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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 305 323
Rank change year-on-year -113 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 212 200 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 2.92% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 148
10th Percentile £385 £312 £361
25th Percentile £471 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £509 £535
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -4.95% -10.83%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £808 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.54% -8.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £65.00 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% +10.00% -

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 9,820 6,845 8,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.80% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,713 5,613
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 162 213
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.88 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%

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 20 August 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
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 20 August 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 -69 144 £600 +4.35% 105
South East -54 29 £460 +62.69% 16
North of England -61 14 £588 +22.08% 17
South West - 10 £575 - 8
Midlands -59 9 £700 +84.21% 7
Yorkshire -38 7 £575 - 3
North West -43 7 £650 +35.06% 11
West Midlands -56 6 £700 +51.35% 3
East Midlands -19 3 - - 4
East of England - 3 £345 - 7
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 8 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.36%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) WordPress
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Luigi
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 113 (53.30%) AWS
2 62 (29.25%) Azure
3 50 (23.58%) Serverless
4 41 (19.34%) GCP
5 34 (16.04%) GitHub
6 31 (14.62%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.02%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.55%) SaaS
10 11 (5.19%) Boomi
11 10 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.25%) Datadog
13 8 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.30%) Entra ID
14 7 (3.30%) iPaaS
15 6 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) NaaS
2 2 (0.94%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.13%) MySQL
3 13 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.66%) Redis
5 9 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.25%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.77%) Metadata
7 7 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.83%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.89%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.42%) Stardog
11 3 (1.42%) TigerGraph
11 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (11.79%) Git
2 24 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.02%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.66%) Vite
5 5 (2.36%) GitLab
5 5 (2.36%) JSUnit
6 3 (1.42%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.42%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.42%) Gradle
6 3 (1.42%) webpack
6 3 (1.42%) Xcode
7 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.94%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.94%) JIRA
7 2 (0.94%) JUnit
7 2 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.94%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.94%) Storybook
General
1 38 (17.92%) Finance
2 37 (17.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.43%) Front Office
5 8 (3.77%) Retail
6 7 (3.30%) Banking
7 6 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.89%) Games
10 3 (1.42%) Back Office
10 3 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Billing
11 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing
11 2 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (40.09%) Developer
2 40 (18.87%) Senior
3 29 (13.68%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.26%) Architect
5 23 (10.85%) Lead
6 20 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (8.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 16 (7.55%) React Developer
10 15 (7.08%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.60%) Lead Developer
12 13 (6.13%) Backend Developer
13 11 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Lead Software Developer
15 9 (4.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 9 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.25%) Senior Backend Developer
15 9 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (44.34%) REST
2 82 (38.68%) React
3 62 (29.25%) Node.js
4 59 (27.83%) Kafka
5 32 (15.09%) RESTful
6 30 (14.15%) Next.js
7 27 (12.74%) OAuth
8 24 (11.32%) CSS
8 24 (11.32%) Redux
9 19 (8.96%) Spring
9 19 (8.96%) Terraform
10 18 (8.49%) HTML
10 18 (8.49%) OAuth2
10 18 (8.49%) Playwright
11 17 (8.02%) JWT
11 17 (8.02%) SOAP
12 16 (7.55%) gRPC
13 15 (7.08%) AngularJS
13 15 (7.08%) JSON
14 14 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 35 (16.51%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.02%) Fixed Income
4 13 (6.13%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.77%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.77%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.89%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.89%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.19%) Android
2 7 (3.30%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.36%) Linux
4 3 (1.42%) Unix
4 3 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (43.87%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.79%) Agile
3 61 (28.77%) Microservices
4 54 (25.47%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (21.23%) DevOps
7 43 (20.28%) Event-Driven
8 37 (17.45%) User Experience
9 35 (16.51%) E-Commerce
10 34 (16.04%) AI
11 31 (14.62%) API Design
11 31 (14.62%) Test Automation
12 29 (13.68%) Observability
12 29 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (13.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 27 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (12.74%) TDD
15 26 (12.26%) Code Quality
15 26 (12.26%) Mentoring
16 24 (11.32%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 110 (51.89%) TypeScript
2 66 (31.13%) Java
3 63 (29.72%) Python
4 53 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.98%) SQL
6 32 (15.09%) Go
7 14 (6.60%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.77%) C#
9 7 (3.30%) Scala
10 6 (2.83%) Swift
11 5 (2.36%) Bash
11 5 (2.36%) Cypher
11 5 (2.36%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.89%) Ruby
12 4 (1.89%) Rust
13 3 (1.42%) Bicep
13 3 (1.42%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.42%) Perl
13 3 (1.42%) PHP
13 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.08%) Degree
2 14 (6.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) QA
2 13 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.30%) WCAG
4 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.89%) GDPR
6 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) PSD2
8 1 (0.47%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (20.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.60%) Grafana
2 14 (6.60%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.94%) Ansible
4 2 (0.94%) Istio
4 2 (0.94%) linkerd
4 2 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.60%) Oracle
3 13 (6.13%) Google
4 10 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.83%) IBM
6 6 (2.83%) Informatica
6 6 (2.83%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.83%) WSO2
7 5 (2.36%) SAP
8 4 (1.89%) Confluent
8 4 (1.89%) Workday
9 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.42%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.94%) Ciena
10 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) New Relic
10 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow