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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 342 352
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 -56
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 234 178 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.41% 2.64% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 123 182
10th Percentile £204 £364 £364
25th Percentile £380 £409 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £650
90th Percentile £800 £688 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £55.60 £43.38 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £44.69 £50.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.08% -12.86%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.19 £73.38
90th Percentile £62.20 £53.13 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.08% -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 6,864 6,746 8,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.84% 21.67% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 4,305 6,457
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
75th Percentile £635 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 100 182
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.25 £36.31
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +26 153 £575 +4.55% 124
South East +16 35 £208 -49.27% 37
Midlands -19 21 £650 +46.48% 9
North of England -27 18 £570 +47.10% 31
West Midlands -12 15 £650 +18.18% 7
North West -19 9 £488 +30.00% 24
South West -3 8 £650 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -36 7 £585 +30.06% 7
East Midlands -6 6 £380 +16.92% 2
North East - 2 £600 -
East of England - 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 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.56%) Apache
3 5 (2.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.71%) CMS
4 4 (1.71%) Confluence
4 4 (1.71%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.71%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (44.02%) AWS
2 51 (21.79%) SaaS
3 45 (19.23%) Azure
3 45 (19.23%) Serverless
4 41 (17.52%) GitHub
5 31 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (11.11%) GCP
7 23 (9.83%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
9 12 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.27%) Datadog
12 8 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (2.99%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.69%) Wireless
2 3 (1.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.50%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (15.81%) Relational Database
3 31 (13.25%) MySQL
4 19 (8.12%) DynamoDB
4 19 (8.12%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.56%) Redis
6 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.27%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.43%) Flink
13 1 (0.43%) Hasura
13 1 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (20.09%) Jenkins
2 36 (15.38%) Git
3 19 (8.12%) Android Studio
3 19 (8.12%) Browser DevTools
4 18 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 18 (7.69%) Xcode
5 15 (6.41%) JIRA
6 9 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.42%) GitLab
8 7 (2.99%) Gradle
9 5 (2.14%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.14%) Maven
9 5 (2.14%) Subversion
10 4 (1.71%) JUnit
10 4 (1.71%) Mocha
10 4 (1.71%) Mockito
10 4 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.71%) webpack
11 2 (0.85%) ESLint
11 2 (0.85%) SonarLint
General
1 72 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.23%) Finance
3 24 (10.26%) Front Office
4 19 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.99%) Banking
7 3 (1.28%) Retail
7 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.85%) Billing
8 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (41.45%) Developer
2 47 (20.09%) Senior
3 27 (11.54%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 24 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) Lead
6 19 (8.12%) Backend Developer
6 19 (8.12%) Support Engineer
6 19 (8.12%) Technical Engineer
6 19 (8.12%) Technical Support
6 19 (8.12%) Technical Support Engineer
6 19 (8.12%) UX Engineer
7 18 (7.69%) React Developer
8 17 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (7.26%) Python Developer
9 16 (6.84%) Architect
10 15 (6.41%) Lead Developer
11 14 (5.98%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.98%) Technical Architect
12 12 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (41.03%) React
2 84 (35.90%) Node.js
3 75 (32.05%) REST
4 41 (17.52%) RESTful
5 37 (15.81%) Kafka
6 33 (14.10%) CSS
7 29 (12.39%) OAuth
8 27 (11.54%) AngularJS
8 27 (11.54%) Redux
9 23 (9.83%) gRPC
9 23 (9.83%) Playwright
10 21 (8.97%) WebSockets
11 20 (8.55%) Ajax
11 20 (8.55%) Vitest
12 19 (8.12%) Next.js
13 18 (7.69%) OAuth2
14 16 (6.84%) Jest
15 14 (5.98%) FastAPI
15 14 (5.98%) Flask
15 14 (5.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.68%) Mobile App
3 19 (8.12%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.13%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.71%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.85%) IVR
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.26%) Android
2 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 19 (8.12%) Unix
2 19 (8.12%) Windows
3 6 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (50.00%) Agile
2 105 (44.87%) CI/CD
3 70 (29.91%) DevOps
4 62 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (23.93%) Containerisation
6 53 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (22.65%) Microservices
7 49 (20.94%) Software Engineering
8 48 (20.51%) User Experience
9 46 (19.66%) Mentoring
10 33 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (13.68%) API Design
12 31 (13.25%) AI
13 29 (12.39%) E-Commerce
14 27 (11.54%) Code Quality
14 27 (11.54%) TDD
15 26 (11.11%) Clean Code
15 26 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (11.11%) Test Automation
16 21 (8.97%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 107 (45.73%) Python
2 99 (42.31%) TypeScript
3 84 (35.90%) Java
4 83 (35.47%) JavaScript
5 40 (17.09%) Go
6 30 (12.82%) SQL
7 19 (8.12%) Perl
8 13 (5.56%) PHP
8 13 (5.56%) Ruby
9 6 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.14%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.14%) C#
11 3 (1.28%) Bash
11 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.28%) Swift
12 2 (0.85%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Rust
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) Degree
4 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.42%) GDPR
2 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.71%) QA
4 4 (1.71%) WCAG
5 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (28.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.26%) Terraform
3 16 (6.84%) Grafana
3 16 (6.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.28%) Ansible
5 3 (1.28%) Istio
5 3 (1.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.83%) Oracle
3 22 (9.40%) Splunk
4 19 (8.12%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.42%) Adobe
5 8 (3.42%) Google
6 6 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.71%) SAP
7 4 (1.71%) YouTube
8 3 (1.28%) Confluent
8 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.28%) Gigya
9 2 (0.85%) Databricks
9 2 (0.85%) Marketo
9 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.85%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.85%) Teradata
10 1 (0.43%) HP