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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 356 359
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -49
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 216 120 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 2.09% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 79 140
10th Percentile £204 £361 £325
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £709 £688 £666
90th Percentile £800 £700 £712
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - £53.40
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £69.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £71.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 7,646 5,743 7,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.68% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,129 3,784 5,482
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £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 £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 79 211
10th Percentile £35.08 £26.98 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £40.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £81.23 £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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +1 135 £625 +5.49% 57
South East -26 26 £208 -49.27% 37
North of England -41 24 £575 +69.12% 33
North West -18 20 £550 +61.76% 20
Midlands -44 16 £650 +42.86% 20
South West -17 9 £700 +14.75% 14
West Midlands -45 9 £700 +53.85% 8
East Midlands - 7 £421 - 12
East of England -26 2 £675 +35.00% 20
Yorkshire -60 2 £585 - 8
North East - 2 £600 - 5
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 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.85%) CMS
1 4 (1.85%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.39%) Apache
2 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 89 (41.20%) AWS
2 42 (19.44%) SaaS
3 40 (18.52%) Azure
4 38 (17.59%) Serverless
5 35 (16.20%) GitHub
6 32 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (10.19%) GCP
9 14 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (6.02%) Sauce Labs
11 11 (5.09%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.17%) Datadog
13 8 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.24%) Figma
15 6 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.31%) Azure Functions
17 4 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
17 4 (1.85%) Entra ID
17 4 (1.85%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.63%) Wireless
2 4 (1.85%) HTTP
3 3 (1.39%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.39%) SSL
4 2 (0.93%) DSL
5 1 (0.46%) NaaS
5 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (12.04%) Relational Database
3 25 (11.57%) MySQL
4 11 (5.09%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.17%) Redis
7 8 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.24%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.46%) Flink
12 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.46%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 42 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.72%) Git
3 15 (6.94%) Android Studio
4 14 (6.48%) Xcode
5 13 (6.02%) Browser DevTools
5 13 (6.02%) Eclipse
6 12 (5.56%) Gradle
7 11 (5.09%) GitLab
8 7 (3.24%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.31%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.31%) JIRA
9 5 (2.31%) Mocha
10 4 (1.85%) fastlane
10 4 (1.85%) Maven
10 4 (1.85%) webpack
11 3 (1.39%) JUnit
11 3 (1.39%) Mockito
12 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.93%) Selenium
12 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.59%) Finance
3 28 (12.96%) Front Office
4 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.63%) Banking
7 4 (1.85%) Billing
7 4 (1.85%) Games
7 4 (1.85%) Retail
8 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (43.98%) Developer
2 50 (23.15%) Senior
3 36 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 32 (14.81%) Lead
5 25 (11.57%) Lead Developer
6 24 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 20 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (9.26%) Python Developer
8 19 (8.80%) Backend Developer
8 19 (8.80%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 17 (7.87%) Consultant
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Consultant
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 17 (7.87%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 17 (7.87%) Technical Consultant
9 17 (7.87%) Technical Specialist
10 16 (7.41%) Lead Software Developer
11 15 (6.94%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (40.28%) Node.js
1 87 (40.28%) React
2 77 (35.65%) REST
3 38 (17.59%) Redux
4 36 (16.67%) Kafka
5 33 (15.28%) Playwright
6 27 (12.50%) Vitest
7 22 (10.19%) AngularJS
8 21 (9.72%) CSS
8 21 (9.72%) RESTful
9 20 (9.26%) OAuth
10 17 (7.87%) Jest
11 16 (7.41%) YAML
12 15 (6.94%) Ajax
13 14 (6.48%) Django
13 14 (6.48%) gRPC
13 14 (6.48%) Next.js
14 13 (6.02%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (6.02%) WebSockets
15 12 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 22 (10.19%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Animation
9 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.72%) Android
1 21 (9.72%) Linux
2 13 (6.02%) Unix
2 13 (6.02%) Windows
3 6 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (46.76%) CI/CD
2 94 (43.52%) Agile
3 65 (30.09%) DevOps
4 62 (28.70%) Software Engineering
5 55 (25.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (21.30%) Containerisation
7 43 (19.91%) Mentoring
8 42 (19.44%) Microservices
9 38 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.59%) User Experience
10 37 (17.13%) Test Automation
11 36 (16.67%) E-Commerce
12 32 (14.81%) Code Quality
13 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (13.43%) Observability
15 28 (12.96%) API Design
16 27 (12.50%) Coaching
17 24 (11.11%) Investment Management
17 24 (11.11%) Order Management
17 24 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (46.30%) TypeScript
2 83 (38.43%) Java
2 83 (38.43%) Python
3 70 (32.41%) JavaScript
4 42 (19.44%) Go
5 28 (12.96%) SQL
6 13 (6.02%) Perl
7 10 (4.63%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.17%) C#
9 8 (3.70%) PHP
10 5 (2.31%) Bash
10 5 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.85%) Swift
12 3 (1.39%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.46%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Rust
13 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.39%) Degree
5 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.17%) GDPR
3 6 (2.78%) QA
4 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.85%) WCAG
5 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.04%) Grafana
3 19 (8.80%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.56%) Terraform
5 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.41%) Oracle
3 14 (6.48%) Splunk
4 11 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.70%) Adobe
6 5 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.39%) Databricks
8 3 (1.39%) New Relic
8 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.93%) Marketo
9 2 (0.93%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.46%) Apple
10 1 (0.46%) Ciena
10 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.46%) Netlify