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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 98 119
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 +34
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 10 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 1.15% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 4.14% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £200 £585 £325
25th Percentile £448 £604 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £675 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +80.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £575
90th Percentile £850 - £741
Central London median daily rate £588 £675 £375
% change year-on-year -12.96% +80.00% -33.33%
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 450 483 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.38% 27.74% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 311 342
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -9.80%
75th Percentile £670 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £551
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.77% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.72 - £48.75
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.17%

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 9 April 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Magento
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Mobile
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Magento Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) DOM
3 3 (30.00%) React Native
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Django
4 2 (20.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) Jest
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) Playwright
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Observability
3 5 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Fintech
5 3 (30.00%) API Development
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Line Management
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe