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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 257 255
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 -34
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 156 129 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.16% 0.79% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.44% 2.85% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 90 134
10th Percentile £352 £424 £450
25th Percentile £455 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £688
90th Percentile £850 £702 £750
England median daily rate £518 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -2.91% -7.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42.40
25th Percentile - £51.25 £53.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -27.08% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £74.75
90th Percentile - - £76.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% -

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 3,517 4,521 5,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.75% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,097 4,207
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.84 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £59.51 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +11 22 £600 +1.87% 5
West London +13 21 £485 -22.39% 2
East London - 1 £540 - 3
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 7 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.92%) CMS
4 2 (1.28%) Confluence
4 2 (1.28%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (62.18%) AWS
2 34 (21.79%) Amazon S3
3 31 (19.87%) Serverless
4 29 (18.59%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (16.03%) GitHub
6 20 (12.82%) SaaS
7 19 (12.18%) Azure
8 18 (11.54%) GCP
9 16 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (6.41%) Amazon Cognito
13 9 (5.77%) Datadog
14 8 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (4.49%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 5 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
18 4 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (1.28%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.59%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (12.82%) DynamoDB
3 11 (7.05%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.05%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.49%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.85%) MySQL
6 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.92%) Flink
8 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.28%) OLTP
8 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.64%) Big Data
9 1 (0.64%) Hasura
9 1 (0.64%) Metadata
9 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.26%) Git
3 14 (8.97%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.21%) Gradle
5 4 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.56%) GitLab
5 4 (2.56%) Mocha
5 4 (2.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.92%) Maven
6 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.28%) JIRA
7 2 (1.28%) JMeter
7 2 (1.28%) JUnit
7 2 (1.28%) Mockito
7 2 (1.28%) Snyk
7 2 (1.28%) webpack
8 1 (0.64%) ESLint
8 1 (0.64%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.64%) Vite
General
1 51 (32.69%) Finance
2 26 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.74%) Front Office
4 7 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.49%) Banking
5 6 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Retail
7 1 (0.64%) Automotive
7 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Marketing
7 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (47.44%) Developer
2 36 (23.08%) Senior
3 27 (17.31%) Software Engineer
4 20 (12.82%) React Developer
5 14 (8.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 12 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Backend Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.41%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.41%) Lead
9 10 (6.41%) Lead Developer
10 9 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (5.13%) Lead Software Developer
11 8 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 7 (4.49%) Java Software Engineer
13 6 (3.85%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (48.08%) Node.js
2 74 (47.44%) React
3 49 (31.41%) REST
4 30 (19.23%) Redux
5 28 (17.95%) Kafka
6 22 (14.10%) RESTful
7 20 (12.82%) Next.js
8 17 (10.90%) OAuth
9 15 (9.62%) WebSockets
10 13 (8.33%) CSS
10 13 (8.33%) HTML
10 13 (8.33%) Spring
11 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
12 11 (7.05%) Jest
12 11 (7.05%) Ruby on Rails
12 11 (7.05%) Svelte
13 10 (6.41%) JWT
13 10 (6.41%) Playwright
13 10 (6.41%) Spring Boot
13 10 (6.41%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.26%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.92%) IVR
5 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.92%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.92%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (53.85%) Agile
2 72 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.26%) DevOps
4 48 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 47 (30.13%) Software Engineering
6 37 (23.72%) Mentoring
7 31 (19.87%) Microservices
7 31 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 28 (17.95%) Clean Code
10 27 (17.31%) User Experience
11 25 (16.03%) E-Commerce
12 22 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (12.82%) Observability
14 20 (12.82%) TDD
15 18 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (11.54%) Front End Development
15 18 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
16 17 (10.90%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 86 (55.13%) TypeScript
2 67 (42.95%) Python
3 62 (39.74%) JavaScript
4 51 (32.69%) Java
5 32 (20.51%) Go
6 20 (12.82%) SQL
7 13 (8.33%) Ruby
8 7 (4.49%) PHP
9 2 (1.28%) C#
9 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.28%) Scala
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.64%) Rust
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) Swift
10 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (6.41%) AWS Certification
2 9 (5.77%) Degree
3 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.21%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.28%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) GDPR
2 5 (3.21%) QA
3 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (26.28%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.18%) Terraform
3 12 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.85%) Grafana
5 5 (3.21%) Ansible
5 5 (3.21%) Puppet
6 4 (2.56%) Istio
6 4 (2.56%) Kibana
7 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.64%) Salt
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.41%) Google
2 6 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.21%) Splunk
4 4 (2.56%) Adobe
4 4 (2.56%) YouTube
5 3 (1.92%) Confluent
5 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.92%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.92%) Oracle
6 2 (1.28%) New Relic
6 2 (1.28%) Teradata
7 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.64%) HP
7 1 (0.64%) Informatica
7 1 (0.64%) Okta
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.64%) Sitecore