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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 347 357
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -60
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 208 154 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 2.59% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 103 142
10th Percentile £204 £365 £325
25th Percentile £371 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £59.00 - £52.20
25th Percentile £59.75 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%
75th Percentile £66.75 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £68.70 - £69.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%

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 7,155 5,950 7,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.10% 22.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,797 3,808 5,592
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £658 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £757
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 78 176
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £27.31
25th Percentile £46.13 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -8 125 £500 -13.04% 90
South East -18 32 £208 -49.27% 106
North of England -44 23 £575 +48.39% 65
North West -15 18 £528 +40.67% 35
Midlands -36 15 £650 +18.18% 33
West Midlands -35 11 £650 +18.18% 6
South West -16 9 £650 +44.44% 37
East Midlands - 4 £390 - 24
Yorkshire -50 3 £585 +30.06% 24
North East - 2 £600 - 7
East of England -17 1 - - 46
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 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 5 (2.40%) CMS
1 5 (2.40%) Headless CMS
2 4 (1.92%) Apache
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.81%) AWS
2 53 (25.48%) SaaS
3 47 (22.60%) Azure
4 43 (20.67%) GitHub
5 38 (18.27%) Serverless
6 35 (16.83%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (11.06%) GCP
8 17 (8.17%) Sauce Labs
9 15 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.29%) Datadog
11 10 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.33%) Amazon S3
12 9 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.33%) Figma
13 8 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.88%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.88%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.73%) Wireless
2 3 (1.44%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.27%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (15.87%) Relational Database
3 32 (15.38%) MySQL
4 14 (6.73%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.73%) Redis
5 10 (4.81%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.48%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.48%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 51 (24.52%) Jenkins
2 25 (12.02%) Git
3 19 (9.13%) Android Studio
4 18 (8.65%) Browser DevTools
4 18 (8.65%) Xcode
5 17 (8.17%) Eclipse
6 11 (5.29%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.29%) GitLab
6 11 (5.29%) Gradle
7 7 (3.37%) JIRA
8 6 (2.88%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.40%) Mocha
10 4 (1.92%) JUnit
10 4 (1.92%) Maven
10 4 (1.92%) Mockito
10 4 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.92%) webpack
11 3 (1.44%) fastlane
12 2 (0.96%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 54 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.17%) Finance
3 16 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Banking
6 5 (2.40%) Games
7 4 (1.92%) Front Office
8 3 (1.44%) Billing
8 3 (1.44%) Retail
9 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.48%) Back Office
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (36.54%) Developer
2 49 (23.56%) Senior
3 27 (12.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (10.58%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.13%) Backend Developer
6 18 (8.65%) Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Support Engineer
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Engineer
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Support
6 18 (8.65%) Technical Support Engineer
6 18 (8.65%) UX Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (6.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (38.46%) React
2 75 (36.06%) Node.js
2 75 (36.06%) REST
3 36 (17.31%) Playwright
4 31 (14.90%) Vitest
5 30 (14.42%) CSS
6 29 (13.94%) OAuth
7 25 (12.02%) RESTful
8 22 (10.58%) AngularJS
9 21 (10.10%) Next.js
10 20 (9.62%) Ajax
10 20 (9.62%) YAML
11 18 (8.65%) Jest
11 18 (8.65%) OAuth2
12 17 (8.17%) Redux
12 17 (8.17%) WebSockets
13 15 (7.21%) gRPC
14 13 (6.25%) Django
14 13 (6.25%) Spring Boot
15 12 (5.77%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.40%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Animation
8 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.48%) IVR
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.50%) Linux
2 24 (11.54%) Android
3 18 (8.65%) Unix
3 18 (8.65%) Windows
4 7 (3.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (53.37%) CI/CD
2 81 (38.94%) Agile
3 70 (33.65%) DevOps
4 58 (27.88%) Containerisation
5 50 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (23.56%) Mentoring
7 47 (22.60%) User Experience
8 43 (20.67%) Microservices
9 41 (19.71%) E-Commerce
10 37 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (17.31%) API Design
12 32 (15.38%) Code Quality
12 32 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (14.90%) Coaching
13 31 (14.90%) Software Engineering
14 30 (14.42%) Test Automation
15 26 (12.50%) AI
15 26 (12.50%) Observability
16 22 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (10.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 93 (44.71%) TypeScript
2 78 (37.50%) Python
3 67 (32.21%) Java
4 59 (28.37%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.38%) SQL
6 22 (10.58%) Go
7 18 (8.65%) Perl
8 9 (4.33%) PHP
9 8 (3.85%) C#
10 7 (3.37%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.40%) Bash
11 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.92%) Swift
13 3 (1.44%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.96%) Ruby
15 1 (0.48%) Groovy
15 1 (0.48%) Rust
15 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Degree
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.85%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) WCAG
4 4 (1.92%) QA
5 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (40.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (37.02%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.02%) Grafana
3 19 (9.13%) Terraform
4 18 (8.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.96%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) Istio
6 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Oracle
3 20 (9.62%) Splunk
4 15 (7.21%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.33%) Adobe
6 7 (3.37%) Google
7 6 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.44%) Confluent
9 3 (1.44%) Gigya
9 3 (1.44%) New Relic
10 2 (0.96%) Databricks
10 2 (0.96%) Marketo
10 2 (0.96%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.48%) Apple
11 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.48%) HP
11 1 (0.48%) HubSpot