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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 340 358
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 -65
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 237 167 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.39% 2.63% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 112 160
10th Percentile £204 £375 £363
25th Percentile £368 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £617 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £59.00 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £66.75 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £68.70 - £67.60
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -33.33%

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 6,997 6,338 8,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.83% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 4,059 5,962
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

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 16 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 16 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 +23 142 £575 +4.55% 27
South East +4 40 £208 -49.27% 25
North of England -26 24 £575 +48.39% 27
Midlands -19 22 £650 +18.18% 4
West Midlands -19 15 £650 +18.18% 3
North West -23 15 £549 +46.33% 20
South West -15 8 £650 +44.44% 3
Yorkshire -38 7 £585 +30.06% 4
East Midlands - 7 £380 - 1
North East - 2 £600 - 4
East of England -23 1 - - 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 5 (2.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.69%) Apache
2 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.69%) CMS
2 4 (1.69%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 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 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.84%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.29%) AWS
2 60 (25.32%) SaaS
3 48 (20.25%) Azure
4 42 (17.72%) GitHub
5 41 (17.30%) Serverless
6 34 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (10.55%) GCP
9 20 (8.44%) Sauce Labs
10 14 (5.91%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.06%) Datadog
12 8 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.95%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.95%) Figma
13 7 (2.95%) Firebase
14 6 (2.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.59%) Wireless
2 3 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.68%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (15.61%) Relational Database
3 35 (14.77%) MySQL
4 19 (8.02%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.33%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.49%) Redis
7 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.38%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.53%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.42%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 57 (24.05%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.03%) Git
3 22 (9.28%) Android Studio
4 21 (8.86%) Browser DevTools
4 21 (8.86%) Xcode
5 20 (8.44%) Eclipse
6 15 (6.33%) JIRA
7 10 (4.22%) GitLab
8 8 (3.38%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.38%) Gradle
9 5 (2.11%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.69%) JUnit
10 4 (1.69%) Maven
10 4 (1.69%) Mocha
10 4 (1.69%) Mockito
10 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.69%) Subversion
10 4 (1.69%) webpack
11 2 (0.84%) fastlane
11 2 (0.84%) IntelliJ
General
1 70 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.35%) Finance
3 20 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.02%) Front Office
5 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.53%) Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Games
7 4 (1.69%) Retail
8 3 (1.27%) Billing
9 2 (0.84%) 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 (38.40%) Developer
2 53 (22.36%) Senior
3 30 (12.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (9.28%) Lead
5 21 (8.86%) Support Engineer
5 21 (8.86%) Technical Engineer
5 21 (8.86%) Technical Support
5 21 (8.86%) Technical Support Engineer
5 21 (8.86%) UX Engineer
6 19 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (8.02%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.59%) Backend Developer
8 17 (7.17%) Architect
8 17 (7.17%) Consultant
8 17 (7.17%) Senior Consultant
8 17 (7.17%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 17 (7.17%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 17 (7.17%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 17 (7.17%) Technical Consultant
8 17 (7.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (40.08%) React
2 91 (38.40%) Node.js
3 75 (31.65%) REST
4 38 (16.03%) RESTful
5 35 (14.77%) CSS
6 32 (13.50%) Playwright
7 31 (13.08%) Kafka
8 29 (12.24%) Redux
8 29 (12.24%) Vitest
9 28 (11.81%) OAuth
10 26 (10.97%) AngularJS
11 23 (9.70%) Ajax
11 23 (9.70%) gRPC
12 21 (8.86%) Next.js
13 20 (8.44%) WebSockets
14 19 (8.02%) YAML
15 18 (7.59%) OAuth2
16 15 (6.33%) Jest
17 13 (5.49%) Flask
17 13 (5.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.66%) Mobile App
3 21 (8.86%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.06%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.27%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.42%) Animation
8 1 (0.42%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.39%) Android
2 22 (9.28%) Linux
3 21 (8.86%) Unix
3 21 (8.86%) Windows
4 8 (3.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (48.95%) Agile
2 111 (46.84%) CI/CD
3 73 (30.80%) DevOps
4 64 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (25.74%) Containerisation
6 51 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (21.52%) Microservices
6 51 (21.52%) User Experience
7 50 (21.10%) Mentoring
8 46 (19.41%) Software Engineering
9 38 (16.03%) E-Commerce
10 34 (14.35%) API Design
10 34 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (13.08%) Code Quality
12 29 (12.24%) AI
12 29 (12.24%) Coaching
12 29 (12.24%) Test Automation
13 25 (10.55%) TDD
14 24 (10.13%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (8.86%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 106 (44.73%) TypeScript
2 94 (39.66%) Python
3 82 (34.60%) Java
3 82 (34.60%) JavaScript
4 39 (16.46%) Go
5 28 (11.81%) SQL
6 21 (8.86%) Perl
7 10 (4.22%) PHP
8 8 (3.38%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.38%) Ruby
9 7 (2.95%) C#
10 5 (2.11%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.11%) Bash
10 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.11%) Swift
11 4 (1.69%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) Rust
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.22%) Degree
4 7 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.11%) QA
4 4 (1.69%) WCAG
5 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (37.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (32.49%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.28%) Grafana
2 22 (9.28%) Terraform
3 17 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.84%) Istio
5 2 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.13%) Oracle
3 23 (9.70%) Splunk
4 19 (8.02%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.38%) Adobe
6 7 (2.95%) Google
6 7 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.53%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.69%) SAP
9 3 (1.27%) Confluent
9 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.27%) Gigya
10 2 (0.84%) Databricks
10 2 (0.84%) Marketo
10 2 (0.84%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic