GraphQL Contract Job Trends in the East of England

GraphQL
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.11% 0.094% 0.053%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.57% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 £475 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £713 £525 £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -13.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 233 175 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.76% 16.37% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 109 146
10th Percentile £404 £315 £306
25th Percentile £462 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £662 £600 £581
90th Percentile £753 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 16
10th Percentile £40.90 £63.50 £23.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 £42.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +26.06% -15.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.45 £70.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GraphQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

GraphQL job vacancy trend in the East of England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +4 1 £675 +35.00% 1
Suffolk - 1 - -
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) gRPC
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes