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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 245 268
Rank change year-on-year -37 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 135 106 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.87% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.17% 3.31% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 70 94
10th Percentile £363 £399 £331
25th Percentile £538 £439 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +6.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £663
90th Percentile - £755 £688
England median daily rate £600 £550 £507
% change year-on-year +9.09% +8.48% -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% +91.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +1.67%

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 4,263 3,203 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.08% 26.33% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 2,243 3,395
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 27
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.58 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -36.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £53.75 £63.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -25 14 £575 -14.81% 4
West London -28 9 - -
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 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 76 (56.30%) AWS
2 22 (16.30%) GCP
3 21 (15.56%) Azure
4 16 (11.85%) Serverless
5 14 (10.37%) GitHub
6 13 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.89%) Datadog
8 11 (8.15%) SaaS
9 10 (7.41%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.96%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (1.48%) Boomi
14 2 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (1.48%) iPaaS
14 2 (1.48%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) HTTP
1 2 (1.48%) NaaS
1 2 (1.48%) WAN
2 1 (0.74%) DSL
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.37%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.93%) MySQL
4 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.22%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.22%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.48%) Flink
8 2 (1.48%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.48%) Redis
8 2 (1.48%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.74%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.63%) Git
3 7 (5.19%) Vite
4 5 (3.70%) Gradle
5 4 (2.96%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.96%) GitLab
6 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.48%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
7 2 (1.48%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.48%) webpack
8 1 (0.74%) fastlane
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.74%) Spock
8 1 (0.74%) Storybook
General
1 48 (35.56%) Finance
2 37 (27.41%) Front Office
3 16 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.89%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Banking
6 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.22%) Back Office
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Billing
8 2 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Police
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (51.11%) Developer
2 40 (29.63%) Software Engineer
3 32 (23.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 27 (20.00%) Lead
4 27 (20.00%) Senior
5 23 (17.04%) Lead Developer
6 20 (14.81%) Lead Software Developer
6 20 (14.81%) Lead Software Engineer
7 17 (12.59%) React Developer
8 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 13 (9.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (9.63%) Java Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 9 (6.67%) Python Developer
12 8 (5.93%) Architect
12 8 (5.93%) Java Software Developer
12 8 (5.93%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (5.93%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (49.63%) React
2 58 (42.96%) Node.js
3 51 (37.78%) Kafka
4 48 (35.56%) REST
5 39 (28.89%) Redux
6 14 (10.37%) Playwright
6 14 (10.37%) RESTful
7 13 (9.63%) Next.js
8 9 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.67%) Django
8 9 (6.67%) Vitest
8 9 (6.67%) Vue
9 8 (5.93%) Jest
10 7 (5.19%) Middleware
10 7 (5.19%) OAuth
10 7 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (5.19%) React Native
10 7 (5.19%) Spring
11 6 (4.44%) HTML
11 6 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.44%) Fixed Income
2 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
3 16 (11.85%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.74%) CMDB
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Android
2 7 (5.19%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.74%) Agile
2 52 (38.52%) Software Engineering
3 47 (34.81%) CI/CD
4 41 (30.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (26.67%) Investment Management
6 34 (25.19%) E-Commerce
7 32 (23.70%) Order Management
7 32 (23.70%) Portfolio Management
8 27 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 26 (19.26%) Observability
10 20 (14.81%) DevOps
11 19 (14.07%) AI
11 19 (14.07%) API Design
11 19 (14.07%) Containerisation
12 17 (12.59%) Event-Driven
12 17 (12.59%) User Experience
13 16 (11.85%) Test Automation
14 15 (11.11%) Code Quality
14 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (59.26%) TypeScript
2 53 (39.26%) Java
3 52 (38.52%) Python
4 47 (34.81%) JavaScript
5 36 (26.67%) Go
6 14 (10.37%) SQL
7 9 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.70%) Swift
9 2 (1.48%) Bicep
9 2 (1.48%) C#
9 2 (1.48%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Cypher
10 1 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.96%) Degree
1 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.70%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) WCAG
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) ITGC
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (21.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Grafana
2 9 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 9 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.74%) Istio
4 1 (0.74%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.96%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.22%) New Relic
4 2 (1.48%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.48%) Ciena
4 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.48%) Netlify
4 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe
5 1 (0.74%) Braze
5 1 (0.74%) BT
5 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.74%) SAP
5 1 (0.74%) SnapLogic