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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 238 270
Rank change year-on-year -52 +32 -11
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 132 111 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.91% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 3.42% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 77 96
10th Percentile £400 £366 £331
25th Percentile £550 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +6.82% -12.70%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £663
90th Percentile - £770 £688
England median daily rate £600 £520 £507
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.56% -15.50%
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% +91.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.84% +22.00%

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 4,326 3,248 4,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.53% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,867 2,280 3,455
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £448 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 29
10th Percentile £23.33 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.75 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £62.88 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.63 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 June 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 June 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 -21 15 £650 -3.70% 13
West London -29 5 - - 2
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 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 79 (59.85%) AWS
2 24 (18.18%) GCP
3 23 (17.42%) Azure
4 18 (13.64%) Serverless
5 15 (11.36%) GitHub
6 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.58%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.58%) Datadog
8 9 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.82%) SaaS
9 5 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.03%) Boomi
10 4 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.52%) AtomSphere
12 2 (1.52%) iPaaS
12 2 (1.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) HTTP
1 2 (1.52%) NaaS
1 2 (1.52%) WAN
2 1 (0.76%) DSL
2 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.85%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.30%) MySQL
4 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.79%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.27%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.27%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.52%) Flink
8 2 (1.52%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.76%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.06%) Vite
4 6 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.79%) Gradle
6 4 (3.03%) GitLab
6 4 (3.03%) webpack
7 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.52%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.52%) Selenium
8 2 (1.52%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.76%) fastlane
9 1 (0.76%) Maven
9 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.76%) Spock
9 1 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 48 (36.36%) Finance
2 37 (28.03%) Front Office
3 16 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.61%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Back Office
7 3 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.52%) Billing
8 2 (1.52%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (51.52%) Developer
2 39 (29.55%) Software Engineer
3 32 (24.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 27 (20.45%) Lead
5 23 (17.42%) Lead Developer
6 22 (16.67%) Senior
7 20 (15.15%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (15.15%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (13.64%) React Developer
9 15 (11.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (9.85%) Java Engineer
11 12 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (8.33%) Java Developer
13 10 (7.58%) Architect
14 9 (6.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
15 8 (6.06%) Java Software Developer
15 8 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (6.06%) Python Developer
16 7 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.00%) React
2 53 (40.15%) Kafka
3 51 (38.64%) Node.js
4 50 (37.88%) REST
5 40 (30.30%) Redux
6 14 (10.61%) RESTful
7 13 (9.85%) Next.js
8 11 (8.33%) Playwright
9 10 (7.58%) Jest
10 9 (6.82%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.82%) Middleware
10 9 (6.82%) OAuth
10 9 (6.82%) Vue
11 8 (6.06%) Django
11 8 (6.06%) OAuth2
12 7 (5.30%) Spring
13 6 (4.55%) React Native
13 6 (4.55%) SOAP
13 6 (4.55%) Spring Boot
14 5 (3.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 16 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.36%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.30%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.76%) CMDB
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Android
2 6 (4.55%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.64%) Agile
2 49 (37.12%) Software Engineering
3 45 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 38 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (27.27%) Investment Management
6 32 (24.24%) Order Management
6 32 (24.24%) Portfolio Management
7 28 (21.21%) E-Commerce
8 25 (18.94%) Mentoring
9 24 (18.18%) Observability
10 19 (14.39%) AI
10 19 (14.39%) Event-Driven
11 17 (12.88%) API Design
11 17 (12.88%) User Experience
12 16 (12.12%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.12%) Microservices
13 15 (11.36%) DevOps
13 15 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
14 14 (10.61%) API Integration
14 14 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 77 (58.33%) TypeScript
2 53 (40.15%) Java
3 51 (38.64%) Python
4 48 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 36 (27.27%) Go
6 13 (9.85%) SQL
7 9 (6.82%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.79%) Swift
9 2 (1.52%) Bicep
9 2 (1.52%) C#
9 2 (1.52%) C++
10 1 (0.76%) Cypher
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.03%) Degree
2 4 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.55%) QA
2 5 (3.79%) WCAG
3 2 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) ITGC
4 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.58%) Terraform
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
3 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.52%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
5 1 (0.76%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (5.30%) Salesforce
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.27%) New Relic
4 3 (2.27%) SAP
5 2 (1.52%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.52%) Ciena
5 2 (1.52%) Google
5 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.52%) Netlify
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle
5 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.52%) Workday
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Braze
6 1 (0.76%) BT
6 1 (0.76%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.76%) SnapLogic