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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 274 269
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -21
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 133 80 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.24% 2.41% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 53 91
10th Percentile £352 £400 £331
25th Percentile £444 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% +6.36% -10.20%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £675
90th Percentile - £700 £700
England median daily rate £575 £556 £525
% change year-on-year +3.37% +5.95% -11.02%
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 4,101 3,317 4,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.95% 25.95% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,786 2,287 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £385 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £706 £688
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 28
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.44 £26.41
Median hourly rate £46.00 £50.25 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +18.67% -34.85%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.38 £76.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -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 19 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 19 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 21 - -
Central London -23 9 £575 -14.81% 15
East London - 2 £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 4 (3.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.26%) CMS
3 2 (1.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 66 (49.62%) AWS
2 21 (15.79%) GCP
2 21 (15.79%) SaaS
3 19 (14.29%) Azure
4 11 (8.27%) Datadog
5 8 (6.02%) GitHub
5 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.26%) Serverless
7 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.01%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.26%) Firebase
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.50%) Bitrise
10 2 (1.50%) Figma
10 2 (1.50%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.50%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) HTTP
1 2 (1.50%) NaaS
1 2 (1.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.26%) MySQL
5 5 (3.76%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.50%) Flink
6 2 (1.50%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.50%) Redis
6 2 (1.50%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.75%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 29 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.77%) Git
3 5 (3.76%) GitLab
3 5 (3.76%) Gradle
4 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Mockito
5 2 (1.50%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.50%) webpack
6 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) gulp
6 1 (0.75%) JIRA
6 1 (0.75%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Spock
General
1 44 (33.08%) Finance
2 37 (27.82%) Front Office
3 15 (11.28%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.01%) Banking
4 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Billing
5 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Publishing
7 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (55.64%) Developer
2 35 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 32 (24.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 31 (23.31%) Lead
5 29 (21.80%) Senior
6 26 (19.55%) Lead Developer
7 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (9.77%) Consultant
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Consultant
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 13 (9.77%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 13 (9.77%) Technical Consultant
9 13 (9.77%) Technical Specialist
10 11 (8.27%) Java Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Python Developer
10 11 (8.27%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.89%) Node.js
2 61 (45.86%) React
3 40 (30.08%) Kafka
4 39 (29.32%) REST
5 38 (28.57%) Redux
6 29 (21.80%) Playwright
7 24 (18.05%) Vitest
8 16 (12.03%) YAML
9 14 (10.53%) RESTful
10 12 (9.02%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
12 9 (6.77%) Next.js
12 9 (6.77%) OAuth
12 9 (6.77%) Vue
13 8 (6.02%) Jest
14 7 (5.26%) Django
14 7 (5.26%) HTML
14 7 (5.26%) React Native
15 6 (4.51%) CSS
15 6 (4.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 32 (24.06%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.02%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.75%) Animation
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) Agile
2 57 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 54 (40.60%) Software Engineering
4 45 (33.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (31.58%) Mentoring
6 33 (24.81%) DevOps
7 32 (24.06%) Investment Management
7 32 (24.06%) Order Management
7 32 (24.06%) Portfolio Management
8 29 (21.80%) E-Commerce
9 24 (18.05%) Coaching
9 24 (18.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (17.29%) Containerisation
10 23 (17.29%) Observability
11 22 (16.54%) Test Automation
12 20 (15.04%) Architectural Patterns
12 20 (15.04%) Code Quality
13 19 (14.29%) API Design
14 17 (12.78%) Microservices
14 17 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 86 (64.66%) TypeScript
2 50 (37.59%) JavaScript
3 49 (36.84%) Java
4 45 (33.83%) Python
5 35 (26.32%) Go
6 15 (11.28%) SQL
7 7 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.50%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) C++
8 2 (1.50%) Swift
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) Cypher
9 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Rust
9 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
2 4 (3.01%) WCAG
3 3 (2.26%) QA
4 2 (1.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (30.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.77%) Grafana
2 13 (9.77%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.02%) Terraform
4 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.50%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (4.51%) Adobe
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.50%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.50%) Ciena
4 2 (1.50%) Databricks
4 2 (1.50%) Marketo
4 2 (1.50%) New Relic
4 2 (1.50%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle
4 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) Apple
5 1 (0.75%) BT
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.75%) Netlify
5 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.75%) SAP