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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 246 271
Rank change year-on-year -44 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 138 110 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 3.33% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 78 96
10th Percentile £402 £340 £331
25th Percentile £550 £417 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% -13.39%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £653
90th Percentile - £765 £688
England median daily rate £600 £520 £507
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.56% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -17.91% +21.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%

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 4,341 3,306 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.44% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,317 3,470
10th Percentile £380 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £23.98 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.13 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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
Central London -24 15 £650 +1.96% 4
West London -35 3 - - 4
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 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) Magento
2 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 85 (61.59%) AWS
2 26 (18.84%) Azure
2 26 (18.84%) GCP
3 22 (15.94%) Serverless
4 17 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.14%) GitHub
6 11 (7.97%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.52%) Datadog
7 9 (6.52%) SaaS
8 8 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.90%) Boomi
10 4 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.90%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.45%) Amazon Neptune
12 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) HTTP
1 2 (1.45%) NaaS
1 2 (1.45%) WAN
2 1 (0.72%) DSL
2 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.42%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.07%) MySQL
4 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.62%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.90%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.17%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.17%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.45%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.45%) Flink
8 2 (1.45%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.45%) Metadata
8 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.45%) Redis
8 2 (1.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) Git
2 9 (6.52%) Vite
3 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.62%) Gradle
6 4 (2.90%) GitLab
6 4 (2.90%) webpack
7 3 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.45%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.45%) Selenium
8 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.72%) fastlane
9 1 (0.72%) Maven
9 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.72%) Spock
9 1 (0.72%) Storybook
General
1 51 (36.96%) Finance
2 37 (26.81%) Front Office
3 18 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.32%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Banking
6 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.90%) Retail
7 3 (2.17%) Back Office
7 3 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.45%) Billing
8 2 (1.45%) Marketing
8 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (49.28%) Developer
2 40 (28.99%) Software Engineer
3 32 (23.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 28 (20.29%) Lead
5 23 (16.67%) Lead Developer
6 22 (15.94%) Senior
7 21 (15.22%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (14.49%) Lead Software Developer
9 18 (13.04%) React Developer
10 16 (11.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (9.42%) Java Engineer
12 12 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (7.97%) Architect
13 11 (7.97%) Java Developer
14 10 (7.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (7.25%) Senior Developer
15 9 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
16 8 (5.80%) Java Software Developer
16 8 (5.80%) Java Software Engineer
16 8 (5.80%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (48.55%) React
2 56 (40.58%) Kafka
3 50 (36.23%) Node.js
3 50 (36.23%) REST
4 40 (28.99%) Redux
5 15 (10.87%) RESTful
6 13 (9.42%) Next.js
7 10 (7.25%) Jest
8 9 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.52%) Middleware
8 9 (6.52%) OAuth
8 9 (6.52%) Playwright
8 9 (6.52%) Vue
9 8 (5.80%) Django
9 8 (5.80%) OAuth2
10 7 (5.07%) React Native
10 7 (5.07%) Spring
11 6 (4.35%) SOAP
11 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
12 5 (3.62%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.91%) Fixed Income
2 17 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.42%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.90%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.45%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.72%) CMDB
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.07%) Android
2 6 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.96%) Agile
2 50 (36.23%) Software Engineering
3 46 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 39 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (26.09%) Investment Management
6 32 (23.19%) Order Management
6 32 (23.19%) Portfolio Management
7 27 (19.57%) E-Commerce
8 24 (17.39%) Observability
9 23 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 21 (15.22%) AI
11 20 (14.49%) Event-Driven
12 18 (13.04%) API Design
12 18 (13.04%) User Experience
13 17 (12.32%) Microservices
14 16 (11.59%) Containerisation
15 15 (10.87%) API Integration
15 15 (10.87%) Integration Patterns
16 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (57.97%) TypeScript
2 53 (38.41%) Java
2 53 (38.41%) Python
3 48 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 38 (27.54%) Go
5 17 (12.32%) SQL
6 10 (7.25%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.62%) Swift
8 4 (2.90%) Cypher
9 3 (2.17%) C#
9 3 (2.17%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (1.45%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) Bash
11 1 (0.72%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) Rust
11 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (3.62%) Degree
1 5 (3.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.07%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (3.62%) WCAG
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) ITGC
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.25%) Terraform
3 6 (4.35%) Grafana
3 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.45%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.72%) Istio
5 1 (0.72%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.17%) New Relic
4 3 (2.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.45%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.45%) Ciena
5 2 (1.45%) Google
5 2 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.45%) Netlify
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle
5 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.45%) Workday
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe
6 1 (0.72%) Braze
6 1 (0.72%) BT
6 1 (0.72%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.72%) SnapLogic