GraphQL Contracts in London

GraphQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 289 259
Rank change year-on-year +51 -30 -29
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 124 118 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.67% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.59% 2.49% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 90 172
10th Percentile £363 £375 £450
25th Percentile £433 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £633
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.88% +5.42%
75th Percentile £700 £659 £700
90th Percentile £850 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £38.75
25th Percentile - - £44.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +21.82% -
75th Percentile - - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £73.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

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 3,456 4,740 6,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 26.90% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 3,491 5,061
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £459 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £711 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 42
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in London

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in London

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in London

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in London

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 3 July 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
Central London +17 22 £638 -1.92% 97
West London +14 11 £485 -22.39% 6
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.23%) Apache
1 4 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (73.39%) AWS
2 35 (28.23%) Amazon S3
3 31 (25.00%) Serverless
4 29 (23.39%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.10%) AWS Step Functions
6 13 (10.48%) GitHub
7 11 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.06%) Amazon Cognito
9 9 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (7.26%) Azure
10 8 (6.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (6.45%) Datadog
10 8 (6.45%) GCP
10 8 (6.45%) SaaS
11 7 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.65%) CloudFront
11 7 (5.65%) Route 53
12 6 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) HTTP
2 2 (1.61%) Broadband
2 2 (1.61%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.32%) DynamoDB
2 16 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.87%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.65%) DocumentDB
6 7 (5.65%) Redis
7 5 (4.03%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.42%) Flink
10 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.61%) MySQL
10 2 (1.61%) OLTP
11 1 (0.81%) Big Data
11 1 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Cypress.io
2 11 (8.87%) Git
3 10 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.84%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.23%) Postman
6 3 (2.42%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.42%) Mocha
6 3 (2.42%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.61%) GitLab
7 2 (1.61%) Gradle
7 2 (1.61%) JMeter
7 2 (1.61%) Maven
7 2 (1.61%) MSTest
7 2 (1.61%) NSubstitute
7 2 (1.61%) NUnit
7 2 (1.61%) Selenium
7 2 (1.61%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 44 (35.48%) Finance
2 26 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.94%) Front Office
4 10 (8.06%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (56.45%) Developer
2 27 (21.77%) Software Engineer
3 21 (16.94%) Senior
4 19 (15.32%) React Developer
5 12 (9.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Architect
8 8 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead Software Developer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (4.84%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (51.61%) React
2 57 (45.97%) Node.js
3 28 (22.58%) REST
4 26 (20.97%) RESTful
5 24 (19.35%) Redux
6 19 (15.32%) Kafka
7 17 (13.71%) Next.js
8 12 (9.68%) .NET
8 12 (9.68%) WebSockets
9 11 (8.87%) Jest
10 10 (8.06%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.06%) Ruby on Rails
11 8 (6.45%) OAuth
11 8 (6.45%) Svelte
12 7 (5.65%) AWS CDK
12 7 (5.65%) CSS
12 7 (5.65%) HTML
12 7 (5.65%) Lambda Expressions
12 7 (5.65%) Web Services
13 6 (4.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.68%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.65%) Derivative
5 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) IVR
8 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Android
2 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (51.61%) Agile
2 54 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (29.84%) Software Engineering
5 35 (28.23%) DevOps
6 28 (22.58%) Clean Code
7 24 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 24 (19.35%) Microservices
8 23 (18.55%) TDD
9 19 (15.32%) User Experience
10 17 (13.71%) Continuous Delivery
10 17 (13.71%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (12.10%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (12.10%) Event-Driven
11 15 (12.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (9.68%) Front End Development
13 12 (9.68%) Order Management
13 12 (9.68%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 61 (49.19%) TypeScript
2 55 (44.35%) Python
3 52 (41.94%) JavaScript
4 30 (24.19%) Java
5 22 (17.74%) Go
6 13 (10.48%) Ruby
6 13 (10.48%) SQL
7 11 (8.87%) C#
8 7 (5.65%) PHP
9 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.61%) Rust
10 2 (1.61%) Scala
10 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.61%) Swift
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.45%) Degree
3 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.42%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.87%) Terraform
3 10 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.23%) Ansible
4 4 (3.23%) Grafana
4 4 (3.23%) Kibana
4 4 (3.23%) Puppet
5 2 (1.61%) Istio
5 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.61%) Salt
5 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.03%) Google
2 4 (3.23%) Adobe
2 4 (3.23%) YouTube
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.61%) Databricks
4 2 (1.61%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.61%) New Relic
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle
4 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.61%) SAP
4 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.61%) Splunk
4 2 (1.61%) Teradata
5 1 (0.81%) Apple
5 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.81%) Informatica