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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 240 266
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 125 111 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.80% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.31% 3.09% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 72 92
10th Percentile £332 £405 £334
25th Percentile £403 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £650
90th Percentile £696 £711 £699
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -27.08% +2.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%

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 3,782 3,594 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.22% 26.05% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,565 2,354 3,485
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -0.17% -5.57%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £758 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.68% -16.15%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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
West London +1 31 - - 11
Central London -5 12 £563 -4.50% 22
East London - 3 £450 - 10
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 5 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) CMS
2 3 (2.40%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.60%) AWS
2 31 (24.80%) SaaS
3 23 (18.40%) Azure
4 16 (12.80%) GitHub
5 14 (11.20%) GCP
6 13 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.20%) Datadog
7 9 (7.20%) Serverless
8 8 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.60%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.80%) Firebase
11 5 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (4.00%) Figma
12 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.20%) Google Gemini
12 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.40%) Cloud Run
13 3 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
1 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.60%) MySQL
5 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.20%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.80%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 39 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.80%) Git
3 6 (4.80%) Cypress.io
3 6 (4.80%) Gradle
4 4 (3.20%) JUnit
4 4 (3.20%) Mockito
5 3 (2.40%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.40%) GitLab
5 3 (2.40%) JIRA
6 2 (1.60%) Maven
6 2 (1.60%) Snyk
6 2 (1.60%) webpack
7 1 (0.80%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.80%) Ant
7 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.80%) JMeter
7 1 (0.80%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.80%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.80%) NeoLoad
General
1 18 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.80%) Finance
3 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.80%) Banking
4 4 (3.20%) Front Office
4 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.80%) Billing
6 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.80%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.80%) Publishing
6 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (36.00%) Developer
2 38 (30.40%) Senior
3 17 (13.60%) Consultant
3 17 (13.60%) Senior Consultant
3 17 (13.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 17 (13.60%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.60%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.60%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.60%) Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.60%) Technical Specialist
4 11 (8.80%) Python Developer
5 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Cloud Specialist
6 8 (6.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
7 7 (5.60%) Backend Developer
7 7 (5.60%) Lead Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (49.60%) Node.js
2 41 (32.80%) React
3 37 (29.60%) REST
4 32 (25.60%) Playwright
5 31 (24.80%) Vitest
6 20 (16.00%) YAML
7 16 (12.80%) OAuth
8 15 (12.00%) RESTful
9 13 (10.40%) Next.js
10 11 (8.80%) HTML
10 11 (8.80%) OAuth2
11 10 (8.00%) CSS
11 10 (8.00%) Kafka
11 10 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (8.00%) Redux
12 9 (7.20%) CSS3
12 9 (7.20%) HTML5
13 8 (6.40%) Django
13 8 (6.40%) Jest
14 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (32.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.60%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.60%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Animation
6 1 (0.80%) IVR
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.80%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.80%) Replication
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Android
2 4 (3.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.40%) CI/CD
2 61 (48.80%) Agile
3 49 (39.20%) DevOps
4 45 (36.00%) Mentoring
5 40 (32.00%) E-Commerce
6 36 (28.80%) Containerisation
7 32 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (24.80%) Coaching
9 28 (22.40%) API Design
9 28 (22.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (20.80%) Software Engineering
11 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (17.60%) Code Quality
12 22 (17.60%) Microservices
12 22 (17.60%) Test Automation
13 21 (16.80%) Observability
14 19 (15.20%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (14.40%) Process Improvement
16 17 (13.60%) Architectural Patterns
17 16 (12.80%) AI
Programming Languages
1 74 (59.20%) TypeScript
2 30 (24.00%) Java
3 28 (22.40%) Python
4 26 (20.80%) JavaScript
5 21 (16.80%) SQL
6 11 (8.80%) Go
7 4 (3.20%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.40%) PHP
9 2 (1.60%) Ruby
9 2 (1.60%) Swift
10 1 (0.80%) C#
10 1 (0.80%) Groovy
10 1 (0.80%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.40%) Degree
4 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) GDPR
2 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.40%) WCAG
4 2 (1.60%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 59 (47.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (41.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.80%) Terraform
3 10 (8.00%) Grafana
4 9 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.60%) Ansible
6 2 (1.60%) Istio
6 2 (1.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (5.60%) Adobe
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.80%) Google
2 6 (4.80%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.40%) Confluent
4 3 (2.40%) New Relic
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) Splunk
5 2 (1.60%) Databricks
5 2 (1.60%) Marketo
5 2 (1.60%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.80%) Apple
6 1 (0.80%) HP
6 1 (0.80%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.80%) Okta