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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 360 356
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -34
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 221 112 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.45% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 1.99% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 77 143
10th Percentile £204 £360 £325
25th Percentile £407 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.70
25th Percentile £70.63 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 7,763 5,622 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.45% 22.71% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 3,772 5,438
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £668
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 85 206
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £78.70 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.62%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +22 140 £638 +6.25% 27
South East -33 26 £208 -49.27% 37
North of England -42 23 £575 +69.12% 30
North West -17 20 £550 +61.76% 10
Midlands -51 18 £700 +53.85% 16
South West -21 10 £700 +14.75% 19
West Midlands -53 10 £700 +53.85% 9
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 7
East of England -30 2 £675 +35.00% 22
North East - 2 £600 - 4
Yorkshire -56 1 £575 - 16
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 4 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.81%) CMS
1 4 (1.81%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.89%) AWS
2 42 (19.00%) Azure
3 41 (18.55%) Serverless
4 39 (17.65%) GitHub
5 37 (16.74%) SaaS
6 36 (16.29%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (10.86%) GCP
9 15 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.43%) Sauce Labs
11 11 (4.98%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.98%) Datadog
12 9 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.71%) Figma
14 5 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.26%) Azure Functions
15 4 (1.81%) Azure API Management
15 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.07%) Wireless
2 4 (1.81%) HTTP
3 3 (1.36%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.36%) SSL
4 2 (0.90%) DSL
5 1 (0.45%) NaaS
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.86%) Relational Database
3 22 (9.95%) MySQL
4 13 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.98%) Redis
6 10 (4.52%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.45%) Flink
11 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 41 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.50%) Git
3 14 (6.33%) Android Studio
4 13 (5.88%) Gradle
4 13 (5.88%) Xcode
5 12 (5.43%) Browser DevTools
5 12 (5.43%) Eclipse
5 12 (5.43%) GitLab
6 6 (2.71%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.26%) Mocha
8 4 (1.81%) fastlane
8 4 (1.81%) JIRA
8 4 (1.81%) Maven
9 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.36%) JUnit
9 3 (1.36%) Mockito
9 3 (1.36%) webpack
10 2 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (20.36%) Finance
2 43 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.29%) Front Office
4 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.07%) Banking
7 4 (1.81%) Billing
7 4 (1.81%) Games
7 4 (1.81%) Retail
8 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (46.61%) Developer
2 50 (22.62%) Senior
3 44 (19.91%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.84%) Lead
5 32 (14.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (12.67%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.41%) Python Developer
8 21 (9.50%) Lead Software Developer
9 20 (9.05%) Backend Developer
9 20 (9.05%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 17 (7.69%) Java Engineer
11 15 (6.79%) Senior Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 15 (6.79%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 15 (6.79%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 15 (6.79%) Technical Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (42.08%) Node.js
2 91 (41.18%) React
3 81 (36.65%) REST
4 45 (20.36%) Redux
5 44 (19.91%) Kafka
6 31 (14.03%) Playwright
7 25 (11.31%) Vitest
8 24 (10.86%) RESTful
9 23 (10.41%) AngularJS
10 21 (9.50%) OAuth
11 19 (8.60%) CSS
12 16 (7.24%) gRPC
12 16 (7.24%) YAML
13 15 (6.79%) Django
13 15 (6.79%) Jest
13 15 (6.79%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (6.33%) Ajax
14 14 (6.33%) WebSockets
15 13 (5.88%) Next.js
15 13 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.79%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.48%) Fixed Income
3 22 (9.95%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.45%) Animation
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.45%) Replication
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.05%) Android
1 20 (9.05%) Linux
2 12 (5.43%) Unix
2 12 (5.43%) Windows
3 6 (2.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (45.70%) CI/CD
2 99 (44.80%) Agile
3 70 (31.67%) Software Engineering
4 66 (29.86%) DevOps
5 61 (27.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (19.91%) Containerisation
7 43 (19.46%) Mentoring
8 42 (19.00%) Microservices
9 37 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.29%) Test Automation
10 36 (16.29%) User Experience
11 33 (14.93%) E-Commerce
12 32 (14.48%) Code Quality
12 32 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (14.48%) Investment Management
12 32 (14.48%) Order Management
12 32 (14.48%) Portfolio Management
13 29 (13.12%) Observability
14 27 (12.22%) API Design
15 25 (11.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.51%) TypeScript
2 91 (41.18%) Java
3 89 (40.27%) Python
4 74 (33.48%) JavaScript
5 50 (22.62%) Go
6 29 (13.12%) SQL
7 12 (5.43%) Perl
8 11 (4.98%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.62%) C#
9 8 (3.62%) PHP
10 5 (2.26%) Bash
10 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.81%) Swift
12 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.90%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) Cypher
14 1 (0.45%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.45%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.90%) Degree
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.98%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.07%) GDPR
3 5 (2.26%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.81%) WCAG
5 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (32.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (28.51%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.67%) Grafana
3 21 (9.50%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.33%) Terraform
5 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 31 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.33%) Oracle
3 12 (5.43%) Splunk
4 10 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.62%) Adobe
6 4 (1.81%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.81%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.36%) Databricks
7 3 (1.36%) Google
7 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.90%) Marketo
8 2 (0.90%) New Relic
8 2 (0.90%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.45%) Apple
9 1 (0.45%) BT
9 1 (0.45%) Ciena
9 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.45%) Netlify