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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 273 270
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 -38
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 145 113 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 2.79% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 78 115
10th Percentile £330 £404 £405
25th Percentile £438 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £850 £700 £733
England median daily rate £500 £525 £556
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.62% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.05
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £72.13
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £76.13
90th Percentile - - £76.95
England median hourly rate £62.00 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +27.18% -20.08% -12.86%

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 3,676 4,049 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.19% 25.83% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,496 2,651 3,866
10th Percentile £356 £378 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 32
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.41
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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
West London +7 26 £493 +20.42% 2
Central London +6 14 £600 +2.21% 5
East London - 3 £450 - 5
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 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.07%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) CMS
3 3 (2.07%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.76%) AWS
2 31 (21.38%) SaaS
3 25 (17.24%) Azure
4 18 (12.41%) GitHub
5 16 (11.03%) GCP
6 15 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 15 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.59%) Serverless
8 10 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.52%) Datadog
10 7 (4.83%) Firebase
11 6 (4.14%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.45%) Figma
12 5 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.76%) Google Gemini
14 3 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.83%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.14%) MySQL
5 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.38%) Redis
8 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.69%) Hasura
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (23.45%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.03%) Git
3 5 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.76%) Gradle
4 4 (2.76%) JUnit
4 4 (2.76%) Mockito
5 3 (2.07%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.07%) GitLab
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.07%) webpack
6 2 (1.38%) Maven
6 2 (1.38%) Snyk
7 1 (0.69%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.69%) Ant
7 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) JMeter
7 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.69%) Mocha
7 1 (0.69%) NeoLoad
General
1 39 (26.90%) Finance
2 22 (15.17%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Front Office
4 8 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.45%) Banking
6 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Billing
8 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Publishing
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (44.14%) Developer
2 40 (27.59%) Senior
3 18 (12.41%) Software Engineer
4 15 (10.34%) Lead
5 14 (9.66%) Lead Developer
6 13 (8.97%) Consultant
6 13 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Consultant
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 13 (8.97%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 13 (8.97%) Technical Consultant
6 13 (8.97%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (8.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) React Developer
8 11 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (51.03%) Node.js
2 54 (37.24%) React
3 45 (31.03%) REST
4 25 (17.24%) Playwright
4 25 (17.24%) Vitest
5 23 (15.86%) Kafka
5 23 (15.86%) Redux
6 17 (11.72%) OAuth
6 17 (11.72%) YAML
7 16 (11.03%) RESTful
8 12 (8.28%) Next.js
9 11 (7.59%) CSS
9 11 (7.59%) HTML
9 11 (7.59%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.59%) Ruby on Rails
10 9 (6.21%) CSS3
10 9 (6.21%) HTML5
10 9 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.83%) Jest
11 7 (4.83%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.28%) Fixed Income
3 11 (7.59%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Animation
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.69%) Replication
9 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.76%) Android
1 4 (2.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (53.10%) Agile
2 67 (46.21%) CI/CD
3 50 (34.48%) DevOps
4 39 (26.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (26.90%) Mentoring
5 37 (25.52%) Software Engineering
6 34 (23.45%) Containerisation
7 33 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (22.07%) E-Commerce
9 27 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (17.24%) Coaching
11 24 (16.55%) API Design
12 23 (15.86%) Microservices
13 20 (13.79%) Code Quality
14 19 (13.10%) AI
15 18 (12.41%) Architectural Patterns
15 18 (12.41%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (12.41%) Test Automation
16 16 (11.03%) User Experience
17 15 (10.34%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 48 (33.10%) Java
3 47 (32.41%) JavaScript
3 47 (32.41%) Python
4 26 (17.93%) Go
5 19 (13.10%) SQL
6 13 (8.97%) Ruby
7 9 (6.21%) PHP
8 6 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.07%) Swift
10 2 (1.38%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.69%) C#
11 1 (0.69%) Groovy
11 1 (0.69%) Rust
11 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.52%) Degree
1 8 (5.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) GDPR
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.38%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (35.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.34%) Terraform
3 8 (5.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.83%) Grafana
5 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.38%) Ansible
6 2 (1.38%) Istio
6 2 (1.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) Adobe
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) Google
2 6 (4.14%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.76%) YouTube
4 3 (2.07%) Confluent
4 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.07%) Oracle
4 3 (2.07%) Splunk
5 2 (1.38%) Databricks
5 2 (1.38%) Marketo
5 2 (1.38%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.38%) Teradata
6 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.69%) Apple
6 1 (0.69%) HP
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica
6 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.69%) Okta