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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 286 331
Rank change year-on-year -163 +45 +1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 194 227 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.82% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 3.25% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 164 147
10th Percentile £393 £294 £360
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £518 £533
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.91% -7.30%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £603
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -6.29%
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 9,810 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
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 269 163 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

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 16 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 16 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 -107 132 £588 - 286
South East -68 29 £460 +71.00% 27
North of England -82 14 £575 +17.95% 49
South West -43 7 £425 -34.62% 19
North West -51 7 £650 +35.06% 33
Yorkshire -45 6 £538 -9.74% 15
Midlands -57 3 £575 +36.90% 18
West Midlands -60 3 £575 -11.54% 8
East of England - 3 £345 - 15
North East - 1 - - 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 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.58%) Apache
3 4 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) WordPress
5 1 (0.52%) Luigi
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.52%) Sketch
3 1 (0.52%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Magento
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.52%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 100 (51.55%) AWS
2 70 (36.08%) Azure
3 49 (25.26%) Serverless
4 36 (18.56%) GCP
5 35 (18.04%) GitHub
6 29 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (10.31%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.76%) SaaS
10 13 (6.70%) Boomi
11 11 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (5.15%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.64%) iPaaS
14 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.61%) Figma
15 7 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.07%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (13.40%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.31%) MySQL
4 13 (6.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.15%) Redis
7 9 (4.64%) Metadata
8 8 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.12%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.09%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.58%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.58%) Weaviate
11 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.55%) Stardog
12 3 (1.55%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 31 (15.98%) Git
2 23 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.76%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.19%) Vite
5 6 (3.09%) GitLab
6 5 (2.58%) JSUnit
7 4 (2.06%) JUnit
8 3 (1.55%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.55%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.55%) Gradle
8 3 (1.55%) Maven
8 3 (1.55%) Postman
8 3 (1.55%) webpack
8 3 (1.55%) Xcode
9 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.03%) Mockito
9 2 (1.03%) Storybook
General
1 45 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.43%) Finance
3 25 (12.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.61%) Banking
4 7 (3.61%) Retail
5 6 (3.09%) Front Office
6 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.06%) Marketing
7 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Back Office
8 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Games
8 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Aviation
10 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (35.57%) Developer
2 42 (21.65%) Senior
3 24 (12.37%) Architect
4 21 (10.82%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (9.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.19%) React Developer
9 10 (5.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (5.15%) Lead
10 9 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.12%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.12%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.61%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.09%) Energy Trading Developer
13 6 (3.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (50.52%) REST
2 74 (38.14%) React
3 46 (23.71%) Kafka
3 46 (23.71%) Node.js
4 34 (17.53%) OAuth
5 30 (15.46%) CSS
5 30 (15.46%) Next.js
6 27 (13.92%) RESTful
7 25 (12.89%) OAuth2
8 24 (12.37%) HTML
9 20 (10.31%) AngularJS
10 18 (9.28%) JWT
11 17 (8.76%) JSON
11 17 (8.76%) SOAP
11 17 (8.76%) Spring
11 17 (8.76%) Terraform
12 16 (8.25%) CSS3
12 16 (8.25%) HTML5
12 16 (8.25%) Middleware
12 16 (8.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 34 (17.53%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 14 (7.22%) AI Agents
5 11 (5.67%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.09%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.06%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Life Science
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.67%) Android
2 7 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.09%) Linux
4 4 (2.06%) Unix
4 4 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (46.39%) CI/CD
2 63 (32.47%) Agile
3 60 (30.93%) Microservices
4 51 (26.29%) Event-Driven
5 45 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (20.62%) DevOps
7 39 (20.10%) AI
8 38 (19.59%) User Experience
9 37 (19.07%) Software Engineering
10 36 (18.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (16.49%) API Design
12 31 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (15.46%) E-Commerce
14 27 (13.92%) Observability
14 27 (13.92%) Test Automation
15 25 (12.89%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.89%) Mentoring
16 24 (12.37%) API Integration
16 24 (12.37%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (12.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 96 (49.48%) TypeScript
2 57 (29.38%) Java
3 56 (28.87%) Python
4 46 (23.71%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.10%) SQL
6 14 (7.22%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.67%) Go
8 8 (4.12%) C#
8 8 (4.12%) Scala
9 6 (3.09%) Ruby
9 6 (3.09%) Rust
9 6 (3.09%) Swift
10 5 (2.58%) Bash
10 5 (2.58%) Cypher
11 4 (2.06%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.55%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.55%) Perl
12 3 (1.55%) PHP
12 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.03%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 16 (8.25%) Degree
2 13 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.73%) QA
2 14 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.12%) WCAG
4 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.58%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) PSD2
5 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) ITGC
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (17.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (19.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.12%) Grafana
2 8 (4.12%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (0.52%) Istio
5 1 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 29 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.28%) Oracle
3 16 (8.25%) Google
4 9 (4.64%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.12%) Databricks
5 8 (4.12%) IBM
5 8 (4.12%) Informatica
5 8 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.12%) TIBCO
5 8 (4.12%) WSO2
6 7 (3.61%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.06%) Confluent
7 4 (2.06%) SAP
7 4 (2.06%) Workday
8 3 (1.55%) Splunk
9 2 (1.03%) Adobe
9 2 (1.03%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.52%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic