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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 307 329
Rank change year-on-year -132 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 199 221 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.80% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 3.18% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 159 148
10th Percentile £399 £310 £368
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £534
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -5.43% -8.37%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £600
90th Percentile £750 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile - - £54.75
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -13.93%

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 9,852 6,959 8,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.04% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,462 4,762 5,492
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 163 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.38
25th Percentile £50.88 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £71.60 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.62% -14.77% +0.57%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -93 133 £588 +2.17% 105
South East -63 29 £460 +65.77% 16
North of England -75 16 £588 +22.08% 22
North West -60 9 £650 +36.84% 18
South West -37 7 £425 -34.62% 10
Yorkshire -43 7 £575 -3.44% 4
West Midlands -51 3 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands -67 3 £575 +36.90% 3
East of England - 3 £345 - 4
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 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.51%) Apache
2 5 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.01%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 103 (51.76%) AWS
2 70 (35.18%) Azure
3 51 (25.63%) Serverless
4 39 (19.60%) GCP
5 34 (17.09%) GitHub
6 29 (14.57%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (10.05%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.04%) SaaS
10 13 (6.53%) Boomi
11 11 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (5.03%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.52%) iPaaS
14 8 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.52%) Figma
16 6 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
2 1 (0.50%) NaaS
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (13.07%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.55%) MySQL
4 13 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.53%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.03%) Redis
7 9 (4.52%) Metadata
8 8 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
9 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.02%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.51%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.51%) Weaviate
11 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.01%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.51%) Stardog
12 3 (1.51%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (16.08%) Git
2 23 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.03%) Vite
5 7 (3.52%) GitLab
6 5 (2.51%) JSUnit
7 4 (2.01%) JUnit
8 3 (1.51%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.51%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.51%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.51%) Gradle
8 3 (1.51%) Maven
8 3 (1.51%) Postman
8 3 (1.51%) webpack
8 3 (1.51%) Xcode
9 2 (1.01%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.01%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.01%) Storybook
General
1 43 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.57%) Finance
3 25 (12.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.02%) Retail
5 7 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.52%) Banking
6 6 (3.02%) Front Office
7 5 (2.51%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.51%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.01%) Games
8 4 (2.01%) Marketing
8 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.51%) Back Office
9 3 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.51%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.01%) Publishing
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (35.18%) Developer
2 40 (20.10%) Senior
3 27 (13.57%) Architect
4 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (9.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (8.04%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.03%) Lead
7 12 (6.03%) React Developer
8 11 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.52%) Backend Developer
9 9 (4.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (4.52%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (4.02%) Azure Developer
10 8 (4.02%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.02%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Energy Trading Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (51.76%) REST
2 76 (38.19%) React
3 47 (23.62%) Kafka
3 47 (23.62%) Node.js
4 35 (17.59%) OAuth
5 32 (16.08%) CSS
6 30 (15.08%) Next.js
7 27 (13.57%) RESTful
8 26 (13.07%) HTML
9 24 (12.06%) OAuth2
10 19 (9.55%) AngularJS
10 19 (9.55%) Spring
11 18 (9.05%) CSS3
11 18 (9.05%) HTML5
11 18 (9.05%) JWT
11 18 (9.05%) SOAP
12 17 (8.54%) JSON
12 17 (8.54%) Terraform
13 16 (8.04%) Middleware
13 16 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.59%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.54%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.53%) AI Agents
5 11 (5.53%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.01%) Sports Betting
7 4 (2.01%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.51%) Life Science
8 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.53%) Android
2 7 (3.52%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.02%) Linux
4 4 (2.01%) Unix
4 4 (2.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (45.73%) CI/CD
2 62 (31.16%) Agile
2 62 (31.16%) Microservices
3 53 (26.63%) Event-Driven
4 44 (22.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (21.11%) DevOps
6 39 (19.60%) User Experience
7 38 (19.10%) AI
7 38 (19.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 36 (18.09%) Software Engineering
9 33 (16.58%) E-Commerce
10 32 (16.08%) API Design
11 30 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (14.07%) Observability
12 28 (14.07%) Test Automation
13 26 (13.07%) API Integration
13 26 (13.07%) Data Modelling
13 26 (13.07%) Integration Patterns
14 25 (12.56%) TDD
15 24 (12.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (49.25%) TypeScript
2 58 (29.15%) Java
3 57 (28.64%) Python
4 47 (23.62%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.10%) SQL
6 14 (7.04%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.53%) Go
8 9 (4.52%) Scala
9 7 (3.52%) C#
10 6 (3.02%) Ruby
10 6 (3.02%) Rust
10 6 (3.02%) Swift
11 5 (2.51%) Bash
11 5 (2.51%) Cypher
12 4 (2.01%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.51%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.51%) Perl
13 3 (1.51%) PHP
13 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (8.04%) Degree
2 13 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.54%) QA
2 14 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.02%) WCAG
4 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.51%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.01%) PSD2
5 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (18.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (19.60%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.52%) Grafana
2 9 (4.52%) Prometheus
3 7 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 28 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.05%) Oracle
3 16 (8.04%) Google
4 9 (4.52%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.52%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.02%) Databricks
5 8 (4.02%) IBM
5 8 (4.02%) Informatica
5 8 (4.02%) TIBCO
5 8 (4.02%) WSO2
6 7 (3.52%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.51%) SAP
8 4 (2.01%) Confluent
8 4 (2.01%) Workday
9 3 (1.51%) Splunk
10 2 (1.01%) Adobe
10 2 (1.01%) New Relic
11 1 (0.50%) Ciena
11 1 (0.50%) Netlify
11 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic