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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 251 268
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -51
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 142 118 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.78% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.81% 3.04% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 78 102
10th Percentile £352 £405 £413
25th Percentile £450 £486 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £850 £700 £734
England median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -8.33%
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 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% +5.00% -33.33%

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 3,728 3,886 4,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 25.64% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,520 2,536 3,734
10th Percentile £359 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £705 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -13.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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
West London +4 29 - -
Central London -4 12 £600 +2.56% 3
East London - 3 £450 -
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 (3.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.11%) CMS
2 3 (2.11%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.14%) AWS
2 33 (23.24%) SaaS
3 24 (16.90%) Azure
4 18 (12.68%) GitHub
5 16 (11.27%) GCP
6 15 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 10 (7.04%) Serverless
9 9 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.34%) Datadog
10 7 (4.93%) Firebase
11 5 (3.52%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.52%) Figma
11 5 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.82%) Google Gemini
12 4 (2.82%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.04%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.93%) MySQL
4 6 (4.23%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.82%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.41%) Redis
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.70%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 38 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.97%) Git
3 5 (3.52%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.82%) Gradle
4 4 (2.82%) JUnit
4 4 (2.82%) Mockito
5 3 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.11%) GitLab
5 3 (2.11%) JIRA
5 3 (2.11%) webpack
6 2 (1.41%) Maven
6 2 (1.41%) Snyk
7 1 (0.70%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.70%) Ant
7 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.70%) Mocha
7 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
General
1 33 (23.24%) Finance
2 20 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Front Office
4 8 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Publishing
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (44.37%) Developer
2 43 (30.28%) Senior
3 16 (11.27%) Consultant
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Consultant
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 16 (11.27%) Software Engineer
3 16 (11.27%) Technical Consultant
3 16 (11.27%) Technical Specialist
4 15 (10.56%) Lead
5 14 (9.86%) Lead Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) React Developer
8 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Lead Software Developer
9 8 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (53.52%) Node.js
2 55 (38.73%) React
3 39 (27.46%) REST
4 29 (20.42%) Playwright
4 29 (20.42%) Vitest
5 23 (16.20%) Redux
6 22 (15.49%) Kafka
7 19 (13.38%) YAML
8 17 (11.97%) OAuth
8 17 (11.97%) RESTful
9 13 (9.15%) Next.js
10 12 (8.45%) CSS
10 12 (8.45%) HTML
11 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.04%) CSS3
12 10 (7.04%) HTML5
12 10 (7.04%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (4.93%) Jest
13 7 (4.93%) JWT
13 7 (4.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.45%) Fixed Income
3 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.63%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) Animation
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.70%) IVR
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) Replication
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Android
1 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (55.63%) Agile
2 69 (48.59%) CI/CD
3 53 (37.32%) DevOps
4 42 (29.58%) Mentoring
5 41 (28.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (26.76%) E-Commerce
7 37 (26.06%) Containerisation
7 37 (26.06%) Software Engineering
8 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.42%) Coaching
10 27 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (17.61%) API Design
12 23 (16.20%) Microservices
13 22 (15.49%) Code Quality
14 20 (14.08%) Test Automation
15 17 (11.97%) Architectural Patterns
15 17 (11.97%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (11.97%) Process Improvement
16 16 (11.27%) AI
16 16 (11.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 91 (64.08%) TypeScript
2 44 (30.99%) JavaScript
3 43 (30.28%) Java
4 37 (26.06%) Python
5 26 (18.31%) Go
6 18 (12.68%) SQL
7 8 (5.63%) Ruby
8 6 (4.23%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.82%) PHP
10 3 (2.11%) Swift
11 2 (1.41%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.70%) C#
12 1 (0.70%) Groovy
12 1 (0.70%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.82%) Degree
4 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) GDPR
2 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.41%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.41%) WCAG
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (40.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.86%) Terraform
3 9 (6.34%) Grafana
3 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.41%) Ansible
5 2 (1.41%) Istio
5 2 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.93%) Adobe
3 6 (4.23%) Google
3 6 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.11%) Confluent
4 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle
4 3 (2.11%) Splunk
5 2 (1.41%) Databricks
5 2 (1.41%) Marketo
5 2 (1.41%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.70%) Apple
6 1 (0.70%) HP
6 1 (0.70%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) New Relic
6 1 (0.70%) Okta
6 1 (0.70%) YouTube