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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 306 329
Rank change year-on-year -134 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 201 225 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 3.18% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 164 149
10th Percentile £385 £294 £354
25th Percentile £455 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -2.44% -7.30%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £603
90th Percentile £753 £800 £675
UK median daily rate £559 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile - - £54.75
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +4.76% -13.93%

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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -93 137 £588 - 237
South East -60 30 £460 +71.00% 33
North of England -72 14 £600 +23.08% 39
North West -53 8 £625 +29.87% 25
South West -32 7 £425 -34.62% 18
Yorkshire -46 5 £575 -3.44% 12
East of England - 4 £345 - 10
West Midlands -57 3 £575 -11.54% 8
Midlands -65 3 £575 +36.90% 17
North East - 1 - - 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 8 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.49%) Apache
3 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) Luigi
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.50%) Sketch
3 1 (0.50%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Magento
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.50%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (53.73%) AWS
2 76 (37.81%) Azure
3 54 (26.87%) Serverless
4 40 (19.90%) GCP
5 39 (19.40%) GitHub
6 31 (15.42%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (10.95%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.46%) SaaS
10 14 (6.97%) Boomi
11 13 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.47%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (5.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.98%) iPaaS
15 9 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (3.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) HTTP
2 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.91%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (13.93%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.95%) MySQL
4 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.98%) Redis
8 9 (4.48%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.48%) Metadata
9 7 (3.48%) Pinecone
10 6 (2.99%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.99%) Neo4j
10 6 (2.99%) Weaviate
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.49%) Stardog
13 3 (1.49%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 34 (16.92%) Git
2 24 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.96%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.47%) Vite
5 7 (3.48%) GitLab
6 5 (2.49%) JSUnit
6 5 (2.49%) JUnit
7 4 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.99%) Gradle
7 4 (1.99%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.49%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.49%) Mockito
8 3 (1.49%) Postman
8 3 (1.49%) webpack
8 3 (1.49%) Xcode
9 2 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 46 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.93%) Finance
3 26 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.48%) Banking
4 7 (3.48%) Retail
5 6 (2.99%) Front Office
6 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.99%) Marketing
7 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Back Office
8 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Games
8 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Aviation
10 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (34.83%) Developer
2 42 (20.90%) Senior
3 26 (12.94%) Architect
4 21 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (7.96%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.47%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.97%) React Developer
9 10 (4.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (4.98%) Lead
9 10 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Azure Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (2.99%) Energy Trading Developer
13 6 (2.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (51.74%) REST
2 74 (36.82%) React
3 49 (24.38%) Kafka
4 47 (23.38%) Node.js
5 36 (17.91%) OAuth
6 30 (14.93%) Next.js
7 29 (14.43%) CSS
8 28 (13.93%) RESTful
9 26 (12.94%) OAuth2
10 23 (11.44%) HTML
11 20 (9.95%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.95%) Middleware
12 19 (9.45%) JWT
13 18 (8.96%) JSON
13 18 (8.96%) SOAP
13 18 (8.96%) Spring
13 18 (8.96%) Terraform
14 17 (8.46%) Vue
15 16 (7.96%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (7.46%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (9.95%) AI Agents
4 17 (8.46%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.99%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.99%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Life Science
8 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.49%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Android
2 7 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.99%) Linux
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.77%) CI/CD
2 64 (31.84%) Agile
3 61 (30.35%) Microservices
4 58 (28.86%) Event-Driven
5 46 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (22.39%) AI
7 43 (21.39%) DevOps
7 43 (21.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 38 (18.91%) Software Engineering
8 38 (18.91%) User Experience
9 33 (16.42%) API Design
9 33 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (14.93%) E-Commerce
10 30 (14.93%) Observability
11 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
12 27 (13.43%) Data Modelling
13 25 (12.44%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.44%) TDD
14 24 (11.94%) API Integration
14 24 (11.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (49.75%) TypeScript
2 62 (30.85%) Java
3 59 (29.35%) Python
4 48 (23.88%) JavaScript
5 42 (20.90%) SQL
6 15 (7.46%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.47%) Go
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 9 (4.48%) Scala
10 6 (2.99%) Ruby
10 6 (2.99%) Rust
10 6 (2.99%) Swift
11 5 (2.49%) Bash
11 5 (2.49%) Cypher
12 4 (1.99%) SPARQL
13 3 (1.49%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.49%) Perl
13 3 (1.49%) PHP
13 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.00%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) Degree
2 14 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) QA
2 13 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.48%) WCAG
4 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.49%) GDPR
5 2 (1.00%) PSD2
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (18.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.48%) Grafana
2 9 (4.48%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.49%) 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 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.95%) Google
2 20 (9.95%) Oracle
3 12 (5.97%) IBM
3 12 (5.97%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.98%) MuleSoft
5 9 (4.48%) Informatica
5 9 (4.48%) TIBCO
5 9 (4.48%) WSO2
6 8 (3.98%) Databricks
6 8 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.49%) SAP
8 4 (1.99%) Confluent
8 4 (1.99%) Workday
9 3 (1.49%) Foundry
9 3 (1.49%) Splunk
9 3 (1.49%) UiPath
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) New Relic
11 1 (0.50%) Guidewire