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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 336 341
Rank change year-on-year -54 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 227 191 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.69% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 3.10% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 143 138
10th Percentile £400 £313 £361
25th Percentile £498 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £529
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -4.54% -11.83%
75th Percentile £751 £631 £600
90th Percentile £800 £820 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £65.75 - £45.00
25th Percentile £66.88 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £61.00
90th Percentile £77.25 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +31.82% - +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 8,465 6,169 7,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.59% 22.33% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,244 5,071
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £823
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 150 229
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £49.20 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.10 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%

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 6 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 6 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 -35 160 £611 +6.17% 112
South East -54 27 £460 +59.72% 9
North of England -73 15 £588 +22.08% 11
South West - 10 £575 - 8
Midlands -56 8 £700 +75.00% 5
North West -57 8 £650 +35.06% 6
Yorkshire -45 7 £575 - 4
East Midlands -8 4 £498 +31.05% 3
West Midlands -58 4 £700 +53.85% 2
East of England - 4 £510 - 2
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 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 132 (58.15%) AWS
2 58 (25.55%) Azure
3 51 (22.47%) Serverless
4 45 (19.82%) GCP
5 34 (14.98%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (14.10%) GitHub
7 22 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (7.93%) Amazon S3
9 17 (7.49%) SaaS
10 10 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (4.41%) Boomi
11 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.96%) Datadog
12 8 (3.52%) iPaaS
13 7 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.20%) Amazon Neptune
14 5 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.08%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) NaaS
2 2 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.44%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.37%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.85%) MySQL
5 10 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.96%) Redis
7 8 (3.52%) Metadata
8 7 (3.08%) Neo4j
9 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.76%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.32%) Stardog
12 3 (1.32%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 25 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.57%) Git
3 16 (7.05%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.29%) Vite
5 6 (2.64%) GitLab
6 5 (2.20%) JSUnit
7 4 (1.76%) webpack
8 3 (1.32%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) Gradle
8 3 (1.32%) Xcode
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) JIRA
9 2 (0.88%) JUnit
9 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.88%) Selenium
9 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 55 (24.23%) Finance
2 36 (15.86%) Front Office
3 30 (13.22%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.52%) Banking
5 8 (3.52%) Retail
6 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Games
9 3 (1.32%) Back Office
9 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 2 (0.88%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 100 (44.05%) Developer
2 46 (20.26%) Software Engineer
3 41 (18.06%) Senior
4 34 (14.98%) Lead
5 33 (14.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (11.89%) Architect
7 24 (10.57%) Lead Developer
8 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (9.25%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (8.81%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (8.81%) React Developer
10 20 (8.81%) Senior Developer
11 17 (7.49%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.17%) Backend Developer
13 12 (5.29%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 9 (3.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 9 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (42.29%) React
2 90 (39.65%) REST
3 81 (35.68%) Node.js
4 74 (32.60%) Kafka
5 42 (18.50%) Redux
6 31 (13.66%) RESTful
7 27 (11.89%) Next.js
8 21 (9.25%) CSS
8 21 (9.25%) OAuth
9 19 (8.37%) AngularJS
10 18 (7.93%) Playwright
11 17 (7.49%) HTML
12 16 (7.05%) Jest
12 16 (7.05%) SOAP
12 16 (7.05%) Spring
13 15 (6.61%) gRPC
13 15 (6.61%) Vue
14 14 (6.17%) Middleware
14 14 (6.17%) OAuth2
14 14 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.54%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (14.54%) Fixed Income
3 13 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.85%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.64%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.64%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.76%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.85%) Android
2 7 (3.08%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.20%) Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (39.65%) Agile
2 89 (39.21%) CI/CD
3 70 (30.84%) Software Engineering
4 62 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (24.23%) Microservices
6 44 (19.38%) Event-Driven
7 43 (18.94%) DevOps
8 37 (16.30%) E-Commerce
8 37 (16.30%) User Experience
9 36 (15.86%) Investment Management
10 32 (14.10%) API Design
10 32 (14.10%) Order Management
10 32 (14.10%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (13.66%) AI
11 31 (13.66%) Test Automation
12 28 (12.33%) Observability
12 28 (12.33%) TDD
13 27 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 26 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 125 (55.07%) TypeScript
2 80 (35.24%) Java
3 76 (33.48%) Python
4 68 (29.96%) JavaScript
5 49 (21.59%) Go
6 37 (16.30%) SQL
7 15 (6.61%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.08%) C#
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 6 (2.64%) Cypher
9 6 (2.64%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.64%) Swift
10 5 (2.20%) Bash
11 4 (1.76%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.32%) Bicep
12 3 (1.32%) Perl
12 3 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (1.32%) Ruby
12 3 (1.32%) Rust
12 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.17%) Degree
3 13 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.61%) Accessibility
1 15 (6.61%) QA
2 8 (3.52%) WCAG
3 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.20%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) ITGC
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (18.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.25%) Terraform
3 14 (6.17%) Grafana
3 14 (6.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.88%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.88%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Istio
5 2 (0.88%) linkerd
5 2 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.29%) Oracle
3 11 (4.85%) Google
4 9 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.08%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.20%) IBM
6 5 (2.20%) Informatica
6 5 (2.20%) TIBCO
6 5 (2.20%) WSO2
7 4 (1.76%) SAP
8 3 (1.32%) Splunk
8 3 (1.32%) Workday
9 2 (0.88%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.88%) Ciena
9 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.88%) Netlify
9 2 (0.88%) New Relic
9 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.44%) Confluent