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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 298 331
Rank change year-on-year -144 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 200 231 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 3.22% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 170 140
10th Percentile £387 £287 £350
25th Percentile £455 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.76% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £602
90th Percentile £781 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +13.86% -3.81% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.38
25th Percentile £65.00 - £44.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +12.82% -32.29%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.13
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +45.45% +12.82% -32.29%

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 9,885 7,166 8,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.60% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,507 4,847 5,303
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.53 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -97 139 £588 - 263
South East -67 27 £460 +121.69% 27
North of England -77 16 £600 +16.79% 42
North West -52 11 £600 +23.08% 30
South West -35 6 £413 -36.54% 23
Yorkshire -35 4 £588 -1.34% 11
West Midlands -51 3 £575 -11.54% 11
Midlands -70 3 £575 +24.19% 19
East of England - 3 £345 - 12
North East -43 1 - - 1
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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.00%) Apache
2 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) WordPress
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Camunda
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (56.00%) AWS
2 77 (38.50%) Azure
3 54 (27.00%) Serverless
4 42 (21.00%) GCP
5 39 (19.50%) GitHub
6 31 (15.50%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (11.50%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.50%) SaaS
10 14 (7.00%) Boomi
11 13 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.50%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (5.00%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (3.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.50%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.50%) NoSQL
3 20 (10.00%) MySQL
4 13 (6.50%) Relational Database
4 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (4.50%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.50%) Metadata
8 8 (4.00%) Redis
9 7 (3.50%) Pinecone
10 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
10 6 (3.00%) Weaviate
11 5 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.50%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.50%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.50%) Stardog
13 3 (1.50%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (16.00%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 10 (5.00%) Vite
5 6 (3.00%) GitLab
5 6 (3.00%) Gradle
5 6 (3.00%) Xcode
6 5 (2.50%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.50%) JUnit
7 4 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.00%) Maven
8 3 (1.50%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.50%) Mockito
8 3 (1.50%) Postman
8 3 (1.50%) webpack
9 2 (1.00%) fastlane
9 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 48 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.50%) Finance
3 26 (13.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.50%) Banking
5 7 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.50%) Front Office
5 7 (3.50%) Retail
6 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.00%) Marketing
7 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Back Office
8 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Games
8 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) French Language
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 68 (34.00%) Developer
2 45 (22.50%) Senior
3 28 (14.00%) Architect
4 24 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.00%) React Developer
8 12 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 9 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Azure Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Energy Trading Developer
11 7 (3.50%) JavaScript Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Lead
11 7 (3.50%) Senior Backend Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (52.50%) REST
2 76 (38.00%) React
3 48 (24.00%) Node.js
4 47 (23.50%) Kafka
5 37 (18.50%) OAuth
6 31 (15.50%) Next.js
7 27 (13.50%) CSS
7 27 (13.50%) OAuth2
7 27 (13.50%) RESTful
8 21 (10.50%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.50%) HTML
9 19 (9.50%) Middleware
10 18 (9.00%) JWT
10 18 (9.00%) Spring
11 17 (8.50%) JSON
11 17 (8.50%) SOAP
11 17 (8.50%) Vue
12 16 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (8.00%) Terraform
13 15 (7.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 33 (16.50%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 18 (9.00%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.50%) Sports Betting
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.00%) Life Science
11 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Android
2 9 (4.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.00%) Linux
4 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 4 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.50%) CI/CD
2 66 (33.00%) Agile
3 63 (31.50%) Microservices
4 58 (29.00%) Event-Driven
5 46 (23.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (22.00%) AI
6 44 (22.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 41 (20.50%) DevOps
8 39 (19.50%) Software Engineering
9 36 (18.00%) User Experience
10 33 (16.50%) API Design
10 33 (16.50%) E-Commerce
11 31 (15.50%) Observability
12 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (14.50%) Test Automation
14 26 (13.00%) Data Modelling
15 24 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
15 24 (12.00%) TDD
16 23 (11.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (50.50%) TypeScript
2 61 (30.50%) Java
3 57 (28.50%) Python
4 49 (24.50%) JavaScript
5 40 (20.00%) SQL
6 18 (9.00%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.50%) Go
8 10 (5.00%) C#
9 9 (4.50%) Scala
10 8 (4.00%) Swift
11 6 (3.00%) Ruby
11 6 (3.00%) Rust
12 5 (2.50%) Bash
12 5 (2.50%) Cypher
12 5 (2.50%) Perl
13 4 (2.00%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.50%) Gremlin
14 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.00%) Bicep
15 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 18 (9.00%) Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) QA
2 13 (6.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 5 (2.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) PSD2
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.00%) Grafana
2 8 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Puppet
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.50%) Google
3 20 (10.00%) Oracle
4 12 (6.00%) IBM
4 12 (6.00%) OpenAI
5 10 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 9 (4.50%) Informatica
6 9 (4.50%) TIBCO
6 9 (4.50%) WSO2
7 8 (4.00%) Databricks
7 8 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.50%) SAP
9 4 (2.00%) Workday
10 3 (1.50%) Confluent
10 3 (1.50%) Foundry
10 3 (1.50%) Splunk
10 3 (1.50%) UiPath
11 2 (1.00%) Adobe
11 2 (1.00%) New Relic
12 1 (0.50%) SnapLogic