GraphQL Contracts in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 341 315
Rank change year-on-year -1 -26 -27
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 139 210 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.56% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 2.69% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 162 250
10th Percentile £339 £325 £425
25th Percentile £413 £419 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -15.04% +4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £700
90th Percentile £750 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.40% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £45.00 £39.50
25th Percentile - £48.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £61.00 £71.88
90th Percentile - £64.60 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%

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 5,562 7,816 10,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 20.86% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,859 5,454 7,896
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £515 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 257 133
10th Percentile £32.10 £22.75 £35.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +23.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.70 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £51.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -20.38% +23.81%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2025. 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 +29 110 £581 +5.68% 1,019
South East +41 15 £425 -15.00% 467
North West +11 6 £417 -12.32% 275
North of England -5 6 £417 -12.32% 457
Midlands -7 3 £420 +20.00% 214
West Midlands 0 2 £438 +25.00% 122
East Midlands +3 1 £420 -4.00% 92
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.88%) Apache
1 4 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.88%) CMS
2 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.16%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) JBoss
4 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.72%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (61.87%) AWS
2 38 (27.34%) Amazon S3
3 33 (23.74%) Serverless
4 31 (22.30%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (12.95%) Azure
6 17 (12.23%) GitHub
7 15 (10.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (9.35%) GCP
10 12 (8.63%) Amazon Cognito
11 11 (7.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (7.19%) CloudFront
12 10 (7.19%) Route 53
13 9 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (5.76%) Datadog
15 7 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (4.32%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (4.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) HTTP
2 2 (1.44%) Broadband
2 2 (1.44%) DSL
3 1 (0.72%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.67%) DynamoDB
3 18 (12.95%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (8.63%) Redis
6 10 (7.19%) DocumentDB
7 7 (5.04%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.16%) Flink
11 3 (2.16%) MySQL
12 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.44%) OLTP
13 1 (0.72%) Big Data
13 1 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.95%) Cypress.io
3 17 (12.23%) Git
4 10 (7.19%) JIRA
5 9 (6.47%) CircleCI
6 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.32%) GitLab
8 4 (2.88%) Postman
8 4 (2.88%) Subversion
9 3 (2.16%) Mocha
9 3 (2.16%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.44%) Gradle
10 2 (1.44%) JMeter
10 2 (1.44%) Maven
10 2 (1.44%) MSTest
10 2 (1.44%) NSubstitute
10 2 (1.44%) NUnit
10 2 (1.44%) Selenium
10 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 38 (27.34%) Finance
2 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.07%) Banking
4 10 (7.19%) Retail Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Front Office
6 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Retail
8 2 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Automotive
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (53.96%) Developer
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 21 (15.11%) React Developer
4 20 (14.39%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 11 (7.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (7.19%) Architect
6 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.32%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.32%) JavaScript Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.60%) GCP Architect
10 5 (3.60%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (51.80%) React
2 55 (39.57%) Node.js
3 38 (27.34%) REST
4 34 (24.46%) RESTful
5 20 (14.39%) Next.js
6 18 (12.95%) Redux
7 13 (9.35%) Jest
7 13 (9.35%) Kafka
8 12 (8.63%) .NET
8 12 (8.63%) AngularJS
8 12 (8.63%) WebSockets
9 10 (7.19%) CSS
9 10 (7.19%) HTML
9 10 (7.19%) OAuth
10 9 (6.47%) SOAP
10 9 (6.47%) Spring
11 8 (5.76%) HTML5
11 8 (5.76%) Svelte
12 7 (5.04%) AWS CDK
12 7 (5.04%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.23%) Mobile App
3 10 (7.19%) Derivative
4 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.16%) Vector Graphics
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.44%) IVR
9 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.72%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.72%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.88%) Android
2 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 66 (47.48%) Agile
3 45 (32.37%) DevOps
4 38 (27.34%) Microservices
5 35 (25.18%) Software Engineering
6 34 (24.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (20.86%) TDD
8 28 (20.14%) User Experience
9 26 (18.71%) Clean Code
10 25 (17.99%) Mentoring
11 22 (15.83%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (15.83%) Front End Development
12 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (13.67%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.67%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.23%) Continuous Delivery
14 17 (12.23%) Event-Driven
14 17 (12.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (12.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (41.73%) TypeScript
2 52 (37.41%) Python
3 47 (33.81%) JavaScript
4 25 (17.99%) Java
5 20 (14.39%) SQL
6 15 (10.79%) C#
6 15 (10.79%) Go
7 8 (5.76%) Ruby
8 6 (4.32%) PHP
9 3 (2.16%) Bash
9 3 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.44%) Bicep
10 2 (1.44%) Rust
10 2 (1.44%) Scala
10 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.44%) Swift
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Degree
2 9 (6.47%) AWS Certification
2 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.44%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.32%) QA
3 3 (2.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.72%) HL7
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (15.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.23%) Terraform
3 13 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.04%) Grafana
5 4 (2.88%) Ansible
5 4 (2.88%) Kibana
5 4 (2.88%) Puppet
6 2 (1.44%) Istio
6 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.44%) Salt
6 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (6.47%) Google
2 6 (4.32%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (3.60%) Adobe
4 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle
4 3 (2.16%) PagerDuty
4 3 (2.16%) YouTube
5 2 (1.44%) Databricks
5 2 (1.44%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.44%) New Relic
5 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.44%) SAP
5 2 (1.44%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.44%) Splunk
5 2 (1.44%) Teradata
6 1 (0.72%) Apple
6 1 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.72%) Informatica
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.72%) TIBCO