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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 360 353
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 -47
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 229 119 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.97% 2.10% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 79 141
10th Percentile £204 £361 £325
25th Percentile £407 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £663
90th Percentile £800 £700 £711
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.70
25th Percentile £70.63 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 7,707 5,673 7,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.67% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,746 5,458
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 78 209
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.92 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +18 145 £625 +5.49% 49
South East -20 27 £208 -49.27% 31
North of England -40 24 £575 +69.12% 35
North West -21 20 £550 +61.76% 16
Midlands -40 18 £650 +42.86% 16
South West -13 10 £700 +14.75% 14
West Midlands -44 10 £700 +53.85% 7
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 9
East of England -24 2 £675 +35.00% 20
Yorkshire -60 2 £585 - 14
North East - 2 £600 - 5
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 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.75%) CMS
1 4 (1.75%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.31%) Apache
2 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.23%) AWS
2 42 (18.34%) SaaS
3 41 (17.90%) Azure
3 41 (17.90%) Serverless
4 38 (16.59%) GitHub
5 35 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.79%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (10.48%) GCP
8 15 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.68%) Sauce Labs
10 12 (5.24%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.93%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (3.93%) Datadog
12 7 (3.06%) Figma
13 6 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.18%) Azure Functions
15 4 (1.75%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.37%) Wireless
2 4 (1.75%) HTTP
3 3 (1.31%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.31%) SSL
4 2 (0.87%) DSL
5 1 (0.44%) NaaS
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.35%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.92%) MySQL
4 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.37%) Redis
7 8 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.06%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.44%) Flink
12 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 43 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.17%) Git
3 15 (6.55%) Android Studio
4 14 (6.11%) Xcode
5 13 (5.68%) Browser DevTools
5 13 (5.68%) Eclipse
5 13 (5.68%) Gradle
6 11 (4.80%) GitLab
7 7 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.18%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.18%) JIRA
8 5 (2.18%) Mocha
9 4 (1.75%) fastlane
9 4 (1.75%) Maven
9 4 (1.75%) webpack
10 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.31%) JUnit
10 3 (1.31%) Mockito
11 2 (0.87%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.09%) Finance
3 36 (15.72%) Front Office
4 13 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.37%) Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Billing
7 4 (1.75%) Games
7 4 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.44%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (46.29%) Developer
2 52 (22.71%) Senior
3 44 (19.21%) Software Engineer
4 37 (16.16%) Lead
5 32 (13.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 30 (13.10%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.04%) Python Developer
8 22 (9.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (9.17%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (8.73%) Backend Developer
10 20 (8.73%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (8.30%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 17 (7.42%) Java Engineer
12 17 (7.42%) Senior Consultant
12 17 (7.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 17 (7.42%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 17 (7.42%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 17 (7.42%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 17 (7.42%) Technical Consultant
12 17 (7.42%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (41.48%) Node.js
1 95 (41.48%) React
2 80 (34.93%) REST
3 46 (20.09%) Redux
4 44 (19.21%) Kafka
5 33 (14.41%) Playwright
6 27 (11.79%) Vitest
7 24 (10.48%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.04%) RESTful
9 21 (9.17%) CSS
9 21 (9.17%) OAuth
10 17 (7.42%) Jest
11 16 (6.99%) YAML
12 15 (6.55%) Ajax
12 15 (6.55%) Django
12 15 (6.55%) gRPC
13 14 (6.11%) Next.js
13 14 (6.11%) WebSockets
14 13 (5.68%) Spring
14 13 (5.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.97%) Fixed Income
3 23 (10.04%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.44%) Animation
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.17%) Android
1 21 (9.17%) Linux
2 13 (5.68%) Unix
2 13 (5.68%) Windows
3 6 (2.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (45.41%) Agile
2 103 (44.98%) CI/CD
3 71 (31.00%) Software Engineering
4 67 (29.26%) DevOps
5 61 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (20.96%) Containerisation
7 44 (19.21%) Microservices
8 43 (18.78%) Mentoring
9 39 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (17.03%) User Experience
10 38 (16.59%) Test Automation
11 36 (15.72%) E-Commerce
12 34 (14.85%) Code Quality
13 32 (13.97%) Investment Management
13 32 (13.97%) Order Management
13 32 (13.97%) Portfolio Management
14 31 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (12.66%) API Design
15 29 (12.66%) Observability
16 27 (11.79%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 108 (47.16%) TypeScript
2 93 (40.61%) Java
3 92 (40.17%) Python
4 78 (34.06%) JavaScript
5 51 (22.27%) Go
6 30 (13.10%) SQL
7 13 (5.68%) Perl
8 11 (4.80%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.93%) C#
10 8 (3.49%) PHP
11 5 (2.18%) Bash
11 5 (2.18%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.75%) Swift
13 3 (1.31%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.87%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.44%) C++
15 1 (0.44%) Cypher
15 1 (0.44%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.44%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.31%) Degree
5 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.93%) GDPR
3 7 (3.06%) QA
4 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.75%) WCAG
5 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (32.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.79%) Grafana
3 20 (8.73%) Prometheus
4 13 (5.68%) Terraform
5 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.99%) Oracle
3 14 (6.11%) Splunk
4 11 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.49%) Adobe
6 5 (2.18%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.75%) Google
7 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.31%) Databricks
8 3 (1.31%) New Relic
8 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.87%) Marketo
9 2 (0.87%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.44%) Apple
10 1 (0.44%) Ciena
10 1 (0.44%) HP
10 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft