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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 340 343
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 -41
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 221 162 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.64% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 109 147
10th Percentile £204 £373 £325
25th Percentile £365 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £656
90th Percentile £688 £700 £705
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 7,067 6,127 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,715 3,915 5,662
10th Percentile £355 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £637 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 71 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £44.34 £42.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

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 1 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 1 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 +1 131 £525 -8.70% 103
South East +9 37 £208 -49.27% 23
Midlands -18 22 £650 +18.18% 14
North of England -39 22 £573 +47.74% 30
North West -14 17 £518 +38.07% 24
West Midlands -19 15 £650 +18.18% 9
South West -15 8 £650 +44.44% 11
East Midlands - 7 £380 - 5
Yorkshire -51 3 £585 +30.06% 6
North East - 2 £600 - 1
East of England -16 1 - - 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 5 (2.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.81%) Apache
2 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.81%) CMS
2 4 (1.81%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.81%) SAP PM
1 4 (1.81%) Shopify
2 2 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.77%) AWS
2 58 (26.24%) SaaS
3 48 (21.72%) Azure
4 43 (19.46%) GitHub
5 40 (18.10%) Serverless
6 35 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (10.41%) GCP
9 20 (9.05%) Sauce Labs
10 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.43%) Datadog
12 11 (4.98%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (3.62%) Figma
15 7 (3.17%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.17%) Firebase
16 6 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.69%) Wireless
2 3 (1.36%) SSL
3 2 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.10%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (15.84%) Relational Database
3 34 (15.38%) MySQL
4 15 (6.79%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.33%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.88%) Redis
7 9 (4.07%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.17%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.71%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.45%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 53 (23.98%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.48%) Git
3 22 (9.95%) Android Studio
4 21 (9.50%) Browser DevTools
4 21 (9.50%) Xcode
5 20 (9.05%) Eclipse
6 13 (5.88%) JIRA
7 10 (4.52%) GitLab
7 10 (4.52%) Gradle
8 9 (4.07%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.26%) webpack
10 4 (1.81%) JUnit
10 4 (1.81%) Maven
10 4 (1.81%) Mocha
10 4 (1.81%) Mockito
10 4 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.90%) Snyk
11 2 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 66 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (9.05%) Finance
3 16 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.17%) Banking
5 5 (2.26%) Front Office
6 4 (1.81%) Games
7 3 (1.36%) Billing
7 3 (1.36%) Retail
8 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (34.39%) Developer
2 53 (23.98%) Senior
3 29 (13.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 21 (9.50%) Support Engineer
4 21 (9.50%) Technical Engineer
4 21 (9.50%) Technical Support
4 21 (9.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 21 (9.50%) UX Engineer
5 18 (8.14%) Backend Developer
5 18 (8.14%) Consultant
5 18 (8.14%) Senior Consultant
5 18 (8.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 18 (8.14%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 18 (8.14%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 18 (8.14%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 18 (8.14%) Technical Consultant
5 18 (8.14%) Technical Specialist
6 16 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (6.79%) Lead
7 15 (6.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (36.65%) React
2 77 (34.84%) Node.js
3 76 (34.39%) REST
4 35 (15.84%) CSS
4 35 (15.84%) Playwright
5 31 (14.03%) Vitest
6 30 (13.57%) RESTful
7 28 (12.67%) OAuth
8 26 (11.76%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.41%) Ajax
10 21 (9.50%) Next.js
11 20 (9.05%) YAML
12 19 (8.60%) OAuth2
13 17 (7.69%) gRPC
13 17 (7.69%) Redux
13 17 (7.69%) WebSockets
14 15 (6.79%) Jest
14 15 (6.79%) Kafka
15 14 (6.33%) Spring Boot
16 13 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.12%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.36%) N-Tier
5 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.45%) Animation
7 1 (0.45%) IVR
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.45%) Replication
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.22%) Android
2 23 (10.41%) Linux
3 21 (9.50%) Unix
3 21 (9.50%) Windows
4 8 (3.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.96%) CI/CD
2 96 (43.44%) Agile
3 74 (33.48%) DevOps
4 62 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (25.79%) Containerisation
6 52 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 51 (23.08%) User Experience
8 44 (19.91%) Microservices
9 41 (18.55%) E-Commerce
10 39 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (16.29%) API Design
11 36 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (14.93%) Code Quality
13 31 (14.03%) Coaching
13 31 (14.03%) Software Engineering
14 29 (13.12%) Test Automation
15 28 (12.67%) AI
16 25 (11.31%) Observability
16 25 (11.31%) Performance Optimisation
17 22 (9.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (42.53%) TypeScript
2 82 (37.10%) Python
3 73 (33.03%) Java
4 66 (29.86%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.67%) SQL
6 26 (11.76%) Go
7 21 (9.50%) Perl
8 9 (4.07%) PHP
9 8 (3.62%) C#
9 8 (3.62%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.26%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.26%) Bash
10 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.26%) Swift
11 4 (1.81%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.81%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) Rust
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.17%) Degree
3 7 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.62%) GDPR
3 5 (2.26%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) WCAG
5 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (37.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (34.39%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.41%) Grafana
2 23 (10.41%) Terraform
3 18 (8.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Istio
5 2 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.86%) Oracle
3 23 (10.41%) Splunk
4 18 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.07%) Adobe
6 7 (3.17%) Google
6 7 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.71%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.81%) SAP
10 3 (1.36%) Confluent
10 3 (1.36%) Gigya
10 3 (1.36%) New Relic
11 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.90%) Databricks
11 2 (0.90%) Marketo
11 2 (0.90%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft