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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 298 344
Rank change year-on-year -134 +46 -9
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 208 228 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 3.21% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 170 130
10th Percentile £400 £254 £345
25th Percentile £455 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.76% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £602
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +12.30% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £76.50 - £43.38
25th Percentile £78.75 - £44.69
Median hourly rate £82.50 £55.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +12.82% -20.08%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £52.19
90th Percentile £88.50 - £53.13
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% +12.82% -20.08%

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 9,900 7,112 7,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.48% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,509 4,807 5,152
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £449 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 171 159
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.43 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +9.62%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -93 138 £588 - 203
South East -68 28 £460 +121.69% 11
North of England -52 25 £600 +13.74% 31
North West -41 19 £600 +24.68% 21
Yorkshire -35 5 £588 -1.34% 8
South West -35 4 £413 -36.54% 5
Midlands -59 4 £575 -0.43% 17
West Midlands -60 3 £575 -11.54% 8
East of England - 2 £345 - 8
East Midlands -16 1 - - 9
North East -42 1 - - 2
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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.92%) Apache
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) WordPress
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.48%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.48%) Sketch
3 1 (0.48%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.48%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (55.77%) AWS
2 76 (36.54%) Azure
3 57 (27.40%) Serverless
4 42 (20.19%) GCP
5 39 (18.75%) GitHub
6 34 (16.35%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.54%) Amazon S3
8 23 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.21%) SaaS
10 14 (6.73%) Boomi
11 13 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (5.29%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.81%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.33%) Datadog
16 8 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (15.87%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.06%) MySQL
4 13 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.77%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.85%) Metadata
7 8 (3.85%) Redis
8 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.40%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.40%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.92%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.92%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.44%) Stardog
11 3 (1.44%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (16.35%) Git
2 26 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.81%) Vite
5 7 (3.37%) Gradle
6 6 (2.88%) Claude Code
6 6 (2.88%) GitLab
6 6 (2.88%) Xcode
7 5 (2.40%) JSUnit
7 5 (2.40%) JUnit
8 4 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.92%) Maven
9 3 (1.44%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.44%) Mockito
9 3 (1.44%) Postman
9 3 (1.44%) webpack
10 2 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.96%) Storybook
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.90%) Finance
3 26 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.33%) Banking
5 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Retail
6 6 (2.88%) Front Office
7 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.92%) Marketing
8 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.92%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Back Office
9 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 70 (33.65%) Developer
2 45 (21.63%) Senior
3 29 (13.94%) Architect
4 26 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (8.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.77%) React Developer
9 12 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.81%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.33%) JavaScript Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.85%) Azure Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (3.37%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (52.40%) REST
2 78 (37.50%) React
3 49 (23.56%) Kafka
3 49 (23.56%) Node.js
4 37 (17.79%) OAuth
5 32 (15.38%) RESTful
6 31 (14.90%) Next.js
7 29 (13.94%) CSS
8 27 (12.98%) OAuth2
9 23 (11.06%) HTML
10 21 (10.10%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.62%) Spring
11 20 (9.62%) Vue
12 19 (9.13%) Terraform
13 18 (8.65%) JWT
13 18 (8.65%) SOAP
14 17 (8.17%) JSON
14 17 (8.17%) Middleware
14 17 (8.17%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (7.69%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.79%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.58%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.65%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.81%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.92%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.96%) Life Science
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.48%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.48%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.21%) Android
2 9 (4.33%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.88%) Linux
4 4 (1.92%) Unix
4 4 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (49.52%) CI/CD
2 76 (36.54%) Agile
3 65 (31.25%) Microservices
4 61 (29.33%) Event-Driven
5 46 (22.12%) AI
5 46 (22.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 46 (22.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (19.71%) DevOps
7 38 (18.27%) Software Engineering
8 37 (17.79%) Observability
9 36 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (17.31%) User Experience
10 35 (16.83%) E-Commerce
11 33 (15.87%) API Design
12 31 (14.90%) Test Automation
13 30 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (12.98%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 26 (12.50%) TDD
16 25 (12.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (48.56%) TypeScript
2 68 (32.69%) Java
3 56 (26.92%) Python
4 55 (26.44%) JavaScript
5 42 (20.19%) SQL
6 21 (10.10%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.29%) Go
7 11 (5.29%) Scala
8 10 (4.81%) C#
9 8 (3.85%) Swift
10 7 (3.37%) Ruby
10 7 (3.37%) Rust
11 6 (2.88%) Bash
12 5 (2.40%) Cypher
12 5 (2.40%) Perl
13 4 (1.92%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.44%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.96%) Elixir
15 2 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (9.62%) Degree
2 15 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.73%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.06%) QA
2 13 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.40%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 2 (0.96%) PSD2
4 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) ITGC
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (19.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (24.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.29%) Grafana
3 8 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
6 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Google
3 20 (9.62%) Oracle
4 12 (5.77%) IBM
4 12 (5.77%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.81%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.33%) Informatica
6 9 (4.33%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.33%) WSO2
7 8 (3.85%) Databricks
7 8 (3.85%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.40%) SAP
9 4 (1.92%) Workday
10 3 (1.44%) Confluent
10 3 (1.44%) Foundry
10 3 (1.44%) Splunk
10 3 (1.44%) UiPath
11 2 (0.96%) Adobe
11 2 (0.96%) New Relic
12 1 (0.48%) Guidewire