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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 314 334
Rank change year-on-year -124 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 200 218 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.79% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.03% 3.16% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 157 147
10th Percentile £400 £309 £367
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £535
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -5.61% -8.19%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile - - £54.75
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -13.93%

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 9,871 6,904 8,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.31% 25.02% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,728 5,472
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 162 177
10th Percentile £29.81 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £71.80 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -100 133 £588 +2.17% 227
South East -66 29 £460 +65.77% 20
North of England -72 16 £588 +22.08% 36
North West -56 9 £650 +36.84% 26
South West -40 8 £438 -32.69% 15
Yorkshire -33 7 £575 -3.44% 9
West Midlands -52 4 £638 +10.39% 2
Midlands -61 4 £638 +51.79% 8
East of England - 3 £345 - 9
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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.50%) Apache
2 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.00%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 103 (51.50%) AWS
2 71 (35.50%) Azure
3 52 (26.00%) Serverless
4 39 (19.50%) GCP
5 35 (17.50%) GitHub
6 29 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.00%) SaaS
10 13 (6.50%) Boomi
11 11 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (4.50%) iPaaS
14 8 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.50%) Figma
16 6 (3.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
2 1 (0.50%) NaaS
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.50%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (13.00%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.50%) MySQL
4 13 (6.50%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.50%) Redis
6 9 (4.50%) Metadata
7 8 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.00%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.50%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.50%) Weaviate
10 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.50%) Stardog
11 3 (1.50%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (16.00%) Git
2 23 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.50%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.00%) Vite
5 7 (3.50%) GitLab
6 5 (2.50%) JSUnit
7 4 (2.00%) JUnit
8 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.50%) Gradle
8 3 (1.50%) Maven
8 3 (1.50%) Postman
8 3 (1.50%) webpack
8 3 (1.50%) Xcode
9 2 (1.00%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 43 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.50%) Finance
3 25 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.00%) Retail
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Banking
6 6 (3.00%) Front Office
7 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.00%) Games
8 4 (2.00%) Marketing
8 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.50%) Back Office
9 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.50%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Publishing
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (35.50%) Developer
2 40 (20.00%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Architect
4 19 (9.50%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.00%) Lead
7 12 (6.00%) React Developer
8 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.00%) Backend Developer
10 9 (4.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.00%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Energy Trading Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (52.00%) REST
2 76 (38.00%) React
3 47 (23.50%) Kafka
3 47 (23.50%) Node.js
4 35 (17.50%) OAuth
5 32 (16.00%) CSS
6 30 (15.00%) Next.js
7 27 (13.50%) RESTful
8 26 (13.00%) HTML
9 24 (12.00%) OAuth2
10 19 (9.50%) AngularJS
10 19 (9.50%) Spring
11 18 (9.00%) CSS3
11 18 (9.00%) HTML5
11 18 (9.00%) JWT
11 18 (9.00%) SOAP
12 17 (8.50%) JSON
12 17 (8.50%) Terraform
13 16 (8.00%) Middleware
13 16 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.50%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.50%) AI Agents
5 11 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.00%) Sports Betting
7 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.50%) Life Science
8 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.50%) Android
2 7 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.00%) Linux
4 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.00%) CI/CD
2 63 (31.50%) Microservices
3 62 (31.00%) Agile
4 53 (26.50%) Event-Driven
5 44 (22.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (21.50%) DevOps
7 39 (19.50%) User Experience
8 38 (19.00%) AI
8 38 (19.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 36 (18.00%) Software Engineering
10 33 (16.50%) E-Commerce
11 32 (16.00%) API Design
12 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.00%) Observability
13 28 (14.00%) Test Automation
14 26 (13.00%) API Integration
14 26 (13.00%) Data Modelling
14 26 (13.00%) Integration Patterns
15 25 (12.50%) TDD
16 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (49.00%) TypeScript
2 58 (29.00%) Java
2 58 (29.00%) Python
3 47 (23.50%) JavaScript
4 41 (20.50%) SQL
5 14 (7.00%) Kotlin
6 12 (6.00%) Go
7 9 (4.50%) Scala
8 7 (3.50%) C#
9 6 (3.00%) Ruby
9 6 (3.00%) Rust
9 6 (3.00%) Swift
10 5 (2.50%) Bash
10 5 (2.50%) Cypher
11 4 (2.00%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.50%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.50%) Perl
12 3 (1.50%) PHP
12 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 16 (8.00%) Degree
2 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.50%) QA
2 14 (7.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.00%) WCAG
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 2 (1.00%) PSD2
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (18.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.00%) Grafana
2 10 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Oracle
3 16 (8.00%) Google
4 9 (4.50%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.00%) Databricks
5 8 (4.00%) IBM
5 8 (4.00%) Informatica
5 8 (4.00%) TIBCO
5 8 (4.00%) WSO2
6 7 (3.50%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.50%) SAP
8 4 (2.00%) Confluent
8 4 (2.00%) Workday
9 3 (1.50%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) New Relic
11 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic