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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 355 345
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 -47
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 208 123 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.66% 2.29% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 82 155
10th Percentile £306 £363 £325
25th Percentile £434 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £600
90th Percentile - £700 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -15.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £64.35 - £56.20
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,812 5,375 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.29% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,180 3,720 5,298
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 99 226
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -22 130 £700 +19.66% 46
North of England -43 29 £575 +38.06% 10
North West -17 25 £600 +44.06% 6
South East -51 19 £352 -20.00% 12
Midlands -51 11 £700 +66.67% 10
South West -24 9 £700 +14.75% 4
East Midlands -25 6 £498 +18.57% 8
West Midlands -52 5 £700 +60.00% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 1
East of England -32 3 £675 +35.00%
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 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.48%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.04%) AWS
2 40 (19.23%) Azure
3 31 (14.90%) GCP
4 29 (13.94%) Serverless
5 25 (12.02%) GitHub
6 23 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (11.06%) SaaS
7 18 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.73%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.81%) Datadog
10 9 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.88%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.40%) Figma
14 4 (1.92%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) DSL
2 3 (1.44%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.96%) NaaS
3 2 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.06%) Relational Database
3 17 (8.17%) MySQL
4 11 (5.29%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.33%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.85%) Redis
8 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.44%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.44%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.96%) Flink
11 2 (0.96%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.96%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.96%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.58%) Git
3 12 (5.77%) Gradle
4 11 (5.29%) GitLab
5 9 (4.33%) Vite
6 7 (3.37%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.37%) Xcode
7 6 (2.88%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (2.88%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.40%) fastlane
9 4 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.92%) Maven
10 3 (1.44%) webpack
11 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.96%) JIRA
11 2 (0.96%) Mocha
11 2 (0.96%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.96%) Selenium
11 2 (0.96%) XCTest
General
1 48 (23.08%) Finance
2 38 (18.27%) Front Office
3 22 (10.58%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.37%) Banking
7 6 (2.88%) Games
7 6 (2.88%) Retail
8 3 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Billing
8 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Aviation
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (44.71%) Developer
2 47 (22.60%) Software Engineer
3 46 (22.12%) Senior
4 35 (16.83%) Lead
5 32 (15.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.50%) Lead Developer
7 21 (10.10%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (9.13%) React Developer
10 18 (8.65%) Java Engineer
11 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (7.69%) Python Developer
13 13 (6.25%) Architect
14 11 (5.29%) Backend Developer
14 11 (5.29%) Java Developer
14 11 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (4.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 10 (4.81%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 10 (4.81%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (46.15%) React
2 84 (40.38%) REST
3 77 (37.02%) Node.js
4 50 (24.04%) Kafka
5 44 (21.15%) Redux
6 23 (11.06%) RESTful
7 21 (10.10%) Playwright
8 19 (9.13%) Next.js
8 19 (9.13%) Spring
9 17 (8.17%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.69%) Django
11 15 (7.21%) CSS
12 14 (6.73%) OAuth
12 14 (6.73%) Vitest
12 14 (6.73%) Vue
13 13 (6.25%) Jest
13 13 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (5.29%) HTML
15 10 (4.81%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.87%) Fixed Income
3 17 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.73%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.48%) CMDB
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.48%) Life Science
9 1 (0.48%) LIMS
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.69%) Android
1 16 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.88%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 79 (37.98%) Agile
3 74 (35.58%) Software Engineering
4 58 (27.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (23.08%) DevOps
6 39 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 36 (17.31%) User Experience
8 35 (16.83%) Containerisation
8 35 (16.83%) Microservices
9 33 (15.87%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.38%) Observability
10 32 (15.38%) Order Management
10 32 (15.38%) Portfolio Management
11 29 (13.94%) Mentoring
12 28 (13.46%) Code Quality
12 28 (13.46%) Test Automation
13 25 (12.02%) API Design
14 24 (11.54%) Event-Driven
14 24 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 81 (38.94%) Java
3 80 (38.46%) Python
4 65 (31.25%) JavaScript
5 44 (21.15%) Go
6 22 (10.58%) SQL
7 12 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.88%) Perl
8 6 (2.88%) Swift
9 5 (2.40%) C#
10 4 (1.92%) Bash
10 4 (1.92%) Scala
11 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.44%) PHP
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
12 2 (0.96%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.96%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.48%) Cypher
13 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 11 (5.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.88%) Degree
4 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.73%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.37%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) WCAG
4 4 (1.92%) GDPR
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.48%) ITGC
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (27.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (21.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.58%) Grafana
3 18 (8.65%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.25%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Puppet
5 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
6 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.88%) Oracle
2 6 (2.88%) Splunk
3 4 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.44%) New Relic
4 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) Adobe
5 2 (0.96%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.96%) Ciena
5 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.96%) Netlify
5 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) Braze
6 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.48%) Confluent
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.48%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.48%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) SnapLogic