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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 319 336
Rank change year-on-year -104 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 213 205 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.74% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 2.99% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 151 153
10th Percentile £385 £313 £363
25th Percentile £473 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £512 £533
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -3.94% -11.17%
75th Percentile £681 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.19% -9.66%
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 9,865 6,864 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.88% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,717 5,610
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 165 197
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.36
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.22 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

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 22 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 22 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 -75 145 £600 +4.35% 20
South East -64 29 £460 +65.77% 10
North of England -72 14 £588 +23.68% 6
South West - 10 £575 - 9
Midlands -54 9 £700 +75.00% 4
Yorkshire -36 7 £575 -
North West -56 7 £650 +36.84% 5
West Midlands -50 6 £700 +38.61% 1
East Midlands -19 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £345 - 1
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
1 113 (53.05%) AWS
2 63 (29.58%) Azure
3 51 (23.94%) Serverless
4 41 (19.25%) GCP
5 35 (16.43%) GitHub
6 31 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.98%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.51%) SaaS
10 11 (5.16%) Boomi
11 10 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.23%) Datadog
13 7 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.29%) iPaaS
14 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 31 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.57%) MySQL
4 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.63%) Redis
6 10 (4.69%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.76%) Metadata
8 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.82%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.35%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.88%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.41%) Stardog
13 3 (1.41%) TigerGraph
13 3 (1.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (11.74%) Git
1 25 (11.74%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.98%) Cypress.io
3 12 (5.63%) Vite
4 5 (2.35%) GitLab
4 5 (2.35%) JSUnit
5 3 (1.41%) Android Studio
5 3 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.41%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.41%) Gradle
5 3 (1.41%) webpack
5 3 (1.41%) Xcode
6 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.94%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.94%) JUnit
6 2 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.94%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.94%) Storybook
General
1 39 (18.31%) Finance
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.39%) Front Office
5 8 (3.76%) Retail
6 7 (3.29%) Banking
7 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.88%) Games
10 3 (1.41%) Back Office
10 3 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.41%) Marketing
10 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.94%) Billing
11 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 86 (40.38%) Developer
2 40 (18.78%) Senior
3 29 (13.62%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.21%) Architect
5 23 (10.80%) Lead
6 20 (9.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (9.39%) Senior 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%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.69%) Lead Software Developer
15 9 (4.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 9 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
15 9 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (44.60%) 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 28 (13.15%) OAuth
8 25 (11.74%) CSS
9 24 (11.27%) Redux
10 19 (8.92%) HTML
10 19 (8.92%) OAuth2
10 19 (8.92%) Spring
10 19 (8.92%) Terraform
11 18 (8.45%) Playwright
12 17 (7.98%) JWT
12 17 (7.98%) SOAP
13 16 (7.51%) AngularJS
13 16 (7.51%) gRPC
14 15 (7.04%) JSON
15 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 5 (2.35%) 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%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
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 79 (37.09%) Agile
3 62 (29.11%) Microservices
4 54 (25.35%) Software Engineering
5 50 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (21.60%) DevOps
7 44 (20.66%) Event-Driven
8 37 (17.37%) User Experience
9 35 (16.43%) E-Commerce
10 34 (15.96%) AI
11 31 (14.55%) API Design
11 31 (14.55%) Test Automation
12 29 (13.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 29 (13.62%) Observability
12 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.68%) TDD
14 26 (12.21%) Code Quality
14 26 (12.21%) Mentoring
15 24 (11.27%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (52.11%) TypeScript
2 67 (31.46%) Java
3 64 (30.05%) 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%) QA
2 13 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.29%) WCAG
4 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.88%) GDPR
6 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) PSD2
8 1 (0.47%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (20.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.57%) Grafana
2 14 (6.57%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.94%) Ansible
4 2 (0.94%) Istio
4 2 (0.94%) linkerd
4 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%) Databricks
10 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.94%) New Relic
10 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow