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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 333 365
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -61
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 208 154 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.96% 2.60% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 105 140
10th Percentile £204 £368 £325
25th Percentile £352 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £680 £700 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £59.00 - £52.20
25th Percentile £59.75 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%
75th Percentile £66.75 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £68.70 - £69.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%

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 7,036 5,921 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.15% 21.96% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,705 3,786 5,491
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.84% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 70 164
10th Percentile £32.03 £26.25 £28.87
25th Percentile £44.34 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -9 125 £500 -13.04% 86
South East -1 33 £208 -49.27% 103
North of England -27 21 £575 +48.39% 60
Midlands -22 17 £650 +18.18% 30
North West -12 16 £528 +40.67% 35
West Midlands -24 12 £650 +18.18% 10
South West -24 8 £650 +44.44% 37
East Midlands - 5 £385 - 20
Yorkshire -45 3 £585 +30.06% 20
North East - 2 £600 - 5
East of England -20 1 - - 46
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 5 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.92%) Apache
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.92%) CMS
2 4 (1.92%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
2 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.48%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.85%) AWS
2 54 (25.96%) SaaS
3 45 (21.63%) Azure
4 42 (20.19%) GitHub
5 37 (17.79%) Serverless
6 34 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (10.10%) GCP
9 18 (8.65%) Sauce Labs
10 14 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.29%) Datadog
12 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.33%) Figma
14 8 (3.85%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
16 6 (2.88%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.88%) Firebase
17 5 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.21%) Wireless
2 3 (1.44%) SSL
3 2 (0.96%) HTTP
3 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.38%) MySQL
2 32 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.21%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.25%) Redis
5 11 (5.29%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.48%) Hasura
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.98%) Git
3 20 (9.62%) Android Studio
4 19 (9.13%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (9.13%) Xcode
5 18 (8.65%) Eclipse
6 11 (5.29%) Gradle
7 10 (4.81%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.81%) GitLab
8 9 (4.33%) JIRA
9 6 (2.88%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.40%) webpack
11 4 (1.92%) JUnit
11 4 (1.92%) Maven
11 4 (1.92%) Mocha
11 4 (1.92%) Mockito
11 4 (1.92%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.44%) fastlane
13 2 (0.96%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 58 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.17%) Finance
3 16 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.85%) Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Front Office
6 4 (1.92%) Games
7 3 (1.44%) Billing
7 3 (1.44%) Retail
8 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.48%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (34.62%) Developer
2 50 (24.04%) Senior
3 28 (13.46%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 19 (9.13%) Support Engineer
4 19 (9.13%) Technical Engineer
4 19 (9.13%) Technical Support
4 19 (9.13%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (9.13%) UX Engineer
5 18 (8.65%) Backend Developer
5 18 (8.65%) Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Senior Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 18 (8.65%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Technical Specialist
6 17 (8.17%) Python Developer
7 15 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (38.46%) React
2 74 (35.58%) Node.js
3 73 (35.10%) REST
4 36 (17.31%) Playwright
5 33 (15.87%) CSS
6 31 (14.90%) Vitest
7 29 (13.94%) OAuth
8 26 (12.50%) RESTful
9 23 (11.06%) AngularJS
10 22 (10.58%) Next.js
11 21 (10.10%) Ajax
12 20 (9.62%) YAML
13 19 (9.13%) OAuth2
14 18 (8.65%) Redux
15 16 (7.69%) gRPC
15 16 (7.69%) Jest
15 16 (7.69%) WebSockets
16 14 (6.73%) HTML
17 13 (6.25%) Kafka
17 13 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.48%) IVR
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Replication
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.02%) Android
2 24 (11.54%) Linux
3 19 (9.13%) Unix
3 19 (9.13%) Windows
4 7 (3.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (51.44%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.83%) Agile
3 70 (33.65%) DevOps
4 56 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 55 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (24.04%) Mentoring
7 48 (23.08%) User Experience
8 41 (19.71%) E-Commerce
8 41 (19.71%) Microservices
9 37 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (16.83%) API Design
11 33 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (15.38%) Code Quality
13 31 (14.90%) Coaching
14 30 (14.42%) Software Engineering
15 29 (13.94%) Test Automation
16 27 (12.98%) AI
17 25 (12.02%) Observability
18 22 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
19 21 (10.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (44.23%) TypeScript
2 76 (36.54%) Python
3 69 (33.17%) Java
4 62 (29.81%) JavaScript
5 30 (14.42%) SQL
6 23 (11.06%) Go
7 19 (9.13%) Perl
8 9 (4.33%) PHP
9 8 (3.85%) C#
9 8 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.40%) Bash
10 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.92%) Swift
12 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
14 1 (0.48%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Degree
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.85%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) QA
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (39.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (36.06%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.06%) Grafana
3 20 (9.62%) Terraform
4 17 (8.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.96%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) Istio
6 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.58%) Oracle
3 21 (10.10%) Splunk
4 16 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.33%) Adobe
6 7 (3.37%) Google
7 6 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.44%) Confluent
10 3 (1.44%) Gigya
10 3 (1.44%) New Relic
11 2 (0.96%) Databricks
11 2 (0.96%) Marketo
11 2 (0.96%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.48%) Okta