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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 373 338
Rank change year-on-year -2 -35 -33
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 212 112 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% 2.05% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 73 158
10th Percentile £302 £364 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £515 £519
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -0.72% -13.54%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £617
90th Percentile £800 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% -15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £61.00 - £56.20
25th Percentile £67.50 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.67%

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 7,947 5,454 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.69% 22.40% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,781 5,342
10th Percentile £361 £368 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 218
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.13 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -13 128 £675 +15.38% 44
North of England -42 30 £575 +38.06% 20
North West -21 25 £600 +44.06% 8
South East -43 23 £413 +0.86% 22
Midlands -68 11 £700 +66.67% 14
South West -22 9 £700 +14.75% 9
East Midlands -25 6 £498 +18.57% 13
Yorkshire -48 5 £575 - 8
West Midlands -59 5 £700 +60.00% 1
East of England -25 3 £675 +35.00% 9
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 4 (1.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 103 (48.58%) AWS
2 38 (17.92%) Azure
3 31 (14.62%) Serverless
4 29 (13.68%) GCP
5 27 (12.74%) GitHub
5 27 (12.74%) SaaS
6 25 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.19%) Datadog
10 9 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.30%) Figma
13 6 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.83%) Sauce Labs
14 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) DSL
2 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.94%) NaaS
3 2 (0.94%) WAN
4 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (11.32%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.43%) MySQL
4 11 (5.19%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.77%) Redis
8 6 (2.83%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.42%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.94%) Flink
12 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (14.62%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.38%) Git
3 12 (5.66%) GitLab
3 12 (5.66%) Gradle
4 7 (3.30%) Android Studio
4 7 (3.30%) Xcode
5 6 (2.83%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (2.83%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.83%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.36%) fastlane
6 5 (2.36%) Vite
7 4 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.42%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.42%) Maven
8 3 (1.42%) Mocha
9 2 (0.94%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.94%) Selenium
9 2 (0.94%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.94%) webpack
General
1 46 (21.70%) Finance
2 37 (17.45%) Front Office
3 27 (12.74%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.83%) Games
6 5 (2.36%) Banking
6 5 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.89%) Retail
8 3 (1.42%) Billing
8 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Aviation
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (45.28%) Developer
2 50 (23.58%) Senior
3 45 (21.23%) Software Engineer
4 37 (17.45%) Lead
5 32 (15.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.26%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.91%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.43%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (8.49%) Java Engineer
10 17 (8.02%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.02%) React Developer
11 16 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (6.13%) Architect
12 13 (6.13%) Java Developer
12 13 (6.13%) Senior Consultant
12 13 (6.13%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.13%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 13 (6.13%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.13%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (44.34%) React
2 87 (41.04%) Node.js
2 87 (41.04%) REST
3 48 (22.64%) Kafka
4 45 (21.23%) Redux
5 27 (12.74%) Playwright
6 21 (9.91%) RESTful
7 20 (9.43%) Vitest
8 19 (8.96%) Spring
9 17 (8.02%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.02%) Next.js
9 17 (8.02%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.55%) CSS
10 16 (7.55%) OAuth
11 15 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (6.60%) Django
12 14 (6.60%) Jest
12 14 (6.60%) Vue
13 13 (6.13%) YAML
14 12 (5.66%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.09%) Fixed Income
3 16 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.60%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.94%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.94%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.55%) Linux
2 13 (6.13%) Android
3 6 (2.83%) Unix
3 6 (2.83%) Windows
4 5 (2.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (42.45%) CI/CD
2 88 (41.51%) Agile
3 75 (35.38%) Software Engineering
4 64 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (25.47%) DevOps
6 38 (17.92%) Containerisation
6 38 (17.92%) E-Commerce
7 36 (16.98%) Mentoring
7 36 (16.98%) Microservices
8 35 (16.51%) Code Quality
9 34 (16.04%) Observability
10 33 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 33 (15.57%) User Experience
11 32 (15.09%) Investment Management
11 32 (15.09%) Order Management
11 32 (15.09%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.79%) API Design
15 24 (11.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 108 (50.94%) TypeScript
2 85 (40.09%) Java
3 80 (37.74%) Python
4 66 (31.13%) JavaScript
5 44 (20.75%) Go
6 21 (9.91%) SQL
7 10 (4.72%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.83%) Perl
9 5 (2.36%) C#
10 4 (1.89%) Bash
10 4 (1.89%) Scala
10 4 (1.89%) Swift
11 3 (1.42%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.42%) PHP
12 2 (0.94%) Bicep
12 2 (0.94%) C++
12 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.94%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (6.60%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.36%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.89%) Degree
5 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.83%) QA
2 6 (2.83%) WCAG
3 4 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.94%) NIST
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 63 (29.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 53 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.79%) Grafana
3 20 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.60%) Terraform
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.94%) Ansible
5 2 (0.94%) Puppet
5 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.83%) Oracle
2 6 (2.83%) Splunk
3 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.42%) Adobe
4 3 (1.42%) New Relic
4 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.94%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.94%) Ciena
5 2 (0.94%) Netlify
6 1 (0.47%) BT
6 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.47%) Marketo
6 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.47%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.47%) SAP