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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 307 338
Rank change year-on-year -134 +31 -3
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 189 214 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 3.10% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 155 154
10th Percentile £400 £311 £365
25th Percentile £458 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £534
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -5.43% -11.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -7.90%
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 9,753 6,907 8,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 24.89% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,423 4,743 5,578
10th Percentile £376 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 166 183
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £76.85 £74.79
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -91 125 £588 +2.17% 110
South East -65 28 £460 +65.77% 13
North of England -74 15 £588 +23.68% 21
South West -34 8 £438 -32.69% 12
North West -55 8 £650 +36.84% 18
Yorkshire -42 7 £575 - 3
West Midlands -50 4 £638 +10.39% 1
Midlands -60 4 £638 +51.79% 6
East of England - 3 £345 - 3
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 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.65%) Apache
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) WordPress
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Luigi
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.06%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 94 (49.74%) AWS
2 64 (33.86%) Azure
3 48 (25.40%) Serverless
4 36 (19.05%) GCP
5 31 (16.40%) GitHub
6 27 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.99%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.47%) SaaS
10 12 (6.35%) Boomi
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.23%) Datadog
13 8 (4.23%) iPaaS
14 7 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.53%) NaaS
2 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.93%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.64%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.99%) MySQL
4 13 (6.88%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.82%) Redis
6 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.23%) Metadata
7 8 (4.23%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.17%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.12%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.59%) Stardog
12 3 (1.59%) TigerGraph
12 3 (1.59%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (12.70%) Git
2 23 (12.17%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.99%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.35%) Vite
5 5 (2.65%) GitLab
5 5 (2.65%) JSUnit
6 3 (1.59%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.59%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.59%) webpack
6 3 (1.59%) Xcode
7 2 (1.06%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.06%) JUnit
7 2 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.06%) Storybook
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.53%) Spock
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 36 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.76%) Finance
3 23 (12.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.23%) Retail
5 7 (3.70%) Banking
6 6 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.65%) Front Office
7 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.12%) Games
9 3 (1.59%) Back Office
9 3 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Marketing
9 3 (1.59%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (34.39%) Developer
2 38 (20.11%) Senior
3 27 (14.29%) Architect
4 18 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (7.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) Lead
8 12 (6.35%) React Developer
9 10 (5.29%) Backend Developer
9 10 (5.29%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Azure Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.17%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (49.21%) REST
2 69 (36.51%) React
3 47 (24.87%) Node.js
4 43 (22.75%) Kafka
5 31 (16.40%) OAuth
6 29 (15.34%) Next.js
7 28 (14.81%) CSS
8 27 (14.29%) RESTful
9 22 (11.64%) HTML
10 21 (11.11%) OAuth2
11 18 (9.52%) Terraform
12 17 (8.99%) JWT
12 17 (8.99%) SOAP
12 17 (8.99%) Spring
13 16 (8.47%) AngularJS
13 16 (8.47%) JSON
13 16 (8.47%) Playwright
14 15 (7.94%) Middleware
15 14 (7.41%) CSS3
15 14 (7.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.28%) Cloud Native
2 35 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.82%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.23%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.12%) Sports Betting
8 4 (2.12%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Android
2 7 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.65%) Linux
4 3 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.09%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.75%) Microservices
3 58 (30.69%) Agile
4 45 (23.81%) Event-Driven
5 42 (22.22%) DevOps
6 40 (21.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (19.05%) User Experience
8 34 (17.99%) E-Commerce
8 34 (17.99%) Software Engineering
9 32 (16.93%) AI
10 31 (16.40%) API Design
10 31 (16.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 28 (14.81%) Observability
11 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 25 (13.23%) Mentoring
14 24 (12.70%) Code Quality
14 24 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (12.70%) Integration Patterns
15 23 (12.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (50.26%) TypeScript
2 52 (27.51%) Java
3 50 (26.46%) Python
4 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
5 35 (18.52%) SQL
6 13 (6.88%) Go
7 12 (6.35%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.70%) C#
8 7 (3.70%) Scala
9 6 (3.17%) Swift
10 5 (2.65%) Bash
10 5 (2.65%) Cypher
10 5 (2.65%) Ruby
10 5 (2.65%) Rust
11 4 (2.12%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.59%) Bicep
12 3 (1.59%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.59%) Perl
12 3 (1.59%) PHP
12 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (7.41%) Degree
2 12 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) Accessibility
1 13 (6.88%) QA
2 7 (3.70%) WCAG
3 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) PSD2
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (19.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (20.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.29%) Grafana
2 10 (5.29%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Istio
4 2 (1.06%) linkerd
4 2 (1.06%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.94%) Oracle
3 14 (7.41%) Google
4 9 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.23%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.70%) IBM
6 7 (3.70%) Informatica
6 7 (3.70%) TIBCO
6 7 (3.70%) WSO2
7 5 (2.65%) Databricks
7 5 (2.65%) SAP
8 4 (2.12%) Confluent
8 4 (2.12%) Workday
9 3 (1.59%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.59%) Splunk
10 2 (1.06%) New Relic
11 1 (0.53%) Braze
11 1 (0.53%) Ciena
11 1 (0.53%) Netlify
11 1 (0.53%) SnapLogic