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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 245 267
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 162 128 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.95% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.58% 3.63% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 95 91
10th Percentile £434 £365 £375
25th Percentile £550 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.09%
75th Percentile £800 £713 £657
90th Percentile - £850 £688
England median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%
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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 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 11 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 -15 18 £588 -6.75% 5
West London -17 10 £604 +24.52% 3
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 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Luigi
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.62%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.62%) Magento
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 92 (56.79%) AWS
2 31 (19.14%) Azure
3 30 (18.52%) GCP
4 29 (17.90%) Serverless
5 20 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (10.49%) GitHub
7 12 (7.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.17%) SaaS
9 9 (5.56%) Datadog
9 9 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.09%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.47%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.47%) Boomi
11 4 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.85%) Amazon Neptune
12 3 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) NaaS
1 2 (1.23%) WAN
2 1 (0.62%) DSL
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.02%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.79%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.17%) MySQL
5 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.09%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.47%) Metadata
6 4 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.47%) Redis
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.85%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.85%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.23%) Flink
8 2 (1.23%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) Git
1 19 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.41%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.56%) Vite
4 5 (3.09%) JSUnit
5 4 (2.47%) GitLab
5 4 (2.47%) webpack
6 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.85%) Gradle
7 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.23%) JUnit
7 2 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.23%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.23%) Selenium
7 2 (1.23%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.23%) Storybook
7 2 (1.23%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.62%) fastlane
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.62%) Spock
General
1 54 (33.33%) Finance
2 37 (22.84%) Front Office
3 23 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (13.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.70%) Banking
6 5 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Retail
8 3 (1.85%) Back Office
8 3 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.85%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.23%) Billing
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Publishing
10 1 (0.62%) Law
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 80 (49.38%) Developer
2 43 (26.54%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 30 (18.52%) Lead
5 29 (17.90%) Senior
6 25 (15.43%) Lead Developer
7 21 (12.96%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (12.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (12.35%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (11.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (11.73%) React Developer
10 13 (8.02%) Architect
10 13 (8.02%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.41%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.79%) Java Engineer
13 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (4.94%) Java Software Developer
15 8 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (4.94%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (51.23%) React
2 65 (40.12%) Node.js
3 61 (37.65%) REST
4 56 (34.57%) Kafka
5 43 (26.54%) Redux
6 24 (14.81%) Next.js
7 20 (12.35%) RESTful
8 16 (9.88%) Playwright
9 15 (9.26%) AngularJS
10 14 (8.64%) Jest
11 12 (7.41%) Vue
12 11 (6.79%) CSS
13 10 (6.17%) HTML
14 9 (5.56%) OAuth
14 9 (5.56%) OAuth2
14 9 (5.56%) Spring
15 8 (4.94%) React Native
15 8 (4.94%) Spring Boot
16 7 (4.32%) Django
16 7 (4.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.37%) Fixed Income
2 21 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.35%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.85%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.62%) CMDB
11 1 (0.62%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.62%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) Android
2 6 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.36%) Agile
2 59 (36.42%) CI/CD
3 56 (34.57%) Software Engineering
4 52 (32.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (22.22%) Investment Management
6 32 (19.75%) Order Management
6 32 (19.75%) Portfolio Management
7 31 (19.14%) E-Commerce
8 24 (14.81%) Microservices
9 23 (14.20%) AI
9 23 (14.20%) Mentoring
10 22 (13.58%) Event-Driven
10 22 (13.58%) Observability
10 22 (13.58%) User Experience
11 21 (12.96%) API Design
12 20 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.73%) TDD
13 19 (11.73%) Test Automation
14 18 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 101 (62.35%) TypeScript
2 57 (35.19%) Java
3 55 (33.95%) Python
4 53 (32.72%) JavaScript
5 42 (25.93%) Go
6 25 (15.43%) SQL
7 13 (8.02%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.70%) C#
9 5 (3.09%) Cypher
9 5 (3.09%) Swift
10 4 (2.47%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.85%) Bicep
11 3 (1.85%) Ruby
11 3 (1.85%) Rust
12 2 (1.23%) Bash
12 2 (1.23%) C++
12 2 (1.23%) Elixir
12 2 (1.23%) Gremlin
12 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.56%) Degree
1 9 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) QA
2 9 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.70%) WCAG
4 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) ITGC
5 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (16.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (14.20%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.02%) Terraform
3 6 (3.70%) Grafana
3 6 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.23%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.62%) Istio
5 1 (0.62%) linkerd
5 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.32%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.09%) Google
4 3 (1.85%) Oracle
4 3 (1.85%) SAP
5 2 (1.23%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.23%) Ciena
5 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.23%) Netlify
5 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.23%) Workday
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe
6 1 (0.62%) Braze
6 1 (0.62%) BT
6 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.62%) New Relic
6 1 (0.62%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.62%) SnapLogic