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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 376 351
Rank change year-on-year 0 -25 -48
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 211 112 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 2.04% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 74 148
10th Percentile £290 £363 £325
25th Percentile £424 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -3.57% -11.76%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £61.00 - £56.20
25th Percentile £67.50 - £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 - - -12.86%

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 7,965 5,484 7,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.29% 22.47% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,806 5,331
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 89 176
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.82
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -10 128 £675 +17.39% 27
North of England -48 29 £575 +56.89% 15
North West -15 25 £600 +63.71% 10
South East -43 23 £413 +0.86% 14
Midlands -57 12 £700 +60.00% 1
South West -21 8 £700 +13.36% 3
East Midlands - 7 £444 - 1
West Midlands -55 5 £700 +60.00%
Yorkshire -52 4 £538 - 2
East of England -33 3 £675 +35.00% 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 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.92%) AWS
2 38 (18.01%) Azure
3 34 (16.11%) Serverless
4 30 (14.22%) SaaS
5 29 (13.74%) GitHub
6 28 (13.27%) GCP
7 27 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.16%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.21%) Datadog
11 10 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.32%) Figma
13 6 (2.84%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.84%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.90%) Azure API Management
15 4 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DSL
2 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.42%) SSL
2 3 (1.42%) Wireless
3 2 (0.95%) NaaS
3 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.85%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.48%) MySQL
4 12 (5.69%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.27%) Redis
7 6 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.95%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.95%) Flink
11 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 37 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.43%) Git
3 13 (6.16%) Gradle
4 12 (5.69%) GitLab
5 8 (3.79%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.32%) Xcode
7 6 (2.84%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (2.84%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.84%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.37%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.37%) fastlane
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) Maven
9 3 (1.42%) Mocha
9 3 (1.42%) Vite
10 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.95%) JUnit
10 2 (0.95%) Mockito
10 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.95%) XCTest
General
1 46 (21.80%) Finance
2 38 (18.01%) Front Office
3 29 (13.74%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Banking
6 5 (2.37%) Billing
6 5 (2.37%) Games
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Aviation
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (45.02%) Developer
2 48 (22.75%) Senior
3 46 (21.80%) Software Engineer
4 40 (18.96%) Lead
5 32 (15.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.27%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.95%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (8.53%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Java Engineer
11 16 (7.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (7.11%) React Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Consultant
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 14 (6.64%) Technical Consultant
13 14 (6.64%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (42.18%) React
2 88 (41.71%) REST
3 85 (40.28%) Node.js
4 47 (22.27%) Kafka
5 44 (20.85%) Redux
6 29 (13.74%) Playwright
7 22 (10.43%) RESTful
7 22 (10.43%) Vitest
8 19 (9.00%) OAuth
9 16 (7.58%) Spring
10 15 (7.11%) AngularJS
10 15 (7.11%) CSS
10 15 (7.11%) Django
10 15 (7.11%) Next.js
10 15 (7.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (7.11%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.64%) YAML
12 13 (6.16%) Jest
12 13 (6.16%) Vue
13 10 (4.74%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.17%) Fixed Income
3 15 (7.11%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) Animation
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.64%) Linux
2 13 (6.16%) Android
3 6 (2.84%) Unix
3 6 (2.84%) Windows
4 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (44.08%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.23%) Agile
3 73 (34.60%) Software Engineering
4 61 (28.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (26.07%) DevOps
6 39 (18.48%) Mentoring
7 35 (16.59%) Containerisation
7 35 (16.59%) E-Commerce
7 35 (16.59%) Test Automation
8 34 (16.11%) Observability
8 34 (16.11%) User Experience
9 33 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (15.17%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.17%) Microservices
10 32 (15.17%) Order Management
10 32 (15.17%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (14.69%) Code Quality
12 27 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.85%) API Design
14 24 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 104 (49.29%) TypeScript
2 84 (39.81%) Python
3 83 (39.34%) Java
4 63 (29.86%) JavaScript
5 43 (20.38%) Go
6 21 (9.95%) SQL
7 10 (4.74%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.79%) C#
8 8 (3.79%) PHP
9 6 (2.84%) Perl
10 5 (2.37%) Bash
10 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.90%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.90%) Swift
12 2 (0.95%) C++
12 2 (0.95%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.47%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (6.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.84%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) WCAG
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.90%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (29.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 52 (24.64%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.90%) Grafana
3 18 (8.53%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.64%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.84%) Oracle
2 6 (2.84%) Splunk
3 5 (2.37%) Adobe
3 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.42%) New Relic
5 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
6 2 (0.95%) Ciena
6 2 (0.95%) Netlify
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) BT
7 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.47%) Confluent
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.47%) Marketo
7 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.47%) Optimizely