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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 15 21 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 1.12% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 4.50% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 4
10th Percentile £452 £495 £590
25th Percentile £514 £555 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -7.69% +25.30%
75th Percentile £638 £800 £720
90th Percentile £698 - £723
Central London median daily rate £556 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -7.29% -7.69% +8.33%
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 489 467 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.35% 24.88% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 301 325
10th Percentile £414 £404 £414
25th Percentile £475 £449 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £596
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.72% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 1 August 2026.

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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.67%) Magento
2 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) AtomSphere
5 2 (13.33%) Boomi
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (13.33%) webpack
4 1 (6.67%) Jasmine
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (6.67%) PHPUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Vite
General
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Retail
1 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Web Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Magento Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) REST
2 7 (46.67%) React
3 4 (26.67%) Jest
3 4 (26.67%) Node.js
4 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) DOM
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) Middleware
4 3 (20.00%) Next.js
4 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) JSON
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (13.33%) SAML
5 2 (13.33%) Sass
5 2 (13.33%) XML
5 2 (13.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Observability
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
4 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Workday
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe