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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 314 333
Rank change year-on-year -99 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 213 199 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.72% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 3.27% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 149 146
10th Percentile £385 £312 £360
25th Percentile £471 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year +16.34% -5.25% -11.17%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £805 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.19% -8.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £65.00 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% +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 8,460 6,078 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.50% 22.04% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,158 5,022
10th Percentile £368 £350 £359
25th Percentile £432 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 158 214
10th Percentile £28.44 £31.25 £24.05
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -66 145 £600 +4.35% 110
South East -68 29 £460 +62.69% 16
North of England -83 14 £588 +22.08% 16
South West - 10 £575 - 8
Midlands -44 9 £700 +84.21% 6
Yorkshire -41 7 £575 - 3
North West -59 7 £650 +35.06% 10
West Midlands -57 6 £700 +51.35% 3
East Midlands -17 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £345 - 8
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 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) WordPress
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Luigi
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (53.52%) AWS
2 63 (29.58%) Azure
3 50 (23.47%) Serverless
4 41 (19.25%) GCP
5 34 (15.96%) GitHub
6 31 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.51%) SaaS
10 11 (5.16%) Boomi
11 10 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.23%) Datadog
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
14 7 (3.29%) iPaaS
15 6 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) NaaS
2 2 (0.94%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.10%) MySQL
3 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.63%) Redis
5 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.76%) Metadata
7 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.82%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.35%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.88%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.41%) Stardog
11 3 (1.41%) TigerGraph
11 3 (1.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (11.74%) Git
2 24 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.98%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.63%) Vite
5 5 (2.35%) GitLab
5 5 (2.35%) JSUnit
6 4 (1.88%) webpack
7 3 (1.41%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.41%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.41%) Gradle
7 3 (1.41%) Xcode
8 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.94%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.94%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.94%) Storybook
General
1 38 (17.84%) Finance
1 38 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (9.39%) Front Office
4 8 (3.76%) Retail
5 7 (3.29%) Banking
6 6 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.88%) Games
9 3 (1.41%) Back Office
9 3 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.94%) Publishing
10 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (39.91%) Developer
2 41 (19.25%) Senior
3 29 (13.62%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.21%) Architect
5 23 (10.80%) Lead
6 20 (9.39%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (8.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 16 (7.51%) React Developer
10 15 (7.04%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.57%) Lead Developer
12 13 (6.10%) Backend Developer
13 11 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (4.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 10 (4.69%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.69%) Lead Software Developer
15 9 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
15 9 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (44.13%) REST
2 83 (38.97%) React
3 63 (29.58%) Node.js
4 59 (27.70%) Kafka
5 32 (15.02%) RESTful
6 30 (14.08%) Next.js
7 27 (12.68%) OAuth
8 25 (11.74%) CSS
8 25 (11.74%) Redux
9 19 (8.92%) Spring
10 18 (8.45%) HTML
10 18 (8.45%) OAuth2
10 18 (8.45%) Playwright
11 17 (7.98%) JWT
11 17 (7.98%) SOAP
12 16 (7.51%) gRPC
13 15 (7.04%) AngularJS
13 15 (7.04%) Jest
13 15 (7.04%) JSON
14 14 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (16.43%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.98%) Fixed Income
4 14 (6.57%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.16%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.76%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.76%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.88%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.88%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.16%) Android
2 7 (3.29%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.35%) Linux
4 3 (1.41%) Unix
4 3 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.13%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.62%) Agile
3 61 (28.64%) Microservices
4 54 (25.35%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (21.13%) DevOps
7 43 (20.19%) Event-Driven
8 38 (17.84%) User Experience
9 35 (16.43%) E-Commerce
10 34 (15.96%) AI
11 32 (15.02%) API Design
11 32 (15.02%) Test Automation
12 30 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.62%) Observability
14 28 (13.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (12.68%) TDD
16 26 (12.21%) Code Quality
16 26 (12.21%) Mentoring
17 24 (11.27%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (52.11%) TypeScript
2 66 (30.99%) Java
3 63 (29.58%) Python
4 54 (25.35%) JavaScript
5 37 (17.37%) SQL
6 32 (15.02%) Go
7 14 (6.57%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.76%) C#
9 7 (3.29%) Scala
10 6 (2.82%) Swift
11 5 (2.35%) Bash
11 5 (2.35%) Cypher
11 5 (2.35%) SPARQL
12 4 (1.88%) Ruby
12 4 (1.88%) Rust
13 3 (1.41%) Bicep
13 3 (1.41%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.41%) Perl
13 3 (1.41%) PHP
13 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.04%) Degree
2 14 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.57%) Accessibility
1 14 (6.57%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) WCAG
3 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.88%) GDPR
5 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) PSD2
7 1 (0.47%) ITGC
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (20.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (18.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.92%) Terraform
3 14 (6.57%) Grafana
3 14 (6.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Istio
5 2 (0.94%) linkerd
5 2 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.57%) Oracle
3 13 (6.10%) Google
4 10 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.29%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.82%) IBM
6 6 (2.82%) Informatica
6 6 (2.82%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.82%) WSO2
7 5 (2.35%) SAP
8 4 (1.88%) Confluent
8 4 (1.88%) Workday
9 3 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.41%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.94%) Ciena
10 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) New Relic
10 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow