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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 328 364
Rank change year-on-year -73 +36 -54
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 229 186 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 3.05% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 138 138
10th Percentile £400 £313 £368
25th Percentile £506 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £514 £535
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -4.02% -10.83%
75th Percentile £753 £650 £603
90th Percentile £800 £833 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +17.50% -6.19% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £68.00 - £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 £77.50 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £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 8,446 6,101 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.24% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,156
10th Percentile £363 £350 £361
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £804
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +6.04% -13.75%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -40 160 £625 +6.38% 60
South East -69 25 £493 +56.85% 10
North of England -66 19 £575 +35.29% 10
North West -43 12 £650 +52.94% 7
Midlands -54 9 £700 +75.00% 5
South West - 9 £700 - 8
Yorkshire -38 7 £575 - 3
East Midlands -12 5 £498 +31.05% 1
West Midlands -55 4 £700 +53.85% 4
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 8 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 133 (58.08%) AWS
2 55 (24.02%) Azure
3 52 (22.71%) Serverless
4 43 (18.78%) GCP
5 35 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (14.85%) GitHub
7 24 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (7.42%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.42%) SaaS
9 9 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.93%) Datadog
10 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (3.49%) Boomi
11 6 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.62%) iPaaS
12 5 (2.18%) Amazon Neptune
12 5 (2.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) DSL
2 2 (0.87%) NaaS
2 2 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.80%) MySQL
5 10 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.37%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.93%) Redis
7 8 (3.49%) Metadata
8 7 (3.06%) Neo4j
9 6 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.31%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.31%) Stardog
12 3 (1.31%) TigerGraph
12 3 (1.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.92%) Git
3 16 (6.99%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.24%) Vite
5 7 (3.06%) GitLab
6 5 (2.18%) JSUnit
7 4 (1.75%) Gradle
7 4 (1.75%) webpack
8 3 (1.31%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.31%) Xcode
9 2 (0.87%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.87%) JIRA
9 2 (0.87%) JUnit
9 2 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.87%) Selenium
9 2 (0.87%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (24.45%) Finance
2 36 (15.72%) Front Office
3 30 (13.10%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.49%) Banking
5 8 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.49%) Retail
6 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Games
8 3 (1.31%) Back Office
8 3 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.31%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 101 (44.10%) Developer
2 49 (21.40%) Software Engineer
3 43 (18.78%) Senior
4 36 (15.72%) Lead
5 33 (14.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (11.35%) Architect
7 24 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (10.48%) Lead Developer
8 22 (9.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (9.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (8.73%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (8.73%) React Developer
10 20 (8.73%) Senior Developer
11 17 (7.42%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Backend Developer
13 12 (5.24%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 9 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 9 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.93%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (40.61%) React
2 91 (39.74%) REST
3 79 (34.50%) Node.js
4 70 (30.57%) Kafka
5 42 (18.34%) Redux
6 31 (13.54%) RESTful
7 26 (11.35%) Next.js
8 21 (9.17%) CSS
9 19 (8.30%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.30%) OAuth
10 18 (7.86%) Playwright
11 17 (7.42%) HTML
11 17 (7.42%) Jest
11 17 (7.42%) Spring
12 15 (6.55%) Vue
13 14 (6.11%) gRPC
13 14 (6.11%) OAuth2
13 14 (6.11%) SOAP
14 12 (5.24%) Middleware
14 12 (5.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.41%) Fixed Income
3 31 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.62%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.75%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.44%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.24%) Android
2 7 (3.06%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.18%) Linux
4 3 (1.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (39.30%) Agile
2 89 (38.86%) CI/CD
3 74 (32.31%) Software Engineering
4 65 (28.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (23.14%) Microservices
6 42 (18.34%) DevOps
7 40 (17.47%) Event-Driven
8 37 (16.16%) User Experience
9 36 (15.72%) Investment Management
10 35 (15.28%) E-Commerce
11 33 (14.41%) Test Automation
12 32 (13.97%) Order Management
12 32 (13.97%) Portfolio Management
13 31 (13.54%) AI
14 29 (12.66%) API Design
14 29 (12.66%) TDD
15 28 (12.23%) Observability
16 27 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (11.35%) Code Quality
17 26 (11.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.28%) TypeScript
2 84 (36.68%) Java
3 76 (33.19%) Python
4 66 (28.82%) JavaScript
5 49 (21.40%) Go
6 35 (15.28%) SQL
7 16 (6.99%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.06%) C#
8 7 (3.06%) Scala
9 6 (2.62%) Cypher
9 6 (2.62%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.62%) Swift
10 5 (2.18%) Bash
11 4 (1.75%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.31%) Bicep
12 3 (1.31%) Perl
12 3 (1.31%) PHP
12 3 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (1.31%) Rust
12 3 (1.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.11%) Degree
2 14 (6.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.18%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.55%) Accessibility
1 15 (6.55%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) WCAG
3 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) PSD2
6 1 (0.44%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (17.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.30%) Terraform
3 15 (6.55%) Grafana
4 14 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.37%) Oracle
3 9 (3.93%) Google
4 8 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.18%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.75%) SAP
7 3 (1.31%) IBM
7 3 (1.31%) Informatica
7 3 (1.31%) Splunk
7 3 (1.31%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.31%) Workday
7 3 (1.31%) WSO2
8 2 (0.87%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.87%) Ciena
8 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.87%) Netlify
8 2 (0.87%) New Relic
8 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.44%) SnapLogic