GraphQL Contracts in the City of London

GraphQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 119 145
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 +5
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 22 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.21% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 2.15% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 6
10th Percentile £495 £363 £401
25th Percentile £575 £444 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +25.30% -15.82%
75th Percentile £800 £708 £603
90th Percentile - £722 £669
Central London median daily rate £638 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% -5.14%

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 471 512 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.92% 23.94% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 350 595
10th Percentile £404 £412 £425
25th Percentile £455 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £738
90th Percentile £762 £788 £829
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the City of London

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the City of London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon S3
3 7 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (31.82%) Serverless
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (22.73%) Datadog
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (13.64%) CloudFront
6 3 (13.64%) Route 53
7 2 (9.09%) Apigee
7 2 (9.09%) GCP
7 2 (9.09%) SaaS
7 2 (9.09%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (22.73%) DynamoDB
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) DocumentDB
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Redis
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) Gradle
1 2 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Front Office
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Retail Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Design Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Android Developer
4 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.55%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) iOS Android Developer
6 1 (4.55%) iOS Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) REST
3 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
3 5 (22.73%) Kafka
3 5 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (22.73%) Svelte
3 5 (22.73%) WebSockets
4 3 (13.64%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Derivative
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.09%) IVR
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Microservices
2 9 (40.91%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
5 5 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
5 5 (22.73%) Observability
5 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
6 4 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (13.64%) Android Development
7 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) Kotlin
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Rust
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Swift
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
1 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Istio
2 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Apple
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks