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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 297 336
Rank change year-on-year -125 +39 -4
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 203 227 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.82% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.05% 3.23% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 167 146
10th Percentile £388 £300 £353
25th Percentile £455 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -1.69% -8.40%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £608
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +10.69% -5.25% -7.30%
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 9,915 7,035 7,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.30% 25.48% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 4,783 5,317
10th Percentile £381 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 168 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.88 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

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 23 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 23 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 -95 139 £588 - 174
South East -61 30 £460 +71.00% 27
North of England -86 14 £600 +20.00% 30
North West -55 8 £625 +29.87% 21
South West -34 7 £425 -34.62% 17
Yorkshire -46 5 £575 -3.44% 8
East of England - 4 £345 - 10
West Midlands -49 3 £575 -11.54% 9
Midlands -63 3 £575 +36.90% 18
North East -39 1 - - 1
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 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.46%) Apache
3 4 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) Luigi
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.49%) Sketch
3 1 (0.49%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.19%) AWS
2 76 (37.44%) Azure
3 55 (27.09%) Serverless
4 40 (19.70%) GCP
5 39 (19.21%) GitHub
6 32 (15.76%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (11.33%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.37%) SaaS
10 14 (6.90%) Boomi
11 13 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.42%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.93%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.93%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.21%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.85%) MySQL
4 13 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.42%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.93%) Redis
8 9 (4.43%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.43%) Metadata
9 7 (3.45%) Pinecone
10 6 (2.96%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.96%) Neo4j
10 6 (2.96%) Weaviate
11 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.48%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.48%) Stardog
13 3 (1.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (16.75%) Git
2 24 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.88%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.42%) Vite
5 7 (3.45%) GitLab
6 5 (2.46%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.46%) JUnit
7 4 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.97%) Gradle
7 4 (1.97%) Maven
8 3 (1.48%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.48%) Mockito
8 3 (1.48%) Postman
8 3 (1.48%) webpack
8 3 (1.48%) Xcode
9 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.99%) Storybook
General
1 46 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.29%) Finance
3 26 (12.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.45%) Banking
4 7 (3.45%) Front Office
4 7 (3.45%) Retail
5 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.97%) Marketing
6 4 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.48%) Back Office
7 3 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.48%) Games
7 3 (1.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.48%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.49%) Aviation
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 71 (34.98%) Developer
2 44 (21.67%) Senior
3 26 (12.81%) Architect
4 22 (10.84%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (9.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.91%) React Developer
9 10 (4.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (4.93%) Lead
9 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.43%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Developer
11 8 (3.94%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.94%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.45%) Energy Trading Developer
12 7 (3.45%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (51.72%) REST
2 75 (36.95%) React
3 50 (24.63%) Kafka
4 48 (23.65%) Node.js
5 36 (17.73%) OAuth
6 31 (15.27%) Next.js
7 29 (14.29%) CSS
8 28 (13.79%) RESTful
9 26 (12.81%) OAuth2
10 23 (11.33%) HTML
11 20 (9.85%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.85%) Middleware
12 19 (9.36%) JWT
13 18 (8.87%) JSON
13 18 (8.87%) SOAP
13 18 (8.87%) Spring
13 18 (8.87%) Terraform
14 17 (8.37%) Vue
15 16 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (7.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.65%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (9.85%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.87%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.97%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.97%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.48%) Life Science
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.48%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.49%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Android
2 7 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.96%) Linux
4 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (47.29%) CI/CD
2 66 (32.51%) Agile
3 62 (30.54%) Microservices
4 58 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 47 (23.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (22.17%) AI
7 44 (21.67%) DevOps
8 43 (21.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 38 (18.72%) Software Engineering
9 38 (18.72%) User Experience
10 33 (16.26%) API Design
10 33 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (15.27%) E-Commerce
12 30 (14.78%) Observability
13 28 (13.79%) Test Automation
14 27 (13.30%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.32%) Mentoring
15 25 (12.32%) TDD
16 24 (11.82%) API Integration
16 24 (11.82%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (49.75%) TypeScript
2 62 (30.54%) Java
3 60 (29.56%) Python
4 49 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 42 (20.69%) SQL
6 15 (7.39%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.42%) Go
8 10 (4.93%) C#
9 9 (4.43%) Scala
10 6 (2.96%) Ruby
10 6 (2.96%) Rust
10 6 (2.96%) Swift
11 5 (2.46%) Bash
11 5 (2.46%) Cypher
12 4 (1.97%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.48%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.48%) Perl
13 3 (1.48%) PHP
13 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.99%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (8.87%) Degree
2 14 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.88%) QA
2 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.45%) WCAG
4 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) PSD2
5 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (19.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (21.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.43%) Grafana
2 9 (4.43%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.49%) Istio
5 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.85%) Google
2 20 (9.85%) Oracle
3 12 (5.91%) IBM
3 12 (5.91%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.93%) MuleSoft
5 9 (4.43%) Informatica
5 9 (4.43%) TIBCO
5 9 (4.43%) WSO2
6 8 (3.94%) Databricks
6 8 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.46%) SAP
8 4 (1.97%) Confluent
8 4 (1.97%) Workday
9 3 (1.48%) Foundry
9 3 (1.48%) Splunk
9 3 (1.48%) UiPath
10 2 (0.99%) Adobe
10 2 (0.99%) New Relic
11 1 (0.49%) SnapLogic