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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 301 330
Rank change year-on-year -131 +29 0
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 200 221 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.79% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.03% 3.17% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 160 149
10th Percentile £399 £306 £369
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £503 £535
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -6.07% -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £600
90th Percentile £750 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile - - £54.75
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -13.93%

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 9,865 6,963 8,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.03% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,764 5,521
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.56 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%

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 11 September 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
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 11 September 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 -90 133 £588 +2.17% 111
South East -57 29 £460 +68.34% 18
North of England -73 17 £588 +22.08% 21
North West -46 9 £650 +36.84% 17
Yorkshire -37 7 £575 -3.44% 4
South West -42 7 £425 -34.62% 10
West Midlands -55 3 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands -61 3 £575 +36.90% 5
East of England - 3 £345 - 5
North East - 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 8 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.50%) Apache
2 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.00%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 103 (51.50%) AWS
2 72 (36.00%) Azure
3 52 (26.00%) Serverless
4 39 (19.50%) GCP
5 35 (17.50%) GitHub
6 29 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (9.50%) Amazon S3
9 18 (9.00%) SaaS
10 13 (6.50%) Boomi
11 11 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.50%) iPaaS
14 8 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.50%) Figma
15 7 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
2 1 (0.50%) NaaS
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.50%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (13.50%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.50%) MySQL
4 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.00%) Redis
8 9 (4.50%) Metadata
9 8 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (4.00%) DynamoDB
10 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.00%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.50%) Pinecone
11 5 (2.50%) Weaviate
12 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.50%) Stardog
13 3 (1.50%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 31 (15.50%) Git
2 23 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.50%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.00%) Vite
5 6 (3.00%) GitLab
6 5 (2.50%) JSUnit
7 4 (2.00%) JUnit
8 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.50%) Gradle
8 3 (1.50%) Maven
8 3 (1.50%) Postman
8 3 (1.50%) webpack
8 3 (1.50%) Xcode
9 2 (1.00%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.00%) Finance
3 25 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.00%) Retail
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Banking
6 5 (2.50%) Front Office
6 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.00%) Games
7 4 (2.00%) Marketing
7 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Back Office
8 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Aviation
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (35.00%) Developer
2 42 (21.00%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Architect
4 21 (10.50%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.00%) Lead
8 12 (6.00%) React Developer
9 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.50%) Backend Developer
11 9 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Azure Developer
12 8 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 6 (3.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (51.50%) REST
2 77 (38.50%) React
3 48 (24.00%) Node.js
4 47 (23.50%) Kafka
5 36 (18.00%) OAuth
6 32 (16.00%) CSS
7 31 (15.50%) Next.js
8 27 (13.50%) RESTful
9 26 (13.00%) HTML
10 25 (12.50%) OAuth2
11 20 (10.00%) AngularJS
12 18 (9.00%) CSS3
12 18 (9.00%) HTML5
12 18 (9.00%) JWT
12 18 (9.00%) Spring
13 17 (8.50%) JSON
13 17 (8.50%) SOAP
13 17 (8.50%) Terraform
14 16 (8.00%) Middleware
14 16 (8.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.50%) Product Ownership
4 14 (7.00%) AI Agents
5 12 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.00%) Sports Betting
7 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.50%) Life Science
8 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.50%) Android
2 7 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.00%) Linux
4 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.50%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.00%) Agile
3 63 (31.50%) Microservices
4 54 (27.00%) Event-Driven
5 45 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (21.50%) DevOps
7 40 (20.00%) AI
8 39 (19.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 39 (19.50%) User Experience
9 37 (18.50%) Software Engineering
10 33 (16.50%) API Design
11 32 (16.00%) E-Commerce
12 31 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (14.50%) Test Automation
14 28 (14.00%) Observability
15 27 (13.50%) API Integration
16 26 (13.00%) Integration Patterns
17 25 (12.50%) Data Modelling
17 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 25 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.50%) TypeScript
2 59 (29.50%) Java
3 57 (28.50%) Python
4 48 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 41 (20.50%) SQL
6 14 (7.00%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.50%) Go
8 9 (4.50%) Scala
9 8 (4.00%) C#
10 6 (3.00%) Ruby
10 6 (3.00%) Rust
10 6 (3.00%) Swift
11 5 (2.50%) Bash
11 5 (2.50%) Cypher
12 4 (2.00%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.50%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.50%) Perl
13 3 (1.50%) PHP
13 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 16 (8.00%) Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.50%) QA
2 14 (7.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.00%) WCAG
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 2 (1.00%) PSD2
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (18.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.50%) Grafana
2 9 (4.50%) Prometheus
3 7 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Oracle
3 16 (8.00%) Google
4 9 (4.50%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.00%) Databricks
5 8 (4.00%) IBM
5 8 (4.00%) Informatica
5 8 (4.00%) TIBCO
5 8 (4.00%) WSO2
6 7 (3.50%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.00%) Confluent
7 4 (2.00%) SAP
7 4 (2.00%) Workday
8 3 (1.50%) Splunk
9 2 (1.00%) Adobe
9 2 (1.00%) New Relic
10 1 (0.50%) Amdocs
10 1 (0.50%) Ciena
10 1 (0.50%) Sage