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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 262 273
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 148 116 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.01% 2.81% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 83 117
10th Percentile £331 £401 £408
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £850 £700 £730
England median daily rate £509 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -3.10% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £55.60 - £72.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £72.13
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £76.13
90th Percentile £62.20 - £76.95
England median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 3,689 4,125 5,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.40% 26.10% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 2,704 3,908
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £669 £708 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 35
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £82.94
England median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +8 25 £493 +20.42% 2
Central London +9 17 £600 +1.87% 5
East London - 3 £450 - 1
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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 3 (2.03%) CMS
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
4 3 (2.03%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.62%) AWS
2 28 (18.92%) SaaS
3 24 (16.22%) Azure
4 20 (13.51%) Amazon S3
4 20 (13.51%) GitHub
5 16 (10.81%) GCP
5 16 (10.81%) Serverless
6 15 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.41%) Datadog
9 7 (4.73%) Firebase
10 6 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.05%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.38%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.38%) Figma
11 5 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.70%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.76%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.08%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.05%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.05%) MySQL
6 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.35%) Redis
8 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.68%) Flink
9 1 (0.68%) Hasura
9 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.49%) Git
3 6 (4.05%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.38%) Gradle
5 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 4 (2.70%) JUnit
5 4 (2.70%) Mockito
6 3 (2.03%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.03%) JIRA
6 3 (2.03%) Maven
6 3 (2.03%) webpack
7 2 (1.35%) Snyk
8 1 (0.68%) Ant
8 1 (0.68%) ESLint
8 1 (0.68%) Gatling
8 1 (0.68%) gulp
8 1 (0.68%) JMeter
8 1 (0.68%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.68%) Vite
General
1 43 (29.05%) Finance
2 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.22%) Front Office
4 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Banking
6 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (47.30%) Developer
2 40 (27.03%) Senior
3 20 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 15 (10.14%) Lead
5 14 (9.46%) Lead Developer
5 14 (9.46%) React Developer
6 13 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.76%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Backend Developer
9 9 (6.08%) Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 9 (6.08%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 9 (6.08%) Technical Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (47.30%) Node.js
2 58 (39.19%) React
3 47 (31.76%) REST
4 25 (16.89%) Kafka
5 24 (16.22%) Redux
6 23 (15.54%) Playwright
6 23 (15.54%) Vitest
7 20 (13.51%) RESTful
8 18 (12.16%) OAuth
9 16 (10.81%) YAML
10 12 (8.11%) CSS
10 12 (8.11%) Next.js
11 11 (7.43%) HTML
11 11 (7.43%) OAuth2
11 11 (7.43%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (6.08%) CSS3
12 9 (6.08%) HTML5
12 9 (6.08%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (5.41%) JWT
13 8 (5.41%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.11%) Fixed Income
2 12 (8.11%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.03%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) IVR
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Animation
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.68%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Android
1 4 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (54.05%) Agile
2 67 (45.27%) CI/CD
3 51 (34.46%) DevOps
4 40 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (27.03%) Mentoring
4 40 (27.03%) Software Engineering
5 34 (22.97%) Containerisation
5 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.95%) E-Commerce
7 27 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (16.22%) API Design
9 23 (15.54%) Coaching
9 23 (15.54%) Microservices
10 20 (13.51%) AI
11 19 (12.84%) Architectural Patterns
11 19 (12.84%) Code Quality
11 19 (12.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (11.49%) Test Automation
12 17 (11.49%) User Experience
13 15 (10.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.43%) TypeScript
2 54 (36.49%) Python
3 49 (33.11%) Java
4 48 (32.43%) JavaScript
5 27 (18.24%) Go
6 19 (12.84%) SQL
7 13 (8.78%) Ruby
8 9 (6.08%) PHP
9 6 (4.05%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.03%) Swift
11 2 (1.35%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.68%) C#
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.08%) Degree
2 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) GDPR
2 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.35%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (34.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.81%) Terraform
3 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.73%) Grafana
5 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.03%) Ansible
6 3 (2.03%) Istio
6 3 (2.03%) Puppet
7 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (4.73%) Adobe
1 7 (4.73%) Google
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.70%) Oracle
3 4 (2.70%) Splunk
3 4 (2.70%) YouTube
4 3 (2.03%) Confluent
4 3 (2.03%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.35%) Databricks
5 2 (1.35%) Marketo
5 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.35%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.35%) Teradata
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.68%) HP
6 1 (0.68%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) New Relic
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce