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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 299 329
Rank change year-on-year -149 +30 +3
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 201 230 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.82% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 3.21% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 170 136
10th Percentile £388 £274 £351
25th Percentile £455 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £778 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +13.86% -3.81% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile £65.00 - £44.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +12.82% -20.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.13
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +45.45% +12.82% -20.08%

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 9,867 7,166 8,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.57% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,489 4,845 5,302
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 October 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 3 October 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 -90 139 £588 - 253
South East -65 27 £460 +121.69% 43
North of England -76 17 £600 +13.74% 65
North West -49 12 £600 +24.68% 36
South West -38 5 £413 -36.54% 28
Yorkshire -39 4 £588 -1.34% 20
West Midlands -51 3 £575 -11.54% 21
Midlands -66 3 £575 +24.19% 35
East of England - 3 £345 - 20
North East -46 1 - - 10
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 8 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.99%) Apache
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (55.72%) AWS
2 76 (37.81%) Azure
3 54 (26.87%) Serverless
4 41 (20.40%) GCP
5 39 (19.40%) GitHub
6 31 (15.42%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (11.44%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.46%) SaaS
10 14 (6.97%) Boomi
11 13 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.47%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.98%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.48%) Entra ID
16 7 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.91%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.45%) MySQL
4 13 (6.47%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.48%) Metadata
7 9 (4.48%) Redis
8 7 (3.48%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.99%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.99%) Weaviate
10 5 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.49%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.49%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.49%) Stardog
12 3 (1.49%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (15.92%) Git
2 25 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.46%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.98%) Vite
5 6 (2.99%) GitLab
5 6 (2.99%) Gradle
5 6 (2.99%) Xcode
6 5 (2.49%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.49%) JUnit
7 4 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.99%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.49%) Mockito
8 3 (1.49%) Postman
8 3 (1.49%) webpack
9 2 (1.00%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 48 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.42%) Finance
3 26 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.48%) Banking
5 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Front Office
5 7 (3.48%) Retail
6 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.99%) Marketing
7 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.99%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Back Office
8 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Games
8 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (33.83%) Developer
2 45 (22.39%) Senior
3 28 (13.93%) Architect
4 24 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 18 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.97%) React Developer
7 12 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 9 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (4.48%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.98%) Azure Developer
9 8 (3.98%) Backend Developer
10 7 (3.48%) Energy Trading Developer
10 7 (3.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (3.48%) JavaScript Engineer
10 7 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (3.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (52.24%) REST
2 77 (38.31%) React
3 47 (23.38%) Kafka
3 47 (23.38%) Node.js
4 37 (18.41%) OAuth
5 31 (15.42%) Next.js
6 28 (13.93%) RESTful
7 27 (13.43%) CSS
7 27 (13.43%) OAuth2
8 21 (10.45%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.45%) HTML
9 19 (9.45%) Middleware
10 18 (8.96%) JWT
10 18 (8.96%) Spring
10 18 (8.96%) Vue
11 17 (8.46%) JSON
11 17 (8.46%) SOAP
12 16 (7.96%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (7.96%) Terraform
13 15 (7.46%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 33 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.45%) AI Agents
4 18 (8.96%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.98%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.99%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.99%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.49%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.00%) Life Science
11 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.50%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.50%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.97%) Android
2 9 (4.48%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.99%) Linux
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.77%) CI/CD
2 66 (32.84%) Agile
3 62 (30.85%) Microservices
4 58 (28.86%) Event-Driven
5 47 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (22.89%) AI
7 44 (21.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 41 (20.40%) DevOps
9 40 (19.90%) Software Engineering
10 37 (18.41%) User Experience
11 33 (16.42%) API Design
11 33 (16.42%) E-Commerce
12 32 (15.92%) Observability
13 30 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (14.43%) Test Automation
15 27 (13.43%) Data Modelling
16 26 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (11.94%) Mentoring
17 24 (11.94%) TDD
18 23 (11.44%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (50.25%) TypeScript
2 63 (31.34%) Java
3 58 (28.86%) Python
4 50 (24.88%) JavaScript
5 41 (20.40%) SQL
6 18 (8.96%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.47%) Go
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 9 (4.48%) Scala
10 8 (3.98%) Swift
11 7 (3.48%) Ruby
11 7 (3.48%) Rust
12 5 (2.49%) Bash
12 5 (2.49%) Cypher
12 5 (2.49%) Perl
13 4 (1.99%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.49%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.00%) Elixir
15 2 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) Degree
2 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) QA
2 13 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
3 5 (2.49%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) PSD2
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (17.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (21.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.98%) Grafana
2 8 (3.98%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.45%) Google
3 20 (9.95%) Oracle
4 12 (5.97%) IBM
4 12 (5.97%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.98%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.48%) Informatica
6 9 (4.48%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.48%) WSO2
7 8 (3.98%) Databricks
7 8 (3.98%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.49%) SAP
9 4 (1.99%) Workday
10 3 (1.49%) Confluent
10 3 (1.49%) Foundry
10 3 (1.49%) Splunk
10 3 (1.49%) UiPath
11 2 (1.00%) Adobe
11 2 (1.00%) New Relic
12 1 (0.50%) Guidewire