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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 303 339
Rank change year-on-year -119 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 201 230 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 3.22% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 171 132
10th Percentile £390 £260 £338
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £601
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +13.86% -3.81% -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 £82.50 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% +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 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +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 8 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 8 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 -103 133 £588 - 247
South East -67 27 £460 +121.69% 18
North of England -55 23 £600 +13.74% 39
North West -36 18 £600 +24.68% 27
South West -40 5 £413 -36.54% 11
Yorkshire -36 4 £588 -1.34% 10
Midlands -66 4 £575 +13.86% 22
West Midlands -56 3 £575 -11.54% 9
East of England - 2 £345 - 7
East Midlands -17 1 - - 13
North East -40 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 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.99%) Apache
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (56.22%) AWS
2 76 (37.81%) Azure
3 55 (27.36%) Serverless
4 43 (21.39%) GCP
5 37 (18.41%) GitHub
6 32 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (10.95%) Amazon S3
7 22 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.46%) SaaS
9 14 (6.97%) Boomi
10 13 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (5.47%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (5.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (4.98%) iPaaS
14 9 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.98%) Datadog
16 7 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.91%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 22 (10.95%) MySQL
4 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.47%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.98%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.98%) Metadata
7 8 (3.98%) Redis
8 6 (2.99%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.49%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.49%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.99%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.49%) Stardog
11 3 (1.49%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (16.92%) Git
2 25 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.46%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.98%) Vite
5 6 (2.99%) GitLab
5 6 (2.99%) Xcode
6 5 (2.49%) Claude Code
6 5 (2.49%) Gradle
6 5 (2.49%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.49%) JUnit
7 4 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.99%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.49%) Mockito
8 3 (1.49%) Postman
8 3 (1.49%) webpack
9 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 52 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.93%) Finance
3 26 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.48%) Banking
5 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Retail
6 6 (2.99%) Front Office
7 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.99%) Marketing
8 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.99%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Back Office
9 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Games
9 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (34.33%) Developer
2 43 (21.39%) Senior
3 28 (13.93%) Architect
4 25 (12.44%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (8.46%) Software Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (5.97%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.97%) React Developer
8 12 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Azure Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) JavaScript Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (53.73%) REST
2 77 (38.31%) React
3 48 (23.88%) Kafka
3 48 (23.88%) Node.js
4 36 (17.91%) OAuth
5 31 (15.42%) Next.js
6 29 (14.43%) CSS
7 28 (13.93%) RESTful
8 26 (12.94%) OAuth2
9 23 (11.44%) HTML
10 21 (10.45%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.95%) Vue
12 19 (9.45%) Spring
13 17 (8.46%) JSON
13 17 (8.46%) JWT
13 17 (8.46%) Middleware
13 17 (8.46%) SOAP
14 16 (7.96%) CSS3
14 16 (7.96%) HTML5
14 16 (7.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.45%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.96%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.98%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.48%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.99%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.99%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.49%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.00%) Life Science
11 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.46%) Android
2 9 (4.48%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.99%) Linux
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (49.25%) CI/CD
2 73 (36.32%) Agile
3 64 (31.84%) Microservices
4 58 (28.86%) Event-Driven
5 44 (21.89%) AI
5 44 (21.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 43 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (19.90%) DevOps
8 38 (18.91%) Software Engineering
9 36 (17.91%) Observability
9 36 (17.91%) User Experience
10 34 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (16.42%) E-Commerce
12 31 (15.42%) API Design
13 29 (14.43%) Test Automation
14 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.94%) Mentoring
15 25 (12.44%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.44%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (12.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.25%) TypeScript
2 64 (31.84%) Java
3 55 (27.36%) Python
4 53 (26.37%) JavaScript
5 40 (19.90%) SQL
6 19 (9.45%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.47%) Go
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 9 (4.48%) Scala
10 8 (3.98%) Swift
11 7 (3.48%) Ruby
11 7 (3.48%) Rust
12 5 (2.49%) Bash
12 5 (2.49%) Cypher
12 5 (2.49%) Perl
13 4 (1.99%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.49%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.00%) Bicep
15 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) Degree
2 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.45%) QA
2 14 (6.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
3 5 (2.49%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) PSD2
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (18.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.98%) Grafana
3 8 (3.98%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) Puppet
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
6 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.45%) Google
3 20 (9.95%) Oracle
4 12 (5.97%) IBM
4 12 (5.97%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.98%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.48%) Informatica
6 9 (4.48%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.48%) WSO2
7 8 (3.98%) Databricks
7 8 (3.98%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.49%) SAP
9 4 (1.99%) Workday
10 3 (1.49%) Confluent
10 3 (1.49%) Foundry
10 3 (1.49%) Splunk
10 3 (1.49%) UiPath
11 2 (1.00%) Adobe
11 2 (1.00%) New Relic
12 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic