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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 321 336
Rank change year-on-year -114 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 203 206 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.74% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.07% 2.99% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 151 154
10th Percentile £385 £313 £363
25th Percentile £459 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £512 £534
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% -4.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £560 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £65.00 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% +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 9,784 6,893 8,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 24.85% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,736 5,591
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £437 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 190
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -11.10% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -77 137 £588 +2.17% 23
South East -64 28 £460 +65.77% 11
North of England -71 14 £588 +23.68% 7
South West - 9 £450 - 11
Midlands -52 8 £700 +75.00% 4
Yorkshire -35 7 £575 -
North West -53 7 £650 +36.84% 6
West Midlands -50 5 £700 +38.61% 1
East Midlands -14 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £345 - 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 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Luigi
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.99%) Shopify
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.72%) AWS
2 62 (30.54%) Azure
3 51 (25.12%) Serverless
4 39 (19.21%) GCP
5 34 (16.75%) GitHub
6 31 (15.27%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.37%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.88%) SaaS
10 11 (5.42%) Boomi
11 10 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.43%) Datadog
13 7 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.45%) iPaaS
14 6 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) NaaS
2 2 (0.99%) WAN
3 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.39%) MySQL
4 13 (6.40%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.42%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.42%) Redis
6 9 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.43%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.94%) Metadata
7 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.96%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.46%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.97%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.48%) Stardog
11 3 (1.48%) TigerGraph
11 3 (1.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.82%) Git
3 17 (8.37%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.91%) Vite
5 5 (2.46%) GitLab
5 5 (2.46%) JSUnit
6 3 (1.48%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.48%) Gradle
6 3 (1.48%) webpack
6 3 (1.48%) Xcode
7 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.99%) JUnit
7 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.99%) Storybook
8 1 (0.49%) Spock
General
1 36 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.27%) Finance
3 23 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.91%) Front Office
5 8 (3.94%) Retail
6 7 (3.45%) Banking
7 6 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.97%) Games
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (37.44%) Developer
2 41 (20.20%) Senior
3 26 (12.81%) Architect
4 21 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.85%) Senior Developer
6 18 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (8.87%) Lead
7 17 (8.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) React Developer
9 13 (6.40%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Backend Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (4.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.43%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (4.43%) Senior Backend Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.94%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (45.81%) REST
2 75 (36.95%) React
3 55 (27.09%) Node.js
4 50 (24.63%) Kafka
5 31 (15.27%) RESTful
6 29 (14.29%) Next.js
6 29 (14.29%) OAuth
7 26 (12.81%) CSS
8 20 (9.85%) HTML
8 20 (9.85%) OAuth2
9 19 (9.36%) Spring
9 19 (9.36%) Terraform
10 17 (8.37%) JWT
10 17 (8.37%) Playwright
10 17 (8.37%) SOAP
11 16 (7.88%) Redux
12 15 (7.39%) AngularJS
12 15 (7.39%) JSON
13 14 (6.90%) Middleware
13 14 (6.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.17%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.43%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.94%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.94%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.97%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Android
2 7 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.46%) Linux
4 3 (1.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 70 (34.48%) Agile
3 60 (29.56%) Microservices
4 45 (22.17%) DevOps
5 44 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (21.67%) Software Engineering
6 43 (21.18%) Event-Driven
7 37 (18.23%) User Experience
8 35 (17.24%) E-Commerce
9 34 (16.75%) AI
10 31 (15.27%) API Design
11 30 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (14.78%) Test Automation
12 29 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 28 (13.79%) Observability
14 26 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (12.81%) Mentoring
14 26 (12.81%) TDD
15 25 (12.32%) Code Quality
16 24 (11.82%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 103 (50.74%) TypeScript
2 60 (29.56%) Java
3 58 (28.57%) Python
4 47 (23.15%) JavaScript
5 37 (18.23%) SQL
6 22 (10.84%) Go
7 14 (6.90%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.45%) C#
8 7 (3.45%) Scala
9 6 (2.96%) Swift
10 5 (2.46%) Bash
10 5 (2.46%) Cypher
10 5 (2.46%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.97%) Ruby
11 4 (1.97%) Rust
12 3 (1.48%) Bicep
12 3 (1.48%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.48%) Perl
12 3 (1.48%) PHP
12 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.90%) Degree
2 13 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) QA
2 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.45%) WCAG
4 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) PSD2
7 1 (0.49%) ITGC
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.40%) Grafana
2 13 (6.40%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Istio
4 2 (0.99%) linkerd
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.90%) Oracle
3 13 (6.40%) Google
4 10 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.96%) IBM
6 6 (2.96%) Informatica
6 6 (2.96%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.96%) WSO2
7 5 (2.46%) SAP
8 4 (1.97%) Confluent
8 4 (1.97%) Workday
9 3 (1.48%) Databricks
9 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.48%) Splunk
10 2 (0.99%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.99%) Ciena
10 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.99%) New Relic
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow