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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 267 261
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -14
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 127 88 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.70% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 2.68% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 55 94
10th Percentile £352 £368 £331
25th Percentile £456 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +6.36% -13.39%
75th Percentile £800 £694 £672
90th Percentile - £720 £723
England median daily rate £600 £518 £506
% change year-on-year +15.94% +2.22% -15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £61.40 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.80 - -
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 4,161 3,281 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.55% 26.10% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,301 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
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 4 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 4 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
West London -11 19 - - 4
Central London -24 13 £588 -12.96% 9
East London - 1 £450 - 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 (2.36%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.36%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) Apache
2 2 (1.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.79%) Magento
2 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.79%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 65 (51.18%) AWS
2 21 (16.54%) GCP
3 19 (14.96%) Azure
4 18 (14.17%) SaaS
5 11 (8.66%) Datadog
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.72%) Serverless
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.57%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.57%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.57%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) HTTP
1 2 (1.57%) NaaS
1 2 (1.57%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) DSL
2 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.24%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.30%) MySQL
4 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.94%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.36%) Pinecone
6 3 (2.36%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.57%) Flink
7 2 (1.57%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.57%) Redis
7 2 (1.57%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.79%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.79%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.87%) Git
3 5 (3.94%) Gradle
4 4 (3.15%) GitLab
5 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.36%) Vite
6 2 (1.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.57%) Selenium
6 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.79%) fastlane
7 1 (0.79%) JUnit
7 1 (0.79%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.79%) Mockito
7 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.79%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.79%) Spock
7 1 (0.79%) Storybook
7 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 45 (35.43%) Finance
2 37 (29.13%) Front Office
3 12 (9.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.36%) Banking
5 3 (2.36%) Billing
5 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Police
7 1 (0.79%) Publishing
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (53.54%) Developer
2 35 (27.56%) Software Engineer
3 32 (25.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 31 (24.41%) Senior
5 28 (22.05%) Lead
6 23 (18.11%) Lead Developer
7 20 (15.75%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (15.75%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (11.81%) React Developer
9 14 (11.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (9.45%) Consultant
10 12 (9.45%) Java Engineer
10 12 (9.45%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (9.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 12 (9.45%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 12 (9.45%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 12 (9.45%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 12 (9.45%) Technical Consultant
10 12 (9.45%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (53.54%) Node.js
2 62 (48.82%) React
3 44 (34.65%) REST
4 42 (33.07%) Kafka
5 39 (30.71%) Redux
6 24 (18.90%) Playwright
7 19 (14.96%) Vitest
8 12 (9.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (9.45%) YAML
9 11 (8.66%) Next.js
9 11 (8.66%) RESTful
10 10 (7.87%) AngularJS
11 9 (7.09%) Vue
12 7 (5.51%) Django
12 7 (5.51%) HTML
12 7 (5.51%) Jest
13 6 (4.72%) CSS
13 6 (4.72%) Middleware
13 6 (4.72%) OAuth
13 6 (4.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.20%) Fixed Income
2 30 (23.62%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.79%) CMDB
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.72%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Android
3 2 (1.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.97%) Agile
2 54 (42.52%) Software Engineering
3 51 (40.16%) CI/CD
4 47 (37.01%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (27.56%) Mentoring
6 34 (26.77%) E-Commerce
7 32 (25.20%) Investment Management
7 32 (25.20%) Order Management
7 32 (25.20%) Portfolio Management
8 29 (22.83%) DevOps
9 28 (22.05%) Observability
10 22 (17.32%) Code Quality
10 22 (17.32%) Containerisation
11 20 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (14.96%) API Design
12 19 (14.96%) Coaching
12 19 (14.96%) Test Automation
13 16 (12.60%) Microservices
14 15 (11.81%) AI
14 15 (11.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 84 (66.14%) TypeScript
2 48 (37.80%) Java
3 47 (37.01%) JavaScript
3 47 (37.01%) Python
4 36 (28.35%) Go
5 13 (10.24%) SQL
6 5 (3.94%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.57%) Bicep
7 2 (1.57%) C#
7 2 (1.57%) C++
8 1 (0.79%) Cypher
8 1 (0.79%) PHP
8 1 (0.79%) Ruby
8 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (4.72%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) WCAG
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (29.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 33 (25.98%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.24%) Grafana
2 13 (10.24%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.09%) Terraform
4 2 (1.57%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.79%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.15%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.36%) New Relic
3 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.57%) Adobe
4 2 (1.57%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.57%) Ciena
4 2 (1.57%) Netlify
4 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.79%) Braze
5 1 (0.79%) BT
5 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.79%) Marketo
5 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.79%) SAP