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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 350 343
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 -32
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 212 123 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 2.27% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 81 157
10th Percentile £317 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £619
90th Percentile - £700 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -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 - - +1.67%

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 7,882 5,421 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.45% 22.37% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,744 5,326
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 103 226
10th Percentile £34.50 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -23 129 £700 +19.66% 45
North of England -39 30 £575 +38.06% 14
North West -20 25 £600 +44.06% 8
South East -56 22 £382 -10.06% 11
Midlands -61 11 £700 +66.67% 8
South West -29 9 £700 +14.75% 5
East Midlands -23 6 £498 +18.57% 8
Yorkshire -44 5 £575 - 2
West Midlands -53 5 £700 +60.00%
East of England -28 3 £675 +35.00% 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 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.42%) CMS
2 2 (0.94%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
3 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
1 105 (49.53%) AWS
2 38 (17.92%) Azure
3 31 (14.62%) GCP
4 30 (14.15%) Serverless
5 28 (13.21%) GitHub
6 25 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.79%) SaaS
7 21 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.72%) Datadog
10 9 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.83%) Figma
12 6 (2.83%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DSL
2 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.94%) NaaS
3 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.74%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.43%) MySQL
4 11 (5.19%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.77%) Redis
8 7 (3.30%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.94%) Flink
12 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.38%) Git
3 12 (5.66%) GitLab
3 12 (5.66%) Gradle
4 7 (3.30%) Android Studio
4 7 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 7 (3.30%) Vite
4 7 (3.30%) Xcode
5 6 (2.83%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (2.83%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.36%) fastlane
7 4 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.89%) Maven
8 3 (1.42%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.42%) Mocha
8 3 (1.42%) webpack
9 2 (0.94%) JIRA
9 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.94%) Selenium
9 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (22.64%) Finance
2 39 (18.40%) Front Office
3 25 (11.79%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.25%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.30%) Banking
7 6 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.83%) Games
7 6 (2.83%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Billing
8 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 96 (45.28%) Developer
2 47 (22.17%) Senior
3 46 (21.70%) Software Engineer
4 35 (16.51%) Lead
5 32 (15.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.26%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.91%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.43%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (8.96%) React Developer
10 18 (8.49%) Java Engineer
10 18 (8.49%) Python Developer
11 16 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) Architect
13 13 (6.13%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 12 (5.66%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 12 (5.66%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 12 (5.66%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (5.66%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (46.23%) React
2 89 (41.98%) REST
3 84 (39.62%) Node.js
4 50 (23.58%) Kafka
5 45 (21.23%) Redux
6 23 (10.85%) Playwright
7 21 (9.91%) RESTful
8 20 (9.43%) Spring
9 18 (8.49%) Next.js
9 18 (8.49%) Spring Boot
10 17 (8.02%) OAuth
11 16 (7.55%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.55%) Vitest
12 15 (7.08%) CSS
13 14 (6.60%) Django
13 14 (6.60%) Jest
13 14 (6.60%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (6.60%) Vue
14 11 (5.19%) gRPC
14 11 (5.19%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.09%) Fixed Income
3 15 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.60%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.94%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.94%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) LIMS
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.55%) Linux
2 15 (7.08%) Android
3 7 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.83%) Unix
4 6 (2.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.62%) CI/CD
2 83 (39.15%) Agile
3 74 (34.91%) Software Engineering
4 62 (29.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (23.11%) DevOps
6 38 (17.92%) E-Commerce
7 36 (16.98%) Containerisation
8 35 (16.51%) User Experience
9 34 (16.04%) Microservices
10 33 (15.57%) Observability
11 32 (15.09%) Investment Management
11 32 (15.09%) Order Management
11 32 (15.09%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (14.62%) Mentoring
13 30 (14.15%) Code Quality
13 30 (14.15%) Test Automation
14 28 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.79%) API Design
16 24 (11.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.47%) TypeScript
2 84 (39.62%) Java
3 81 (38.21%) Python
4 66 (31.13%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.75%) Go
6 22 (10.38%) SQL
7 11 (5.19%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.83%) Perl
9 5 (2.36%) C#
9 5 (2.36%) Swift
10 4 (1.89%) Bash
10 4 (1.89%) Scala
11 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.42%) PHP
12 2 (0.94%) Bicep
12 2 (0.94%) C++
12 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.94%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.47%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 12 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.36%) Degree
3 5 (2.36%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.30%) QA
3 6 (2.83%) WCAG
4 4 (1.89%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.47%) ITGC
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (27.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (22.64%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.32%) Grafana
3 19 (8.96%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.13%) Terraform
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Puppet
5 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.83%) Oracle
2 6 (2.83%) Splunk
3 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.42%) New Relic
4 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.94%) Adobe
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.94%) Ciena
5 2 (0.94%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.94%) Netlify
5 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.47%) BT
6 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.47%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.47%) SAP
6 1 (0.47%) SnapLogic