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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 363 372
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -57
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 213 111 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 1.99% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 76 142
10th Percentile £204 £369 £325
25th Percentile £408 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +11.25% -15.25%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £719
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 7,855 5,582 7,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.94% 22.63% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,807 5,359
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £793 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 182
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +2 132 £625 +5.49% 29
North of England -56 25 £575 +53.33% 13
South East -44 24 £208 -49.27% 22
North West -8 22 £575 +53.33% 5
Midlands -43 17 £700 +76.66% 8
West Midlands -59 9 £700 +76.66% 2
South West -29 8 £700 +14.75% 11
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 6
Yorkshire -55 3 £575 - 5
East of England -21 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 (1.88%) CMS
2 3 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.54%) AWS
2 41 (19.25%) Azure
3 40 (18.78%) Serverless
4 34 (15.96%) SaaS
5 32 (15.02%) GitHub
6 29 (13.62%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (12.21%) GCP
8 23 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.16%) Datadog
12 10 (4.69%) Sauce Labs
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.29%) Figma
15 6 (2.82%) Entra ID
16 5 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (2.35%) Azure Functions
16 5 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (1.88%) AWS Fargate
17 4 (1.88%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Wireless
2 4 (1.88%) HTTP
3 3 (1.41%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.41%) SSL
4 2 (0.94%) DSL
4 2 (0.94%) NaaS
4 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.80%) Relational Database
3 21 (9.86%) MySQL
4 13 (6.10%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.69%) Redis
7 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.94%) Flink
9 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 40 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.86%) Git
3 12 (5.63%) Android Studio
3 12 (5.63%) Gradle
4 11 (5.16%) Xcode
5 10 (4.69%) Browser DevTools
5 10 (4.69%) Eclipse
5 10 (4.69%) GitLab
6 7 (3.29%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.35%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.88%) fastlane
8 4 (1.88%) JIRA
8 4 (1.88%) Maven
9 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.41%) Mocha
9 3 (1.41%) webpack
10 2 (0.94%) Mockito
10 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.94%) Selenium
10 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (21.13%) Finance
2 37 (17.37%) Front Office
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.23%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.82%) Banking
6 5 (2.35%) Billing
6 5 (2.35%) Games
7 4 (1.88%) Retail
8 3 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (46.48%) Developer
2 48 (22.54%) Senior
3 45 (21.13%) Software Engineer
4 37 (17.37%) Lead
5 32 (15.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.15%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (10.33%) Python Developer
9 21 (9.86%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (9.39%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.98%) Java Engineer
12 14 (6.57%) Backend Developer
12 14 (6.57%) Consultant
12 14 (6.57%) Senior Consultant
12 14 (6.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 14 (6.57%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 14 (6.57%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 14 (6.57%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 14 (6.57%) Technical Consultant
12 14 (6.57%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (42.25%) React
2 84 (39.44%) Node.js
3 83 (38.97%) REST
4 44 (20.66%) Kafka
4 44 (20.66%) Redux
5 31 (14.55%) Playwright
6 24 (11.27%) Vitest
7 22 (10.33%) RESTful
8 21 (9.86%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.39%) OAuth
10 19 (8.92%) CSS
11 16 (7.51%) gRPC
11 16 (7.51%) YAML
12 14 (6.57%) Django
12 14 (6.57%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (6.57%) Spring
13 13 (6.10%) Jest
13 13 (6.10%) Next.js
13 13 (6.10%) Spring Boot
14 12 (5.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.41%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.02%) Fixed Income
3 19 (8.92%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.94%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.47%) Animation
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.45%) Linux
2 17 (7.98%) Android
3 10 (4.69%) Unix
3 10 (4.69%) Windows
4 5 (2.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.13%) Agile
1 94 (44.13%) CI/CD
2 68 (31.92%) Software Engineering
3 60 (28.17%) DevOps
4 59 (27.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (19.72%) Mentoring
6 40 (18.78%) Containerisation
7 38 (17.84%) Microservices
8 35 (16.43%) Test Automation
8 35 (16.43%) User Experience
9 34 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (15.49%) E-Commerce
11 32 (15.02%) Investment Management
11 32 (15.02%) Order Management
11 32 (15.02%) Portfolio Management
12 30 (14.08%) Code Quality
13 28 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (12.21%) Observability
15 25 (11.74%) API Design
16 24 (11.27%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 101 (47.42%) TypeScript
2 85 (39.91%) Python
3 84 (39.44%) Java
4 72 (33.80%) JavaScript
5 48 (22.54%) Go
6 24 (11.27%) SQL
7 10 (4.69%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.69%) Perl
8 8 (3.76%) C#
9 7 (3.29%) PHP
10 5 (2.35%) Bash
10 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.41%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.41%) Swift
12 2 (0.94%) C++
12 2 (0.94%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.47%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.47%) Rust
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (7.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.82%) GDPR
3 5 (2.35%) QA
3 5 (2.35%) WCAG
4 4 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (31.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (27.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.21%) Grafana
3 21 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.10%) Terraform
5 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 28 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.63%) Oracle
3 10 (4.69%) Splunk
4 9 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.29%) Adobe
6 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.41%) Databricks
7 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.94%) Ciena
8 2 (0.94%) Google
8 2 (0.94%) Marketo
8 2 (0.94%) New Relic
8 2 (0.94%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.47%) Apple
9 1 (0.47%) BT
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) Netlify