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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 341 340
Rank change year-on-year +41 -1 -43
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 229 194 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.61% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 2.75% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 133 203
10th Percentile £204 £360 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £655 £603 £675
90th Percentile £800 £675 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £43.38 -
25th Percentile - £44.69 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -20.08% -
75th Percentile - £52.19 £73.38
90th Percentile - £53.13 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +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 6,429 7,064 9,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.76% 22.13% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,307 4,510 6,736
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 148 196
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.53 £38.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £73.83 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 +41 152 £594 +3.26% 51
South East +23 31 £208 -49.27% 37
Midlands -2 20 £650 +85.71% 6
North of England -23 19 £528 +24.12% 32
West Midlands -6 15 £650 +44.44% 4
North West -6 11 £481 +36.52% 21
South West -3 8 £650 +36.84% 6
Yorkshire -26 6 £596 +24.71% 9
East Midlands -8 5 £380 +16.92% 2
North East - 2 £600 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 3
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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.06%) Apache
3 6 (2.62%) CMS
4 5 (2.18%) Headless CMS
5 4 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.75%) Confluence
6 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.75%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (47.60%) AWS
2 44 (19.21%) Azure
2 44 (19.21%) Serverless
3 41 (17.90%) SaaS
4 34 (14.85%) GitHub
5 32 (13.97%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (13.10%) GCP
7 27 (11.79%) Amazon S3
8 25 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.55%) Sauce Labs
10 12 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.93%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (3.93%) Datadog
13 8 (3.49%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.62%) Apigee
14 6 (2.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.55%) Wireless
2 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Broadband
3 1 (0.44%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (24.89%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (13.10%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.92%) MySQL
4 21 (9.17%) DynamoDB
4 21 (9.17%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.68%) Redis
6 10 (4.37%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.93%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.31%) Flink
11 3 (1.31%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.87%) OLTP
13 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.44%) Hasura
13 1 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (16.59%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.28%) Git
3 19 (8.30%) JIRA
4 16 (6.99%) Browser DevTools
5 15 (6.55%) Android Studio
5 15 (6.55%) Eclipse
5 15 (6.55%) Xcode
6 14 (6.11%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.37%) GitLab
8 7 (3.06%) Gradle
8 7 (3.06%) Subversion
9 6 (2.62%) Maven
10 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.75%) webpack
11 3 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.31%) Mocha
12 2 (0.87%) ESLint
12 2 (0.87%) JUnit
12 2 (0.87%) Mockito
12 2 (0.87%) Snyk
General
1 67 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.96%) Finance
3 23 (10.04%) Front Office
4 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.93%) Banking
7 6 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.87%) Games
8 2 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (45.41%) Developer
2 42 (18.34%) Senior
3 25 (10.92%) Software Engineer
4 24 (10.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 23 (10.04%) React Developer
6 21 (9.17%) Backend Developer
7 18 (7.86%) Lead
8 17 (7.42%) Architect
9 16 (6.99%) Support Engineer
9 16 (6.99%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (6.99%) Technical Support
9 16 (6.99%) Technical Support Engineer
9 16 (6.99%) UX Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) Python Developer
10 15 (6.55%) Senior Developer
11 14 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (6.11%) Lead Developer
11 14 (6.11%) Technical Architect
12 12 (5.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (43.67%) React
2 81 (35.37%) Node.js
3 70 (30.57%) REST
4 44 (19.21%) RESTful
5 40 (17.47%) Kafka
6 29 (12.66%) CSS
6 29 (12.66%) Redux
7 27 (11.79%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.35%) gRPC
8 26 (11.35%) OAuth
9 24 (10.48%) Next.js
10 22 (9.61%) WebSockets
11 18 (7.86%) Playwright
12 17 (7.42%) Ajax
13 16 (6.99%) Jest
14 15 (6.55%) FastAPI
14 15 (6.55%) JWT
14 15 (6.55%) OAuth2
15 14 (6.11%) Flask
16 13 (5.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.96%) Cloud Native
2 31 (13.54%) Mobile App
3 17 (7.42%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.24%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.31%) IVR
8 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.31%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.73%) Android
2 16 (6.99%) Linux
2 16 (6.99%) Unix
2 16 (6.99%) Windows
3 5 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.53%) Agile
2 98 (42.79%) CI/CD
3 70 (30.57%) DevOps
4 58 (25.33%) Microservices
5 54 (23.58%) Containerisation
5 54 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (22.71%) Software Engineering
7 50 (21.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (20.52%) User Experience
9 42 (18.34%) Mentoring
10 32 (13.97%) Clean Code
11 31 (13.54%) AI
11 31 (13.54%) TDD
12 26 (11.35%) API Design
13 24 (10.48%) E-Commerce
14 23 (10.04%) Front End Development
14 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (10.04%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (9.17%) Observability
16 20 (8.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 103 (44.98%) Python
2 98 (42.79%) TypeScript
3 80 (34.93%) JavaScript
4 75 (32.75%) Java
5 47 (20.52%) Go
6 32 (13.97%) SQL
7 16 (6.99%) Perl
8 12 (5.24%) Ruby
9 9 (3.93%) PHP
10 5 (2.18%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.18%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.75%) C#
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
12 2 (0.87%) Swift
13 1 (0.44%) Bash
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.44%) Rust
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.86%) Degree
3 14 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) GDPR
2 10 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.62%) WCAG
4 4 (1.75%) QA
5 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (33.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (27.07%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.04%) Terraform
3 19 (8.30%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.42%) Grafana
5 4 (1.75%) Ansible
5 4 (1.75%) Istio
5 4 (1.75%) Kibana
5 4 (1.75%) Puppet
5 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.73%) Oracle
2 20 (8.73%) Splunk
3 16 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.37%) Google
5 8 (3.49%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (2.62%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.18%) Adobe
8 4 (1.75%) SAP
8 4 (1.75%) YouTube
9 3 (1.31%) Confluent
9 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.31%) Gigya
9 3 (1.31%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.87%) Databricks
10 2 (0.87%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.87%) Teradata
11 1 (0.44%) HP
11 1 (0.44%) Okta