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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 375 341
Rank change year-on-year +4 -34 -36
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 204 109 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.45% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 2.00% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 70 154
10th Percentile £321 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £506 £506
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% - -15.63%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £622
90th Percentile £800 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £509 £500
% change year-on-year +10.57% +1.75% -15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £61.00 - £56.20
25th Percentile £67.50 - £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 - - +1.67%

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 7,929 5,444 7,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.70% 22.40% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,772 5,305
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 100 211
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.13 £21.73
25th Percentile £52.00 £51.25 £41.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -34 123 £675 +16.38% 36
North of England -50 29 £575 +38.06% 10
North West -13 25 £600 +44.06% 5
South East -48 20 £419 +2.38% 17
Midlands -54 12 £700 +66.67% 7
South West -24 9 £700 +14.75% 2
East Midlands -32 7 £444 +5.71% 7
West Midlands -55 5 £700 +60.00%
Yorkshire -57 4 £538 - 3
East of England -34 3 £675 +35.00% 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 4 (1.96%) CMS
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.47%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 101 (49.51%) AWS
2 38 (18.63%) Azure
3 32 (15.69%) Serverless
4 29 (14.22%) GCP
5 26 (12.75%) SaaS
6 25 (12.25%) GitHub
7 23 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.39%) Datadog
11 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.43%) Figma
13 5 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.45%) Sauce Labs
14 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (1.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.96%) HTTP
2 3 (1.47%) DSL
2 3 (1.47%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.98%) NaaS
3 2 (0.98%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.27%) Relational Database
3 19 (9.31%) MySQL
4 12 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.92%) Redis
7 6 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.47%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.47%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.98%) Flink
11 2 (0.98%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.98%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (15.20%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.78%) Git
3 12 (5.88%) GitLab
3 12 (5.88%) Gradle
4 6 (2.94%) Android Studio
4 6 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.94%) Xcode
5 5 (2.45%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (2.45%) Eclipse
5 5 (2.45%) fastlane
6 4 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.47%) Maven
7 3 (1.47%) Mocha
7 3 (1.47%) Vite
8 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.98%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.98%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.98%) webpack
8 2 (0.98%) XCTest
General
1 46 (22.55%) Finance
2 37 (18.14%) Front Office
3 27 (13.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.45%) Banking
6 5 (2.45%) Games
7 3 (1.47%) Billing
7 3 (1.47%) Retail
7 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Aviation
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (45.59%) Developer
2 48 (23.53%) Senior
3 45 (22.06%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.63%) Lead
5 32 (15.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.75%) Lead Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (10.29%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.80%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (8.82%) Java Engineer
10 17 (8.33%) Python Developer
11 16 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (7.84%) React Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Architect
12 13 (6.37%) Java Developer
12 13 (6.37%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 13 (6.37%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.37%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 13 (6.37%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.37%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (44.61%) React
2 87 (42.65%) REST
3 85 (41.67%) Node.js
4 47 (23.04%) Kafka
5 45 (22.06%) Redux
6 27 (13.24%) Playwright
7 22 (10.78%) RESTful
8 20 (9.80%) Vitest
9 18 (8.82%) Spring
10 17 (8.33%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.84%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.84%) OAuth
12 15 (7.35%) CSS
12 15 (7.35%) Django
12 15 (7.35%) Next.js
12 15 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (6.86%) Jest
13 14 (6.86%) Vue
14 13 (6.37%) YAML
15 12 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.69%) Fixed Income
3 15 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.37%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.49%) CMDB
9 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) Life Science
9 1 (0.49%) LIMS
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.37%) Linux
2 11 (5.39%) Android
3 5 (2.45%) Unix
3 5 (2.45%) Windows
4 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.14%) Agile
2 87 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 73 (35.78%) Software Engineering
4 62 (30.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (25.00%) DevOps
6 36 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 35 (17.16%) Mentoring
7 35 (17.16%) Microservices
8 34 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 33 (16.18%) E-Commerce
10 32 (15.69%) Investment Management
10 32 (15.69%) Observability
10 32 (15.69%) Order Management
10 32 (15.69%) Portfolio Management
10 32 (15.69%) Test Automation
11 29 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (14.22%) User Experience
12 26 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (11.76%) API Design
13 24 (11.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.98%) TypeScript
2 81 (39.71%) Java
3 77 (37.75%) Python
4 62 (30.39%) JavaScript
5 43 (21.08%) Go
6 20 (9.80%) SQL
7 9 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.45%) C#
8 5 (2.45%) Perl
9 3 (1.47%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.47%) PHP
9 3 (1.47%) Swift
10 2 (0.98%) Bash
10 2 (0.98%) Bicep
10 2 (0.98%) C++
10 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.98%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.49%) Cypher
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.47%) Degree
5 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.94%) QA
2 6 (2.94%) WCAG
3 4 (1.96%) GDPR
4 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) NIST
5 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (30.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 51 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.27%) Grafana
3 18 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.88%) Terraform
5 2 (0.98%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.49%) Istio
6 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.45%) Oracle
2 5 (2.45%) Splunk
3 4 (1.96%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.47%) Adobe
4 3 (1.47%) New Relic
4 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.98%) Amdocs
5 2 (0.98%) Ciena
5 2 (0.98%) Netlify
6 1 (0.49%) BT
6 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.49%) Confluent
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.49%) Marketo
6 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.49%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.49%) SAP