GraphQL Contract Job Trends in London

GraphQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 228 271
Rank change year-on-year -87 +43 +1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 135 149 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.11% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 3.79% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 109 92
10th Percentile £388 £348 £425
25th Percentile £525 £425 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £638
90th Percentile £800 £850 £698
England median daily rate £588 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +16.34% -5.25% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,310 3,934 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 29.22% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,736 3,480
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £455 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £30.82
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -35.61%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £57.59
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £67.03
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GraphQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GraphQL job vacancy trend in London

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in London

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Central London -28 13 £535 -10.83% 9
West London -24 9 £604 +24.52% 10
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.70%) Apache
2 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Luigi
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 68 (50.37%) AWS
2 37 (27.41%) Azure
3 36 (26.67%) Serverless
4 22 (16.30%) GCP
5 21 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (12.59%) GitHub
7 14 (10.37%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.15%) SaaS
9 9 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.93%) Datadog
11 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.70%) Boomi
12 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.96%) Amazon Neptune
13 4 (2.96%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (2.96%) AtomSphere
13 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) DSL
1 1 (0.74%) HTTP
1 1 (0.74%) NaaS
1 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.37%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.67%) MySQL
4 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.70%) Metadata
5 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.70%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.96%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.96%) Redis
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.22%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.22%) Stardog
7 3 (2.22%) TigerGraph
7 3 (2.22%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 19 (14.07%) Git
2 18 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.63%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.67%) Vite
5 5 (3.70%) JSUnit
6 3 (2.22%) GitLab
6 3 (2.22%) webpack
7 2 (1.48%) Gradle
7 2 (1.48%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.48%) JUnit
7 2 (1.48%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.48%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.48%) Storybook
8 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.74%) fastlane
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.74%) Spock
General
1 30 (22.22%) Finance
2 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.63%) Front Office
5 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Back Office
7 3 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (40.74%) Developer
2 31 (22.96%) Senior
3 19 (14.07%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (10.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) React Developer
6 13 (9.63%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.15%) Architect
8 9 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Lead
8 9 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (46.67%) REST
2 58 (42.96%) React
3 44 (32.59%) Node.js
4 33 (24.44%) Kafka
5 25 (18.52%) Next.js
6 17 (12.59%) CSS
7 16 (11.85%) Redux
8 15 (11.11%) HTML
8 15 (11.11%) OAuth
8 15 (11.11%) OAuth2
8 15 (11.11%) RESTful
9 13 (9.63%) AngularJS
9 13 (9.63%) Playwright
9 13 (9.63%) Terraform
10 11 (8.15%) Spring
11 10 (7.41%) Jest
11 10 (7.41%) Spring Boot
11 10 (7.41%) Vue
12 9 (6.67%) CSS3
12 9 (6.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.96%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.96%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) CMDB
8 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.19%) Android
2 6 (4.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 48 (35.56%) Agile
3 39 (28.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (22.96%) E-Commerce
5 28 (20.74%) Microservices
6 26 (19.26%) Software Engineering
7 24 (17.78%) AI
8 23 (17.04%) Event-Driven
9 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (15.56%) API Design
10 21 (15.56%) User Experience
11 20 (14.81%) Mentoring
12 19 (14.07%) DevOps
12 19 (14.07%) TDD
13 17 (12.59%) API Integration
13 17 (12.59%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (11.85%) Data Modelling
14 16 (11.85%) Observability
15 15 (11.11%) Front End Development
16 14 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 80 (59.26%) TypeScript
2 38 (28.15%) Python
3 37 (27.41%) Java
4 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (19.26%) SQL
6 17 (12.59%) Go
7 12 (8.89%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.70%) C#
8 5 (3.70%) Cypher
8 5 (3.70%) SPARQL
8 5 (3.70%) Swift
9 3 (2.22%) Bash
9 3 (2.22%) Bicep
9 3 (2.22%) Gremlin
9 3 (2.22%) Ruby
9 3 (2.22%) Rust
9 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.48%) Elixir
11 1 (0.74%) PHP
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.67%) Degree
2 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) QA
2 7 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.96%) WCAG
5 2 (1.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) ITGC
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.96%) Grafana
2 4 (2.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.74%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.74%) Istio
3 1 (0.74%) linkerd
3 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.19%) Google
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle
4 5 (3.70%) SAP
5 4 (2.96%) Databricks
5 4 (2.96%) Workday
6 3 (2.22%) Confluent
7 2 (1.48%) New Relic
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) Amdocs
8 1 (0.74%) Braze
8 1 (0.74%) Ciena
8 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.74%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) Netlify
8 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.74%) SnapLogic