GraphQL Contract Job Trends in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 337 360
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -66
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 208 156 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 2.63% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 146
10th Percentile £204 £363 £325
25th Percentile £390 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £643 £661 £659
90th Percentile £688 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £59.75 - £52.20
25th Percentile £63.25 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -13.93% -12.86%
75th Percentile £90.63 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.80
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +38.10% -13.93% -12.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GraphQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GraphQL in England

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 GraphQL within the England region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
London -15 123 £525 -8.70% 86
South East -13 30 £208 -49.27% 65
North of England -40 28 £573 +47.74% 46
North West -3 23 £539 +43.67% 27
Midlands -40 14 £650 +18.18% 22
West Midlands -29 11 £650 +18.18% 5
South West -22 9 £650 +44.44% 29
Yorkshire -53 3 £585 +30.06% 14
East Midlands - 3 £406 - 16
North East - 2 £600 - 6
East of England -18 1 - - 27
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.92%) Apache
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.92%) CMS
2 4 (1.92%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.73%) AWS
2 52 (25.00%) SaaS
3 46 (22.12%) Azure
4 42 (20.19%) Serverless
5 41 (19.71%) GitHub
6 35 (16.83%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (10.10%) GCP
9 16 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
10 15 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.77%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.81%) Datadog
13 9 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (4.33%) Figma
14 8 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) Wireless
2 3 (1.44%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 30 (14.42%) MySQL
4 13 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.25%) Redis
5 12 (5.77%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.48%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 53 (25.48%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.94%) Git
3 18 (8.65%) Android Studio
4 17 (8.17%) Browser DevTools
4 17 (8.17%) Xcode
5 16 (7.69%) Eclipse
6 13 (6.25%) Gradle
7 10 (4.81%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.81%) GitLab
8 7 (3.37%) JIRA
9 6 (2.88%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.88%) Maven
10 5 (2.40%) Mocha
11 4 (1.92%) JUnit
11 4 (1.92%) Mockito
11 4 (1.92%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.92%) webpack
12 3 (1.44%) fastlane
13 2 (0.96%) Snyk
13 2 (0.96%) XCTest
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.65%) Finance
3 17 (8.17%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Front Office
6 4 (1.92%) Games
6 4 (1.92%) Retail
7 3 (1.44%) Billing
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (36.06%) Developer
2 51 (24.52%) Senior
3 26 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (10.58%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.13%) Backend Developer
6 18 (8.65%) Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Specialist
7 17 (8.17%) Support Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) Technical Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) Technical Support
7 17 (8.17%) Technical Support Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) UX Engineer
8 15 (7.21%) Lead
9 14 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (38.94%) React
2 77 (37.02%) REST
3 72 (34.62%) Node.js
4 37 (17.79%) Playwright
5 31 (14.90%) Vitest
6 29 (13.94%) CSS
7 28 (13.46%) OAuth
8 23 (11.06%) RESTful
9 21 (10.10%) AngularJS
9 21 (10.10%) Next.js
10 19 (9.13%) Ajax
10 19 (9.13%) YAML
11 18 (8.65%) Jest
11 18 (8.65%) Spring Boot
12 17 (8.17%) OAuth2
12 17 (8.17%) Redux
12 17 (8.17%) WebSockets
13 15 (7.21%) gRPC
13 15 (7.21%) Spring
14 12 (5.77%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (28.85%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Animation
8 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.02%) Linux
2 23 (11.06%) Android
3 17 (8.17%) Unix
3 17 (8.17%) Windows
4 6 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 81 (38.94%) Agile
3 73 (35.10%) DevOps
4 56 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 48 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 47 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (22.12%) User Experience
8 43 (20.67%) Microservices
9 41 (19.71%) E-Commerce
10 39 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (18.27%) API Design
12 35 (16.83%) Test Automation
13 34 (16.35%) Code Quality
13 34 (16.35%) Software Engineering
14 31 (14.90%) Coaching
14 31 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.98%) Observability
16 26 (12.50%) AI
17 22 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
18 21 (10.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.75%) TypeScript
2 74 (35.58%) Python
3 70 (33.65%) Java
4 57 (27.40%) JavaScript
5 31 (14.90%) SQL
6 20 (9.62%) Go
7 17 (8.17%) Perl
8 8 (3.85%) C#
8 8 (3.85%) PHP
9 7 (3.37%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.40%) Bash
10 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.92%) Swift
12 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
14 1 (0.48%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Degree
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.33%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) QA
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (41.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (36.06%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.02%) Grafana
3 18 (8.65%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.69%) Terraform
5 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 37 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.62%) Oracle
3 17 (8.17%) Splunk
4 14 (6.73%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.33%) Adobe
6 6 (2.88%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.40%) Google
8 3 (1.44%) Confluent
8 3 (1.44%) Gigya
8 3 (1.44%) New Relic
9 2 (0.96%) Databricks
9 2 (0.96%) Marketo
9 2 (0.96%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.48%) Apple
10 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.48%) HP
10 1 (0.48%) HubSpot