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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 217 269
Rank change year-on-year -113 +52 -13
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 137 157 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.17% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 3.94% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 115 90
10th Percentile £403 £357 £412
25th Percentile £519 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £638
90th Percentile £794 £850 £702
England median daily rate £575 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.50% -8.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -27.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -32 14 £550 -8.33% 23
West London -36 7 £604 +24.52% 6
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 8 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.73%) Luigi
5 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.73%) Sketch
3 1 (0.73%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.73%) Magento
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (54.01%) AWS
2 49 (35.77%) Azure
3 45 (32.85%) Serverless
4 25 (18.25%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (17.52%) GCP
5 24 (17.52%) GitHub
6 19 (13.87%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.03%) SaaS
9 10 (7.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (6.57%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.11%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.38%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (4.38%) Datadog
12 6 (4.38%) Vertex AI
13 5 (3.65%) Azure Functions
13 5 (3.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) DSL
1 1 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.71%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.60%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.03%) MySQL
3 11 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.11%) Pinecone
5 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.38%) Metadata
6 6 (4.38%) Weaviate
7 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.65%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 3 (2.19%) Stardog
8 3 (2.19%) TigerGraph
9 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 19 (13.87%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.76%) Cypress.io
4 8 (5.84%) Vite
5 5 (3.65%) GitLab
5 5 (3.65%) JSUnit
5 5 (3.65%) JUnit
6 4 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.92%) Gradle
6 4 (2.92%) Maven
7 3 (2.19%) Mockito
7 3 (2.19%) webpack
8 2 (1.46%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.46%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.46%) Postman
8 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.46%) Storybook
9 1 (0.73%) fastlane
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (18.25%) Finance
4 7 (5.11%) Front Office
5 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.92%) Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Marketing
7 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Back Office
8 3 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (37.96%) Developer
2 35 (25.55%) Senior
3 18 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 13 (9.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) React Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Architect
8 9 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Azure Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Energy Trading Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 6 (4.38%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.65%) JavaScript Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (54.01%) REST
2 55 (40.15%) React
3 38 (27.74%) Node.js
4 30 (21.90%) Kafka
5 26 (18.98%) Next.js
6 20 (14.60%) CSS
6 20 (14.60%) OAuth
6 20 (14.60%) OAuth2
7 18 (13.14%) HTML
8 15 (10.95%) AngularJS
9 13 (9.49%) RESTful
9 13 (9.49%) Spring
10 12 (8.76%) .NET
10 12 (8.76%) CSS3
10 12 (8.76%) HTML5
10 12 (8.76%) Spring Boot
10 12 (8.76%) Vue
11 11 (8.03%) Playwright
12 10 (7.30%) Middleware
12 10 (7.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.22%) AI Agents
4 11 (8.03%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.92%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.92%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Life Science
8 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.73%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Android
2 6 (4.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (45.26%) CI/CD
2 45 (32.85%) Agile
3 37 (27.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (24.82%) Event-Driven
5 32 (23.36%) Microservices
6 31 (22.63%) AI
7 30 (21.90%) E-Commerce
8 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (18.98%) DevOps
10 24 (17.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 21 (15.33%) TDD
12 20 (14.60%) API Design
12 20 (14.60%) Mentoring
12 20 (14.60%) User Experience
13 19 (13.87%) API Integration
13 19 (13.87%) Data Modelling
13 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
14 18 (13.14%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (11.68%) Observability
16 15 (10.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (56.93%) TypeScript
2 42 (30.66%) Python
3 36 (26.28%) Java
4 35 (25.55%) JavaScript
5 32 (23.36%) SQL
6 14 (10.22%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.84%) Go
8 7 (5.11%) C#
9 5 (3.65%) Cypher
9 5 (3.65%) Swift
10 4 (2.92%) Scala
10 4 (2.92%) SPARQL
11 3 (2.19%) Bash
11 3 (2.19%) Gremlin
11 3 (2.19%) Ruby
11 3 (2.19%) Rust
11 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.46%) Bicep
12 2 (1.46%) Elixir
13 1 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (9.49%) Degree
2 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) QA
2 7 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 4 (2.92%) WCAG
5 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.73%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (18.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (20.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.92%) Grafana
2 4 (2.92%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) Google
3 9 (6.57%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle
4 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.11%) Databricks
6 5 (3.65%) SAP
7 4 (2.92%) Workday
8 3 (2.19%) Confluent
8 3 (2.19%) Foundry
8 3 (2.19%) IBM
8 3 (2.19%) UiPath
9 2 (1.46%) Adobe
9 2 (1.46%) New Relic
10 1 (0.73%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.73%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.73%) Pega
10 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic