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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 351 356
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -49
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 219 142 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.55% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 2.45% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 94 143
10th Percentile £204 £366 £325
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - £53.40
25th Percentile £70.63 £51.25 £58.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -21.64% -4.29%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £69.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £71.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -21.64% -4.29%

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 7,435 5,802 7,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.86% 22.49% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,993 3,760 5,549
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £533 £534
% change year-on-year -3.92% -0.11% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 74 180
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.80 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.81 £51.56 £44.90
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -6 135 £595 +2.59% 39
South East -20 29 £208 -49.27% 12
North of England -40 25 £575 +69.12% 25
North West -12 21 £529 +55.59% 16
Midlands -39 15 £650 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -38 11 £650 +42.86% 1
South West -23 9 £650 +44.44% 4
East Midlands - 4 £406 - 1
East of England -20 2 £675 +35.00% 5
Yorkshire -56 2 £585 - 6
North East - 2 £600 - 3
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 4 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.83%) CMS
1 4 (1.83%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.37%) Apache
2 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.62%) AWS
2 51 (23.29%) SaaS
3 45 (20.55%) Azure
4 37 (16.89%) GitHub
4 37 (16.89%) Serverless
5 33 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (10.50%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (9.59%) GCP
8 15 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.85%) Sauce Labs
9 11 (5.02%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.65%) Datadog
13 7 (3.20%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.20%) Figma
14 6 (2.74%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.74%) Firebase
15 5 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.48%) Wireless
2 4 (1.83%) HTTP
3 3 (1.37%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.37%) SSL
4 2 (0.91%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) Relational Database
2 28 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (12.33%) MySQL
4 10 (4.57%) Redis
5 8 (3.65%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.20%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.83%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.46%) Hasura
9 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 47 (21.46%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.05%) Git
3 17 (7.76%) Android Studio
4 16 (7.31%) Browser DevTools
4 16 (7.31%) Xcode
5 15 (6.85%) Eclipse
6 12 (5.48%) Gradle
7 11 (5.02%) GitLab
8 9 (4.11%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.74%) JIRA
10 5 (2.28%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.28%) Mocha
11 4 (1.83%) fastlane
11 4 (1.83%) JUnit
11 4 (1.83%) Maven
11 4 (1.83%) Mockito
11 4 (1.83%) webpack
12 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.91%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.98%) Finance
3 20 (9.13%) Front Office
4 12 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.11%) Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Games
7 4 (1.83%) Retail
8 3 (1.37%) Billing
9 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (40.64%) Developer
2 51 (23.29%) Senior
3 28 (12.79%) Software Engineer
4 26 (11.87%) Lead
5 23 (10.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 22 (10.05%) Python Developer
7 20 (9.13%) Lead Developer
8 19 (8.68%) Backend Developer
9 18 (8.22%) Consultant
9 18 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (8.22%) Senior Consultant
9 18 (8.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 18 (8.22%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 18 (8.22%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 18 (8.22%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 18 (8.22%) Technical Consultant
9 18 (8.22%) Technical Specialist
10 16 (7.31%) Support Engineer
10 16 (7.31%) Technical Engineer
10 16 (7.31%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (40.18%) React
2 84 (38.36%) Node.js
3 77 (35.16%) REST
4 36 (16.44%) Playwright
5 32 (14.61%) Redux
6 31 (14.16%) Vitest
7 30 (13.70%) Kafka
8 25 (11.42%) CSS
8 25 (11.42%) OAuth
9 23 (10.50%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.68%) YAML
11 18 (8.22%) Ajax
11 18 (8.22%) Next.js
11 18 (8.22%) RESTful
12 16 (7.31%) Jest
12 16 (7.31%) WebSockets
13 15 (6.85%) Spring
13 15 (6.85%) Spring Boot
14 14 (6.39%) OAuth2
15 12 (5.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.96%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.31%) Fixed Income
4 11 (5.02%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Animation
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
9 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.96%) Linux
2 23 (10.50%) Android
3 16 (7.31%) Unix
3 16 (7.31%) Windows
4 6 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (50.23%) CI/CD
2 91 (41.55%) Agile
3 69 (31.51%) DevOps
4 55 (25.11%) Software Engineering
5 50 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (22.37%) Containerisation
7 44 (20.09%) Mentoring
8 43 (19.63%) User Experience
9 42 (19.18%) E-Commerce
10 40 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (17.81%) Microservices
12 36 (16.44%) Test Automation
13 34 (15.53%) API Design
14 33 (15.07%) Code Quality
15 31 (14.16%) Coaching
15 31 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (11.87%) Observability
17 24 (10.96%) AI
18 22 (10.05%) Analytics
19 21 (9.59%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (45.66%) TypeScript
2 83 (37.90%) Java
3 79 (36.07%) Python
4 68 (31.05%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.07%) Go
6 30 (13.70%) SQL
7 16 (7.31%) Perl
8 9 (4.11%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.65%) C#
9 8 (3.65%) PHP
10 5 (2.28%) Bash
10 5 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.83%) Swift
12 3 (1.37%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.46%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Rust
13 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (8.68%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.65%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.37%) Degree
5 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.57%) GDPR
3 6 (2.74%) QA
4 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.83%) WCAG
5 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (34.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (31.05%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.42%) Grafana
3 18 (8.22%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.48%) Terraform
5 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.68%) Oracle
3 16 (7.31%) Splunk
4 13 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.65%) Adobe
6 6 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.28%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.28%) Google
8 3 (1.37%) Confluent
8 3 (1.37%) Databricks
8 3 (1.37%) New Relic
9 2 (0.91%) Marketo
9 2 (0.91%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.46%) Apple
10 1 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.46%) HP
10 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft