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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 367 355
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -49
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 227 121 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 2.10% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 80 142
10th Percentile £204 £362 £325
25th Percentile £407 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £663
90th Percentile £800 £700 £710
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.70
25th Percentile £70.63 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 7,833 5,773 7,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.59% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,821 5,435
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £430 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.78
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +14 143 £650 +11.11% 48
South East -35 27 £208 -49.27% 14
North of England -44 24 £575 +69.12% 17
North West -8 20 £550 +61.76% 7
Midlands -41 18 £650 +42.86% 6
South West -21 10 £700 +14.75% 5
West Midlands -43 10 £700 +53.85% 2
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 4
East of England -24 2 £675 +35.00% 7
Yorkshire -58 2 £585 - 8
North East - 2 £600 - 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 4 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.76%) CMS
1 4 (1.76%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.32%) Apache
2 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.17%) AWS
2 42 (18.50%) Serverless
3 41 (18.06%) Azure
3 41 (18.06%) SaaS
4 39 (17.18%) GitHub
5 36 (15.86%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.89%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (10.13%) GCP
8 15 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.73%) Sauce Labs
10 12 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.41%) Datadog
12 9 (3.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.08%) Figma
14 6 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.20%) Azure Functions
16 4 (1.76%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (1.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.41%) Wireless
2 4 (1.76%) HTTP
3 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.32%) SSL
4 2 (0.88%) DSL
5 1 (0.44%) NaaS
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.45%) Relational Database
3 24 (10.57%) MySQL
4 13 (5.73%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.85%) Redis
6 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.64%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.76%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.44%) Flink
11 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 44 (19.38%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.25%) Git
3 15 (6.61%) Android Studio
4 14 (6.17%) Xcode
5 13 (5.73%) Browser DevTools
5 13 (5.73%) Eclipse
5 13 (5.73%) Gradle
6 12 (5.29%) GitLab
7 7 (3.08%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.20%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.20%) JIRA
8 5 (2.20%) Mocha
9 4 (1.76%) fastlane
9 4 (1.76%) Maven
9 4 (1.76%) webpack
10 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.32%) JUnit
10 3 (1.32%) Mockito
11 2 (0.88%) Selenium
11 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (19.82%) Finance
1 45 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.86%) Front Office
3 14 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.41%) Banking
5 4 (1.76%) Billing
5 4 (1.76%) Games
5 4 (1.76%) Retail
6 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.44%) Back Office
7 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (46.26%) Developer
2 52 (22.91%) Senior
3 44 (19.38%) Software Engineer
4 37 (16.30%) Lead
5 32 (14.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 30 (13.22%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.13%) Python Developer
8 22 (9.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (9.25%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (8.81%) Backend Developer
10 20 (8.81%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (8.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 17 (7.49%) Java Engineer
13 16 (7.05%) Senior Consultant
13 16 (7.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 16 (7.05%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 16 (7.05%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 16 (7.05%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 16 (7.05%) Technical Consultant
13 16 (7.05%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (42.29%) Node.js
2 95 (41.85%) React
3 80 (35.24%) REST
4 46 (20.26%) Redux
5 44 (19.38%) Kafka
6 33 (14.54%) Playwright
7 27 (11.89%) Vitest
8 24 (10.57%) AngularJS
9 23 (10.13%) RESTful
10 21 (9.25%) CSS
10 21 (9.25%) OAuth
11 17 (7.49%) Jest
11 17 (7.49%) YAML
12 16 (7.05%) gRPC
13 15 (6.61%) Ajax
13 15 (6.61%) Django
14 14 (6.17%) Next.js
14 14 (6.17%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (6.17%) WebSockets
15 13 (5.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.10%) Fixed Income
3 23 (10.13%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.44%) Animation
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.25%) Android
1 21 (9.25%) Linux
2 13 (5.73%) Unix
2 13 (5.73%) Windows
3 6 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (45.37%) Agile
1 103 (45.37%) CI/CD
2 71 (31.28%) Software Engineering
3 67 (29.52%) DevOps
4 61 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 47 (20.70%) Containerisation
6 44 (19.38%) Mentoring
7 43 (18.94%) Microservices
8 38 (16.74%) Test Automation
8 38 (16.74%) User Experience
9 37 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (15.86%) E-Commerce
11 34 (14.98%) Code Quality
12 33 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (14.10%) Investment Management
13 32 (14.10%) Order Management
13 32 (14.10%) Portfolio Management
14 30 (13.22%) Observability
15 28 (12.33%) API Design
16 27 (11.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 108 (47.58%) TypeScript
2 92 (40.53%) Java
3 91 (40.09%) Python
4 77 (33.92%) JavaScript
5 51 (22.47%) Go
6 30 (13.22%) SQL
7 13 (5.73%) Perl
8 11 (4.85%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.96%) C#
10 8 (3.52%) PHP
11 5 (2.20%) Bash
11 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.76%) Swift
13 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.88%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.44%) C++
15 1 (0.44%) Cypher
15 1 (0.44%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.44%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.88%) Degree
5 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.96%) GDPR
3 7 (3.08%) QA
4 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.76%) WCAG
5 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (32.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (28.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.89%) Grafana
3 20 (8.81%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.17%) Terraform
5 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.88%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.61%) Oracle
3 13 (5.73%) Splunk
4 11 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.52%) Adobe
6 4 (1.76%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.32%) Databricks
7 3 (1.32%) Google
7 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.88%) Marketo
8 2 (0.88%) New Relic
8 2 (0.88%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.44%) Apple
9 1 (0.44%) BT
9 1 (0.44%) Ciena
9 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) Netlify