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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 350 364
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 -66
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 235 164 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.57% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.34% 2.61% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 111 147
10th Percentile £204 £375 £329
25th Percentile £371 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £700 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £66.75 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £68.70 - £67.60
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -28.57%

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 7,030 6,295 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 21.87% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 4,020 5,761
10th Percentile £351 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.39%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 77 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.20
25th Percentile £44.01 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 +10 142 £575 - 69
South East +11 40 £208 -49.27% 90
Midlands -25 22 £650 +18.18% 61
North of England -34 22 £573 +47.74% 71
North West -17 17 £518 +38.07% 40
West Midlands -14 15 £650 +18.18% 31
South West -12 8 £650 +44.44% 34
East Midlands - 7 £380 - 24
Yorkshire -35 3 £585 +30.06% 24
North East - 2 £600 - 8
East of England -15 1 - - 46
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 5 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.70%) Apache
2 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.70%) CMS
2 4 (1.70%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.70%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (34.04%) AWS
2 61 (25.96%) SaaS
3 45 (19.15%) Azure
4 43 (18.30%) GitHub
5 40 (17.02%) Serverless
6 35 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (9.36%) GCP
9 21 (8.94%) Sauce Labs
10 14 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.11%) Datadog
12 8 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.40%) Figma
13 7 (2.98%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.98%) Firebase
14 6 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.66%) Wireless
2 3 (1.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.87%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (15.74%) Relational Database
3 35 (14.89%) MySQL
4 16 (6.81%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.96%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.53%) Redis
7 9 (3.83%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.40%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.55%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.43%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 55 (23.40%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.47%) Git
3 23 (9.79%) Android Studio
4 22 (9.36%) Browser DevTools
4 22 (9.36%) Xcode
5 21 (8.94%) Eclipse
6 14 (5.96%) JIRA
7 10 (4.26%) GitLab
8 9 (3.83%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.40%) Gradle
10 5 (2.13%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.13%) webpack
11 4 (1.70%) JUnit
11 4 (1.70%) Maven
11 4 (1.70%) Mocha
11 4 (1.70%) Mockito
11 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.28%) Subversion
13 2 (0.85%) fastlane
13 2 (0.85%) IntelliJ
General
1 68 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.62%) Finance
3 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.66%) Front Office
5 16 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.55%) Banking
7 4 (1.70%) Games
8 3 (1.28%) Billing
8 3 (1.28%) Retail
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (39.15%) Developer
2 54 (22.98%) Senior
3 30 (12.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 23 (9.79%) Lead
5 22 (9.36%) Support Engineer
5 22 (9.36%) Technical Engineer
5 22 (9.36%) Technical Support
5 22 (9.36%) Technical Support Engineer
5 22 (9.36%) UX Engineer
6 18 (7.66%) Backend Developer
6 18 (7.66%) Consultant
6 18 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 18 (7.66%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 18 (7.66%) Software Engineer
6 18 (7.66%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (7.66%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (40.85%) React
2 89 (37.87%) Node.js
3 76 (32.34%) REST
4 36 (15.32%) CSS
5 35 (14.89%) Playwright
6 32 (13.62%) RESTful
7 31 (13.19%) Vitest
8 29 (12.34%) Redux
9 28 (11.91%) OAuth
10 27 (11.49%) AngularJS
11 26 (11.06%) Kafka
12 24 (10.21%) Ajax
13 21 (8.94%) Next.js
14 20 (8.51%) YAML
15 19 (8.09%) gRPC
16 18 (7.66%) OAuth2
17 17 (7.23%) WebSockets
18 15 (6.38%) Jest
19 13 (5.53%) HTML
19 13 (5.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.77%) Mobile App
3 18 (7.66%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.11%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.28%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.85%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.91%) Android
2 23 (9.79%) Linux
3 22 (9.36%) Unix
3 22 (9.36%) Windows
4 8 (3.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (46.81%) Agile
2 106 (45.11%) CI/CD
3 74 (31.49%) DevOps
4 63 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (24.68%) Containerisation
6 52 (22.13%) User Experience
7 50 (21.28%) Mentoring
8 49 (20.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (19.15%) Microservices
9 45 (19.15%) Software Engineering
10 41 (17.45%) E-Commerce
11 35 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (14.04%) API Design
12 33 (14.04%) Code Quality
13 31 (13.19%) Coaching
14 30 (12.77%) Test Automation
15 27 (11.49%) AI
16 25 (10.64%) Performance Optimisation
17 24 (10.21%) TDD
18 22 (9.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.96%) TypeScript
2 90 (38.30%) Python
3 83 (35.32%) Java
4 79 (33.62%) JavaScript
5 40 (17.02%) Go
6 28 (11.91%) SQL
7 22 (9.36%) Perl
8 9 (3.83%) PHP
9 8 (3.40%) C#
9 8 (3.40%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.55%) Ruby
11 5 (2.13%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.13%) Bash
11 5 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.13%) Swift
12 4 (1.70%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Rust
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.21%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.40%) Degree
4 7 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.40%) GDPR
3 5 (2.13%) QA
4 4 (1.70%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (36.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (32.34%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.79%) Grafana
3 22 (9.36%) Terraform
4 18 (7.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) Istio
6 2 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.64%) Oracle
3 24 (10.21%) Splunk
4 19 (8.09%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.83%) Adobe
6 7 (2.98%) Google
6 7 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.70%) SAP
9 3 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.28%) Confluent
9 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.28%) Gigya
10 2 (0.85%) Databricks
10 2 (0.85%) Marketo
10 2 (0.85%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.43%) New Relic