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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 316 317
Rank change year-on-year -113 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 202 207 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.07% 3.03% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 152 156
10th Percentile £385 £310 £363
25th Percentile £470 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £509 £533
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -4.60% -11.17%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.19% -7.30%
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 9,767 6,839 8,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 4,711 5,585
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 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 26 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 26 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 -78 137 £593 +3.09% 28
South East -69 28 £460 +65.77% 6
North of England -78 14 £588 +23.68% 7
South West - 9 £450 - 12
Yorkshire -36 7 £575 -
North West -57 7 £650 +36.84% 6
Midlands -60 6 £700 +75.00% 5
West Midlands -62 5 £700 +38.61%
East of England - 3 £345 - 2
East Midlands -19 1 - - 5
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 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Luigi
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.98%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.99%) 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
1 104 (51.49%) AWS
2 63 (31.19%) Azure
3 50 (24.75%) Serverless
4 39 (19.31%) GCP
5 34 (16.83%) GitHub
6 29 (14.36%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.42%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.92%) SaaS
10 11 (5.45%) Boomi
11 10 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.46%) Datadog
13 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.47%) iPaaS
14 6 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) NaaS
2 2 (0.99%) WAN
3 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.84%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.89%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.42%) MySQL
4 13 (6.44%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.94%) Redis
6 9 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.46%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.96%) Metadata
8 7 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.97%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.49%) Stardog
12 3 (1.49%) TigerGraph
12 3 (1.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.88%) Git
3 17 (8.42%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.94%) Vite
5 5 (2.48%) GitLab
5 5 (2.48%) JSUnit
6 3 (1.49%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.49%) webpack
6 3 (1.49%) Xcode
7 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.99%) Gradle
7 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.99%) JUnit
7 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.99%) Storybook
8 1 (0.50%) Spock
General
1 38 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.84%) Finance
3 23 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.94%) Front Office
5 8 (3.96%) Retail
6 7 (3.47%) Banking
7 6 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.98%) Games
10 3 (1.49%) Back Office
10 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (37.62%) Developer
2 41 (20.30%) Senior
3 26 (12.87%) Architect
4 22 (10.89%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.90%) Senior Developer
6 19 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (8.91%) Lead
8 17 (8.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 14 (6.93%) React Developer
10 12 (5.94%) Backend Developer
10 12 (5.94%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.46%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Backend Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.47%) Python Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (46.53%) REST
2 76 (37.62%) React
3 56 (27.72%) Node.js
4 50 (24.75%) Kafka
5 30 (14.85%) OAuth
5 30 (14.85%) RESTful
6 29 (14.36%) Next.js
7 27 (13.37%) CSS
8 21 (10.40%) HTML
8 21 (10.40%) OAuth2
9 19 (9.41%) Terraform
10 18 (8.91%) Spring
11 17 (8.42%) JWT
11 17 (8.42%) Playwright
11 17 (8.42%) SOAP
12 16 (7.92%) AngularJS
12 16 (7.92%) Redux
13 15 (7.43%) JSON
14 14 (6.93%) gRPC
14 14 (6.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.28%) Cloud Native
2 36 (17.82%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.46%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.96%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.98%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.98%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.45%) Android
2 7 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.48%) Linux
4 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.04%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.66%) Agile
3 62 (30.69%) Microservices
4 45 (22.28%) DevOps
4 45 (22.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (22.28%) Software Engineering
5 44 (21.78%) Event-Driven
6 37 (18.32%) User Experience
7 35 (17.33%) AI
7 35 (17.33%) E-Commerce
8 31 (15.35%) API Design
9 30 (14.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 30 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (14.85%) Test Automation
10 29 (14.36%) Observability
11 27 (13.37%) Mentoring
12 26 (12.87%) Code Quality
12 26 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (11.88%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (11.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 104 (51.49%) TypeScript
2 61 (30.20%) Java
3 58 (28.71%) Python
4 48 (23.76%) JavaScript
5 38 (18.81%) SQL
6 22 (10.89%) Go
7 13 (6.44%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.47%) C#
8 7 (3.47%) Scala
9 6 (2.97%) Swift
10 5 (2.48%) Bash
10 5 (2.48%) Cypher
10 5 (2.48%) Ruby
10 5 (2.48%) Rust
10 5 (2.48%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.49%) Bicep
11 3 (1.49%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.49%) Perl
11 3 (1.49%) PHP
11 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.93%) Degree
2 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.93%) QA
2 13 (6.44%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.47%) WCAG
4 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) PSD2
7 1 (0.50%) ITGC
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (20.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.44%) Grafana
2 13 (6.44%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Istio
4 2 (0.99%) linkerd
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 13 (6.44%) Google
4 10 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.47%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.97%) IBM
6 6 (2.97%) Informatica
6 6 (2.97%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.97%) WSO2
7 5 (2.48%) SAP
8 4 (1.98%) Confluent
8 4 (1.98%) Databricks
8 4 (1.98%) Workday
9 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.49%) Splunk
10 2 (0.99%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.99%) Ciena
10 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.99%) New Relic
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow