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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 264 270
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -32
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 146 87 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 2.50% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 56 90
10th Percentile £352 £400 £331
25th Percentile £450 £477 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £593 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +11.27% -11.25%
75th Percentile £800 £691 £672
90th Percentile - £700 £689
England median daily rate £585 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.43%

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 4,104 3,474 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.54% 26.40% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,787 2,341 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £384 £385
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.37
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £28.51
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £74.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 -4 26 - -
Central London -18 11 £600 -11.11% 20
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London - 1 £775 - 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 4 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.05%) CMS
2 3 (2.05%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.58%) AWS
2 26 (17.81%) SaaS
3 21 (14.38%) GCP
4 20 (13.70%) Azure
5 11 (7.53%) GitHub
5 11 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.85%) Datadog
7 7 (4.79%) Serverless
8 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.74%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.74%) Firebase
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.05%) Figma
10 3 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.37%) Bitrise
11 2 (1.37%) Stripe
11 2 (1.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.68%) NaaS
2 1 (0.68%) SSL
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.16%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.79%) MySQL
4 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.05%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.68%) Flink
8 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 33 (22.60%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.48%) Git
3 6 (4.11%) Gradle
4 4 (2.74%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.05%) GitLab
5 3 (2.05%) JUnit
5 3 (2.05%) Mockito
6 2 (1.37%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.37%) JIRA
6 2 (1.37%) Selenium
6 2 (1.37%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.37%) webpack
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) gulp
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) NeoLoad
General
1 45 (30.82%) Finance
2 36 (24.66%) Front Office
3 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.79%) Banking
5 4 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.37%) Billing
6 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Retail
6 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (52.05%) Developer
2 35 (23.97%) Senior
2 35 (23.97%) Software Engineer
3 32 (21.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 32 (21.92%) Lead
4 27 (18.49%) Lead Developer
5 20 (13.70%) Lead Software Developer
5 20 (13.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 17 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (10.96%) Consultant
7 16 (10.96%) Senior Consultant
7 16 (10.96%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 16 (10.96%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 16 (10.96%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 16 (10.96%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 16 (10.96%) Technical Consultant
7 16 (10.96%) Technical Specialist
8 11 (7.53%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (57.53%) Node.js
2 64 (43.84%) React
3 41 (28.08%) Kafka
4 39 (26.71%) Redux
5 37 (25.34%) REST
6 33 (22.60%) Playwright
7 28 (19.18%) Vitest
8 17 (11.64%) YAML
9 15 (10.27%) RESTful
10 12 (8.22%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (7.53%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.53%) OAuth
12 10 (6.85%) Next.js
13 9 (6.16%) Jest
13 9 (6.16%) Vue
14 8 (5.48%) Django
14 8 (5.48%) HTML
15 7 (4.79%) CSS
15 7 (4.79%) OAuth2
15 7 (4.79%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 32 (21.92%) Fixed Income
3 9 (6.16%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Animation
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Android
3 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.53%) Agile
2 66 (45.21%) CI/CD
3 57 (39.04%) Software Engineering
4 47 (32.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (30.14%) Mentoring
6 41 (28.08%) DevOps
7 35 (23.97%) E-Commerce
8 32 (21.92%) Investment Management
8 32 (21.92%) Order Management
8 32 (21.92%) Portfolio Management
9 30 (20.55%) Containerisation
10 28 (19.18%) Coaching
11 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.12%) Observability
13 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (16.44%) Test Automation
14 23 (15.75%) Microservices
15 22 (15.07%) API Design
16 21 (14.38%) Code Quality
17 19 (13.01%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 96 (65.75%) TypeScript
2 55 (37.67%) Java
3 54 (36.99%) JavaScript
4 48 (32.88%) Python
5 37 (25.34%) Go
6 19 (13.01%) SQL
7 7 (4.79%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.37%) C#
8 2 (1.37%) PHP
8 2 (1.37%) Swift
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Cypher
9 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Rust
9 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.37%) Degree
3 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) GDPR
2 5 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) QA
3 4 (2.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (33.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (30.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.22%) Grafana
2 12 (8.22%) Prometheus
3 8 (5.48%) Terraform
4 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (4.11%) Adobe
1 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.74%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) New Relic
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.37%) Databricks
5 2 (1.37%) Marketo
5 2 (1.37%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.68%) Amdocs
6 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) Ciena
6 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.68%) Netlify
6 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk