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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 335 368
Rank change year-on-year -20 +33 -60
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 202 153 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 2.61% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 103 146
10th Percentile £204 £365 £325
25th Percentile £352 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.32%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £672
90th Percentile £696 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £60.50 - £52.20
25th Percentile £70.00 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -13.93% -12.86%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.93% -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 7,311 5,867 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.33% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 3,751 5,599
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £657
90th Percentile £738 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 76 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.31 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -24 120 £525 -10.26% 50
South East -20 29 £208 -49.27% 15
North of England -36 24 £575 +48.39% 21
North West -12 20 £529 +41.07% 16
Midlands -42 15 £650 +18.18% 4
West Midlands -35 11 £650 +18.18% 3
South West -18 9 £650 +44.44% 7
East Midlands - 4 £406 - 1
Yorkshire -55 2 £585 +30.06% 2
North East - 2 £600 - 4
East of England -24 1 - - 6
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 (2.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.98%) Apache
2 4 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.98%) CMS
2 4 (1.98%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.20%) AWS
2 49 (24.26%) SaaS
3 43 (21.29%) Azure
4 39 (19.31%) GitHub
5 36 (17.82%) Serverless
6 35 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (7.92%) GCP
9 15 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (7.43%) Sauce Labs
10 11 (5.45%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.46%) Figma
13 8 (3.96%) Datadog
14 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.97%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.97%) Firebase
16 5 (2.48%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.94%) Wireless
2 3 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.49%) SSL
3 2 (0.99%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
1 29 (14.36%) Relational Database
2 27 (13.37%) MySQL
3 10 (4.95%) Redis
4 9 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.96%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.98%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.50%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.50%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 48 (23.76%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.88%) Git
3 17 (8.42%) Android Studio
4 16 (7.92%) Browser DevTools
4 16 (7.92%) Xcode
5 15 (7.43%) Eclipse
6 12 (5.94%) Gradle
7 10 (4.95%) GitLab
8 9 (4.46%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.97%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.97%) JIRA
10 5 (2.48%) Mocha
11 4 (1.98%) fastlane
11 4 (1.98%) JUnit
11 4 (1.98%) Maven
11 4 (1.98%) Mockito
11 4 (1.98%) webpack
12 2 (0.99%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.99%) Snyk
12 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.42%) Finance
3 13 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Banking
6 4 (1.98%) Front Office
6 4 (1.98%) Games
6 4 (1.98%) Retail
7 3 (1.49%) Billing
8 1 (0.50%) Back Office
8 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (36.63%) Developer
2 51 (25.25%) Senior
3 24 (11.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 22 (10.89%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.41%) Backend Developer
6 18 (8.91%) Consultant
6 18 (8.91%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (8.91%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 18 (8.91%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.91%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.91%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 18 (8.91%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (8.91%) Technical Specialist
7 16 (7.92%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.92%) Technical Engineer
7 16 (7.92%) Technical Support
7 16 (7.92%) Technical Support Engineer
7 16 (7.92%) UX Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Lead
9 14 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (37.62%) REST
2 75 (37.13%) React
3 69 (34.16%) Node.js
4 36 (17.82%) Playwright
5 31 (15.35%) Vitest
6 28 (13.86%) CSS
7 26 (12.87%) OAuth
8 20 (9.90%) AngularJS
9 19 (9.41%) RESTful
9 19 (9.41%) YAML
10 18 (8.91%) Ajax
10 18 (8.91%) Next.js
11 17 (8.42%) Jest
12 16 (7.92%) Redux
12 16 (7.92%) WebSockets
13 15 (7.43%) OAuth2
13 15 (7.43%) Spring
13 15 (7.43%) Spring Boot
14 13 (6.44%) gRPC
15 12 (5.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (27.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.88%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.50%) Animation
8 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.50%) Replication
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.88%) Linux
2 23 (11.39%) Android
3 16 (7.92%) Unix
3 16 (7.92%) Windows
4 6 (2.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 77 (38.12%) Agile
3 71 (35.15%) DevOps
4 50 (24.75%) Containerisation
5 44 (21.78%) Mentoring
5 44 (21.78%) User Experience
6 42 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (19.80%) E-Commerce
8 38 (18.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (18.32%) Microservices
9 37 (18.32%) Software Engineering
10 35 (17.33%) Test Automation
11 34 (16.83%) API Design
11 34 (16.83%) Code Quality
12 31 (15.35%) Coaching
12 31 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (13.37%) Observability
14 23 (11.39%) AI
15 22 (10.89%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (10.40%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (42.57%) TypeScript
2 69 (34.16%) Python
3 68 (33.66%) Java
4 54 (26.73%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.35%) SQL
6 19 (9.41%) Go
7 16 (7.92%) Perl
8 8 (3.96%) C#
8 8 (3.96%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.96%) PHP
9 5 (2.48%) Bash
9 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.98%) Swift
11 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.99%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.49%) Degree
5 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.46%) GDPR
3 5 (2.48%) QA
3 5 (2.48%) WCAG
4 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (38.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (34.16%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.38%) Grafana
3 18 (8.91%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.94%) Terraform
5 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.41%) Oracle
3 16 (7.92%) Splunk
4 13 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.46%) Adobe
6 6 (2.97%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.48%) Google
8 3 (1.49%) Confluent
8 3 (1.49%) New Relic
9 2 (0.99%) Databricks
9 2 (0.99%) Marketo
9 2 (0.99%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.50%) Apple
10 1 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.50%) HP
10 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.50%) Okta