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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 115 124
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 20 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.19% 0.43% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 1.77% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 14
10th Percentile £495 £595 £421
25th Percentile £528 £614 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £769 £678 £681
90th Percentile £800 £684 £694
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £563
% change year-on-year +1.87% +4.71% -3.85%

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 410 509 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.40% 24.45% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 301 468
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +2.50%
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% -15.55%
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% -15.55%

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 27 October 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 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (35.00%) GitHub
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) Datadog
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Apigee
6 3 (15.00%) Firebase
6 3 (15.00%) Google Gemini
6 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (15.00%) Stackdriver
6 3 (15.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) 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%) Snyk
3 1 (5.00%) Ant
3 1 (5.00%) Git
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%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Design Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) REST
2 7 (35.00%) React
2 7 (35.00%) WebSockets
3 6 (30.00%) Node.js
4 5 (25.00%) Kafka
4 5 (25.00%) Svelte
5 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (20.00%) JWT
5 4 (20.00%) OAuth
5 4 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (15.00%) Next.js
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 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) User Experience
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (30.00%) Observability
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (20.00%) AI
8 4 (20.00%) API Design
8 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
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%) 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%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
6 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Istio
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