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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 360 340
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 -19
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 211 119 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 2.17% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 82 154
10th Percentile £274 £363 £325
25th Percentile £421 £409 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -1.43% -11.02%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £700 £720
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -14.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £56.20
25th Percentile £70.63 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 8,013 5,487 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.68% 22.52% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,366 3,797 5,387
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 87 156
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.38 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -16 127 £650 +12.07% 27
North of England -54 27 £575 +53.33% 14
South East -42 25 £352 -13.94% 15
North West -27 23 £588 +56.67% 5
Midlands -54 14 £700 +76.66% 8
South West -19 8 £700 +13.36% 9
West Midlands -51 7 £700 +76.66% 2
East Midlands - 7 £444 - 6
East of England -27 4 £675 +35.00% 10
Yorkshire -54 4 £538 - 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 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.42%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (44.08%) AWS
2 41 (19.43%) Azure
3 36 (17.06%) Serverless
4 30 (14.22%) GitHub
5 29 (13.74%) SaaS
6 28 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (12.32%) GCP
8 22 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.69%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.21%) Datadog
11 8 (3.79%) Sauce Labs
12 7 (3.32%) Figma
13 6 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.84%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.90%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Wireless
2 4 (1.90%) HTTP
3 3 (1.42%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.95%) DSL
4 2 (0.95%) NaaS
4 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.90%) Relational Database
3 22 (10.43%) MySQL
4 12 (5.69%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (5.21%) Redis
6 9 (4.27%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.37%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.95%) Flink
9 2 (0.95%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 37 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.43%) Git
3 12 (5.69%) GitLab
3 12 (5.69%) Gradle
4 10 (4.74%) Android Studio
5 9 (4.27%) Xcode
6 8 (3.79%) Browser DevTools
6 8 (3.79%) Eclipse
7 7 (3.32%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.37%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.90%) fastlane
10 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.42%) JIRA
10 3 (1.42%) Maven
10 3 (1.42%) Mocha
10 3 (1.42%) Vite
11 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.95%) JUnit
11 2 (0.95%) Selenium
11 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (21.33%) Finance
2 37 (17.54%) Front Office
3 35 (16.59%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.84%) Banking
7 5 (2.37%) Billing
7 5 (2.37%) Games
8 4 (1.90%) Retail
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (45.50%) Developer
2 45 (21.33%) Senior
3 44 (20.85%) Software Engineer
4 39 (18.48%) Lead
5 32 (15.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.27%) Lead Developer
7 21 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.95%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.06%) Java Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) Architect
10 14 (6.64%) Consultant
10 14 (6.64%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (6.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 14 (6.64%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 14 (6.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 14 (6.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 14 (6.64%) Technical Consultant
10 14 (6.64%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (40.28%) React
2 83 (39.34%) REST
3 82 (38.86%) Node.js
4 46 (21.80%) Kafka
5 44 (20.85%) Redux
6 29 (13.74%) Playwright
7 24 (11.37%) RESTful
8 22 (10.43%) Vitest
9 21 (9.95%) OAuth
10 18 (8.53%) CSS
11 17 (8.06%) AngularJS
12 15 (7.11%) Django
12 15 (7.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (7.11%) Spring
13 14 (6.64%) Next.js
13 14 (6.64%) Spring Boot
13 14 (6.64%) YAML
14 13 (6.16%) gRPC
15 12 (5.69%) Jest
16 11 (5.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.17%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.17%) Fixed Income
3 17 (8.06%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Animation
8 1 (0.47%) CMDB
8 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Linux
2 14 (6.64%) Android
3 8 (3.79%) Unix
3 8 (3.79%) Windows
4 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (43.60%) CI/CD
2 89 (42.18%) Agile
3 69 (32.70%) Software Engineering
4 57 (27.01%) DevOps
5 56 (26.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (18.48%) Mentoring
7 38 (18.01%) Containerisation
8 34 (16.11%) Microservices
8 34 (16.11%) Test Automation
8 34 (16.11%) User Experience
9 33 (15.64%) E-Commerce
9 33 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (15.17%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.17%) Order Management
10 32 (15.17%) Portfolio Management
11 30 (14.22%) Code Quality
12 29 (13.74%) Observability
13 27 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (10.90%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (10.43%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 96 (45.50%) TypeScript
2 85 (40.28%) Java
2 85 (40.28%) Python
3 67 (31.75%) JavaScript
4 45 (21.33%) Go
5 24 (11.37%) SQL
6 10 (4.74%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.79%) C#
7 8 (3.79%) Perl
7 8 (3.79%) PHP
8 5 (2.37%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.90%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.90%) Swift
10 2 (0.95%) C++
10 2 (0.95%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.47%) Cypher
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.84%) GDPR
2 6 (2.84%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) WCAG
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (30.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 53 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.85%) Grafana
3 20 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.64%) Terraform
5 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.95%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 24 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle
3 8 (3.79%) Splunk
4 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.37%) Adobe
6 4 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.42%) Databricks
7 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.95%) Ciena
8 2 (0.95%) New Relic
8 2 (0.95%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.47%) Apple
9 1 (0.47%) BT
9 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) Marketo
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) SAP