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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 334 356
Rank change year-on-year -61 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 214 150 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 2.64% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 106 159
10th Percentile £399 £333 £325
25th Percentile £515 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £523 £515
Median % change year-on-year +16.08% +1.46% -14.17%
75th Percentile £800 £684 £600
90th Percentile - £800 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +14.75% +2.40% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £70.25 - £45.00
25th Percentile £72.50 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £81.88 - £61.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%

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 8,282 5,682 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.64% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,948 5,519
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 116 263
10th Percentile £30.61 £31.78 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -44 142 £700 +19.15% 38
South East -58 21 £533 +29.09% 15
North of England -64 21 £575 +21.05% 8
North West -29 17 £650 +36.84% 6
Midlands -52 10 £700 +66.67% 3
South West - 10 £700 - 4
East Midlands -13 5 £498 +18.57% 2
West Midlands -54 5 £700 +60.00% 1
Yorkshire -54 4 £538 - 2
East of England - 3 £675 - 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 5 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Apache
3 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.88%) AWS
2 48 (22.43%) Serverless
3 47 (21.96%) Azure
4 36 (16.82%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (16.82%) GCP
5 34 (15.89%) GitHub
6 26 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (8.88%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.01%) SaaS
9 11 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.21%) Datadog
12 8 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (1.87%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) HTTP
2 3 (1.40%) DSL
2 3 (1.40%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.93%) NaaS
3 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.41%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.61%) DynamoDB
4 12 (5.61%) MySQL
5 11 (5.14%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.74%) Redis
7 5 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.34%) Metadata
7 5 (2.34%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.34%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.40%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.40%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.93%) Flink
10 2 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (10.75%) Git
2 20 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.61%) Vite
4 11 (5.14%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.21%) Gradle
6 8 (3.74%) GitLab
7 4 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.87%) Maven
7 4 (1.87%) webpack
8 3 (1.40%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.40%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.40%) fastlane
8 3 (1.40%) Selenium
8 3 (1.40%) Xcode
9 2 (0.93%) JSUnit
9 2 (0.93%) Mocha
9 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 54 (25.23%) Finance
2 37 (17.29%) Front Office
3 28 (13.08%) Social Skills
4 19 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.14%) Banking
6 7 (3.27%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.80%) Retail
8 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Back Office
10 3 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Law
12 1 (0.47%) Police
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (43.46%) Developer
2 50 (23.36%) Software Engineer
3 38 (17.76%) Senior
4 37 (17.29%) Lead
5 32 (14.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 25 (11.68%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.81%) Lead Software Developer
7 21 (9.81%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) Architect
8 20 (9.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) React Developer
9 17 (7.94%) Java Engineer
10 15 (7.01%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (6.54%) Python Developer
11 14 (6.54%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.07%) Backend Developer
13 10 (4.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (42.52%) React
2 78 (36.45%) REST
3 66 (30.84%) Node.js
4 63 (29.44%) Kafka
5 42 (19.63%) Redux
6 29 (13.55%) RESTful
7 19 (8.88%) Next.js
7 19 (8.88%) OAuth
8 18 (8.41%) Spring
9 15 (7.01%) Jest
9 15 (7.01%) Spring Boot
10 14 (6.54%) Django
10 14 (6.54%) OAuth2
11 13 (6.07%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.61%) CSS
12 12 (5.61%) gRPC
12 12 (5.61%) Playwright
12 12 (5.61%) Vue
13 10 (4.67%) HTML
13 10 (4.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.42%) Fixed Income
3 24 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.21%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.87%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.47%) CMDB
10 1 (0.47%) Life Science
10 1 (0.47%) LIMS
10 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Android
2 12 (5.61%) Linux
3 7 (3.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.40%) Unix
4 3 (1.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.65%) CI/CD
2 77 (35.98%) Agile
3 73 (34.11%) Software Engineering
4 54 (25.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (21.50%) Microservices
6 42 (19.63%) DevOps
7 36 (16.82%) Event-Driven
7 36 (16.82%) Investment Management
8 32 (14.95%) E-Commerce
8 32 (14.95%) Order Management
8 32 (14.95%) Portfolio Management
8 32 (14.95%) User Experience
9 30 (14.02%) Containerisation
9 30 (14.02%) Observability
9 30 (14.02%) Test Automation
10 27 (12.62%) AI
11 25 (11.68%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.21%) API Design
12 24 (11.21%) Code Quality
13 21 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 104 (48.60%) TypeScript
2 85 (39.72%) Java
3 78 (36.45%) Python
4 61 (28.50%) JavaScript
5 47 (21.96%) Go
6 27 (12.62%) SQL
7 14 (6.54%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.80%) Swift
9 4 (1.87%) C#
9 4 (1.87%) Cypher
9 4 (1.87%) Scala
9 4 (1.87%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.40%) Bash
10 3 (1.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.93%) Bicep
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) Gremlin
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.67%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.14%) QA
2 7 (3.27%) WCAG
3 5 (2.34%) GDPR
4 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.93%) NIST
5 2 (0.93%) PSD2
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (20.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.94%) Grafana
3 15 (7.01%) Prometheus
3 15 (7.01%) Terraform
4 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.93%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 17 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.34%) Oracle
4 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.40%) SAP
4 3 (1.40%) Splunk
5 2 (0.93%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.93%) Ciena
5 2 (0.93%) Google
5 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.93%) Netlify
5 2 (0.93%) New Relic
5 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.93%) Workday
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Braze
6 1 (0.47%) BT
6 1 (0.47%) Confluent
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) SnapLogic