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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 342 341
Rank change year-on-year -51 -1 -27
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 206 139 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.52% 2.50% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 99 162
10th Percentile £396 £339 £325
25th Percentile £499 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +2.01% -15.04%
75th Percentile £800 £663 £600
90th Percentile - £750 £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% - -8.33%
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% - -8.33%

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 8,179 5,565 7,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.49% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,859 5,456
10th Percentile £363 £358 £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 £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 257
10th Percentile £30.55 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.56 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -40 134 £700 +20.43% 75
North of England -50 23 £563 +35.05% 68
South East -51 21 £533 +25.29% 57
North West -25 19 £563 +35.05% 32
Midlands -50 10 £700 +66.67% 33
South West - 10 £700 - 28
East Midlands -16 5 £498 +18.57% 17
West Midlands -51 5 £700 +60.00% 16
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 25
East of England - 3 £675 - 47
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 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Shopify
2 2 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 120 (58.25%) AWS
2 46 (22.33%) Serverless
3 44 (21.36%) Azure
4 34 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (16.50%) GCP
4 34 (16.50%) GitHub
5 26 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (9.22%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.83%) SaaS
8 11 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.37%) Datadog
11 8 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.43%) Figma
14 4 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.94%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) DSL
2 3 (1.46%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.97%) NaaS
3 2 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.74%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.83%) DynamoDB
4 12 (5.83%) MySQL
5 11 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.88%) Redis
7 5 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.43%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.94%) Metadata
8 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.46%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.46%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.46%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.97%) Flink
10 2 (0.97%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.68%) Git
2 16 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.34%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.85%) Gradle
4 10 (4.85%) Vite
5 8 (3.88%) GitLab
6 5 (2.43%) webpack
7 4 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.94%) Maven
8 3 (1.46%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.46%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.46%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.46%) fastlane
8 3 (1.46%) Selenium
8 3 (1.46%) Xcode
9 2 (0.97%) Mocha
9 2 (0.97%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.97%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.49%) JIRA
10 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
General
1 51 (24.76%) Finance
2 37 (17.96%) Front Office
3 24 (11.65%) Social Skills
4 18 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.88%) Banking
6 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.91%) Retail
7 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Back Office
8 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Games
8 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.97%) Billing
9 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Police
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (45.63%) Developer
2 48 (23.30%) Software Engineer
3 37 (17.96%) Senior
4 35 (16.99%) Lead
5 32 (15.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 26 (12.62%) Lead Developer
7 21 (10.19%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (9.71%) Architect
8 20 (9.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 19 (9.22%) React Developer
10 18 (8.74%) Java Engineer
11 17 (8.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (7.28%) Java Developer
13 14 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (6.80%) Python Developer
13 14 (6.80%) Senior Developer
14 13 (6.31%) Backend Developer
15 10 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 8 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (42.23%) React
2 81 (39.32%) REST
3 63 (30.58%) Node.js
4 62 (30.10%) Kafka
5 41 (19.90%) Redux
6 29 (14.08%) RESTful
7 18 (8.74%) OAuth
7 18 (8.74%) Spring
8 16 (7.77%) Next.js
9 15 (7.28%) Jest
9 15 (7.28%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.28%) Vue
10 14 (6.80%) Django
11 13 (6.31%) AngularJS
11 13 (6.31%) OAuth2
12 12 (5.83%) CSS
12 12 (5.83%) Playwright
13 10 (4.85%) HTML
13 10 (4.85%) Middleware
14 9 (4.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 33 (16.02%) Fixed Income
3 24 (11.65%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.37%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.46%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.97%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.49%) CMDB
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) LIMS
9 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.31%) Android
2 12 (5.83%) Linux
3 7 (3.40%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.46%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.81%) CI/CD
2 71 (34.47%) Software Engineering
3 69 (33.50%) Agile
4 51 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (20.39%) Microservices
6 41 (19.90%) DevOps
7 36 (17.48%) Investment Management
8 33 (16.02%) Event-Driven
9 32 (15.53%) Order Management
9 32 (15.53%) Portfolio Management
10 31 (15.05%) E-Commerce
10 31 (15.05%) Observability
11 30 (14.56%) Test Automation
12 28 (13.59%) Containerisation
12 28 (13.59%) User Experience
13 25 (12.14%) API Design
14 23 (11.17%) AI
14 23 (11.17%) Code Quality
15 22 (10.68%) Mentoring
16 21 (10.19%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 100 (48.54%) TypeScript
2 85 (41.26%) Java
3 77 (37.38%) Python
4 61 (29.61%) JavaScript
5 44 (21.36%) Go
6 25 (12.14%) SQL
7 13 (6.31%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.91%) Swift
9 5 (2.43%) C#
10 4 (1.94%) Scala
11 3 (1.46%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) Perl
11 3 (1.46%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.97%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) C++
12 2 (0.97%) Cypher
12 2 (0.97%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.37%) Degree
4 5 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.85%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.85%) QA
2 7 (3.40%) WCAG
3 4 (1.94%) GDPR
4 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (21.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.25%) Grafana
3 15 (7.28%) Prometheus
3 15 (7.28%) Terraform
4 2 (0.97%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.97%) Ansible
4 2 (0.97%) Puppet
4 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) Istio
5 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.43%) Oracle
4 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.46%) New Relic
5 3 (1.46%) SAP
5 3 (1.46%) Splunk
6 2 (0.97%) Adobe
6 2 (0.97%) Amdocs
6 2 (0.97%) Ciena
6 2 (0.97%) Google
6 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.97%) Netlify
6 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.97%) Workday
7 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.49%) Confluent
7 1 (0.49%) Databricks
7 1 (0.49%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.49%) SnapLogic