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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 121 126
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 20 9 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.17% 0.43% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.78% 1.76% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 13
10th Percentile £495 £595 £418
25th Percentile £528 £614 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £673 £678 £681
90th Percentile £800 £684 £696
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.87% -1.83% +9.09%

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 418 511 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 24.39% 24.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 308 462
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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 10 November 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 & 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (35.00%) GitHub
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (15.00%) Apigee
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (15.00%) Datadog
6 3 (15.00%) Firebase
6 3 (15.00%) Google Gemini
6 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Stackdriver
6 3 (15.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Gradle
1 3 (15.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Snyk
3 1 (5.00%) Ant
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Front Office
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (15.00%) Software Design Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) REST
2 7 (35.00%) React
3 6 (30.00%) Node.js
3 6 (30.00%) WebSockets
4 5 (25.00%) Kafka
4 5 (25.00%) Svelte
5 4 (20.00%) JWT
5 4 (20.00%) OAuth
5 4 (20.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (15.00%) Next.js
6 3 (15.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (15.00%) Redux
6 3 (15.00%) Zustand
7 2 (10.00%) CSS
7 2 (10.00%) CSS3
7 2 (10.00%) HTML
7 2 (10.00%) HTML5
7 2 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) IVR
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Microservices
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (30.00%) User Experience
5 5 (25.00%) Observability
6 4 (20.00%) AI
6 4 (20.00%) API Design
6 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) SOA
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.00%) Objective-C
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
6 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Istio
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft