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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 366 356
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 -36
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 215 109 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 1.97% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 74 143
10th Percentile £204 £366 £325
25th Percentile £411 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +5.95% -11.02%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £663
90th Percentile £800 £700 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £60.75 - £51.70
25th Percentile £70.63 - £54.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £62.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 7,802 5,531 7,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.08% 22.61% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,754 5,400
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £794 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 85 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.26 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £83.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +5 133 £638 +8.97% 38
North of England -49 26 £575 +53.33% 11
South East -43 24 £208 -49.27% 16
North West -13 22 £575 +53.33% 5
Midlands -53 17 £700 +53.85% 4
West Midlands -52 9 £700 +53.85% 2
South West -16 8 £700 +14.75% 6
East Midlands - 8 £421 - 2
East of England -19 2 £675 +35.00% 11
Yorkshire -56 2 £575 - 3
North East - 2 £600 - 3
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 (1.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (1.86%) CMS
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.40%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Shopify
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.05%) AWS
2 42 (19.53%) Serverless
3 41 (19.07%) Azure
4 34 (15.81%) GitHub
4 34 (15.81%) SaaS
5 31 (14.42%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (12.09%) GCP
7 25 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.12%) Datadog
11 10 (4.65%) Sauce Labs
12 8 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.79%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.79%) Figma
14 5 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.33%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (1.86%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) Wireless
2 4 (1.86%) HTTP
3 3 (1.40%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.40%) SSL
4 2 (0.93%) DSL
4 2 (0.93%) NaaS
4 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.70%) Relational Database
3 21 (9.77%) MySQL
4 13 (6.05%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.65%) Redis
7 5 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.93%) Flink
9 2 (0.93%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 40 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.23%) Git
3 13 (6.05%) GitLab
4 12 (5.58%) Android Studio
4 12 (5.58%) Gradle
5 11 (5.12%) Xcode
6 10 (4.65%) Browser DevTools
6 10 (4.65%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.79%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.33%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.33%) Mocha
9 4 (1.86%) fastlane
9 4 (1.86%) JIRA
9 4 (1.86%) Maven
10 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.40%) webpack
11 2 (0.93%) Mockito
11 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.93%) Selenium
11 2 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (20.93%) Finance
2 37 (17.21%) Front Office
3 36 (16.74%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.79%) Banking
7 5 (2.33%) Billing
7 5 (2.33%) Games
8 4 (1.86%) Retail
9 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (47.44%) Developer
2 48 (22.33%) Senior
3 44 (20.47%) Software Engineer
4 37 (17.21%) Lead
5 32 (14.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 28 (13.02%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (10.23%) Python Developer
9 21 (9.77%) Lead Software Developer
10 20 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.91%) Java Engineer
12 16 (7.44%) Backend Developer
13 14 (6.51%) Consultant
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Consultant
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Technical Specialist
13 14 (6.51%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 14 (6.51%) Technical Consultant
13 14 (6.51%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (41.86%) React
2 86 (40.00%) Node.js
3 84 (39.07%) REST
4 45 (20.93%) Redux
5 44 (20.47%) Kafka
6 30 (13.95%) Playwright
7 24 (11.16%) Vitest
8 22 (10.23%) RESTful
9 21 (9.77%) AngularJS
10 20 (9.30%) OAuth
11 18 (8.37%) CSS
12 16 (7.44%) gRPC
12 16 (7.44%) YAML
13 15 (6.98%) Jest
14 14 (6.51%) Django
14 14 (6.51%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (6.51%) Spring
15 13 (6.05%) Next.js
15 13 (6.05%) Spring Boot
16 12 (5.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.88%) Fixed Income
3 19 (8.84%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.47%) Animation
9 1 (0.47%) CMDB
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.37%) Android
1 18 (8.37%) Linux
2 10 (4.65%) Unix
2 10 (4.65%) Windows
3 6 (2.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (44.65%) CI/CD
2 95 (44.19%) Agile
3 67 (31.16%) Software Engineering
4 61 (28.37%) DevOps
5 59 (27.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (19.53%) Containerisation
6 42 (19.53%) Mentoring
7 40 (18.60%) Microservices
8 36 (16.74%) Test Automation
9 34 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (15.81%) User Experience
10 33 (15.35%) E-Commerce
11 32 (14.88%) Code Quality
11 32 (14.88%) Investment Management
11 32 (14.88%) Order Management
11 32 (14.88%) Portfolio Management
12 29 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (13.02%) Observability
14 25 (11.63%) API Design
15 24 (11.16%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 102 (47.44%) TypeScript
2 85 (39.53%) Python
3 84 (39.07%) Java
4 72 (33.49%) JavaScript
5 48 (22.33%) Go
6 24 (11.16%) SQL
7 11 (5.12%) Kotlin
8 10 (4.65%) Perl
9 8 (3.72%) C#
10 7 (3.26%) PHP
11 5 (2.33%) Bash
11 5 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.86%) Swift
13 3 (1.40%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.93%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.47%) Cypher
15 1 (0.47%) Ruby
15 1 (0.47%) Rust
15 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.79%) GDPR
3 5 (2.33%) QA
4 4 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.86%) WCAG
5 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (32.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.02%) Grafana
3 21 (9.77%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.05%) Terraform
5 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.93%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 28 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.58%) Oracle
3 10 (4.65%) Splunk
4 9 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.72%) Adobe
6 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.40%) Databricks
7 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Amdocs
8 2 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.93%) Ciena
8 2 (0.93%) Google
8 2 (0.93%) Marketo
8 2 (0.93%) New Relic
8 2 (0.93%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.47%) Apple
9 1 (0.47%) BT
9 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) Netlify