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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 227 274
Rank change year-on-year -78 +47 +1
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 137 143 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.07% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 3.67% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 107 94
10th Percentile £387 £346 £425
25th Percentile £524 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £741 £681 £638
90th Percentile £800 £850 £693
England median daily rate £588 £509 £533
% change year-on-year +15.54% -4.60% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +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 5,256 3,901 4,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.18% 29.17% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,516 2,726 3,493
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -26 14 £568 -5.42% 2
West London -17 10 £604 +24.52% 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 8 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.73%) Luigi
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Chatbot
2 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 Hybris
Cloud Services
1 69 (50.36%) AWS
2 37 (27.01%) Azure
3 35 (25.55%) Serverless
4 24 (17.52%) GCP
5 21 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (12.41%) GitHub
7 13 (9.49%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.03%) SaaS
9 9 (6.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (6.57%) Datadog
9 9 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.65%) Boomi
11 5 (3.65%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon Neptune
12 4 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.92%) AtomSphere
12 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) NaaS
1 2 (1.46%) WAN
2 1 (0.73%) DSL
2 1 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.57%) MySQL
4 8 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.38%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.65%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.65%) Metadata
7 5 (3.65%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.92%) Redis
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.19%) Pinecone
9 3 (2.19%) Stardog
9 3 (2.19%) TigerGraph
9 3 (2.19%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (13.87%) Git
1 19 (13.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.49%) Cypress.io
3 9 (6.57%) Vite
4 5 (3.65%) JSUnit
5 3 (2.19%) GitLab
5 3 (2.19%) webpack
6 2 (1.46%) Gradle
6 2 (1.46%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.46%) JUnit
6 2 (1.46%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.46%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.46%) Storybook
7 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.73%) Maven
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.73%) Spock
General
1 29 (21.17%) Finance
2 26 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.76%) Front Office
5 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.92%) Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Back Office
7 3 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Billing
8 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.46%) Publishing
8 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 55 (40.15%) Developer
2 32 (23.36%) Senior
3 19 (13.87%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.49%) React Developer
7 12 (8.76%) Architect
8 10 (7.30%) Lead
9 9 (6.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.65%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (45.99%) REST
2 57 (41.61%) React
3 45 (32.85%) Node.js
4 33 (24.09%) Kafka
5 25 (18.25%) Next.js
6 16 (11.68%) CSS
6 16 (11.68%) Redux
6 16 (11.68%) RESTful
7 14 (10.22%) HTML
7 14 (10.22%) OAuth
7 14 (10.22%) OAuth2
7 14 (10.22%) Playwright
8 13 (9.49%) Terraform
9 12 (8.76%) AngularJS
10 11 (8.03%) Spring
11 10 (7.30%) Jest
11 10 (7.30%) Spring Boot
12 9 (6.57%) Vue
13 8 (5.84%) React Native
13 8 (5.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.33%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (14.60%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.57%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.57%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.92%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.73%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Android
2 6 (4.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.88%) CI/CD
2 49 (35.77%) Agile
3 39 (28.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (23.36%) E-Commerce
5 29 (21.17%) Microservices
6 28 (20.44%) Software Engineering
7 25 (18.25%) AI
8 23 (16.79%) Event-Driven
8 23 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.06%) Mentoring
10 21 (15.33%) API Design
10 21 (15.33%) User Experience
11 20 (14.60%) DevOps
12 19 (13.87%) TDD
13 18 (13.14%) Observability
14 17 (12.41%) API Integration
14 17 (12.41%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (11.68%) Data Modelling
15 16 (11.68%) Test Automation
16 15 (10.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (59.12%) TypeScript
2 37 (27.01%) Java
2 37 (27.01%) Python
3 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.71%) SQL
5 17 (12.41%) Go
6 12 (8.76%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.65%) C#
7 5 (3.65%) Cypher
7 5 (3.65%) SPARQL
7 5 (3.65%) Swift
8 3 (2.19%) Bash
8 3 (2.19%) Bicep
8 3 (2.19%) Gremlin
8 3 (2.19%) Ruby
8 3 (2.19%) Rust
8 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.46%) C++
9 2 (1.46%) Elixir
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (6.57%) Degree
2 8 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) QA
2 7 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.92%) WCAG
5 2 (1.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.73%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (18.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.38%) Grafana
2 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.46%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.73%) Istio
4 1 (0.73%) linkerd
4 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.11%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Oracle
4 5 (3.65%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) Workday
6 3 (2.19%) Confluent
6 3 (2.19%) Databricks
7 2 (1.46%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.46%) Ciena
7 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.46%) New Relic
7 2 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.73%) Adobe
8 1 (0.73%) BT
8 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.73%) Netlify
8 1 (0.73%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic