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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 316 328
Rank change year-on-year -115 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 203 206 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 3.01% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 151 155
10th Percentile £385 £313 £363
25th Percentile £468 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £512 £533
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -3.94% -11.17%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +12.50% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £65.00 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £54.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +45.45% +10.00% -

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 9,769 6,838 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,701 5,588
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%

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 25 August 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
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 25 August 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 -78 137 £593 +3.09% 106
South East -63 28 £460 +65.77% 10
North of England -71 14 £588 +23.68% 21
South West - 9 £450 - 15
Midlands -68 8 £700 +75.00% 8
Yorkshire -36 7 £575 - 3
North West -46 7 £650 +36.84% 15
West Midlands -49 5 £700 +38.61% 2
East Midlands -20 3 - - 6
East of England - 3 £345 - 5
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 8 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Luigi
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.99%) Shopify
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 106 (52.22%) AWS
2 63 (31.03%) Azure
3 52 (25.62%) Serverless
4 39 (19.21%) GCP
5 34 (16.75%) GitHub
6 31 (15.27%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.37%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.88%) SaaS
10 11 (5.42%) Boomi
11 10 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (4.43%) Datadog
13 7 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.45%) iPaaS
14 6 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) NaaS
2 2 (0.99%) WAN
3 1 (0.49%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.27%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.88%) MySQL
4 13 (6.40%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.42%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.42%) Redis
6 9 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.94%) Metadata
8 6 (2.96%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.46%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.97%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.48%) Stardog
11 3 (1.48%) TigerGraph
11 3 (1.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.82%) Git
3 17 (8.37%) Cypress.io
4 12 (5.91%) Vite
5 5 (2.46%) GitLab
5 5 (2.46%) JSUnit
6 3 (1.48%) Android Studio
6 3 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.48%) webpack
6 3 (1.48%) Xcode
7 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.99%) Gradle
7 2 (0.99%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.99%) JUnit
7 2 (0.99%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.99%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.99%) Storybook
8 1 (0.49%) Spock
General
1 37 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.76%) Finance
3 23 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.91%) Front Office
5 8 (3.94%) Retail
6 7 (3.45%) Banking
7 6 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.97%) Games
10 3 (1.48%) Back Office
10 3 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.99%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Publishing
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (37.44%) Developer
2 41 (20.20%) Senior
3 26 (12.81%) Architect
4 21 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.85%) Senior Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (8.87%) Lead
8 17 (8.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 14 (6.90%) React Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Backend Developer
10 12 (5.91%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (4.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (4.43%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (4.43%) Senior Backend Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.94%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (45.81%) REST
2 76 (37.44%) React
3 56 (27.59%) Node.js
4 50 (24.63%) Kafka
5 31 (15.27%) RESTful
6 30 (14.78%) OAuth
7 29 (14.29%) Next.js
8 27 (13.30%) CSS
9 21 (10.34%) HTML
9 21 (10.34%) OAuth2
10 19 (9.36%) Terraform
11 18 (8.87%) Spring
12 17 (8.37%) JWT
12 17 (8.37%) Playwright
12 17 (8.37%) SOAP
13 16 (7.88%) AngularJS
13 16 (7.88%) Redux
14 15 (7.39%) JSON
15 14 (6.90%) gRPC
15 14 (6.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.17%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.43%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.94%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.94%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Sports Betting
8 4 (1.97%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Android
2 7 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.46%) Linux
4 3 (1.48%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 70 (34.48%) Agile
3 61 (30.05%) Microservices
4 45 (22.17%) DevOps
4 45 (22.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (21.67%) Event-Driven
5 44 (21.67%) Software Engineering
6 37 (18.23%) User Experience
7 35 (17.24%) E-Commerce
8 34 (16.75%) AI
9 31 (15.27%) API Design
10 30 (14.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 30 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (14.78%) Test Automation
11 28 (13.79%) Observability
12 27 (13.30%) Mentoring
13 26 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (12.81%) TDD
14 25 (12.32%) Code Quality
15 24 (11.82%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 104 (51.23%) TypeScript
2 60 (29.56%) Java
3 59 (29.06%) Python
4 48 (23.65%) JavaScript
5 38 (18.72%) SQL
6 22 (10.84%) Go
7 13 (6.40%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.45%) C#
8 7 (3.45%) Scala
9 6 (2.96%) Swift
10 5 (2.46%) Bash
10 5 (2.46%) Cypher
10 5 (2.46%) SPARQL
11 4 (1.97%) Ruby
11 4 (1.97%) Rust
12 3 (1.48%) Bicep
12 3 (1.48%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.48%) Perl
12 3 (1.48%) PHP
12 3 (1.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.90%) Degree
2 13 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) QA
2 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.45%) WCAG
4 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) PSD2
7 1 (0.49%) ITGC
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (20.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.40%) Grafana
2 13 (6.40%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Istio
4 2 (0.99%) linkerd
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.90%) Oracle
3 13 (6.40%) Google
4 10 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.96%) IBM
6 6 (2.96%) Informatica
6 6 (2.96%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.96%) WSO2
7 5 (2.46%) SAP
8 4 (1.97%) Confluent
8 4 (1.97%) Databricks
8 4 (1.97%) Workday
9 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.48%) Splunk
10 2 (0.99%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.99%) Ciena
10 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.99%) New Relic
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow