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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 350 354
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -42
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 233 174 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.39% 2.55% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 119 180
10th Percentile £204 £374 £363
25th Percentile £380 £409 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £650
90th Percentile £793 £690 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £55.60 £43.38 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £44.69 £50.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.08% -12.86%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.19 £73.38
90th Percentile £62.20 £53.13 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.08% -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 6,877 6,825 8,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.62% 21.72% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,343 6,310
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 107 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -14.73%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +44 149 £575 +4.55% 33
South East +16 37 £208 -49.27% 28
Midlands -15 21 £650 +18.18% 5
North of England -26 19 £573 +47.74% 18
West Midlands -8 15 £650 +18.18% 3
North West -17 10 £508 +35.33% 12
South West -13 8 £650 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -27 7 £585 +30.06% 3
East Midlands -6 6 £380 - 2
North East - 2 £600 - 3
East of England - 1 - - 2
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 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.58%) Apache
3 5 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.72%) CMS
4 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 4 (1.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.72%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.06%) AWS
2 52 (22.32%) SaaS
3 47 (20.17%) Azure
4 46 (19.74%) Serverless
5 43 (18.45%) GitHub
6 33 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (10.73%) GCP
9 22 (9.44%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.73%) Sauce Labs
11 14 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.72%) Datadog
13 10 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.43%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (3.00%) Entra ID
16 7 (3.00%) Firebase
17 6 (2.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.73%) Wireless
2 3 (1.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (16.31%) Relational Database
3 31 (13.30%) MySQL
4 19 (8.15%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.73%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.58%) Redis
7 12 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.72%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.15%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.43%) Flink
14 1 (0.43%) Hasura
14 1 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (22.32%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.31%) Git
3 19 (8.15%) Android Studio
3 19 (8.15%) Browser DevTools
4 18 (7.73%) Eclipse
4 18 (7.73%) Xcode
5 15 (6.44%) JIRA
6 9 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.43%) GitLab
8 7 (3.00%) Gradle
9 5 (2.15%) Maven
9 5 (2.15%) Subversion
10 4 (1.72%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.72%) JUnit
10 4 (1.72%) Mocha
10 4 (1.72%) Mockito
10 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.72%) webpack
11 2 (0.86%) ESLint
11 2 (0.86%) Snyk
General
1 73 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.88%) Finance
3 24 (10.30%) Front Office
4 19 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.00%) Banking
7 3 (1.29%) Retail
7 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.86%) Billing
8 2 (0.86%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (42.06%) Developer
2 48 (20.60%) Senior
3 28 (12.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (9.44%) Lead
4 22 (9.44%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) Backend Developer
5 19 (8.15%) Support Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) Technical Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) Technical Support
5 19 (8.15%) Technical Support Engineer
5 19 (8.15%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (7.73%) Python Developer
6 18 (7.73%) React Developer
7 16 (6.87%) Architect
8 15 (6.44%) Lead Developer
9 14 (6.01%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.01%) Technical Architect
10 12 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (39.91%) React
2 84 (36.05%) Node.js
3 78 (33.48%) REST
4 40 (17.17%) RESTful
5 35 (15.02%) Kafka
6 33 (14.16%) CSS
7 29 (12.45%) OAuth
8 27 (11.59%) Redux
9 26 (11.16%) AngularJS
9 26 (11.16%) Playwright
10 23 (9.87%) gRPC
10 23 (9.87%) Vitest
11 21 (9.01%) WebSockets
12 20 (8.58%) Ajax
13 18 (7.73%) Next.js
13 18 (7.73%) OAuth2
14 16 (6.87%) Jest
14 16 (6.87%) YAML
15 14 (6.01%) FastAPI
15 14 (6.01%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.73%) Mobile App
3 19 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.15%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.29%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.86%) IVR
8 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.87%) Android
2 19 (8.15%) Linux
2 19 (8.15%) Unix
2 19 (8.15%) Windows
3 5 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (49.79%) Agile
2 109 (46.78%) CI/CD
3 72 (30.90%) DevOps
4 62 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (24.89%) Containerisation
6 51 (21.89%) Microservices
7 50 (21.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (21.03%) Software Engineering
9 48 (20.60%) Mentoring
10 45 (19.31%) User Experience
11 34 (14.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (14.16%) AI
12 33 (14.16%) API Design
13 31 (13.30%) E-Commerce
14 27 (11.59%) Code Quality
15 26 (11.16%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (11.16%) Test Automation
16 24 (10.30%) TDD
17 23 (9.87%) Clean Code
17 23 (9.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 108 (46.35%) Python
2 98 (42.06%) TypeScript
3 83 (35.62%) JavaScript
4 82 (35.19%) Java
5 40 (17.17%) Go
6 30 (12.88%) SQL
7 19 (8.15%) Perl
8 15 (6.44%) PHP
9 13 (5.58%) Ruby
10 7 (3.00%) C#
11 6 (2.58%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.15%) Apex Code
12 5 (2.15%) Bash
12 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.29%) Swift
14 2 (0.86%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.43%) Groovy
15 1 (0.43%) Rust
15 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.87%) Degree
4 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) GDPR
2 7 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.72%) WCAG
5 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) QA
6 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (35.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (30.04%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.30%) Terraform
3 18 (7.73%) Grafana
4 17 (7.30%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.29%) Ansible
6 3 (1.29%) Istio
6 3 (1.29%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.87%) Oracle
3 22 (9.44%) Splunk
4 19 (8.15%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.43%) Adobe
5 8 (3.43%) Google
6 6 (2.58%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (2.58%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.72%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) YouTube
8 3 (1.29%) Confluent
8 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.29%) Gigya
9 2 (0.86%) Databricks
9 2 (0.86%) Marketo
9 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.86%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.86%) Teradata
10 1 (0.43%) HP