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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 275 267
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 -21
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 141 81 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.48% 2.37% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 55 92
10th Percentile £352 £400 £331
25th Percentile £450 £411 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £675
90th Percentile - £700 £699
England median daily rate £595 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +10.70% +4.88% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 4,053 3,414 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.27% 26.15% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,763 2,338 3,363
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £27.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.40%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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
West London -1 23 - -
Central London -20 11 £600 -11.11% 8
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London - 1 £775 -
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 4 (2.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.13%) CMS
2 3 (2.13%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 66 (46.81%) AWS
2 23 (16.31%) SaaS
3 21 (14.89%) Azure
3 21 (14.89%) GCP
4 12 (8.51%) GitHub
4 12 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (7.80%) Datadog
6 7 (4.96%) Serverless
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.84%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (2.84%) Firebase
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.42%) Bitrise
10 2 (1.42%) Figma
10 2 (1.42%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.42%) Stripe
10 2 (1.42%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.71%) NaaS
2 1 (0.71%) SSL
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.67%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.26%) MySQL
5 4 (2.84%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.71%) Flink
7 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.71%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 31 (21.99%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.67%) Git
3 6 (4.26%) Gradle
4 4 (2.84%) GitLab
5 3 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.13%) JUnit
5 3 (2.13%) Mockito
6 2 (1.42%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.42%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.42%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.42%) webpack
7 1 (0.71%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) gulp
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.71%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 44 (31.21%) Finance
2 36 (25.53%) Front Office
3 19 (13.48%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.96%) Banking
5 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Billing
7 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Retail
7 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (53.19%) Developer
2 35 (24.82%) Software Engineer
3 33 (23.40%) Senior
4 32 (22.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 31 (21.99%) Lead
6 26 (18.44%) Lead Developer
7 20 (14.18%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (14.18%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (10.64%) Consultant
9 15 (10.64%) Senior Consultant
9 15 (10.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 15 (10.64%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 15 (10.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 15 (10.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 15 (10.64%) Technical Consultant
9 15 (10.64%) Technical Specialist
10 11 (7.80%) Java Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Python Developer
11 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (58.16%) Node.js
2 62 (43.97%) React
3 41 (29.08%) Kafka
4 38 (26.95%) Redux
4 38 (26.95%) REST
5 31 (21.99%) Playwright
6 26 (18.44%) Vitest
7 16 (11.35%) RESTful
7 16 (11.35%) YAML
8 13 (9.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 11 (7.80%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.80%) OAuth
10 9 (6.38%) Next.js
10 9 (6.38%) Vue
11 8 (5.67%) Django
11 8 (5.67%) HTML
11 8 (5.67%) Jest
12 7 (4.96%) CSS
12 7 (4.96%) OAuth2
12 7 (4.96%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 32 (22.70%) Fixed Income
3 9 (6.38%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.71%) Animation
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.71%) Replication
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.26%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Android
3 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (56.03%) Agile
2 64 (45.39%) CI/CD
3 56 (39.72%) Software Engineering
4 47 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (31.21%) Mentoring
6 40 (28.37%) DevOps
7 32 (22.70%) E-Commerce
7 32 (22.70%) Investment Management
7 32 (22.70%) Order Management
7 32 (22.70%) Portfolio Management
8 27 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 26 (18.44%) Coaching
10 25 (17.73%) Observability
10 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 22 (15.60%) Code Quality
13 21 (14.89%) API Design
13 21 (14.89%) Microservices
14 19 (13.48%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 93 (65.96%) TypeScript
2 54 (38.30%) Java
3 52 (36.88%) JavaScript
4 46 (32.62%) Python
5 36 (25.53%) Go
6 19 (13.48%) SQL
7 7 (4.96%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.42%) C#
8 2 (1.42%) PHP
8 2 (1.42%) Swift
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Cypher
9 1 (0.71%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) Rust
9 1 (0.71%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.71%) Degree
2 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) GDPR
2 5 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.84%) WCAG
4 3 (2.13%) QA
5 2 (1.42%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (30.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.51%) Grafana
2 12 (8.51%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.38%) Terraform
4 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.71%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.71%) Istio
5 1 (0.71%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (4.26%) Adobe
1 6 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.84%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.84%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.42%) Databricks
4 2 (1.42%) Google
4 2 (1.42%) Marketo
4 2 (1.42%) New Relic
4 2 (1.42%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle
5 1 (0.71%) Amdocs
5 1 (0.71%) Apple
5 1 (0.71%) BT
5 1 (0.71%) Ciena
5 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.71%) Netlify
5 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow