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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 344 329
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 -25
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 218 125 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 2.31% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 83 158
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £770 £688 £600
90th Percentile £800 £710 £679
UK median daily rate £575 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +10.58% +4.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £64.35 - £56.20
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,910 5,413 7,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.24% 22.29% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 3,741 5,341
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.52%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 101 230
10th Percentile £30.98 £33.25 £22.42
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -18 136 £688 +17.02% 40
North of England -42 28 £575 +38.06% 9
North West -22 24 £588 +41.06% 6
South East -54 23 £400 -9.09% 7
Midlands -57 11 £700 +66.67% 7
South West -28 10 £700 +14.75% 4
East Midlands -24 6 £498 +18.57% 5
West Midlands -49 5 £700 +60.00% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 1
East of England -27 3 £675 +35.00%
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 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.46%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 111 (50.92%) AWS
2 42 (19.27%) Azure
3 40 (18.35%) Serverless
4 33 (15.14%) GitHub
5 31 (14.22%) GCP
6 28 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (10.09%) SaaS
8 15 (6.88%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.05%) Datadog
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.75%) Figma
13 6 (2.75%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (1.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) HTTP
2 3 (1.38%) DSL
2 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.92%) NaaS
3 2 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.09%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.80%) MySQL
4 14 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.50%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.67%) Redis
8 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.38%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.38%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.92%) Flink
11 2 (0.92%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (11.01%) Git
1 24 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.50%) Gradle
3 11 (5.05%) GitLab
4 9 (4.13%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.13%) Vite
5 7 (3.21%) Android Studio
5 7 (3.21%) Xcode
6 6 (2.75%) Browser DevTools
6 6 (2.75%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.29%) fastlane
8 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.83%) Maven
9 3 (1.38%) Selenium
9 3 (1.38%) webpack
10 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.92%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.92%) JIRA
10 2 (0.92%) Mocha
10 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 48 (22.02%) Finance
2 37 (16.97%) Front Office
3 24 (11.01%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.21%) Banking
7 6 (2.75%) Retail
8 5 (2.29%) Games
9 3 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Billing
9 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (43.58%) Developer
2 48 (22.02%) Software Engineer
3 47 (21.56%) Senior
4 35 (16.06%) Lead
5 32 (14.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (11.93%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.63%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (8.72%) React Developer
10 18 (8.26%) Java Engineer
11 17 (7.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (6.88%) Architect
13 15 (6.88%) Python Developer
14 12 (5.50%) Backend Developer
14 12 (5.50%) Java Developer
15 11 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (4.59%) Senior Developer
17 9 (4.13%) Consultant
17 9 (4.13%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (43.58%) React
2 86 (39.45%) REST
3 76 (34.86%) Node.js
4 56 (25.69%) Kafka
5 43 (19.72%) Redux
6 27 (12.39%) RESTful
7 19 (8.72%) Playwright
7 19 (8.72%) Spring
8 18 (8.26%) Next.js
9 17 (7.80%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.34%) AngularJS
10 16 (7.34%) Django
11 15 (6.88%) CSS
11 15 (6.88%) OAuth
11 15 (6.88%) Vue
12 13 (5.96%) Jest
13 12 (5.50%) Vitest
14 11 (5.05%) HTML
14 11 (5.05%) OpenTelemetry
15 10 (4.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.14%) Fixed Income
3 20 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.42%) Mobile App
5 12 (5.50%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.92%) 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 17 (7.80%) Android
2 16 (7.34%) Linux
3 9 (4.13%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.75%) Unix
4 6 (2.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.45%) CI/CD
2 78 (35.78%) Agile
3 73 (33.49%) Software Engineering
4 56 (25.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (22.48%) DevOps
6 40 (18.35%) Microservices
7 38 (17.43%) E-Commerce
8 37 (16.97%) User Experience
9 34 (15.60%) Containerisation
9 34 (15.60%) Investment Management
10 33 (15.14%) Observability
11 32 (14.68%) Order Management
11 32 (14.68%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (14.22%) Test Automation
13 29 (13.30%) Event-Driven
14 28 (12.84%) Code Quality
14 28 (12.84%) Mentoring
15 26 (11.93%) API Design
16 23 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 109 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 84 (38.53%) Java
3 82 (37.61%) Python
4 67 (30.73%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.18%) Go
6 23 (10.55%) SQL
7 13 (5.96%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.21%) Swift
9 6 (2.75%) C#
9 6 (2.75%) Perl
10 4 (1.83%) Bash
10 4 (1.83%) Scala
11 3 (1.38%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.92%) Bicep
12 2 (0.92%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.46%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 13 (5.96%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.21%) Degree
4 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.96%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.59%) QA
3 6 (2.75%) WCAG
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.92%) NIST
6 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) ITGC
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (24.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.09%) Grafana
3 18 (8.26%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.92%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.92%) Ansible
5 2 (0.92%) Puppet
5 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 18 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.75%) Oracle
2 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
2 6 (2.75%) Splunk
3 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.38%) New Relic
5 2 (0.92%) Adobe
5 2 (0.92%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.92%) Ciena
5 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.92%) Netlify
5 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.46%) Braze
6 1 (0.46%) BT
6 1 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.46%) Confluent
6 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.46%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.46%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic