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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 335 350
Rank change year-on-year -61 +15 -42
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 227 150 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.73% 2.63% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 106 156
10th Percentile £400 £333 £328
25th Percentile £516 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -0.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £779 £669 £600
90th Percentile £800 £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 8,301 5,704 7,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.10% 22.57% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,472 3,942 5,497
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 258 119 263
10th Percentile £30.35 £31.05 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -10.77%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.16 £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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -34 154 £650 +10.64% 40
North of England -58 22 £575 +21.05% 9
South East -55 21 £533 +29.09% 17
North West -39 17 £650 +36.84% 7
Midlands -54 10 £700 +66.67% 2
South West - 10 £700 - 5
East Midlands -9 5 £498 +18.57% 1
Yorkshire -39 5 £575 - 2
West Midlands -59 5 £700 +60.00% 1
East of England - 3 £675 - 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 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Shopify
2 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (56.83%) AWS
2 51 (22.47%) Azure
2 51 (22.47%) Serverless
3 38 (16.74%) GCP
4 37 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (15.86%) GitHub
6 27 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (8.81%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.61%) SaaS
9 11 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.96%) Datadog
12 8 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.64%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (2.20%) Figma
15 4 (1.76%) Amazon Neptune
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.76%) HTTP
2 3 (1.32%) DSL
2 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.88%) NaaS
3 2 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.93%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.73%) MySQL
5 12 (5.29%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.52%) Redis
7 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.64%) Metadata
7 6 (2.64%) Neo4j
8 5 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.32%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.32%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.88%) Flink
11 2 (0.88%) TigerGraph
11 2 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.57%) Git
3 12 (5.29%) Cypress.io
3 12 (5.29%) Vite
4 9 (3.96%) Gradle
5 8 (3.52%) GitLab
6 5 (2.20%) JSUnit
7 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.76%) Maven
7 4 (1.76%) webpack
8 3 (1.32%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.32%) fastlane
8 3 (1.32%) Selenium
8 3 (1.32%) Xcode
9 2 (0.88%) Mocha
9 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (24.67%) Finance
2 37 (16.30%) Front Office
3 30 (13.22%) Social Skills
4 20 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.08%) Retail
7 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Games
9 3 (1.32%) Back Office
9 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Aviation
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (43.61%) Developer
2 52 (22.91%) Software Engineer
3 42 (18.50%) Senior
4 39 (17.18%) Lead
5 33 (14.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (11.89%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (9.25%) Architect
8 21 (9.25%) Lead Software Developer
8 21 (9.25%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (8.81%) React Developer
10 17 (7.49%) Java Engineer
11 16 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.05%) Java Developer
12 15 (6.61%) Senior Developer
13 14 (6.17%) Backend Developer
13 14 (6.17%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (44.05%) React
2 83 (36.56%) REST
3 72 (31.72%) Node.js
4 65 (28.63%) Kafka
5 43 (18.94%) Redux
6 31 (13.66%) RESTful
7 26 (11.45%) Next.js
8 21 (9.25%) Spring
9 19 (8.37%) OAuth
10 17 (7.49%) Playwright
10 17 (7.49%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.05%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.05%) Jest
12 14 (6.17%) CSS
12 14 (6.17%) Django
12 14 (6.17%) OAuth2
13 12 (5.29%) gRPC
13 12 (5.29%) Vue
14 11 (4.85%) HTML
15 10 (4.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.54%) Fixed Income
3 26 (11.45%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.96%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.20%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.32%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Life Science
10 1 (0.44%) LIMS
10 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.73%) Android
2 12 (5.29%) Linux
3 7 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (42.29%) CI/CD
2 87 (38.33%) Agile
3 77 (33.92%) Software Engineering
4 61 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (22.47%) Microservices
6 46 (20.26%) DevOps
7 37 (16.30%) Event-Driven
8 36 (15.86%) Investment Management
9 34 (14.98%) Test Automation
9 34 (14.98%) User Experience
10 33 (14.54%) E-Commerce
11 32 (14.10%) Containerisation
11 32 (14.10%) Order Management
11 32 (14.10%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (13.66%) Observability
13 28 (12.33%) AI
13 28 (12.33%) Code Quality
14 27 (11.89%) TDD
15 26 (11.45%) API Design
15 26 (11.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 114 (50.22%) TypeScript
2 88 (38.77%) Java
3 80 (35.24%) Python
4 63 (27.75%) JavaScript
5 47 (20.70%) Go
6 31 (13.66%) SQL
7 14 (6.17%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.64%) Swift
9 5 (2.20%) C#
9 5 (2.20%) Cypher
9 5 (2.20%) Scala
9 5 (2.20%) SPARQL
10 4 (1.76%) Bash
11 3 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (1.32%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.32%) Perl
12 2 (0.88%) C++
12 2 (0.88%) PHP
12 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 15 (6.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.29%) Degree
2 12 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.64%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.17%) QA
2 13 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.52%) WCAG
4 5 (2.20%) GDPR
5 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) PSD2
8 1 (0.44%) ITGC
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (21.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.93%) Terraform
3 17 (7.49%) Grafana
4 15 (6.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.88%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.88%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.20%) Oracle
4 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.32%) Google
4 3 (1.32%) SAP
4 3 (1.32%) Splunk
5 2 (0.88%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.88%) Ciena
5 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.88%) Netlify
5 2 (0.88%) New Relic
5 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.88%) Workday
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe
6 1 (0.44%) Braze
6 1 (0.44%) BT
6 1 (0.44%) Confluent
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) SnapLogic