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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 324 353
Rank change year-on-year -73 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 227 185 184
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 3.03% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 138 139
10th Percentile £400 £313 £369
25th Percentile £504 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £503 £535
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -6.07% -10.83%
75th Percentile £753 £638 £607
90th Percentile £800 £833 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +17.50% -6.37% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £68.00 - £45.00
25th Percentile £72.50 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%

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 8,394 6,108 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.72% 22.21% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 4,214 5,117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 142 232
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £24.02
25th Percentile £50.56 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -36 159 £613 +4.34% 70
South East -66 25 £493 +56.85% 9
North of England -67 18 £588 +38.24% 12
North West -46 11 £650 +52.94% 9
Midlands -62 9 £700 +75.00% 5
South West - 9 £700 - 9
Yorkshire -41 7 £575 - 3
East Midlands -12 5 £498 +31.05% 1
West Midlands -62 4 £700 +53.85% 4
East of England - 3 £675 - 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 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 132 (58.15%) AWS
2 55 (24.23%) Azure
3 51 (22.47%) Serverless
4 43 (18.94%) GCP
5 34 (14.98%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (14.54%) GitHub
7 23 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.49%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.49%) SaaS
9 9 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.96%) Datadog
10 8 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (3.52%) Boomi
11 7 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.64%) iPaaS
13 5 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.20%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) DSL
2 2 (0.88%) NaaS
2 2 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.93%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.85%) MySQL
5 10 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.96%) Redis
7 8 (3.52%) Metadata
8 7 (3.08%) Neo4j
9 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.76%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.32%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.32%) Stardog
12 3 (1.32%) TigerGraph
12 3 (1.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.57%) Git
3 16 (7.05%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.29%) Vite
5 6 (2.64%) GitLab
6 5 (2.20%) JSUnit
7 4 (1.76%) Gradle
7 4 (1.76%) webpack
8 3 (1.32%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) Xcode
9 2 (0.88%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.88%) JIRA
9 2 (0.88%) JUnit
9 2 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.88%) Selenium
9 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 55 (24.23%) Finance
2 36 (15.86%) Front Office
3 29 (12.78%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.52%) Banking
5 8 (3.52%) Retail
6 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Games
9 3 (1.32%) Back Office
9 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 2 (0.88%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 100 (44.05%) Developer
2 49 (21.59%) Software Engineer
3 43 (18.94%) Senior
4 34 (14.98%) Lead
5 33 (14.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 24 (10.57%) Architect
6 24 (10.57%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (9.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (8.81%) Lead Software Developer
9 20 (8.81%) React Developer
9 20 (8.81%) Senior Developer
10 17 (7.49%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.17%) Backend Developer
12 12 (5.29%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (3.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 9 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.96%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (41.41%) React
2 88 (38.77%) REST
3 79 (34.80%) Node.js
4 70 (30.84%) Kafka
5 42 (18.50%) Redux
6 31 (13.66%) RESTful
7 27 (11.89%) Next.js
8 21 (9.25%) CSS
9 19 (8.37%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.37%) OAuth
10 18 (7.93%) Playwright
11 17 (7.49%) HTML
12 16 (7.05%) Jest
12 16 (7.05%) Spring
13 15 (6.61%) Vue
14 14 (6.17%) gRPC
14 14 (6.17%) OAuth2
14 14 (6.17%) SOAP
15 12 (5.29%) Middleware
15 12 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.54%) Fixed Income
3 31 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.85%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.52%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.64%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.64%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.76%) Sports Betting
10 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.44%) LIMS
12 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.29%) Android
2 7 (3.08%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.20%) Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (39.65%) Agile
2 88 (38.77%) CI/CD
3 73 (32.16%) Software Engineering
4 65 (28.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (23.35%) Microservices
6 42 (18.50%) DevOps
7 40 (17.62%) Event-Driven
8 37 (16.30%) User Experience
9 36 (15.86%) E-Commerce
9 36 (15.86%) Investment Management
10 32 (14.10%) Order Management
10 32 (14.10%) Portfolio Management
11 31 (13.66%) AI
11 31 (13.66%) Test Automation
12 29 (12.78%) API Design
12 29 (12.78%) TDD
13 27 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.89%) Observability
14 26 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.01%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (54.19%) TypeScript
2 83 (36.56%) Java
3 76 (33.48%) Python
4 67 (29.52%) JavaScript
5 49 (21.59%) Go
6 35 (15.42%) SQL
7 16 (7.05%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.08%) C#
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 6 (2.64%) Cypher
9 6 (2.64%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.64%) Swift
10 5 (2.20%) Bash
11 4 (1.76%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.32%) Bicep
12 3 (1.32%) Perl
12 3 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (1.32%) Ruby
12 3 (1.32%) Rust
12 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.17%) Degree
3 13 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.61%) Accessibility
1 15 (6.61%) QA
2 8 (3.52%) WCAG
3 6 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.20%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) ITGC
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (17.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.37%) Terraform
3 14 (6.17%) Grafana
3 14 (6.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.88%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.88%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.44%) Istio
6 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.41%) Oracle
3 9 (3.96%) Google
3 9 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.20%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.76%) SAP
6 3 (1.32%) IBM
6 3 (1.32%) Informatica
6 3 (1.32%) Splunk
6 3 (1.32%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.32%) Workday
6 3 (1.32%) WSO2
7 2 (0.88%) Amdocs
7 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.88%) Ciena
7 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.88%) Netlify
7 2 (0.88%) New Relic
7 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.44%) BT