.38%) Product Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
3 2 (15.38%) Swift
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Workday
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Foundry
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.69%) UiPath