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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 250 265
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 -17
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 137 98 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.79% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.29% 3.05% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 62 88
10th Percentile £352 £370 £331
25th Percentile £528 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +6.82% -14.06%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £666
90th Percentile - £724 £706
England median daily rate £598 £563 £513
% change year-on-year +6.22% +9.76% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.67%

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 4,162 3,216 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.06% 26.03% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,249 3,358
10th Percentile £372 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +14.12% -36.80%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -17 14 £575 -14.81% 7
West London -25 11 - - 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 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
3 1 (0.73%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.73%) Magento
2 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 75 (54.74%) AWS
2 23 (16.79%) GCP
3 22 (16.06%) Azure
4 14 (10.22%) SaaS
4 14 (10.22%) Serverless
5 12 (8.76%) GitHub
6 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.03%) Datadog
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.19%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.46%) Boomi
10 2 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.46%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) HTTP
1 2 (1.46%) NaaS
1 2 (1.46%) WAN
2 1 (0.73%) DSL
2 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.22%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.84%) MySQL
4 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.65%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.19%) Pinecone
6 3 (2.19%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.46%) Flink
7 2 (1.46%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.46%) Redis
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.46%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (11.68%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.76%) Git
3 7 (5.11%) Vite
4 5 (3.65%) Gradle
5 4 (2.92%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.92%) GitLab
6 3 (2.19%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.46%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.46%) Selenium
7 2 (1.46%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.46%) webpack
8 1 (0.73%) fastlane
8 1 (0.73%) Maven
8 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.73%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.73%) Spock
8 1 (0.73%) Storybook
General
1 47 (34.31%) Finance
2 37 (27.01%) Front Office
3 14 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.76%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Billing
6 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.19%) Retail
6 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Marketing
7 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Police
8 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (51.09%) Developer
2 38 (27.74%) Software Engineer
3 32 (23.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 29 (21.17%) Senior
5 27 (19.71%) Lead
6 23 (16.79%) Lead Developer
7 20 (14.60%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (14.60%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (13.14%) React Developer
9 15 (10.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (8.76%) Java Engineer
12 11 (8.03%) Java Developer
13 9 (6.57%) Architect
13 9 (6.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (6.57%) Python Developer
14 8 (5.84%) Consultant
14 8 (5.84%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (5.84%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
14 8 (5.84%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (49.64%) React
2 62 (45.26%) Node.js
3 51 (37.23%) Kafka
4 47 (34.31%) REST
5 39 (28.47%) Redux
6 16 (11.68%) Playwright
7 14 (10.22%) RESTful
8 13 (9.49%) Next.js
9 11 (8.03%) Vitest
10 9 (6.57%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.57%) Django
10 9 (6.57%) Vue
11 8 (5.84%) Jest
11 8 (5.84%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (5.11%) Middleware
12 7 (5.11%) OAuth
12 7 (5.11%) React Native
12 7 (5.11%) YAML
13 6 (4.38%) HTML
13 6 (4.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.09%) Fixed Income
2 23 (16.79%) Cloud Native
3 14 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.38%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.38%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.73%) CMDB
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Android
2 6 (4.38%) Apple iOS
2 6 (4.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.61%) Agile
2 52 (37.96%) Software Engineering
3 48 (35.04%) CI/CD
4 43 (31.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (24.82%) E-Commerce
5 34 (24.82%) Investment Management
6 32 (23.36%) Order Management
6 32 (23.36%) Portfolio Management
7 28 (20.44%) Mentoring
8 26 (18.98%) Observability
9 22 (16.06%) DevOps
10 20 (14.60%) API Design
10 20 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.14%) Event-Driven
12 17 (12.41%) AI
12 17 (12.41%) Microservices
12 17 (12.41%) Test Automation
12 17 (12.41%) User Experience
13 16 (11.68%) Code Quality
13 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 86 (62.77%) TypeScript
2 50 (36.50%) Java
2 50 (36.50%) Python
3 48 (35.04%) JavaScript
4 36 (26.28%) Go
5 14 (10.22%) SQL
6 8 (5.84%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.92%) Swift
8 2 (1.46%) Bicep
8 2 (1.46%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) C++
9 1 (0.73%) Cypher
9 1 (0.73%) PHP
9 1 (0.73%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.46%) Degree
3 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.65%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) WCAG
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) ITGC
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (22.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.30%) Grafana
2 10 (7.30%) Prometheus
3 9 (6.57%) Terraform
4 2 (1.46%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.73%) Istio
5 1 (0.73%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (4.38%) Salesforce
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.19%) New Relic
5 2 (1.46%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.46%) Ciena
5 2 (1.46%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.46%) Netlify
5 2 (1.46%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.73%) Adobe
6 1 (0.73%) Braze
6 1 (0.73%) BT
6 1 (0.73%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.73%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.73%) SAP
6 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic