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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 226 274
Rank change year-on-year -93 +48 -19
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 133 152 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.13% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 3.85% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 109 88
10th Percentile £400 £348 £425
25th Percentile £518 £435 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £753 £850 £706
England median daily rate £575 £505 £534
% change year-on-year +13.86% -5.43% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -27.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%

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 5,341 3,953 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,551 2,731 3,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 13 £535 -10.83% 11
West London -30 7 £604 +24.52% 6
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 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Apache
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Luigi
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.75%) Sketch
3 1 (0.75%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) AWS
2 43 (32.33%) Azure
3 40 (30.08%) Serverless
4 23 (17.29%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (16.54%) GCP
6 20 (15.04%) GitHub
7 17 (12.78%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.27%) SaaS
9 10 (7.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (6.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.51%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (4.51%) Datadog
12 5 (3.76%) Boomi
12 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.01%) AtomSphere
13 4 (3.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) DSL
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
1 1 (0.75%) NaaS
1 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.78%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.02%) MySQL
4 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.51%) Metadata
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.76%) Neo4j
7 5 (3.76%) Pinecone
7 5 (3.76%) Weaviate
8 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.26%) Redis
9 3 (2.26%) Stardog
9 3 (2.26%) TigerGraph
10 2 (1.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (19.55%) Git
2 18 (13.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.77%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.77%) Vite
5 5 (3.76%) GitLab
5 5 (3.76%) JSUnit
6 4 (3.01%) JUnit
7 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.26%) Gradle
7 3 (2.26%) Maven
7 3 (2.26%) webpack
8 2 (1.50%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.50%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.50%) Mockito
8 2 (1.50%) Postman
8 2 (1.50%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.50%) Storybook
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Spock
General
1 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
2 25 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.51%) Front Office
4 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.01%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Marketing
5 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Back Office
6 3 (2.26%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.50%) Publishing
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (39.10%) Developer
2 32 (24.06%) Senior
3 17 (12.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.27%) React Developer
6 11 (8.27%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Architect
8 9 (6.77%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Azure Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Energy Trading Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.51%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
12 4 (3.01%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (52.63%) REST
2 55 (41.35%) React
3 36 (27.07%) Node.js
4 28 (21.05%) Kafka
5 26 (19.55%) Next.js
6 21 (15.79%) CSS
7 19 (14.29%) HTML
8 18 (13.53%) OAuth
8 18 (13.53%) OAuth2
9 14 (10.53%) AngularJS
9 14 (10.53%) RESTful
10 13 (9.77%) CSS3
10 13 (9.77%) HTML5
10 13 (9.77%) Spring
11 12 (9.02%) Spring Boot
12 11 (8.27%) Playwright
12 11 (8.27%) Terraform
12 11 (8.27%) Vue
13 10 (7.52%) Jest
14 9 (6.77%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.02%) AI Agents
4 8 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.01%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.50%) Life Science
7 2 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Android
2 6 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 42 (31.58%) Agile
3 36 (27.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (23.31%) Microservices
5 30 (22.56%) E-Commerce
5 30 (22.56%) Event-Driven
6 27 (20.30%) AI
7 24 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (16.54%) User Experience
9 21 (15.79%) API Design
9 21 (15.79%) TDD
10 20 (15.04%) API Integration
10 20 (15.04%) DevOps
11 19 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 19 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 19 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (13.53%) Software Engineering
13 16 (12.03%) Front End Development
14 15 (11.28%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (55.64%) TypeScript
2 38 (28.57%) Python
3 32 (24.06%) Java
3 32 (24.06%) JavaScript
4 30 (22.56%) SQL
5 13 (9.77%) Kotlin
6 8 (6.02%) Go
7 5 (3.76%) C#
7 5 (3.76%) Cypher
7 5 (3.76%) Swift
8 4 (3.01%) SPARQL
9 3 (2.26%) Bash
9 3 (2.26%) Gremlin
9 3 (2.26%) Ruby
9 3 (2.26%) Rust
9 3 (2.26%) Scala
9 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.50%) Bicep
10 2 (1.50%) Elixir
11 1 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) WCAG
4 4 (3.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) ITGC
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (16.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.01%) Grafana
2 4 (3.01%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.75%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.02%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Databricks
4 7 (5.26%) Oracle
5 5 (3.76%) SAP
6 4 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.01%) Workday
7 3 (2.26%) Confluent
8 2 (1.50%) Adobe
8 2 (1.50%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) Amdocs
9 1 (0.75%) Ciena
9 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.75%) Netlify
9 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic