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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 359 363
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -59
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 221 125 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.49% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.87% 2.14% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 81 141
10th Percentile £204 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -14.16%
75th Percentile £703 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £700 £711
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - £53.40
25th Percentile £70.63 £51.25 £58.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -21.64% -4.29%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £69.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £71.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -21.64% -4.29%

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 7,709 5,840 7,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.75% 22.72% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,835 5,455
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £426 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.10% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 81 209
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.11 £21.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.01 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +4 139 £625 +5.49% 44
South East -25 26 £208 -49.27% 7
North of England -45 24 £575 +69.12% 11
North West -12 20 £550 +61.76% 8
Midlands -37 17 £650 +42.86% 4
South West -20 10 £675 +10.66% 1
West Midlands -39 10 £675 +48.35% 1
East Midlands - 7 £421 - 3
East of England -28 2 £675 +35.00% 3
Yorkshire -64 2 £585 - 1
North East - 2 £600 - 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 4 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.81%) CMS
1 4 (1.81%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.36%) Apache
2 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 90 (40.72%) AWS
2 45 (20.36%) SaaS
3 41 (18.55%) Azure
4 40 (18.10%) Serverless
5 38 (17.19%) GitHub
6 34 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (9.95%) GCP
9 15 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
11 12 (5.43%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (3.62%) Datadog
14 7 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.17%) Figma
15 5 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.26%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.26%) Entra ID
15 5 (2.26%) Firebase
16 4 (1.81%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.52%) 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 29 (13.12%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 25 (11.31%) MySQL
4 11 (4.98%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.52%) Redis
6 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
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
Development Applications
1 44 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.50%) Git
3 15 (6.79%) Android Studio
4 14 (6.33%) Xcode
5 13 (5.88%) Browser DevTools
5 13 (5.88%) Eclipse
5 13 (5.88%) Gradle
6 11 (4.98%) GitLab
7 8 (3.62%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.71%) JIRA
9 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.26%) Mocha
10 4 (1.81%) fastlane
10 4 (1.81%) JUnit
10 4 (1.81%) Maven
10 4 (1.81%) Mockito
10 4 (1.81%) webpack
11 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.10%) Finance
3 28 (12.67%) Front Office
4 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.52%) 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 95 (42.99%) Developer
2 50 (22.62%) Senior
3 36 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.48%) Lead
5 25 (11.31%) Lead Developer
6 24 (10.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 22 (9.95%) Python Developer
8 20 (9.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 20 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (8.60%) Backend Developer
10 17 (7.69%) Consultant
10 17 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 17 (7.69%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 17 (7.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 17 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
11 16 (7.24%) Lead Software Developer
12 15 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (40.72%) React
2 88 (39.82%) Node.js
3 81 (36.65%) REST
4 40 (18.10%) Redux
5 37 (16.74%) Kafka
6 34 (15.38%) Playwright
7 28 (12.67%) Vitest
8 22 (9.95%) AngularJS
8 22 (9.95%) CSS
8 22 (9.95%) OAuth
9 20 (9.05%) RESTful
10 17 (7.69%) Jest
10 17 (7.69%) YAML
11 16 (7.24%) Next.js
12 15 (6.79%) Ajax
12 15 (6.79%) gRPC
12 15 (6.79%) WebSockets
13 14 (6.33%) Django
14 13 (5.88%) Spring
14 13 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.86%) Fixed Income
3 22 (9.95%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.50%) Android
1 21 (9.50%) Linux
2 13 (5.88%) Unix
2 13 (5.88%) Windows
3 6 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (47.51%) CI/CD
2 97 (43.89%) Agile
3 68 (30.77%) DevOps
4 64 (28.96%) Software Engineering
5 56 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (21.27%) Containerisation
7 43 (19.46%) Mentoring
7 43 (19.46%) Microservices
8 39 (17.65%) User Experience
9 38 (17.19%) E-Commerce
9 38 (17.19%) Test Automation
10 37 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.48%) Code Quality
11 32 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (13.57%) Observability
13 29 (13.12%) API Design
14 28 (12.67%) Coaching
15 24 (10.86%) AI
15 24 (10.86%) Investment Management
15 24 (10.86%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (46.61%) TypeScript
2 85 (38.46%) Python
3 84 (38.01%) Java
4 71 (32.13%) JavaScript
5 43 (19.46%) Go
6 29 (13.12%) SQL
7 13 (5.88%) Perl
8 10 (4.52%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.07%) C#
10 8 (3.62%) PHP
11 5 (2.26%) Bash
11 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.81%) Swift
13 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) Cypher
14 1 (0.45%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) Rust
14 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (9.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.36%) Degree
5 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.52%) GDPR
3 6 (2.71%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.81%) WCAG
5 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (33.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.76%) Grafana
3 19 (8.60%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.33%) Terraform
5 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.24%) Oracle
3 14 (6.33%) Splunk
4 11 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.62%) Adobe
6 6 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.26%) Google
7 5 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.36%) Databricks
8 3 (1.36%) New Relic
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.90%) Marketo
9 2 (0.90%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.45%) Apple
10 1 (0.45%) Ciena
10 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.45%) Okta