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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 330 331
Rank change year-on-year -50 +1 -22
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 211 139 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.58% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 2.58% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 95 165
10th Percentile £331 £365 £325
25th Percentile £461 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £507
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +10.95% -15.50%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £600
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +10.05% +4.50% -15.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £64.35 - £56.20
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +1.67%

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 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -61 130 £700 +19.15% 57
North of England -56 26 £563 +35.05% 11
South East -50 25 £520 +22.35% 10
North West -19 22 £563 +35.05% 9
Midlands -48 10 £700 +66.67% 6
South West - 10 £700 - 4
East Midlands -23 5 £498 +18.57% 3
West Midlands -54 5 £700 +60.00% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £538 -
East of England -28 3 £675 +35.00% 1
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 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 112 (53.08%) AWS
2 41 (19.43%) Azure
2 41 (19.43%) Serverless
3 35 (16.59%) GitHub
4 31 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (14.22%) GCP
6 27 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.53%) Amazon S3
8 16 (7.58%) SaaS
9 11 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.21%) Datadog
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.84%) Figma
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.37%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DSL
2 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.95%) NaaS
3 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.95%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.58%) MySQL
4 14 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.69%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.79%) Redis
8 5 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.42%) Metadata
10 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.95%) Flink
11 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.43%) Git
2 20 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.69%) Gradle
4 11 (5.21%) GitLab
5 9 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.27%) Vite
6 6 (2.84%) Android Studio
6 6 (2.84%) Xcode
7 5 (2.37%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (2.37%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.37%) fastlane
8 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.90%) Maven
9 3 (1.42%) Selenium
9 3 (1.42%) webpack
10 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.95%) JIRA
10 2 (0.95%) Mocha
10 2 (0.95%) Robot Framework
General
1 49 (23.22%) Finance
2 37 (17.54%) Front Office
3 23 (10.90%) Social Skills
4 16 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.32%) Banking
6 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Back Office
8 3 (1.42%) Games
8 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.95%) Billing
9 2 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing
9 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (45.50%) Developer
2 49 (23.22%) Software Engineer
3 40 (18.96%) Senior
4 35 (16.59%) Lead
5 32 (15.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.32%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.95%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (9.00%) Java Engineer
10 18 (8.53%) React Developer
11 17 (8.06%) Architect
11 17 (8.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (7.11%) Java Developer
12 15 (7.11%) Python Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (6.16%) Backend Developer
15 12 (5.69%) Senior Developer
16 11 (5.21%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (4.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 8 (3.79%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (42.18%) React
2 82 (38.86%) REST
3 67 (31.75%) Node.js
4 58 (27.49%) Kafka
5 41 (19.43%) Redux
6 28 (13.27%) RESTful
7 20 (9.48%) Spring
8 17 (8.06%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.58%) OAuth
10 15 (7.11%) AngularJS
10 15 (7.11%) Django
10 15 (7.11%) Next.js
10 15 (7.11%) Playwright
10 15 (7.11%) Vue
11 13 (6.16%) CSS
11 13 (6.16%) Jest
12 11 (5.21%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.74%) HTML
14 9 (4.27%) FastAPI
14 9 (4.27%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.64%) Fixed Income
3 24 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.21%) Mobile App
6 9 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) LIMS
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Android
2 15 (7.11%) Linux
3 9 (4.27%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.37%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.86%) CI/CD
2 73 (34.60%) Agile
2 73 (34.60%) Software Engineering
3 51 (24.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (21.33%) DevOps
5 41 (19.43%) Microservices
6 36 (17.06%) Investment Management
7 34 (16.11%) E-Commerce
7 34 (16.11%) User Experience
8 33 (15.64%) Observability
9 32 (15.17%) Order Management
9 32 (15.17%) Portfolio Management
9 32 (15.17%) Test Automation
10 31 (14.69%) Event-Driven
11 30 (14.22%) Containerisation
12 27 (12.80%) Code Quality
13 25 (11.85%) API Design
13 25 (11.85%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.90%) AI
15 21 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 100 (47.39%) TypeScript
2 91 (43.13%) Java
3 80 (37.91%) Python
4 61 (28.91%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.85%) Go
6 24 (11.37%) SQL
7 14 (6.64%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.79%) Swift
9 5 (2.37%) Perl
10 4 (1.90%) C#
10 4 (1.90%) Scala
11 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.95%) Bash
12 2 (0.95%) Bicep
12 2 (0.95%) C++
12 2 (0.95%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.47%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (5.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.27%) Degree
4 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.21%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.21%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) WCAG
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
4 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (22.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.95%) Grafana
3 17 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.64%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.95%) Ansible
5 2 (0.95%) Puppet
5 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle
2 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
2 5 (2.37%) Splunk
3 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.42%) New Relic
5 2 (0.95%) Adobe
5 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.95%) Ciena
5 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.95%) Netlify
5 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.47%) Braze
6 1 (0.47%) BT
6 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.47%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) SnapLogic