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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 326 367
Rank change year-on-year -62 +41 -50
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 229 181 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 2.96% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 133 143
10th Percentile £405 £318 £364
25th Percentile £522 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £761 £660 £611
90th Percentile £800 £845 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £514 £533
% change year-on-year +16.85% -3.66% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £70.25 - £45.00
25th Percentile £72.50 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £81.88 - £61.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -44 157 £650 +8.33% 43
South East -68 23 £529 +55.51% 13
North of England -66 22 £588 +38.24% 8
North West -42 15 £650 +52.94% 6
Midlands -43 10 £700 +66.67% 4
South West - 10 £700 - 7
Yorkshire -49 7 £575 - 2
East Midlands -12 5 £498 +31.05% 1
West Midlands -62 5 £700 +53.85% 3
East of England - 3 £675 - 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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Luigi
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 133 (58.08%) AWS
2 56 (24.45%) Serverless
3 54 (23.58%) Azure
4 42 (18.34%) GCP
5 39 (17.03%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (15.28%) GitHub
7 25 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (8.73%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.99%) SaaS
10 11 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.93%) Datadog
13 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (2.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) DSL
2 2 (0.87%) NaaS
2 2 (0.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.68%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.80%) MySQL
6 10 (4.37%) Redis
7 8 (3.49%) Metadata
8 7 (3.06%) Neo4j
9 6 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.31%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.31%) Stardog
12 3 (1.31%) TigerGraph
12 3 (1.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (12.66%) Git
2 27 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.99%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.24%) Vite
5 8 (3.49%) GitLab
6 7 (3.06%) Gradle
7 5 (2.18%) JSUnit
8 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.75%) Maven
8 4 (1.75%) webpack
9 3 (1.31%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.31%) Selenium
9 3 (1.31%) Xcode
10 2 (0.87%) JIRA
10 2 (0.87%) JUnit
10 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.87%) Storybook
10 2 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (24.45%) Finance
2 36 (15.72%) Front Office
3 30 (13.10%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.93%) Banking
5 9 (3.93%) Retail
6 7 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Games
9 3 (1.31%) Back Office
9 3 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.31%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Publishing
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 99 (43.23%) Developer
2 52 (22.71%) Software Engineer
3 47 (20.52%) Senior
4 36 (15.72%) Lead
5 33 (14.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 24 (10.48%) Architect
6 24 (10.48%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (10.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (9.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (8.73%) Lead Software Developer
9 20 (8.73%) React Developer
10 19 (8.30%) Senior Developer
11 17 (7.42%) Java Developer
12 16 (6.99%) Java Engineer
13 15 (6.55%) Backend Developer
14 10 (4.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 9 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (42.36%) React
2 88 (38.43%) REST
3 78 (34.06%) Node.js
4 68 (29.69%) Kafka
5 42 (18.34%) Redux
6 30 (13.10%) RESTful
7 26 (11.35%) Next.js
8 21 (9.17%) Spring
9 20 (8.73%) CSS
10 19 (8.30%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.30%) Playwright
11 17 (7.42%) Jest
11 17 (7.42%) OAuth
12 16 (6.99%) HTML
12 16 (6.99%) Spring Boot
13 15 (6.55%) Vue
14 13 (5.68%) gRPC
14 13 (5.68%) OAuth2
15 11 (4.80%) SOAP
16 10 (4.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.65%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.41%) Fixed Income
3 28 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.62%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) LIMS
11 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.24%) Android
2 7 (3.06%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.62%) Linux
4 3 (1.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (41.48%) CI/CD
2 91 (39.74%) Agile
3 76 (33.19%) Software Engineering
4 67 (29.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (23.58%) Microservices
6 47 (20.52%) DevOps
7 38 (16.59%) Event-Driven
8 36 (15.72%) E-Commerce
8 36 (15.72%) Investment Management
8 36 (15.72%) Test Automation
8 36 (15.72%) User Experience
9 32 (13.97%) Order Management
9 32 (13.97%) Portfolio Management
10 29 (12.66%) AI
10 29 (12.66%) API Design
10 29 (12.66%) TDD
11 28 (12.23%) Code Quality
11 28 (12.23%) Observability
12 27 (11.79%) Containerisation
13 26 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 121 (52.84%) TypeScript
2 89 (38.86%) Java
3 76 (33.19%) Python
4 66 (28.82%) JavaScript
5 51 (22.27%) Go
6 34 (14.85%) SQL
7 15 (6.55%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.06%) C#
8 7 (3.06%) Scala
9 6 (2.62%) Cypher
9 6 (2.62%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.62%) Swift
10 5 (2.18%) Bash
11 4 (1.75%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.31%) Bicep
12 3 (1.31%) Perl
12 3 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (1.31%) Rust
12 3 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.55%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.11%) Degree
4 10 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.99%) QA
2 14 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.49%) WCAG
4 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.62%) GDPR
5 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) ITGC
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (19.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (16.59%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.86%) Terraform
3 16 (6.99%) Grafana
4 15 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.06%) Oracle
2 7 (3.06%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.62%) Google
4 3 (1.31%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.31%) SAP
4 3 (1.31%) Splunk
5 2 (0.87%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.87%) Ciena
5 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.87%) Netlify
5 2 (0.87%) New Relic
5 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.87%) Workday
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe
6 1 (0.44%) BT
6 1 (0.44%) IBM
6 1 (0.44%) Informatica
6 1 (0.44%) TIBCO