GraphQL Contracts in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 338 305
Rank change year-on-year -35 -33 -1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 112 206 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.55% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 2.74% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 158 282
10th Percentile £364 £325 £450
25th Percentile £413 £402 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -13.54% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £617 £700
90th Percentile £700 £688 £761
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +3.00% -15.61% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.20 £39.50
25th Percentile - £58.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £64.00 £72.50
90th Percentile - £65.80 £77.00
UK median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 -7 87 £585 +6.36% 222
South East +40 10 £409 +2.25% 76
North of England +14 6 £417 -12.32% 66
North West +13 5 £417 -12.32% 56
Midlands +5 3 £420 +20.00% 9
West Midlands 0 2 £438 +25.00% 7
South West +33 1 £610 +39.43% 5
East of England +28 1 £500 -23.08% 17
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 10
East Midlands +7 1 £420 -11.58% 1
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.36%) CMS
1 6 (5.36%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Camunda
3 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (54.46%) AWS
2 27 (24.11%) Azure
3 25 (22.32%) Serverless
4 24 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 22 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (12.50%) GitHub
8 12 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (10.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (10.71%) CloudFront
8 12 (10.71%) GCP
8 12 (10.71%) Route 53
9 8 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
9 8 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (7.14%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.57%) Datadog
12 4 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) HTTP
2 2 (1.79%) DSL
3 1 (0.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 18 (16.07%) Redis
3 15 (13.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (10.71%) DocumentDB
6 11 (9.82%) DynamoDB
6 11 (9.82%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.68%) MySQL
9 2 (1.79%) OLTP
9 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Git
2 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 14 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.25%) CircleCI
4 7 (6.25%) JIRA
5 5 (4.46%) Postman
6 3 (2.68%) GitLab
6 3 (2.68%) Mocha
6 3 (2.68%) NUnit
6 3 (2.68%) Selenium
6 3 (2.68%) Terragrunt
6 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.79%) JMeter
7 2 (1.79%) MSTest
7 2 (1.79%) NSubstitute
7 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.89%) gulp
8 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (23.21%) Finance
2 24 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.96%) Banking
4 13 (11.61%) Retail Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Retail
6 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (56.25%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (13.39%) React Developer
2 15 (13.39%) Senior
3 14 (12.50%) Architect
3 14 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.04%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 7 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 7 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) GCP Architect
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (58.93%) React
2 48 (42.86%) Node.js
3 37 (33.04%) RESTful
4 20 (17.86%) Next.js
5 19 (16.96%) REST
6 15 (13.39%) Redux
7 14 (12.50%) CSS
7 14 (12.50%) HTML
8 12 (10.71%) Jest
9 11 (9.82%) .NET
10 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
11 8 (7.14%) SOAP
11 8 (7.14%) Vue
12 7 (6.25%) AWS CDK
12 7 (6.25%) HTML5
12 7 (6.25%) WebSockets
13 6 (5.36%) Express.js
13 6 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (5.36%) Prisma
13 6 (5.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Derivative
2 12 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.93%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.68%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.89%) PKI
10 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Android
2 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) CI/CD
2 53 (47.32%) Agile
3 36 (32.14%) DevOps
4 34 (30.36%) Microservices
5 31 (27.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (19.64%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.64%) SOLID
7 21 (18.75%) TDD
8 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 18 (16.07%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (14.29%) Clean Code
10 16 (14.29%) Front End Development
11 15 (13.39%) Code Quality
11 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 14 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven
13 13 (11.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (11.61%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.96%) TypeScript
2 43 (38.39%) JavaScript
3 24 (21.43%) Python
4 19 (16.96%) SQL
5 18 (16.07%) C#
6 16 (14.29%) Java
7 8 (7.14%) Go
8 4 (3.57%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.68%) Ruby
9 3 (2.68%) Swift
10 2 (1.79%) Bash
10 2 (1.79%) Rust
10 2 (1.79%) Scala
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.25%) Degree
2 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.46%) QA
System Software
1 20 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.71%) Terraform
3 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.79%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Grafana
4 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.79%) Puppet
4 2 (1.79%) Salt
5 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (6.25%) Google
2 6 (5.36%) Adobe
3 4 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.68%) SAP
4 3 (2.68%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.79%) Apple
5 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) New Relic
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle
5 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.89%) TIBCO