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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 295 329
Rank change year-on-year -144 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 195 215 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.78% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 3.14% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 155 146
10th Percentile £400 £309 £363
25th Percentile £459 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -6.19% -11.17%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £600
90th Percentile £751 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £561 £500 £529
% change year-on-year +12.25% -5.48% -8.00%
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 9,803 6,846 8,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.99% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,688 5,492
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -2.22%
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 266 163 177
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -0.40%
75th Percentile £75.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% -0.80%

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 5 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 5 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 -100 129 £588 +2.17% 199
South East -68 28 £460 +65.77% 18
North of England -71 16 £588 +23.68% 34
North West -64 9 £650 +36.84% 26
South West -30 8 £438 -32.69% 17
Yorkshire -42 7 £575 - 7
West Midlands -53 4 £638 +10.39% 1
Midlands -65 4 £638 +51.79% 8
East of England - 3 £345 - 8
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 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.56%) Apache
2 5 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) WordPress
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Luigi
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Sketch
2 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.03%) Shopify
3 1 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.26%) AWS
2 67 (34.36%) Azure
3 50 (25.64%) Serverless
4 37 (18.97%) GCP
5 34 (17.44%) GitHub
6 28 (14.36%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (9.74%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.21%) SaaS
10 12 (6.15%) Boomi
11 11 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.10%) iPaaS
14 7 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (3.08%) Datadog
15 6 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.51%) NaaS
2 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.26%) MySQL
4 13 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 12 (6.15%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.64%) Redis
7 10 (5.13%) MongoDB
8 9 (4.62%) Metadata
9 8 (4.10%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (3.08%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.08%) Neo4j
12 5 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.05%) Pinecone
13 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.05%) Weaviate
14 3 (1.54%) Stardog
14 3 (1.54%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 29 (14.87%) Git
2 22 (11.28%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.72%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.15%) Vite
5 6 (3.08%) GitLab
6 5 (2.56%) JSUnit
7 3 (1.54%) Android Studio
7 3 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.54%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.54%) JUnit
7 3 (1.54%) webpack
7 3 (1.54%) Xcode
8 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.03%) Gradle
8 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (1.03%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.03%) Storybook
9 1 (0.51%) Mockito
General
1 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.36%) Finance
3 24 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.10%) Retail
5 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.59%) Banking
6 6 (3.08%) Front Office
7 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.05%) Games
8 4 (2.05%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Back Office
9 3 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (35.38%) Developer
2 40 (20.51%) Senior
3 26 (13.33%) Architect
4 19 (9.74%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (8.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (8.21%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Lead
7 12 (6.15%) React Developer
8 11 (5.64%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 10 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.59%) Azure Developer
13 6 (3.08%) Energy Trading Developer
13 6 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (51.28%) REST
2 74 (37.95%) React
3 46 (23.59%) Node.js
4 45 (23.08%) Kafka
5 33 (16.92%) OAuth
6 31 (15.90%) CSS
7 29 (14.87%) Next.js
8 28 (14.36%) RESTful
9 25 (12.82%) HTML
10 23 (11.79%) OAuth2
11 18 (9.23%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.23%) Spring
12 17 (8.72%) CSS3
12 17 (8.72%) HTML5
12 17 (8.72%) JWT
12 17 (8.72%) SOAP
12 17 (8.72%) Terraform
13 16 (8.21%) JSON
14 15 (7.69%) Middleware
15 14 (7.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.05%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.72%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.64%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.13%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.08%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.05%) Sports Betting
7 4 (2.05%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.64%) Android
2 7 (3.59%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.08%) Linux
4 4 (2.05%) Unix
4 4 (2.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.18%) CI/CD
2 62 (31.79%) Microservices
3 60 (30.77%) Agile
4 49 (25.13%) Event-Driven
5 43 (22.05%) DevOps
6 42 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (19.49%) User Experience
8 36 (18.46%) Software Engineering
9 35 (17.95%) AI
10 34 (17.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 32 (16.41%) E-Commerce
12 31 (15.90%) API Design
13 30 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (14.36%) Observability
15 27 (13.85%) Test Automation
16 25 (12.82%) Code Quality
16 25 (12.82%) Data Modelling
17 24 (12.31%) API Integration
17 24 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (12.31%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 97 (49.74%) TypeScript
2 56 (28.72%) Java
3 55 (28.21%) Python
4 44 (22.56%) JavaScript
5 39 (20.00%) SQL
6 13 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 12 (6.15%) Go
8 8 (4.10%) Scala
9 7 (3.59%) C#
10 6 (3.08%) Ruby
10 6 (3.08%) Rust
10 6 (3.08%) Swift
11 5 (2.56%) Bash
11 5 (2.56%) Cypher
12 4 (2.05%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.54%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.54%) Perl
13 3 (1.54%) PHP
13 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.03%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 15 (7.69%) Degree
2 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.18%) Accessibility
1 14 (7.18%) QA
2 8 (4.10%) WCAG
3 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) PSD2
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (18.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.62%) Grafana
2 9 (4.62%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (0.51%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 27 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.21%) Oracle
3 15 (7.69%) Google
4 9 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.10%) MuleSoft
6 7 (3.59%) Databricks
6 7 (3.59%) IBM
6 7 (3.59%) Informatica
6 7 (3.59%) TIBCO
6 7 (3.59%) WSO2
7 5 (2.56%) SAP
8 4 (2.05%) Confluent
8 4 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.05%) Workday
9 3 (1.54%) Splunk
10 2 (1.03%) Adobe
10 2 (1.03%) New Relic
11 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.51%) SnapLogic