GraphQL Contracts in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 359 319
Rank change year-on-year +22 -40 -35
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 163 200 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.54% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 2.52% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 153 253
10th Percentile £334 £333 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £695
90th Percentile £850 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £505 £600
% change year-on-year +2.97% -15.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £45.00 £39.50
25th Percentile - £48.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £61.00 £56.88
90th Percentile - £64.60 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

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 5,868 7,952 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 21.28% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 5,540 7,925
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 264 138
10th Percentile £30.50 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £43.44 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in England

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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 July 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 +51 124 £600 +5.26% 244
South East +42 18 £375 -26.83% 34
North of England +4 12 £425 -10.53% 129
North West +8 8 £425 -8.11% 96
Yorkshire +2 4 - - 31
Midlands +1 4 £420 +12.00% 8
West Midlands 0 2 £438 +25.00% 6
East Midlands -2 2 £400 -8.57% 2
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 4 (2.45%) Apache
1 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.45%) CMS
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.84%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Camunda
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (63.19%) AWS
2 37 (22.70%) Amazon S3
3 35 (21.47%) Serverless
4 33 (20.25%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (12.27%) Azure
6 17 (10.43%) GitHub
7 16 (9.82%) GCP
8 15 (9.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (7.36%) Amazon Cognito
10 11 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (6.75%) SaaS
11 9 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.52%) Datadog
12 8 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (4.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 7 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (4.29%) CloudFront
13 7 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.29%) Route 53
14 6 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) HTTP
2 2 (1.23%) Broadband
2 2 (1.23%) DSL
3 1 (0.61%) SMS
3 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.63%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.88%) DynamoDB
3 19 (11.66%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.52%) MongoDB
6 9 (5.52%) Redis
7 7 (4.29%) DocumentDB
8 6 (3.68%) MySQL
9 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.84%) Flink
12 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.23%) OLTP
13 1 (0.61%) Big Data
13 1 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (14.72%) Git
1 24 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.04%) Cypress.io
3 11 (6.75%) JIRA
4 9 (5.52%) CircleCI
5 7 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.68%) GitLab
7 5 (3.07%) Subversion
8 4 (2.45%) Postman
9 3 (1.84%) Mocha
9 3 (1.84%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.23%) Gradle
10 2 (1.23%) JMeter
10 2 (1.23%) Maven
10 2 (1.23%) MSTest
10 2 (1.23%) NSubstitute
10 2 (1.23%) NUnit
10 2 (1.23%) Selenium
10 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 48 (29.45%) Finance
2 36 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.88%) Front Office
4 11 (6.75%) Banking
5 7 (4.29%) Retail Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.45%) Retail
8 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (57.67%) Developer
2 33 (20.25%) Software Engineer
3 27 (16.56%) Senior
4 26 (15.95%) React Developer
5 14 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (7.36%) Architect
6 12 (7.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) Lead
7 11 (6.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (6.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.13%) Lead Developer
9 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) Lead Software Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) JavaScript Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (53.37%) React
2 72 (44.17%) Node.js
3 43 (26.38%) RESTful
4 42 (25.77%) REST
5 30 (18.40%) Kafka
5 30 (18.40%) Redux
6 20 (12.27%) Next.js
7 15 (9.20%) WebSockets
8 13 (7.98%) .NET
8 13 (7.98%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.98%) Jest
9 12 (7.36%) gRPC
9 12 (7.36%) OAuth
10 11 (6.75%) CSS
11 10 (6.13%) HTML
11 10 (6.13%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (6.13%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (5.52%) SOAP
12 9 (5.52%) Spring
13 8 (4.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.66%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.36%) Fixed Income
4 7 (4.29%) Derivative
4 7 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.07%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.23%) IVR
9 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Android
2 3 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (53.37%) Agile
2 78 (47.85%) CI/CD
3 50 (30.67%) Software Engineering
4 46 (28.22%) DevOps
4 46 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (26.38%) Microservices
6 32 (19.63%) Clean Code
7 31 (19.02%) TDD
8 29 (17.79%) User Experience
9 28 (17.18%) Mentoring
10 24 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (14.11%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (13.50%) Front End Development
13 21 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (12.88%) Test Automation
14 20 (12.27%) Containerisation
15 19 (11.66%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (11.04%) Continuous Delivery
16 18 (11.04%) Event-Driven
16 18 (11.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (46.01%) TypeScript
2 68 (41.72%) Python
3 66 (40.49%) JavaScript
4 40 (24.54%) Java
5 29 (17.79%) Go
6 18 (11.04%) SQL
7 13 (7.98%) Ruby
8 12 (7.36%) C#
9 7 (4.29%) PHP
10 3 (1.84%) Bash
10 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.23%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) Perl
11 2 (1.23%) Rust
11 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.23%) Swift
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (9.20%) Degree
2 10 (6.13%) AWS Certification
2 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.91%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.68%) QA
3 3 (1.84%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (18.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.04%) Terraform
3 13 (7.98%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.29%) Grafana
5 4 (2.45%) Ansible
5 4 (2.45%) Kibana
5 4 (2.45%) Puppet
6 2 (1.23%) Istio
6 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.23%) Salt
6 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.52%) Google
2 7 (4.29%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (3.07%) Adobe
3 5 (3.07%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle
4 4 (2.45%) YouTube
5 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.84%) Splunk
6 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.23%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.23%) New Relic
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.23%) SAP
6 2 (1.23%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.23%) Teradata
7 1 (0.61%) Apple
7 1 (0.61%) Informatica
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) TIBCO