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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 320 344
Rank change year-on-year -85 +24 -5
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 223 192 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.69% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 3.13% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 143 144
10th Percentile £400 £313 £359
25th Percentile £490 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -2.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £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 2 1 3
10th Percentile £65.75 - £45.00
25th Percentile £66.88 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £61.00
90th Percentile £77.25 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 11 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 11 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 -63 154 £600 +4.35% 114
South East -69 28 £460 +59.72% 11
North of England -79 15 £588 +22.08% 13
South West - 10 £575 - 12
North West -44 8 £650 +35.06% 9
Midlands -58 8 £700 +84.21% 3
Yorkshire -43 7 £575 - 3
East Midlands -11 4 £498 +31.05% 2
West Midlands -58 4 £700 +51.35% 1
East of England - 4 £510 - 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 8 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.24%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Luigi
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 123 (55.16%) AWS
2 61 (27.35%) Azure
3 51 (22.87%) Serverless
4 42 (18.83%) GCP
5 34 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (14.80%) GitHub
7 23 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (8.07%) Amazon S3
9 17 (7.62%) SaaS
10 10 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (4.48%) Boomi
11 9 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.04%) Datadog
12 8 (3.59%) iPaaS
13 7 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.14%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) NaaS
2 2 (0.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.42%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.83%) MySQL
3 13 (5.83%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.48%) DynamoDB
4 10 (4.48%) Redis
5 8 (3.59%) Metadata
6 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.69%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.35%) Stardog
9 3 (1.35%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 25 (11.21%) Git
2 24 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.07%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.38%) Vite
5 5 (2.24%) GitLab
5 5 (2.24%) JSUnit
6 4 (1.79%) webpack
7 3 (1.35%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.35%) Gradle
7 3 (1.35%) Xcode
8 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.90%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.90%) JIRA
8 2 (0.90%) JUnit
8 2 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.90%) Storybook
General
1 47 (21.08%) Finance
2 34 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.56%) Front Office
4 23 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.59%) Banking
5 8 (3.59%) Retail
6 7 (3.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Games
9 3 (1.35%) Back Office
9 3 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Marketing
10 2 (0.90%) Publishing
10 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (41.70%) Developer
2 41 (18.39%) Senior
3 38 (17.04%) Software Engineer
4 29 (13.00%) Lead
5 27 (12.11%) Architect
6 25 (11.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 20 (8.97%) Senior Developer
9 19 (8.52%) Lead Developer
10 18 (8.07%) React Developer
11 16 (7.17%) Java Developer
11 16 (7.17%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (6.73%) Lead Software Developer
13 14 (6.28%) Backend Developer
14 12 (5.38%) Java Engineer
15 11 (4.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 9 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (4.04%) Senior Backend Developer
16 9 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (42.60%) REST
2 90 (40.36%) React
3 72 (32.29%) Node.js
4 67 (30.04%) Kafka
5 34 (15.25%) Redux
6 32 (14.35%) RESTful
7 29 (13.00%) Next.js
8 24 (10.76%) OAuth
9 23 (10.31%) CSS
10 19 (8.52%) HTML
10 19 (8.52%) Playwright
11 18 (8.07%) Spring
12 17 (7.62%) AngularJS
12 17 (7.62%) OAuth2
13 16 (7.17%) Jest
13 16 (7.17%) SOAP
14 15 (6.73%) gRPC
14 15 (6.73%) JWT
15 14 (6.28%) Middleware
15 14 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.80%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.21%) Fixed Income
4 13 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.59%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.69%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.24%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.79%) Sports Betting
10 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.93%) Android
2 7 (3.14%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.24%) Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Unix
4 3 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (40.81%) CI/CD
2 84 (37.67%) Agile
3 62 (27.80%) Software Engineering
4 57 (25.56%) Microservices
5 56 (25.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (19.28%) DevOps
6 43 (19.28%) Event-Driven
7 37 (16.59%) User Experience
8 36 (16.14%) E-Commerce
9 34 (15.25%) AI
10 32 (14.35%) API Design
10 32 (14.35%) Test Automation
11 30 (13.45%) Observability
12 28 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (12.56%) Investment Management
12 28 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (12.11%) TDD
14 26 (11.66%) Code Quality
15 25 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 119 (53.36%) TypeScript
2 74 (33.18%) Java
3 71 (31.84%) Python
4 61 (27.35%) JavaScript
5 41 (18.39%) Go
6 37 (16.59%) SQL
7 14 (6.28%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.14%) C#
8 7 (3.14%) Scala
9 6 (2.69%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.69%) Swift
10 5 (2.24%) Bash
10 5 (2.24%) Cypher
11 4 (1.79%) Gremlin
11 4 (1.79%) Ruby
11 4 (1.79%) Rust
12 3 (1.35%) Bicep
12 3 (1.35%) Perl
12 3 (1.35%) PHP
12 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.28%) Degree
3 13 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.28%) QA
3 8 (3.59%) WCAG
4 6 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.69%) GDPR
5 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 1 (0.45%) ITGC
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (18.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.42%) Terraform
3 14 (6.28%) Grafana
3 14 (6.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.90%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Istio
5 2 (0.90%) linkerd
5 2 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.38%) Oracle
3 11 (4.93%) Google
4 9 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.14%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.24%) IBM
6 5 (2.24%) Informatica
6 5 (2.24%) TIBCO
6 5 (2.24%) WSO2
7 4 (1.79%) SAP
8 3 (1.35%) Confluent
8 3 (1.35%) Splunk
8 3 (1.35%) Workday
9 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.90%) Ciena
9 2 (0.90%) Databricks
9 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.90%) Netlify
9 2 (0.90%) New Relic
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow