Apollo GraphQL Contract Job Trends in England

Apollo GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Apollo GraphQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 519 589
Rank change year-on-year +8 +70 +152
Contract jobs citing Apollo GraphQL 8 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.021% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.095% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £500 £325 £338
25th Percentile £516 £344 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £511
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -21.72% -18.24%
75th Percentile £588 £444 £599
90th Percentile £624 £455 £663
UK median daily rate £575 £400 £511
% change year-on-year +43.75% -21.72% -14.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Apollo 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,298 7,374 9,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.64% 22.38% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,854 6,779
10th Percentile £350 £355 £377
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 178 168
10th Percentile £31.50 £27.53 £37.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%

Apollo GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apollo GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apollo GraphQL in England

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apollo GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apollo GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apollo GraphQL in England

Apollo GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apollo GraphQL within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
South East - 4 £575 -
London +1 1 £660 +55.29% 5
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Apollo GraphQL
UK

Apollo GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Firebase
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (87.50%) React
3 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Next.js
4 2 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (12.50%) React Native
5 1 (12.50%) Redux
5 1 (12.50%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) User Experience
1 4 (50.00%) UX Design
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
3 1 (12.50%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat