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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 352 351
Rank change year-on-year +32 -1 -41
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 236 168 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 2.52% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 112 167
10th Percentile £204 £375 £363
25th Percentile £368 £409 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £43.38 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £44.69 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.18% -20.08% -12.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £52.19 £73.38
90th Percentile - £53.13 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +27.18% -20.08% -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 6,983 6,671 8,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.42% 21.82% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,248 6,048
10th Percentile £350 £359 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 98 172
10th Percentile £31.15 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +23 149 £550 - 27
South East +11 37 £208 -49.27% 23
Midlands -13 22 £650 +18.18% 11
North of England -30 21 £575 +48.39% 28
West Midlands -18 15 £650 +18.18% 10
North West -15 12 £549 +46.33% 19
South West -17 8 £650 +44.44% 3
East Midlands -8 7 £380 - 1
Yorkshire -27 7 £585 +30.06% 3
North East - 2 £600 - 6
East of England - 1 - -
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 7 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.69%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) CMS
3 4 (1.69%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.69%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 92 (38.98%) AWS
2 57 (24.15%) SaaS
3 48 (20.34%) Azure
4 42 (17.80%) Serverless
5 41 (17.37%) GitHub
6 33 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (10.59%) GCP
9 19 (8.05%) Sauce Labs
10 17 (7.20%) Amazon S3
11 14 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.08%) Datadog
13 9 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.97%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.97%) Firebase
16 6 (2.54%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.63%) Wireless
2 3 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.19%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (15.25%) Relational Database
3 32 (13.56%) MySQL
4 19 (8.05%) NoSQL
5 16 (6.78%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.51%) Redis
7 12 (5.08%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.81%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.54%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.42%) Hasura
15 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (23.31%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.68%) Git
3 20 (8.47%) Android Studio
3 20 (8.47%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (8.05%) Eclipse
4 19 (8.05%) Xcode
5 14 (5.93%) JIRA
6 8 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.97%) GitLab
8 6 (2.54%) Gradle
9 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.69%) JUnit
9 4 (1.69%) Maven
9 4 (1.69%) Mocha
9 4 (1.69%) Mockito
9 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.69%) Subversion
9 4 (1.69%) webpack
10 2 (0.85%) ESLint
10 2 (0.85%) Snyk
General
1 71 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.95%) Finance
3 21 (8.90%) Front Office
4 19 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.54%) Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Games
8 3 (1.27%) Billing
8 3 (1.27%) Retail
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (38.56%) Developer
2 51 (21.61%) Senior
3 30 (12.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (9.32%) Lead
5 21 (8.90%) Software Engineer
6 20 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (8.47%) Support Engineer
6 20 (8.47%) Technical Engineer
6 20 (8.47%) Technical Support
6 20 (8.47%) Technical Support Engineer
6 20 (8.47%) UX Engineer
7 17 (7.20%) Architect
7 17 (7.20%) Backend Developer
8 16 (6.78%) Python Developer
8 16 (6.78%) React Developer
9 15 (6.36%) Lead Developer
10 14 (5.93%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 14 (5.93%) Technical Architect
10 14 (5.93%) Technical Consultant
10 14 (5.93%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (39.83%) React
2 92 (38.98%) Node.js
3 78 (33.05%) REST
4 37 (15.68%) RESTful
5 34 (14.41%) CSS
6 32 (13.56%) Kafka
7 30 (12.71%) Playwright
8 28 (11.86%) OAuth
8 28 (11.86%) Redux
9 27 (11.44%) Vitest
10 26 (11.02%) AngularJS
11 23 (9.75%) gRPC
12 22 (9.32%) Ajax
13 21 (8.90%) Next.js
13 21 (8.90%) WebSockets
14 18 (7.63%) OAuth2
14 18 (7.63%) YAML
15 15 (6.36%) Jest
16 13 (5.51%) .NET
16 13 (5.51%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.41%) Mobile App
3 20 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.08%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.27%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.42%) Animation
9 1 (0.42%) IVR
9 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.59%) Android
2 20 (8.47%) Linux
2 20 (8.47%) Unix
2 20 (8.47%) Windows
3 6 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (49.15%) Agile
2 111 (47.03%) CI/CD
3 73 (30.93%) DevOps
4 62 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 52 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 51 (21.61%) Microservices
8 49 (20.76%) Mentoring
9 47 (19.92%) Software Engineering
9 47 (19.92%) User Experience
10 36 (15.25%) E-Commerce
11 35 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (14.41%) API Design
13 32 (13.56%) AI
14 29 (12.29%) Code Quality
15 28 (11.86%) Test Automation
16 27 (11.44%) Coaching
17 26 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
18 22 (9.32%) Mobile Application Development
18 22 (9.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 103 (43.64%) TypeScript
2 102 (43.22%) Python
3 85 (36.02%) JavaScript
4 82 (34.75%) Java
5 38 (16.10%) Go
6 29 (12.29%) SQL
7 20 (8.47%) Perl
8 15 (6.36%) PHP
9 13 (5.51%) Ruby
10 7 (2.97%) C#
11 6 (2.54%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.12%) Apex Code
12 5 (2.12%) Bash
12 5 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.27%) Swift
14 2 (0.85%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.42%) Groovy
15 1 (0.42%) Rust
15 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.93%) Degree
4 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.39%) GDPR
3 5 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.69%) WCAG
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.27%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (36.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.75%) Terraform
3 19 (8.05%) Grafana
4 17 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) Istio
6 2 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.75%) Oracle
3 22 (9.32%) Splunk
4 19 (8.05%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.39%) Adobe
6 7 (2.97%) Google
6 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.54%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.69%) SAP
8 4 (1.69%) YouTube
9 3 (1.27%) Confluent
9 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.27%) Gigya
10 2 (0.85%) Databricks
10 2 (0.85%) Marketo
10 2 (0.85%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.85%) Teradata
11 1 (0.42%) HP
11 1 (0.42%) Informatica