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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 305 319
Rank change year-on-year -122 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 198 226 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 3.20% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 165 149
10th Percentile £384 £296 £354
25th Percentile £455 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -2.44% -7.30%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £603
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -6.29%
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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
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 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 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 18 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 -94 133 £588 - 227
South East -61 30 £460 +71.00% 26
North of England -69 15 £588 +20.51% 40
North West -55 8 £625 +29.87% 26
South West -32 7 £425 -34.62% 16
Yorkshire -37 6 £538 -9.74% 12
East of England - 4 £345 - 10
West Midlands -53 3 £575 -11.54% 7
Midlands -60 3 £575 +36.90% 15
North East - 1 - - 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 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.53%) Apache
3 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.01%) WordPress
5 1 (0.51%) Luigi
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.51%) Sketch
3 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.51%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (52.53%) AWS
2 72 (36.36%) Azure
3 50 (25.25%) Serverless
4 37 (18.69%) GCP
5 35 (17.68%) GitHub
6 30 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.62%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (10.61%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.59%) SaaS
10 14 (7.07%) Boomi
11 12 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (5.05%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (5.05%) iPaaS
14 9 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (3.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.05%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.10%) MySQL
4 13 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.05%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.05%) Redis
7 9 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (4.55%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.55%) Metadata
8 6 (3.03%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.03%) Neo4j
8 6 (3.03%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.53%) Weaviate
10 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.52%) Stardog
11 3 (1.52%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (16.16%) Git
2 23 (11.62%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.59%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.06%) Vite
5 6 (3.03%) GitLab
6 5 (2.53%) JSUnit
7 4 (2.02%) JUnit
8 3 (1.52%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.52%) Gradle
8 3 (1.52%) Maven
8 3 (1.52%) Postman
8 3 (1.52%) webpack
8 3 (1.52%) Xcode
9 2 (1.01%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.01%) Mockito
9 2 (1.01%) Storybook
General
1 46 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.14%) Finance
3 25 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.54%) Banking
4 7 (3.54%) Retail
5 6 (3.03%) Front Office
6 5 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.02%) Marketing
7 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Back Office
8 3 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Games
8 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Aviation
10 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (34.85%) Developer
2 42 (21.21%) Senior
3 26 (13.13%) Architect
4 21 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (9.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.06%) React Developer
8 10 (5.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 10 (5.05%) Lead
8 10 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Azure Developer
10 8 (4.04%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.04%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.03%) Energy Trading Developer
12 6 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (51.01%) REST
2 75 (37.88%) React
3 48 (24.24%) Kafka
4 47 (23.74%) Node.js
5 36 (18.18%) OAuth
6 30 (15.15%) CSS
6 30 (15.15%) Next.js
7 28 (14.14%) RESTful
8 26 (13.13%) OAuth2
9 24 (12.12%) HTML
10 20 (10.10%) AngularJS
11 19 (9.60%) JWT
12 18 (9.09%) JSON
12 18 (9.09%) SOAP
12 18 (9.09%) Terraform
13 17 (8.59%) Middleware
13 17 (8.59%) Spring
13 17 (8.59%) Vue
14 16 (8.08%) CSS3
14 16 (8.08%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.68%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.59%) Product Ownership
4 16 (8.08%) AI Agents
5 11 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.02%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Life Science
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.52%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.56%) Android
2 7 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.03%) Linux
4 4 (2.02%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 64 (32.32%) Agile
3 61 (30.81%) Microservices
4 54 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 46 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (20.71%) AI
7 40 (20.20%) DevOps
8 39 (19.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 39 (19.70%) Software Engineering
8 39 (19.70%) User Experience
9 33 (16.67%) API Design
10 31 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (15.15%) E-Commerce
12 29 (14.65%) Observability
13 27 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 26 (13.13%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.63%) Mentoring
16 24 (12.12%) API Integration
16 24 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 98 (49.49%) TypeScript
2 59 (29.80%) Java
3 57 (28.79%) Python
4 47 (23.74%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.20%) SQL
6 14 (7.07%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.56%) Go
8 8 (4.04%) C#
8 8 (4.04%) Scala
9 6 (3.03%) Ruby
9 6 (3.03%) Rust
9 6 (3.03%) Swift
10 5 (2.53%) Bash
10 5 (2.53%) Cypher
11 4 (2.02%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.52%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.52%) Perl
12 3 (1.52%) PHP
12 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.01%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 16 (8.08%) Degree
2 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) 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 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.58%) QA
2 14 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.04%) WCAG
4 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) PSD2
5 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (17.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.04%) Grafana
2 8 (4.04%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Puppet
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 30 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.60%) Oracle
3 17 (8.59%) Google
4 10 (5.05%) MuleSoft
5 9 (4.55%) IBM
5 9 (4.55%) Informatica
5 9 (4.55%) TIBCO
5 9 (4.55%) WSO2
6 8 (4.04%) Databricks
6 8 (4.04%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.53%) SAP
8 4 (2.02%) Confluent
8 4 (2.02%) Workday
9 3 (1.52%) Splunk
10 2 (1.01%) Adobe
10 2 (1.01%) New Relic
11 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.51%) SnapLogic