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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 362 361
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -50
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 210 110 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 2.01% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 75 143
10th Percentile £205 £363 £325
25th Percentile £407 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -15.25%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.70
25th Percentile £70.63 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -17 130 £650 +8.33% 27
North of England -48 25 £575 +56.89% 14
South East -41 24 £265 -35.21% 15
North West -18 22 £575 +56.89% 5
Midlands -54 16 £700 +76.66% 8
South West -15 8 £700 +13.36% 9
West Midlands -46 8 £700 +76.66% 2
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 6
Yorkshire -57 3 £575 - 5
East of England -32 2 £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 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 95 (45.24%) AWS
2 40 (19.05%) Azure
3 37 (17.62%) Serverless
4 32 (15.24%) SaaS
5 30 (14.29%) GitHub
6 27 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (12.38%) GCP
8 22 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.24%) Datadog
12 9 (4.29%) Sauce Labs
13 7 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (2.86%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.86%) Figma
15 5 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.38%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (1.90%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.86%) Wireless
2 4 (1.90%) HTTP
3 3 (1.43%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.43%) SSL
4 2 (0.95%) DSL
4 2 (0.95%) NaaS
4 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.48%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.52%) MySQL
4 12 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.29%) Redis
8 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.95%) Flink
11 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.48%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 40 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.00%) Git
3 12 (5.71%) Gradle
4 11 (5.24%) Android Studio
5 10 (4.76%) GitLab
5 10 (4.76%) Xcode
6 9 (4.29%) Browser DevTools
6 9 (4.29%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.81%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.38%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.90%) fastlane
9 4 (1.90%) JIRA
10 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.43%) Maven
10 3 (1.43%) Mocha
10 3 (1.43%) Vite
11 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.95%) JUnit
11 2 (0.95%) Mockito
11 2 (0.95%) XCTest
General
1 45 (21.43%) Finance
2 37 (17.62%) Front Office
3 35 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.86%) Banking
6 5 (2.38%) Billing
6 5 (2.38%) Games
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Aviation
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (46.19%) Developer
2 47 (22.38%) Senior
3 45 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 37 (17.62%) Lead
5 32 (15.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (12.86%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
8 21 (10.00%) Python Developer
9 20 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (8.10%) Java Engineer
11 14 (6.67%) Consultant
11 14 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (6.67%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 14 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
11 14 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
12 13 (6.19%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (41.43%) React
2 84 (40.00%) Node.js
3 81 (38.57%) REST
4 45 (21.43%) Redux
5 44 (20.95%) Kafka
6 31 (14.76%) Playwright
7 24 (11.43%) Vitest
8 23 (10.95%) RESTful
9 19 (9.05%) OAuth
10 18 (8.57%) AngularJS
11 17 (8.10%) CSS
12 16 (7.62%) YAML
13 15 (7.14%) gRPC
13 15 (7.14%) Next.js
14 14 (6.67%) Django
14 14 (6.67%) Jest
14 14 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (6.67%) Spring
15 13 (6.19%) Spring Boot
16 12 (5.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.24%) Fixed Income
3 17 (8.10%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.48%) CMDB
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.10%) Linux
2 14 (6.67%) Android
3 9 (4.29%) Unix
3 9 (4.29%) Windows
4 5 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.81%) Agile
3 68 (32.38%) Software Engineering
4 58 (27.62%) DevOps
4 58 (27.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (19.52%) Mentoring
6 40 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 36 (17.14%) Microservices
7 36 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 34 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (15.71%) User Experience
10 32 (15.24%) E-Commerce
10 32 (15.24%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.24%) Order Management
10 32 (15.24%) Portfolio Management
11 30 (14.29%) Code Quality
12 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (12.38%) Observability
14 24 (11.43%) API Design
14 24 (11.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 100 (47.62%) TypeScript
2 84 (40.00%) Python
3 81 (38.57%) Java
4 69 (32.86%) JavaScript
5 47 (22.38%) Go
6 24 (11.43%) SQL
7 9 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.29%) Perl
8 8 (3.81%) C#
9 7 (3.33%) PHP
10 5 (2.38%) Bash
10 5 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.90%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.90%) Swift
12 2 (0.95%) C++
12 2 (0.95%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.48%) Cypher
13 1 (0.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.48%) Rust
13 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (7.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) Degree
5 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.38%) QA
3 5 (2.38%) WCAG
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (31.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.90%) Grafana
3 20 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.67%) Terraform
5 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 26 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.24%) Oracle
3 9 (4.29%) Splunk
4 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.38%) Adobe
6 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.43%) Databricks
7 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.95%) Ciena
8 2 (0.95%) Google
8 2 (0.95%) New Relic
8 2 (0.95%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.48%) Apple
9 1 (0.48%) BT
9 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.48%) Marketo
9 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.48%) Netlify