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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 295 329
Rank change year-on-year -137 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 200 232 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.83% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 3.25% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 171 147
10th Percentile £385 £288 £353
25th Percentile £455 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -1.50% -8.58%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £603
90th Percentile £784 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £569 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +12.62% -5.25% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile - - £54.75
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -13.93%

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 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -101 138 £588 +2.17% 231
South East -72 28 £460 +93.07% 28
North of England -76 16 £600 +16.79% 37
North West -47 10 £625 +28.21% 26
South West -38 6 £413 -36.54% 19
Yorkshire -42 5 £575 -3.44% 10
West Midlands -55 3 £575 -11.54% 10
Midlands -60 3 £575 +24.32% 20
East of England - 3 £345 - 15
North East -40 1 - - 1
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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.50%) Apache
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) Luigi
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Magento
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (55.00%) AWS
2 75 (37.50%) Azure
3 54 (27.00%) Serverless
4 41 (20.50%) GCP
5 40 (20.00%) GitHub
6 31 (15.50%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (11.50%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.50%) SaaS
10 14 (7.00%) Boomi
11 13 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.50%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (5.00%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.50%) Entra ID
16 7 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.00%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.50%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.50%) MySQL
4 13 (6.50%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (5.00%) Redis
7 9 (4.50%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.50%) Metadata
8 7 (3.50%) Pinecone
9 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.00%) Weaviate
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.50%) Neo4j
11 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.50%) Stardog
12 3 (1.50%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 33 (16.50%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.00%) Vite
5 7 (3.50%) GitLab
6 6 (3.00%) Gradle
7 5 (2.50%) JSUnit
7 5 (2.50%) JUnit
7 5 (2.50%) Xcode
8 4 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.00%) Maven
9 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.50%) Mockito
9 3 (1.50%) Postman
9 3 (1.50%) webpack
10 2 (1.00%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.50%) Finance
3 26 (13.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.50%) Banking
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Front Office
5 7 (3.50%) Retail
6 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.50%) Marketing
7 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Back Office
8 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Games
8 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (34.50%) Developer
2 44 (22.00%) Senior
3 27 (13.50%) Architect
4 23 (11.50%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (8.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.00%) React Developer
9 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.50%) Lead
11 9 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Azure Developer
12 8 (4.00%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.00%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Energy Trading Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Python Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (53.00%) REST
2 74 (37.00%) React
3 47 (23.50%) Kafka
4 46 (23.00%) Node.js
5 38 (19.00%) OAuth
6 29 (14.50%) Next.js
7 28 (14.00%) CSS
7 28 (14.00%) OAuth2
8 27 (13.50%) RESTful
9 22 (11.00%) HTML
10 21 (10.50%) AngularJS
11 20 (10.00%) Middleware
12 19 (9.50%) JWT
13 18 (9.00%) SOAP
13 18 (9.00%) Spring
14 17 (8.50%) JSON
14 17 (8.50%) Vue
15 16 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (8.00%) Terraform
16 15 (7.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 34 (17.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 17 (8.50%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.50%) Life Science
9 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.50%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Android
2 8 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.00%) Linux
4 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.00%) CI/CD
2 65 (32.50%) Agile
3 62 (31.00%) Microservices
4 57 (28.50%) Event-Driven
5 45 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (22.00%) AI
7 43 (21.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 42 (21.00%) DevOps
9 39 (19.50%) Software Engineering
10 38 (19.00%) User Experience
11 33 (16.50%) API Design
12 31 (15.50%) E-Commerce
12 31 (15.50%) Observability
12 31 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.00%) Test Automation
14 27 (13.50%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
16 24 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
16 24 (12.00%) TDD
17 23 (11.50%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 61 (30.50%) Java
3 58 (29.00%) Python
4 48 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 41 (20.50%) SQL
6 18 (9.00%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.50%) Go
8 10 (5.00%) C#
9 9 (4.50%) Scala
10 7 (3.50%) Swift
11 6 (3.00%) Ruby
11 6 (3.00%) Rust
12 5 (2.50%) Bash
12 5 (2.50%) Cypher
13 4 (2.00%) Perl
13 4 (2.00%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.50%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.50%) PHP
14 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 18 (9.00%) Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) QA
2 13 (6.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) WCAG
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) PSD2
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (18.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.00%) Grafana
2 8 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Google
3 20 (10.00%) Oracle
4 12 (6.00%) IBM
4 12 (6.00%) OpenAI
5 10 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.50%) Informatica
6 9 (4.50%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.50%) WSO2
7 8 (4.00%) Databricks
7 8 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.50%) SAP
9 4 (2.00%) Workday
10 3 (1.50%) Confluent
10 3 (1.50%) Foundry
10 3 (1.50%) Splunk
10 3 (1.50%) UiPath
11 2 (1.00%) Adobe
11 2 (1.00%) New Relic
12 1 (0.50%) Guidewire