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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 259 248
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 87 133 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.75% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.66% 2.98% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 97 187
10th Percentile £378 £331 £460
25th Percentile £413 £450 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £708 £721 £800
England median daily rate £515 £519 £600
% change year-on-year -0.72% -13.54% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +91.43% -
England median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +13 20 £675 +92.86% 35
West London +14 9 £409 -34.56% 18
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 (4.60%) CMS
1 4 (4.60%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (63.22%) AWS
2 23 (26.44%) Amazon S3
3 22 (25.29%) Serverless
4 20 (22.99%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (22.99%) Azure
5 15 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (13.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 12 (13.79%) CloudFront
6 12 (13.79%) Route 53
7 10 (11.49%) GitHub
8 8 (9.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (9.20%) GCP
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (6.90%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.60%) Datadog
11 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) DSL
3 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) NoSQL
2 15 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (17.24%) Redis
3 12 (13.79%) DocumentDB
4 11 (12.64%) DynamoDB
4 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
5 8 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.30%) OLTP
8 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Git
2 12 (13.79%) Cypress.io
3 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.60%) Postman
6 3 (3.45%) Mocha
6 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.30%) JIRA
7 2 (2.30%) JMeter
7 2 (2.30%) MSTest
7 2 (2.30%) NSubstitute
7 2 (2.30%) NUnit
7 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 2 (2.30%) Terragrunt
7 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 23 (26.44%) Finance
2 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.69%) Banking
4 13 (14.94%) Retail Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Retail
6 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (51.72%) Developer
2 13 (14.94%) Architect
3 11 (12.64%) React Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Backend Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Android Developer
9 4 (4.60%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.60%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.45%) AWS Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (52.87%) React
2 35 (40.23%) Node.js
3 29 (33.33%) RESTful
4 15 (17.24%) Next.js
5 12 (13.79%) REST
6 10 (11.49%) CSS
6 10 (11.49%) HTML
6 10 (11.49%) Jest
7 9 (10.34%) .NET
7 9 (10.34%) Redux
8 7 (8.05%) AWS CDK
8 7 (8.05%) WebSockets
9 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (6.90%) Vue
10 5 (5.75%) OpenAPI
10 5 (5.75%) SOAP
10 5 (5.75%) Swagger
11 4 (4.60%) Prisma
11 4 (4.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Derivative
2 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 7 (8.05%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.60%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.45%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.15%) PKI
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Android
2 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (59.77%) CI/CD
2 43 (49.43%) Agile
3 27 (31.03%) DevOps
4 26 (29.89%) Microservices
5 22 (25.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (25.29%) SOLID
6 19 (21.84%) TDD
7 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
8 15 (17.24%) Clean Code
8 15 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (16.09%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (13.79%) Asset Management
12 11 (12.64%) Code Quality
12 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven
12 11 (12.64%) Performance Optimisation
13 10 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
14 9 (10.34%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) TypeScript
2 31 (35.63%) JavaScript
3 19 (21.84%) Python
4 17 (19.54%) C#
5 14 (16.09%) SQL
6 9 (10.34%) Java
7 7 (8.05%) Go
8 4 (4.60%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.45%) Ruby
9 3 (3.45%) Swift
10 2 (2.30%) Rust
10 2 (2.30%) Scala
10 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.15%) Bicep
11 1 (1.15%) Perl
11 1 (1.15%) PHP
11 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
3 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.30%) Puppet
3 2 (2.30%) Salt
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Adobe
2 4 (4.60%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (4.60%) Google
3 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.45%) SAP
3 3 (3.45%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.30%) Apple
4 2 (2.30%) Databricks
4 2 (2.30%) New Relic
5 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle