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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 367 357
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 -52
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 212 111 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 2.04% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 78 149
10th Percentile £217 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% -11.02%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -14.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.00
25th Percentile £70.63 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.43%

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 7,928 5,449 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.48% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,311 3,760 5,406
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 168
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £75.00
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -20 130 £650 +11.11% 27
North of England -47 27 £575 +56.89% 14
South East -45 25 £352 -13.94% 15
North West -22 23 £588 +60.30% 5
Midlands -59 14 £700 +76.66% 8
South West -20 7 £700 +13.36% 9
West Midlands -53 7 £700 +76.66% 2
East Midlands - 7 £444 - 6
Yorkshire -51 4 £538 - 5
East of England -26 3 £675 +35.00% 10
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 (1.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) 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 93 (43.87%) AWS
2 41 (19.34%) Azure
3 36 (16.98%) Serverless
4 31 (14.62%) SaaS
5 29 (13.68%) GitHub
6 27 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (12.26%) GCP
8 22 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.19%) Datadog
11 8 (3.77%) Sauce Labs
12 7 (3.30%) Figma
13 6 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.36%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.36%) Wireless
2 4 (1.89%) HTTP
3 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.94%) DSL
4 2 (0.94%) NaaS
4 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.38%) Relational Database
3 21 (9.91%) MySQL
4 12 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.72%) Redis
7 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.36%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.94%) Flink
9 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 39 (18.40%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.38%) Git
3 12 (5.66%) Gradle
4 11 (5.19%) GitLab
5 10 (4.72%) Android Studio
6 9 (4.25%) Xcode
7 8 (3.77%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (3.77%) Eclipse
8 7 (3.30%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.36%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.89%) fastlane
11 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.42%) JIRA
11 3 (1.42%) Maven
11 3 (1.42%) Mocha
11 3 (1.42%) Vite
12 2 (0.94%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.94%) JUnit
12 2 (0.94%) Selenium
12 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (21.23%) Finance
2 37 (17.45%) Front Office
3 35 (16.51%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.83%) Banking
7 5 (2.36%) Billing
7 5 (2.36%) Games
8 4 (1.89%) Retail
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (46.70%) Developer
2 47 (22.17%) Senior
3 44 (20.75%) Software Engineer
4 39 (18.40%) Lead
5 32 (15.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.21%) Lead Developer
7 22 (10.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (9.91%) Lead Software Developer
9 20 (9.43%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (9.43%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.02%) Java Engineer
11 14 (6.60%) Architect
11 14 (6.60%) Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (39.62%) Node.js
1 84 (39.62%) React
2 82 (38.68%) REST
3 46 (21.70%) Kafka
4 44 (20.75%) Redux
5 31 (14.62%) Playwright
6 24 (11.32%) RESTful
6 24 (11.32%) Vitest
7 20 (9.43%) OAuth
8 18 (8.49%) CSS
9 17 (8.02%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.55%) YAML
11 15 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (6.60%) Django
12 14 (6.60%) Jest
12 14 (6.60%) Next.js
12 14 (6.60%) Spring
13 13 (6.13%) gRPC
13 13 (6.13%) Spring Boot
14 11 (5.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.09%) Fixed Income
3 17 (8.02%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.94%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.55%) Linux
2 14 (6.60%) Android
3 8 (3.77%) Unix
3 8 (3.77%) Windows
4 5 (2.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.34%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.40%) Agile
3 67 (31.60%) Software Engineering
4 59 (27.83%) DevOps
5 57 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (19.81%) Mentoring
7 41 (19.34%) Containerisation
8 36 (16.98%) Test Automation
9 35 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (16.04%) Microservices
10 34 (16.04%) User Experience
11 33 (15.57%) E-Commerce
12 32 (15.09%) Investment Management
12 32 (15.09%) Order Management
12 32 (15.09%) Portfolio Management
13 30 (14.15%) Code Quality
14 29 (13.68%) Observability
15 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (11.32%) API Design
16 24 (11.32%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (46.23%) TypeScript
2 84 (39.62%) Java
2 84 (39.62%) Python
3 68 (32.08%) JavaScript
4 45 (21.23%) Go
5 24 (11.32%) SQL
6 10 (4.72%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.77%) C#
7 8 (3.77%) Perl
7 8 (3.77%) PHP
8 5 (2.36%) Bash
8 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.89%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.89%) Swift
10 2 (0.94%) C++
10 2 (0.94%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.47%) Cypher
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (7.08%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.83%) GDPR
2 6 (2.83%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) WCAG
4 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (31.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 56 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.79%) Grafana
3 20 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.60%) Terraform
5 4 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle
3 8 (3.77%) Splunk
4 7 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.36%) Adobe
6 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.42%) Databricks
7 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.94%) Ciena
8 2 (0.94%) New Relic
8 2 (0.94%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.47%) Apple
9 1 (0.47%) BT
9 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) Marketo
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) SAP