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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 295 335
Rank change year-on-year -129 +40 +16
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 203 231 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 3.22% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 172 132
10th Percentile £394 £261 £338
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £601
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +14.43% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile - - £44.69
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +12.82% -20.08%
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.13
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% +12.82% -20.08%

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 9,834 7,167 8,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.51% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,836 5,249
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 170 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.68 £41.34 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -108 135 £588 - 260
South East -64 28 £460 +121.69% 20
North of England -60 23 £600 +13.74% 34
North West -44 17 £600 +24.68% 21
Yorkshire -35 5 £588 -1.34% 11
South West -33 4 £413 -36.54% 6
Midlands -59 4 £575 +13.86% 21
West Midlands -56 3 £575 -11.54% 8
East of England - 2 £345 - 6
East Midlands -23 1 - - 13
North East -41 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 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.97%) Apache
2 4 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) WordPress
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.49%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.49%) Sketch
3 1 (0.49%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.49%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (55.67%) AWS
2 75 (36.95%) Azure
3 56 (27.59%) Serverless
4 42 (20.69%) GCP
5 39 (19.21%) GitHub
6 33 (16.26%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.33%) Amazon S3
7 23 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.39%) SaaS
9 14 (6.90%) Boomi
10 13 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (5.42%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (5.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.93%) iPaaS
14 8 (3.94%) Datadog
14 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.73%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (15.27%) NoSQL
3 22 (10.84%) MySQL
4 13 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (5.42%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.42%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.42%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.94%) Metadata
6 8 (3.94%) Redis
7 6 (2.96%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.46%) Neo4j
8 5 (2.46%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.97%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.97%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.48%) Stardog
10 3 (1.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (16.75%) Git
2 26 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.39%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.93%) Vite
5 6 (2.96%) GitLab
5 6 (2.96%) Gradle
5 6 (2.96%) Xcode
6 5 (2.46%) Claude Code
6 5 (2.46%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.46%) JUnit
7 4 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.97%) Maven
8 3 (1.48%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.48%) Mockito
8 3 (1.48%) Postman
8 3 (1.48%) webpack
9 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.99%) Storybook
General
1 53 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.78%) Finance
3 26 (12.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.43%) Banking
5 7 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.45%) Retail
6 6 (2.96%) Front Office
7 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.97%) Marketing
8 4 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.97%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.97%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.48%) Back Office
9 3 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.48%) Games
9 3 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 70 (34.48%) Developer
2 45 (22.17%) Senior
3 28 (13.79%) Architect
4 26 (12.81%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.91%) React Developer
8 12 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (4.43%) Java Engineer
9 9 (4.43%) JavaScript Engineer
9 9 (4.43%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Azure Developer
10 8 (3.94%) Backend Developer
10 8 (3.94%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (52.71%) REST
2 76 (37.44%) React
3 48 (23.65%) Kafka
3 48 (23.65%) Node.js
4 37 (18.23%) OAuth
5 31 (15.27%) Next.js
6 30 (14.78%) RESTful
7 29 (14.29%) CSS
8 27 (13.30%) OAuth2
9 23 (11.33%) HTML
10 21 (10.34%) AngularJS
11 19 (9.36%) Spring
11 19 (9.36%) Vue
12 18 (8.87%) JWT
12 18 (8.87%) SOAP
13 17 (8.37%) JSON
13 17 (8.37%) Middleware
13 17 (8.37%) Terraform
14 16 (7.88%) HTML5
14 16 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.15%) Cloud Native
2 36 (17.73%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.34%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.87%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.43%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.43%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.94%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.97%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.48%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Life Science
10 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.39%) Android
2 9 (4.43%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.96%) Linux
4 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (49.26%) CI/CD
2 74 (36.45%) Agile
3 64 (31.53%) Microservices
4 60 (29.56%) Event-Driven
5 45 (22.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 44 (21.67%) AI
6 44 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (20.20%) DevOps
8 36 (17.73%) Observability
8 36 (17.73%) Software Engineering
9 35 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (17.24%) User Experience
10 34 (16.75%) E-Commerce
11 32 (15.76%) API Design
12 30 (14.78%) Test Automation
13 27 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.81%) Mentoring
14 26 (12.81%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (12.81%) TDD
15 25 (12.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 98 (48.28%) TypeScript
2 65 (32.02%) Java
3 56 (27.59%) Python
4 54 (26.60%) JavaScript
5 41 (20.20%) SQL
6 20 (9.85%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.42%) Go
8 10 (4.93%) C#
8 10 (4.93%) Scala
9 8 (3.94%) Swift
10 7 (3.45%) Ruby
10 7 (3.45%) Rust
11 6 (2.96%) Bash
12 5 (2.46%) Cypher
12 5 (2.46%) Perl
13 4 (1.97%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.48%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.99%) Elixir
15 2 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (9.36%) Degree
2 14 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.84%) QA
2 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.46%) GDPR
3 5 (2.46%) WCAG
4 2 (0.99%) PSD2
4 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.49%) ITGC
5 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (18.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.93%) Grafana
3 8 (3.94%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Puppet
6 1 (0.49%) Istio
6 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.34%) Google
3 20 (9.85%) Oracle
4 12 (5.91%) IBM
4 12 (5.91%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.93%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.43%) Informatica
6 9 (4.43%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.43%) WSO2
7 8 (3.94%) Databricks
7 8 (3.94%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.46%) SAP
9 4 (1.97%) Workday
10 3 (1.48%) Confluent
10 3 (1.48%) Foundry
10 3 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.48%) UiPath
11 2 (0.99%) Adobe
11 2 (0.99%) New Relic
12 1 (0.49%) Guidewire