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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 349 355
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 -36
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 229 150 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 2.62% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 106 156
10th Percentile £400 £333 £331
25th Percentile £516 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -0.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £779 £669 £600
90th Percentile £800 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +14.75% +2.40% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £70.25 - £45.00
25th Percentile £72.50 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £81.88 - £61.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.60
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +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 8,346 5,722 7,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.44% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,498 3,948 5,495
10th Percentile £363 £357 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 121 266
10th Percentile £30.35 £30.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.16 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -45 156 £650 +10.64% 41
North of England -65 22 £575 +21.05% 8
South East -61 21 £533 +29.09% 20
North West -36 17 £650 +36.84% 6
Midlands -53 10 £700 +66.67% 3
South West - 10 £700 - 4
East Midlands -12 5 £498 +18.57% 1
Yorkshire -51 5 £575 - 2
West Midlands -52 5 £700 +60.00% 2
East of England - 3 £675 - 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 7 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Luigi
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Shopify
2 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 129 (56.33%) AWS
2 52 (22.71%) Azure
2 52 (22.71%) Serverless
3 38 (16.59%) GCP
4 37 (16.16%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (16.16%) GitHub
5 27 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.73%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.55%) SaaS
8 11 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.93%) Datadog
11 8 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.18%) Figma
13 5 (2.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.31%) DSL
1 3 (1.31%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.87%) NaaS
2 2 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.86%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.99%) NoSQL
4 15 (6.55%) MySQL
5 14 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (5.24%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.93%) Redis
8 6 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.62%) Metadata
8 6 (2.62%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.18%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.31%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.31%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.87%) TigerGraph
12 2 (0.87%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 26 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.92%) Git
3 12 (5.24%) Cypress.io
3 12 (5.24%) Vite
4 9 (3.93%) Gradle
5 8 (3.49%) GitLab
6 5 (2.18%) JSUnit
7 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.75%) Maven
7 4 (1.75%) webpack
8 3 (1.31%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.31%) fastlane
8 3 (1.31%) Selenium
8 3 (1.31%) Xcode
9 2 (0.87%) JUnit
9 2 (0.87%) Mocha
9 2 (0.87%) Storybook
9 2 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (24.02%) Finance
2 37 (16.16%) Front Office
3 31 (13.54%) Social Skills
4 21 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.80%) Banking
6 8 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.06%) Retail
8 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Games
10 3 (1.31%) Back Office
10 3 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Billing
11 2 (0.87%) Marketing
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (43.67%) Developer
2 52 (22.71%) Software Engineer
3 44 (19.21%) Senior
4 39 (17.03%) Lead
5 33 (14.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 27 (11.79%) Lead Developer
7 23 (10.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 21 (9.17%) Architect
8 21 (9.17%) Lead Software Developer
8 21 (9.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (8.73%) React Developer
10 17 (7.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (7.42%) Java Developer
10 17 (7.42%) Java Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) Senior Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Backend Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Python Developer
13 10 (4.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (43.67%) React
2 85 (37.12%) REST
3 73 (31.88%) Node.js
4 66 (28.82%) Kafka
5 43 (18.78%) Redux
6 33 (14.41%) RESTful
7 26 (11.35%) Next.js
8 22 (9.61%) Spring
9 18 (7.86%) OAuth
9 18 (7.86%) Spring Boot
10 17 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 17 (7.42%) Playwright
11 16 (6.99%) Jest
12 15 (6.55%) CSS
13 14 (6.11%) Django
13 14 (6.11%) OAuth2
14 12 (5.24%) gRPC
14 12 (5.24%) HTML
14 12 (5.24%) Vue
15 10 (4.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.41%) Fixed Income
3 27 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.68%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.93%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.18%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.44%) LIMS
11 1 (0.44%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.68%) Android
2 11 (4.80%) Linux
3 7 (3.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 88 (38.43%) Agile
3 77 (33.62%) Software Engineering
4 62 (27.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (22.71%) Microservices
6 47 (20.52%) DevOps
7 37 (16.16%) Event-Driven
8 36 (15.72%) Investment Management
9 35 (15.28%) Test Automation
9 35 (15.28%) User Experience
10 33 (14.41%) Containerisation
10 33 (14.41%) E-Commerce
11 32 (13.97%) Order Management
11 32 (13.97%) Portfolio Management
12 31 (13.54%) Observability
13 29 (12.66%) AI
14 28 (12.23%) Code Quality
15 27 (11.79%) TDD
16 26 (11.35%) API Design
16 26 (11.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (50.66%) TypeScript
2 90 (39.30%) Java
3 81 (35.37%) Python
4 63 (27.51%) JavaScript
5 49 (21.40%) Go
6 33 (14.41%) SQL
7 15 (6.55%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.62%) C#
8 6 (2.62%) Scala
8 6 (2.62%) Swift
9 5 (2.18%) Cypher
9 5 (2.18%) SPARQL
10 4 (1.75%) Bash
11 3 (1.31%) Bicep
11 3 (1.31%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.31%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) C++
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.68%) Degree
2 13 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.55%) QA
2 13 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.49%) WCAG
4 6 (2.62%) GDPR
5 5 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.87%) NIST
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
8 1 (0.44%) ITGC
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (21.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (17.03%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.30%) Terraform
3 17 (7.42%) Grafana
4 15 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 25 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.06%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.18%) Oracle
4 4 (1.75%) Google
5 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.31%) SAP
5 3 (1.31%) Splunk
6 2 (0.87%) Amdocs
6 2 (0.87%) Ciena
6 2 (0.87%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.87%) Netlify
6 2 (0.87%) New Relic
6 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.87%) Workday
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe
7 1 (0.44%) BT
7 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.44%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.44%) SnapLogic