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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 328 340
Rank change year-on-year -87 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 213 192 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 3.16% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 143 144
10th Percentile £385 £313 £359
25th Percentile £473 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -2.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £820 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile £65.00 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% - +10.00%

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 8,443 6,076 7,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.52% 21.99% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,521 4,157 5,030
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 157 227
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.67
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% -1.02% -8.33%

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 14 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 14 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 -60 147 £600 +4.35% 168
South East -66 28 £460 +59.72% 13
North of England -69 14 £588 +22.08% 19
South West - 10 £575 - 15
Yorkshire -37 7 £575 - 4
North West -49 7 £650 +35.06% 15
Midlands -53 7 £700 +84.21% 5
East Midlands -21 4 £498 +31.05% 2
West Midlands -57 3 £700 +51.35% 3
East of England - 3 £345 - 6
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 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) WordPress
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Luigi
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (53.52%) AWS
2 60 (28.17%) Azure
3 50 (23.47%) Serverless
4 40 (18.78%) GCP
5 33 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (15.49%) GitHub
6 23 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 16 (7.51%) SaaS
9 10 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (4.69%) Boomi
10 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.23%) Datadog
11 8 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.82%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) NaaS
2 2 (0.94%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.33%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.10%) MySQL
3 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.69%) DynamoDB
4 10 (4.69%) Redis
5 8 (3.76%) Metadata
6 6 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.82%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.88%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.41%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.41%) Stardog
9 3 (1.41%) TigerGraph
9 3 (1.41%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (11.74%) Git
2 24 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.45%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.63%) Vite
5 5 (2.35%) GitLab
5 5 (2.35%) JSUnit
6 4 (1.88%) webpack
7 3 (1.41%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.41%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.41%) Gradle
7 3 (1.41%) Xcode
8 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.94%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.94%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.94%) Storybook
General
1 38 (17.84%) Finance
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (9.39%) Front Office
5 8 (3.76%) Banking
5 8 (3.76%) Retail
6 7 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.88%) Games
9 3 (1.41%) Back Office
9 3 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.94%) Publishing
10 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 86 (40.38%) Developer
2 41 (19.25%) Senior
3 29 (13.62%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.74%) Architect
5 23 (10.80%) Lead
6 20 (9.39%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (8.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 16 (7.51%) React Developer
10 15 (7.04%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.57%) Backend Developer
11 14 (6.57%) Lead Developer
12 11 (5.16%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 11 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) Lead Software Developer
14 9 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (4.23%) Senior Backend Developer
15 8 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (44.13%) REST
2 82 (38.50%) React
3 64 (30.05%) Node.js
4 57 (26.76%) Kafka
5 32 (15.02%) RESTful
6 29 (13.62%) Next.js
7 26 (12.21%) Redux
8 25 (11.74%) OAuth
9 23 (10.80%) CSS
10 19 (8.92%) HTML
10 19 (8.92%) Playwright
10 19 (8.92%) Spring
11 18 (8.45%) OAuth2
12 16 (7.51%) Jest
12 16 (7.51%) JWT
12 16 (7.51%) SOAP
13 15 (7.04%) AngularJS
13 15 (7.04%) gRPC
14 14 (6.57%) Spring Boot
15 13 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.49%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.98%) Fixed Income
4 13 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.16%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.76%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.35%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.35%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.88%) Sports Betting
10 3 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.16%) Android
2 7 (3.29%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.35%) Linux
4 3 (1.41%) Unix
4 3 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (42.72%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.62%) Agile
3 58 (27.23%) Microservices
4 53 (24.88%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (20.19%) DevOps
7 42 (19.72%) Event-Driven
8 37 (17.37%) User Experience
9 35 (16.43%) E-Commerce
10 34 (15.96%) AI
11 32 (15.02%) Test Automation
12 31 (14.55%) API Design
13 30 (14.08%) Observability
14 29 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (13.15%) TDD
16 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (12.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 26 (12.21%) Code Quality
18 25 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 24 (11.27%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (52.11%) TypeScript
2 66 (30.99%) Java
3 65 (30.52%) Python
4 54 (25.35%) JavaScript
5 37 (17.37%) SQL
6 33 (15.49%) Go
7 14 (6.57%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.29%) C#
8 7 (3.29%) Scala
9 6 (2.82%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.82%) Swift
10 5 (2.35%) Bash
10 5 (2.35%) Cypher
11 4 (1.88%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.88%) Ruby
11 4 (1.88%) Rust
12 3 (1.41%) Bicep
12 3 (1.41%) Perl
12 3 (1.41%) PHP
12 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.57%) Degree
3 12 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.57%) QA
3 8 (3.76%) WCAG
4 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.88%) GDPR
6 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) PSD2
8 1 (0.47%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (19.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (18.31%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.86%) Terraform
3 14 (6.57%) Grafana
3 14 (6.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Istio
5 2 (0.94%) linkerd
5 2 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.10%) Oracle
3 12 (5.63%) Google
4 10 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.82%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.35%) IBM
6 5 (2.35%) Informatica
6 5 (2.35%) SAP
6 5 (2.35%) TIBCO
6 5 (2.35%) WSO2
7 4 (1.88%) Confluent
7 4 (1.88%) Workday
8 3 (1.41%) Splunk
9 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.94%) Ciena
9 2 (0.94%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.94%) New Relic
9 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.47%) Optimizely