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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 362 358
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -47
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 212 111 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.66% 2.03% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 78 147
10th Percentile £206 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +4.88% -13.14%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £550 £532 £500
% change year-on-year +3.48% +6.30% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.00
25th Percentile £70.63 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.43%

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 7,955 5,475 7,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.95% 22.57% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,324 3,773 5,392
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 171
10th Percentile £35.20 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £38.74
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -6 129 £650 +11.11% 27
South East -45 26 £337 -17.54% 15
North of England -46 26 £575 +56.89% 14
North West -20 22 £575 +56.89% 5
Midlands -62 15 £700 +76.66% 8
South West -18 8 £700 +13.36% 9
West Midlands -51 8 £700 +76.66% 2
East Midlands - 7 £444 - 6
Yorkshire -51 4 £538 - 5
East of England -28 3 £675 +35.00% 10
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 4 (1.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.87%) AWS
2 42 (19.81%) Azure
3 37 (17.45%) Serverless
4 32 (15.09%) SaaS
5 30 (14.15%) GitHub
6 28 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (12.26%) GCP
8 22 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.19%) Datadog
12 9 (4.25%) Sauce Labs
13 7 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.30%) Figma
14 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
15 5 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.36%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (1.89%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.83%) Wireless
2 4 (1.89%) HTTP
3 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.94%) DSL
4 2 (0.94%) NaaS
4 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.85%) Relational Database
3 21 (9.91%) MySQL
4 12 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.72%) Redis
7 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.36%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.94%) Flink
10 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 39 (18.40%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.91%) Git
3 12 (5.66%) Gradle
4 11 (5.19%) Android Studio
4 11 (5.19%) GitLab
5 10 (4.72%) Xcode
6 9 (4.25%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (4.25%) Eclipse
7 7 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.36%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.89%) fastlane
10 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.42%) JIRA
10 3 (1.42%) Maven
10 3 (1.42%) Mocha
10 3 (1.42%) Vite
11 2 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.94%) JUnit
11 2 (0.94%) Selenium
11 2 (0.94%) XCTest
General
1 45 (21.23%) Finance
2 37 (17.45%) Front Office
3 36 (16.98%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.83%) Banking
7 5 (2.36%) Billing
7 5 (2.36%) Games
8 4 (1.89%) Retail
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (46.70%) Developer
2 47 (22.17%) Senior
3 44 (20.75%) Software Engineer
4 38 (17.92%) Lead
5 32 (15.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.21%) Lead Developer
7 22 (10.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (9.91%) Lead Software Developer
8 21 (9.91%) Python Developer
9 20 (9.43%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (8.02%) Java Engineer
11 14 (6.60%) Architect
11 14 (6.60%) Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.60%) Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.60%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (40.09%) React
2 84 (39.62%) Node.js
3 82 (38.68%) REST
4 46 (21.70%) Kafka
5 44 (20.75%) Redux
6 31 (14.62%) Playwright
7 24 (11.32%) RESTful
7 24 (11.32%) Vitest
8 20 (9.43%) OAuth
9 18 (8.49%) AngularJS
9 18 (8.49%) CSS
10 16 (7.55%) YAML
11 15 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (6.60%) Django
12 14 (6.60%) gRPC
12 14 (6.60%) Next.js
12 14 (6.60%) Spring
13 13 (6.13%) Jest
13 13 (6.13%) Spring Boot
14 12 (5.66%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.47%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.09%) Fixed Income
3 18 (8.49%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.94%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.02%) Linux
2 15 (7.08%) Android
3 9 (4.25%) Unix
3 9 (4.25%) Windows
4 5 (2.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.34%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.40%) Agile
3 67 (31.60%) Software Engineering
4 59 (27.83%) DevOps
5 57 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (19.34%) Containerisation
6 41 (19.34%) Mentoring
7 36 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 35 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (16.51%) Microservices
9 33 (15.57%) User Experience
10 32 (15.09%) E-Commerce
10 32 (15.09%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.09%) Order Management
10 32 (15.09%) Portfolio Management
11 29 (13.68%) Code Quality
12 28 (13.21%) Observability
12 28 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (11.32%) API Design
13 24 (11.32%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (46.23%) TypeScript
2 86 (40.57%) Python
3 85 (40.09%) Java
4 69 (32.55%) JavaScript
5 46 (21.70%) Go
6 24 (11.32%) SQL
7 10 (4.72%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.25%) Perl
9 8 (3.77%) C#
10 7 (3.30%) PHP
11 5 (2.36%) Bash
11 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.89%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.89%) Swift
13 2 (0.94%) C++
13 2 (0.94%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.47%) Rust
14 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.30%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.83%) GDPR
3 5 (2.36%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) WCAG
4 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (31.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (26.89%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.26%) Grafana
3 21 (9.91%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.60%) Terraform
5 4 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 26 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.19%) Oracle
3 9 (4.25%) Splunk
4 8 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.89%) Adobe
5 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.42%) Databricks
6 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
7 2 (0.94%) Ciena
7 2 (0.94%) New Relic
7 2 (0.94%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.47%) Apple
8 1 (0.47%) BT
8 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.47%) Google
8 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.47%) Marketo
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) SAP