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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 302 342
Rank change year-on-year -137 +40 -1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 209 230 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.10% 3.21% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 171 130
10th Percentile £400 £204 £345
25th Percentile £455 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.76% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £602
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +13.08% -3.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile - - £44.69
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +12.82% -20.08%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £52.19
90th Percentile £87.00 - £53.13
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% +12.82% -20.08%

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 9,971 7,176 7,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.51% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,559 4,849 5,151
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £54.37 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -115 138 £588 - 196
South East -65 28 £460 +121.69% 12
North of England -64 26 £600 +13.74% 34
North West -41 20 £600 +24.68% 23
Yorkshire -34 5 £588 -1.34% 9
South West -37 4 £413 -36.54% 9
Midlands -67 4 £575 -0.43% 17
West Midlands -57 3 £575 -11.54% 7
East of England - 2 £345 - 9
East Midlands -22 1 - - 10
North East -42 1 - - 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 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.91%) Apache
2 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) WordPress
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.48%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.48%) Sketch
3 1 (0.48%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.48%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.98%) AWS
2 76 (36.36%) Azure
3 57 (27.27%) Serverless
4 42 (20.10%) GCP
5 39 (18.66%) GitHub
6 34 (16.27%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.48%) Amazon S3
8 23 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.18%) SaaS
10 14 (6.70%) Boomi
11 13 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.78%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.31%) Datadog
16 8 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.70%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.27%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.00%) MySQL
4 13 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.74%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.83%) Metadata
7 8 (3.83%) Redis
8 6 (2.87%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.39%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.39%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.91%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.91%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.44%) Stardog
11 3 (1.44%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 35 (16.75%) Git
2 26 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.66%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.78%) Vite
5 7 (3.35%) Gradle
6 6 (2.87%) Claude Code
6 6 (2.87%) GitLab
6 6 (2.87%) Xcode
7 5 (2.39%) JSUnit
7 5 (2.39%) JUnit
8 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.91%) Maven
9 3 (1.44%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.44%) Mockito
9 3 (1.44%) Postman
9 3 (1.44%) webpack
10 2 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.96%) Storybook
General
1 54 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.83%) Finance
3 26 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.31%) Banking
5 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.35%) Retail
6 6 (2.87%) Front Office
7 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.91%) Marketing
8 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.91%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Back Office
9 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (33.49%) Developer
2 45 (21.53%) Senior
3 29 (13.88%) Architect
4 26 (12.44%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.22%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.74%) React Developer
8 12 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (4.31%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Azure Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.35%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (52.63%) REST
2 79 (37.80%) React
3 49 (23.44%) Kafka
3 49 (23.44%) Node.js
4 37 (17.70%) OAuth
5 32 (15.31%) RESTful
6 31 (14.83%) Next.js
7 29 (13.88%) CSS
8 27 (12.92%) OAuth2
9 23 (11.00%) HTML
10 21 (10.05%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.57%) Spring
11 20 (9.57%) Vue
12 19 (9.09%) Terraform
13 18 (8.61%) JWT
13 18 (8.61%) SOAP
14 17 (8.13%) JSON
14 17 (8.13%) Middleware
14 17 (8.13%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (7.66%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.70%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (11.00%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.61%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.78%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.91%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Sports Betting
10 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.96%) Life Science
11 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.48%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.18%) Android
2 9 (4.31%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.87%) Linux
4 4 (1.91%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (49.76%) CI/CD
2 76 (36.36%) Agile
3 65 (31.10%) Microservices
4 61 (29.19%) Event-Driven
5 47 (22.49%) AI
5 47 (22.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (22.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 41 (19.62%) DevOps
8 39 (18.66%) Software Engineering
9 38 (18.18%) Observability
10 37 (17.70%) User Experience
11 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (16.75%) E-Commerce
13 34 (16.27%) API Design
14 32 (15.31%) Test Automation
15 30 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (12.92%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (12.44%) Data Modelling
17 26 (12.44%) Mentoring
17 26 (12.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.80%) TypeScript
2 69 (33.01%) Java
3 56 (26.79%) JavaScript
3 56 (26.79%) Python
4 43 (20.57%) SQL
5 21 (10.05%) Kotlin
6 11 (5.26%) Go
6 11 (5.26%) Scala
7 10 (4.78%) C#
8 8 (3.83%) Swift
9 7 (3.35%) Ruby
9 7 (3.35%) Rust
10 6 (2.87%) Bash
11 5 (2.39%) Cypher
11 5 (2.39%) Perl
12 4 (1.91%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.44%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.96%) Bicep
14 2 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (9.57%) Degree
2 15 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.70%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.00%) QA
2 14 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.39%) WCAG
4 2 (0.96%) PSD2
4 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) ITGC
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (20.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (24.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.26%) Grafana
3 8 (3.83%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.48%) Istio
6 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.05%) Google
3 20 (9.57%) Oracle
4 12 (5.74%) IBM
4 12 (5.74%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.78%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.31%) Informatica
6 9 (4.31%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.31%) WSO2
7 8 (3.83%) Databricks
7 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.91%) Workday
10 3 (1.44%) Confluent
10 3 (1.44%) Foundry
10 3 (1.44%) Splunk
10 3 (1.44%) UiPath
11 2 (0.96%) Adobe
11 2 (0.96%) New Relic
12 1 (0.48%) SnapLogic