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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 343 336
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 -26
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 219 132 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 2.46% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 89 163
10th Percentile £326 £362 £325
25th Percentile £459 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.91% -15.83%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £600
90th Percentile - £730 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £64.35 - £56.20
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +1.67%

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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -43 135 £700 +19.15% 36
North of England -52 27 £575 +38.06% 6
South East -39 26 £465 +9.41% 7
North West -16 23 £575 +38.06% 5
Midlands -50 11 £700 +66.67% 5
South West - 10 £700 - 4
East Midlands -21 6 £498 +18.57% 3
West Midlands -57 5 £700 +60.00% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £538 -
East of England -26 3 £675 +35.00% 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 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (52.05%) AWS
2 42 (19.18%) Serverless
3 41 (18.72%) Azure
4 35 (15.98%) GitHub
5 32 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (13.70%) GCP
7 27 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (8.68%) SaaS
9 18 (8.22%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.48%) Datadog
11 11 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.74%) Figma
15 6 (2.74%) Sauce Labs
16 5 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (2.28%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) HTTP
2 3 (1.37%) DSL
2 3 (1.37%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.91%) NaaS
3 2 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.05%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.76%) MySQL
4 15 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (5.94%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.02%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.65%) Redis
8 5 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.28%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.37%) Metadata
10 3 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.37%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.37%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.91%) Flink
11 2 (0.91%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.91%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (10.50%) Git
2 22 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.48%) Gradle
4 11 (5.02%) GitLab
5 9 (4.11%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.11%) Vite
6 7 (3.20%) Android Studio
6 7 (3.20%) Xcode
7 6 (2.74%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (2.74%) Eclipse
8 5 (2.28%) fastlane
9 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.83%) Maven
10 3 (1.37%) Selenium
10 3 (1.37%) webpack
11 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.91%) JIRA
11 2 (0.91%) Mocha
11 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (22.37%) Finance
2 37 (16.89%) Front Office
3 25 (11.42%) Social Skills
4 16 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.20%) Banking
6 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.74%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Games
7 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.37%) Back Office
8 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.91%) Billing
9 2 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
9 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (44.29%) Developer
2 50 (22.83%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.09%) Senior
4 35 (15.98%) Lead
5 32 (14.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (11.87%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.59%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (8.68%) Java Engineer
10 18 (8.22%) React Developer
11 17 (7.76%) Architect
11 17 (7.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (6.85%) Java Developer
12 15 (6.85%) Python Developer
13 13 (5.94%) Backend Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
15 11 (5.02%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 9 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (42.47%) React
2 84 (38.36%) REST
3 72 (32.88%) Node.js
4 58 (26.48%) Kafka
5 42 (19.18%) Redux
6 29 (13.24%) RESTful
7 20 (9.13%) Spring
8 17 (7.76%) Next.js
8 17 (7.76%) Playwright
8 17 (7.76%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.31%) AngularJS
9 16 (7.31%) Django
9 16 (7.31%) OAuth
10 15 (6.85%) CSS
10 15 (6.85%) Vue
11 13 (5.94%) Jest
12 11 (5.02%) HTML
12 11 (5.02%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (4.57%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.07%) Fixed Income
3 24 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.39%) Mobile App
5 13 (5.94%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.91%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) CMDB
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Life Science
9 1 (0.46%) LIMS
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.22%) Android
2 16 (7.31%) Linux
3 10 (4.57%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.74%) Unix
4 6 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (38.81%) CI/CD
2 77 (35.16%) Agile
3 75 (34.25%) Software Engineering
4 54 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (21.92%) DevOps
6 42 (19.18%) Microservices
7 38 (17.35%) E-Commerce
8 36 (16.44%) Investment Management
8 36 (16.44%) User Experience
9 34 (15.53%) Observability
10 33 (15.07%) Test Automation
11 32 (14.61%) Order Management
11 32 (14.61%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (14.16%) Containerisation
12 31 (14.16%) Event-Driven
13 28 (12.79%) Code Quality
14 27 (12.33%) Mentoring
15 26 (11.87%) API Design
16 23 (10.50%) AI
17 22 (10.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.49%) TypeScript
2 92 (42.01%) Java
3 82 (37.44%) Python
4 64 (29.22%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.09%) Go
6 24 (10.96%) SQL
7 14 (6.39%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.65%) Swift
9 6 (2.74%) Perl
10 4 (1.83%) C#
10 4 (1.83%) Scala
11 3 (1.37%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.91%) Bash
12 2 (0.91%) Bicep
12 2 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.91%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.46%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.11%) Degree
4 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.02%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) WCAG
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) ITGC
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (22.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.05%) Grafana
3 18 (8.22%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.39%) Terraform
5 2 (0.91%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.91%) Ansible
5 2 (0.91%) Puppet
5 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 18 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.74%) Oracle
2 6 (2.74%) Splunk
3 5 (2.28%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.37%) New Relic
6 2 (0.91%) Adobe
6 2 (0.91%) Amdocs
6 2 (0.91%) Ciena
6 2 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.91%) Netlify
6 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Braze
7 1 (0.46%) BT
7 1 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.46%) Confluent
7 1 (0.46%) Databricks
7 1 (0.46%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic