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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 327 323
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 -47
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 224 207 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.64% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.65% 2.85% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 146 216
10th Percentile £308 £360 £413
25th Percentile £403 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -7.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £603 £670
90th Percentile £800 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -7.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £44.25 £39.50
25th Percentile - £46.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% -
75th Percentile - £54.38 £73.38
90th Percentile - £54.75 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% -

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 6,134 7,272 9,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 22.37% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 4,795 6,860
10th Percentile £350 £357 £377
25th Percentile £410 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 176 165
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £36.37
25th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -2.44%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +54 155 £588 +2.17% 68
South East +32 28 £273 -31.69% 15
North of England -6 20 £488 +8.33% 19
Midlands -4 16 £420 -6.67% 6
North West -1 14 £481 +20.31% 11
West Midlands -5 11 £650 +44.44% 1
Yorkshire -16 6 £596 +24.71% 5
East Midlands -3 5 £380 +16.92% 5
South West -6 3 £650 +36.84% 3
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.13%) Apache
3 6 (2.68%) CMS
4 5 (2.23%) Headless CMS
5 4 (1.79%) Confluence
6 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.45%) JBoss
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) Traefik
7 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP HR
1 4 (1.79%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.23%) AWS
2 46 (20.54%) Serverless
3 40 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (16.52%) Amazon S3
4 37 (16.52%) Azure
5 34 (15.18%) SaaS
6 33 (14.73%) GitHub
7 29 (12.95%) GCP
8 19 (8.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.70%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.36%) Datadog
11 11 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.46%) Amazon Cognito
12 10 (4.46%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (4.46%) Sauce Labs
13 8 (3.57%) Apigee
14 6 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) Wireless
2 5 (2.23%) HTTP
3 2 (0.89%) Broadband
4 1 (0.45%) DSL
4 1 (0.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (13.39%) DynamoDB
3 25 (11.16%) Relational Database
4 23 (10.27%) NoSQL
5 21 (9.38%) MySQL
6 13 (5.80%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.02%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.57%) Redis
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.34%) Flink
10 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.89%) OLTP
12 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.45%) Big Data
12 1 (0.45%) Hasura
12 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.63%) Git
3 21 (9.38%) Cypress.io
4 20 (8.93%) JIRA
5 11 (4.91%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (4.46%) Android Studio
6 10 (4.46%) Eclipse
6 10 (4.46%) Xcode
7 9 (4.02%) GitLab
8 7 (3.13%) Gradle
9 6 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.68%) Subversion
10 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.23%) Maven
10 5 (2.23%) Postman
11 4 (1.79%) Mocha
11 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.34%) webpack
13 2 (0.89%) SonarLint
General
1 60 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.55%) Finance
3 23 (10.27%) Front Office
4 13 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.91%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.02%) Banking
7 6 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.34%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.89%) Games
9 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Automotive
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (46.43%) Developer
2 41 (18.30%) Senior
3 32 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 29 (12.95%) React Developer
5 19 (8.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 18 (8.04%) Architect
7 16 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (7.14%) Lead
8 15 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 14 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 12 (5.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 12 (5.36%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.91%) Technical Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Technical Support Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (49.11%) React
2 89 (39.73%) Node.js
3 66 (29.46%) REST
4 48 (21.43%) RESTful
5 39 (17.41%) Kafka
6 34 (15.18%) Redux
7 28 (12.50%) CSS
7 28 (12.50%) Next.js
8 24 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.71%) OAuth
9 22 (9.82%) WebSockets
10 19 (8.48%) gRPC
11 17 (7.59%) Jest
11 17 (7.59%) Playwright
12 16 (7.14%) HTML
13 15 (6.70%) JWT
14 14 (6.25%) OAuth2
14 14 (6.25%) Spring
14 14 (6.25%) Spring Boot
15 13 (5.80%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.05%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.36%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.34%) IVR
7 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.34%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.34%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.36%) Android
2 11 (4.91%) Linux
2 11 (4.91%) Unix
2 11 (4.91%) Windows
3 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (53.13%) Agile
2 103 (45.98%) CI/CD
3 66 (29.46%) DevOps
4 61 (27.23%) Software Engineering
5 56 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (24.55%) Microservices
6 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (20.98%) User Experience
8 46 (20.54%) Containerisation
9 45 (20.09%) Mentoring
10 38 (16.96%) Clean Code
11 35 (15.63%) TDD
12 28 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 28 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (11.61%) Front End Development
14 24 (10.71%) API Design
14 24 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (10.71%) E-Commerce
14 24 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (10.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 102 (45.54%) TypeScript
2 101 (45.09%) Python
3 88 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 73 (32.59%) Java
5 41 (18.30%) Go
6 29 (12.95%) SQL
7 13 (5.80%) Ruby
8 11 (4.91%) Perl
9 7 (3.13%) PHP
10 5 (2.23%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.79%) C#
12 3 (1.34%) Bash
13 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.89%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) Rust
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.45%) Swift
14 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (8.48%) Degree
2 16 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.36%) AWS Certification
3 12 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.02%) Accessibility
1 9 (4.02%) GDPR
2 6 (2.68%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) HL7
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (29.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.95%) Terraform
3 18 (8.04%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.36%) Grafana
5 5 (2.23%) Ansible
5 5 (2.23%) Puppet
6 4 (1.79%) Istio
6 4 (1.79%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Salt
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.70%) Oracle
2 15 (6.70%) Splunk
3 14 (6.25%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.23%) Adobe
7 5 (2.23%) SAP
8 4 (1.79%) YouTube
9 3 (1.34%) Confluent
9 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.34%) Gigya
9 3 (1.34%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.34%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.34%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.89%) New Relic
10 2 (0.89%) Teradata
11 1 (0.45%) HP
11 1 (0.45%) Informatica