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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 333 367
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 -68
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 205 156 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 2.62% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 104 142
10th Percentile £204 £363 £325
25th Percentile £379 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £59.00 - £52.20
25th Percentile £59.75 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%
75th Percentile £66.75 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £68.70 - £69.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -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 7,122 5,944 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.98% 22.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 3,787 5,697
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -9 124 £519 -9.78% 86
South East -7 31 £208 -49.27% 109
North of England -40 23 £575 +48.39% 72
North West -14 18 £528 +40.67% 35
Midlands -32 14 £650 +18.18% 45
West Midlands -36 11 £650 +18.18% 10
South West -19 9 £650 +44.44% 47
Yorkshire -46 3 £585 +30.06% 30
East Midlands - 3 £406 - 33
North East - 2 £600 - 8
East of England -16 1 - - 52
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 5 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.95%) Apache
2 4 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.95%) CMS
2 4 (1.95%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.76%) AWS
2 53 (25.85%) SaaS
3 47 (22.93%) Azure
4 42 (20.49%) GitHub
5 37 (18.05%) Serverless
6 35 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (10.73%) GCP
8 17 (8.29%) Sauce Labs
9 15 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (4.88%) Datadog
11 9 (4.39%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (4.39%) Figma
12 8 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.41%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.93%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.93%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.83%) Wireless
2 3 (1.46%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.05%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.10%) Relational Database
3 31 (15.12%) MySQL
4 13 (6.34%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.34%) Redis
5 9 (4.39%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.90%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.93%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.93%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.49%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 52 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.68%) Git
3 19 (9.27%) Android Studio
4 18 (8.78%) Browser DevTools
4 18 (8.78%) Xcode
5 17 (8.29%) Eclipse
6 11 (5.37%) Gradle
7 10 (4.88%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.88%) GitLab
8 7 (3.41%) JIRA
9 6 (2.93%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.95%) JUnit
10 4 (1.95%) Maven
10 4 (1.95%) Mocha
10 4 (1.95%) Mockito
10 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.95%) webpack
11 3 (1.46%) fastlane
12 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.98%) Snyk
General
1 53 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.29%) Finance
3 16 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.39%) Banking
6 4 (1.95%) Front Office
6 4 (1.95%) Games
6 4 (1.95%) Retail
7 3 (1.46%) Billing
8 1 (0.49%) Back Office
8 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Publishing
8 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (36.59%) Developer
2 49 (23.90%) Senior
3 27 (13.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (10.73%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.27%) Backend Developer
6 18 (8.78%) Consultant
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.78%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.78%) Support Engineer
6 18 (8.78%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.78%) Technical Engineer
6 18 (8.78%) Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.78%) Technical Support
6 18 (8.78%) Technical Support Engineer
6 18 (8.78%) UX Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (6.34%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (38.54%) React
2 75 (36.59%) REST
3 73 (35.61%) Node.js
4 37 (18.05%) Playwright
5 31 (15.12%) Vitest
6 30 (14.63%) CSS
7 28 (13.66%) OAuth
8 23 (11.22%) RESTful
9 22 (10.73%) AngularJS
10 21 (10.24%) Next.js
11 20 (9.76%) Ajax
12 19 (9.27%) YAML
13 17 (8.29%) Jest
13 17 (8.29%) OAuth2
13 17 (8.29%) Redux
13 17 (8.29%) WebSockets
14 15 (7.32%) gRPC
15 13 (6.34%) Spring Boot
16 12 (5.85%) Django
16 12 (5.85%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 56 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.68%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.46%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Animation
8 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) IVR
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.49%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.68%) Linux
2 24 (11.71%) Android
3 18 (8.78%) Unix
3 18 (8.78%) Windows
4 6 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (54.15%) CI/CD
2 80 (39.02%) Agile
3 70 (34.15%) DevOps
4 57 (27.80%) Containerisation
5 49 (23.90%) Mentoring
6 48 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (22.93%) User Experience
8 43 (20.98%) Microservices
9 42 (20.49%) E-Commerce
10 36 (17.56%) API Design
10 36 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 32 (15.61%) Code Quality
11 32 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (15.12%) Coaching
12 31 (15.12%) Test Automation
13 30 (14.63%) Software Engineering
14 27 (13.17%) AI
15 26 (12.68%) Observability
16 22 (10.73%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (10.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (44.88%) TypeScript
2 76 (37.07%) Python
3 67 (32.68%) Java
4 58 (28.29%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.12%) SQL
6 22 (10.73%) Go
7 18 (8.78%) Perl
8 8 (3.90%) C#
8 8 (3.90%) PHP
9 7 (3.41%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.44%) Bash
10 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.95%) Swift
12 3 (1.46%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.98%) Ruby
14 1 (0.49%) Groovy
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
14 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.46%) Degree
5 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.34%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.90%) GDPR
3 5 (2.44%) QA
3 5 (2.44%) WCAG
4 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (40.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (37.07%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.71%) Grafana
3 18 (8.78%) Prometheus
3 18 (8.78%) Terraform
4 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.98%) Istio
6 1 (0.49%) Ansible
6 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.24%) Oracle
3 19 (9.27%) Splunk
4 15 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.39%) Adobe
6 6 (2.93%) Google
6 6 (2.93%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.46%) Confluent
8 3 (1.46%) Gigya
8 3 (1.46%) New Relic
9 2 (0.98%) Databricks
9 2 (0.98%) Marketo
9 2 (0.98%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.49%) Apple
10 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.49%) HP
10 1 (0.49%) HubSpot