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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 236 287
Rank change year-on-year -53 +51 -48
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 158 130 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 3.68% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 98 86
10th Percentile £481 £366 £419
25th Percentile £553 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £800 £719 £663
90th Percentile - £850 £694
England median daily rate £600 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +14.29% -1.50% -11.17%
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 4,494 3,532 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,453 3,386
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -14 17 £600 -4.76% 6
West London -12 10 £604 +24.52% 1
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 7 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.86%) AWS
2 31 (19.62%) Azure
2 31 (19.62%) Serverless
3 30 (18.99%) GCP
4 21 (13.29%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (10.76%) GitHub
6 12 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.33%) SaaS
8 9 (5.70%) Datadog
8 9 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.16%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.53%) Boomi
10 4 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon Neptune
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
1 2 (1.27%) NaaS
1 2 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.80%) MySQL
5 5 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.16%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.53%) Metadata
6 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.53%) Redis
6 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.90%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.90%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.27%) TigerGraph
8 2 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (12.03%) Git
1 19 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.59%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.70%) Vite
4 5 (3.16%) GitLab
4 5 (3.16%) JSUnit
5 4 (2.53%) webpack
6 3 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.90%) Gradle
7 2 (1.27%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.27%) JUnit
7 2 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.27%) Selenium
7 2 (1.27%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.27%) Storybook
7 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 53 (33.54%) Finance
2 36 (22.78%) Front Office
3 23 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (13.92%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.16%) Banking
5 5 (3.16%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.53%) Retail
7 3 (1.90%) Back Office
7 3 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.90%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.27%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (48.10%) Developer
2 43 (27.22%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 30 (18.99%) Senior
5 28 (17.72%) Lead
6 23 (14.56%) Lead Developer
7 21 (13.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (13.29%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (12.66%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (12.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (12.03%) React Developer
10 13 (8.23%) Architect
10 13 (8.23%) Java Developer
10 13 (8.23%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.96%) Java Engineer
12 10 (6.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (5.06%) Java Software Developer
14 8 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
15 6 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (48.73%) React
2 66 (41.77%) Node.js
3 60 (37.97%) REST
4 56 (35.44%) Kafka
5 42 (26.58%) Redux
6 23 (14.56%) Next.js
7 16 (10.13%) Playwright
7 16 (10.13%) RESTful
8 15 (9.49%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.23%) Jest
10 12 (7.59%) CSS
10 12 (7.59%) Vue
11 10 (6.33%) HTML
12 9 (5.70%) React Native
12 9 (5.70%) Spring
13 8 (5.06%) OAuth
13 8 (5.06%) OAuth2
13 8 (5.06%) Spring Boot
14 7 (4.43%) Middleware
14 7 (4.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.89%) Fixed Income
2 21 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.66%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.16%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.90%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) CMDB
10 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Android
2 6 (3.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.41%) Agile
2 56 (35.44%) CI/CD
3 55 (34.81%) Software Engineering
4 53 (33.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (22.78%) Investment Management
6 32 (20.25%) E-Commerce
6 32 (20.25%) Order Management
6 32 (20.25%) Portfolio Management
7 25 (15.82%) Microservices
8 22 (13.92%) AI
8 22 (13.92%) Event-Driven
8 22 (13.92%) Observability
8 22 (13.92%) User Experience
9 21 (13.29%) API Design
9 21 (13.29%) Mentoring
10 20 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.03%) TDD
11 19 (12.03%) Test Automation
12 18 (11.39%) DevOps
13 17 (10.76%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 100 (63.29%) TypeScript
2 57 (36.08%) Java
3 53 (33.54%) JavaScript
4 50 (31.65%) Python
5 42 (26.58%) Go
6 21 (13.29%) SQL
7 13 (8.23%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.80%) C#
9 5 (3.16%) Cypher
9 5 (3.16%) Swift
10 4 (2.53%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.90%) Bicep
11 3 (1.90%) Ruby
11 3 (1.90%) Rust
12 2 (1.27%) Bash
12 2 (1.27%) C++
12 2 (1.27%) Elixir
12 2 (1.27%) Gremlin
12 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (5.70%) Degree
1 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.96%) QA
2 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.16%) WCAG
4 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) ITGC
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (13.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.23%) Terraform
3 6 (3.80%) Grafana
3 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.27%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.63%) Istio
5 1 (0.63%) linkerd
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.16%) Google
4 3 (1.90%) Oracle
4 3 (1.90%) SAP
5 2 (1.27%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.27%) Ciena
5 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.27%) Netlify
5 2 (1.27%) New Relic
5 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.27%) Workday
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe
6 1 (0.63%) Braze
6 1 (0.63%) BT
6 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.63%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic