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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 259 272
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 -57
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 136 117 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.79% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 3.06% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 78 92
10th Percentile £352 £405 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £655 £675
90th Percentile £765 £704 £734
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -27.08% +2.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -28.57%

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 3,813 3,828 4,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 25.69% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,500 3,599
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 31
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £59.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.80% +20.45% -20.17%

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 26 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 26 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 +5 31 - -
Central London 0 11 £600 +2.21% 18
East London - 3 £450 -
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 5 (3.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.21%) Apache
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.21%) CMS
2 3 (2.21%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Shopify
2 2 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.03%) AWS
2 34 (25.00%) SaaS
3 25 (18.38%) Azure
4 19 (13.97%) GitHub
5 16 (11.76%) GCP
5 16 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 10 (7.35%) Datadog
6 10 (7.35%) Serverless
7 9 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.15%) Firebase
9 6 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.68%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (3.68%) Figma
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.94%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.94%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.21%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.35%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.41%) MySQL
5 5 (3.68%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.47%) Redis
8 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.74%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 40 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.50%) Git
3 5 (3.68%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.68%) Gradle
4 4 (2.94%) JUnit
4 4 (2.94%) Mockito
5 3 (2.21%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.21%) GitLab
5 3 (2.21%) JIRA
5 3 (2.21%) webpack
6 2 (1.47%) Maven
6 2 (1.47%) Snyk
7 1 (0.74%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Ant
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.74%) JMeter
7 1 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.74%) Mocha
7 1 (0.74%) NeoLoad
General
1 24 (17.65%) Finance
2 20 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Front Office
4 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Banking
6 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Publishing
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (40.44%) Developer
2 45 (33.09%) Senior
3 17 (12.50%) Consultant
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 17 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 17 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
4 12 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (8.09%) Lead
5 11 (8.09%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.35%) Lead Developer
6 10 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
7 8 (5.88%) React Developer
8 7 (5.15%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.15%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (51.47%) Node.js
2 47 (34.56%) React
3 38 (27.94%) REST
4 31 (22.79%) Playwright
4 31 (22.79%) Vitest
5 20 (14.71%) YAML
6 17 (12.50%) OAuth
6 17 (12.50%) Redux
7 16 (11.76%) Kafka
7 16 (11.76%) RESTful
8 13 (9.56%) Next.js
9 12 (8.82%) CSS
9 12 (8.82%) HTML
10 11 (8.09%) OAuth2
10 11 (8.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (7.35%) CSS3
11 10 (7.35%) HTML5
12 7 (5.15%) Jest
12 7 (5.15%) JWT
12 7 (5.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (33.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.15%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.41%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Animation
8 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.74%) IVR
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.68%) Android
1 5 (3.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.68%) Agile
2 70 (51.47%) CI/CD
3 55 (40.44%) DevOps
4 46 (33.82%) Mentoring
5 40 (29.41%) E-Commerce
6 38 (27.94%) Containerisation
7 36 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 31 (22.79%) Coaching
10 29 (21.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (19.85%) API Design
12 24 (17.65%) Code Quality
13 22 (16.18%) Microservices
14 21 (15.44%) Test Automation
15 18 (13.24%) Observability
15 18 (13.24%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (13.24%) Process Improvement
16 17 (12.50%) AI
16 17 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 85 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 38 (27.94%) Java
3 36 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.79%) Python
5 21 (15.44%) Go
6 18 (13.24%) SQL
7 6 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.41%) Ruby
8 3 (2.21%) PHP
8 3 (2.21%) Swift
9 2 (1.47%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.74%) C#
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Rust
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.21%) Degree
4 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) GDPR
2 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.47%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (44.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (40.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.03%) Terraform
3 10 (7.35%) Grafana
3 10 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.47%) Ansible
5 2 (1.47%) Istio
5 2 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.15%) Adobe
3 6 (4.41%) Google
3 6 (4.41%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.21%) Confluent
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle
5 3 (2.21%) Splunk
6 2 (1.47%) Databricks
6 2 (1.47%) Marketo
6 2 (1.47%) New Relic
6 2 (1.47%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.74%) Apple
7 1 (0.74%) HP
7 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.74%) Okta