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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 237 283
Rank change year-on-year -27 +46 -28
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 154 115 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.90% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 3.41% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 83 93
10th Percentile £416 £345 £360
25th Percentile £550 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +6.82% -13.39%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £650
90th Percentile - £800 £688
England median daily rate £600 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +14.83% -0.48% -12.50%
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% +21.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% - +10.00%

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 4,391 3,368 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.29% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,908 2,348 3,474
10th Percentile £381 £377 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £710
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%

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 29 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 29 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 -20 17 £575 -9.80% 4
West London -20 9 £604 +24.52% 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 6 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.65%) Magento
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (57.79%) AWS
2 30 (19.48%) Azure
3 28 (18.18%) GCP
4 26 (16.88%) Serverless
5 19 (12.34%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (10.39%) GitHub
7 12 (7.79%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.84%) Datadog
8 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.84%) SaaS
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.60%) Boomi
10 4 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.60%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.95%) Amazon Neptune
11 3 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) HTTP
1 2 (1.30%) NaaS
1 2 (1.30%) WAN
2 1 (0.65%) DSL
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.44%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.19%) MySQL
3 8 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.25%) Neo4j
4 5 (3.25%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.95%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.95%) Metadata
6 3 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.95%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.95%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.30%) Flink
7 2 (1.30%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.30%) Stardog
7 2 (1.30%) TigerGraph
7 2 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.74%) Git
3 9 (5.84%) Vite
4 8 (5.19%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.25%) JSUnit
6 4 (2.60%) GitLab
6 4 (2.60%) Gradle
6 4 (2.60%) webpack
7 3 (1.95%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.30%) Selenium
8 2 (1.30%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.30%) Storybook
8 2 (1.30%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.65%) fastlane
9 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.65%) JUnit
9 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.65%) Spock
General
1 53 (34.42%) Finance
2 37 (24.03%) Front Office
3 21 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 20 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.55%) Banking
6 5 (3.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.95%) Back Office
8 3 (1.95%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.30%) Billing
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (48.05%) Developer
2 43 (27.92%) Software Engineer
3 33 (21.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 30 (19.48%) Lead
5 26 (16.88%) Senior
6 25 (16.23%) Lead Developer
7 21 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (12.99%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (12.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (12.34%) React Developer
10 14 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (7.79%) Architect
11 12 (7.79%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.79%) Java Engineer
12 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (6.49%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.84%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (5.19%) Java Software Developer
14 8 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (5.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (51.30%) React
2 59 (38.31%) Node.js
3 57 (37.01%) Kafka
4 55 (35.71%) REST
5 42 (27.27%) Redux
6 23 (14.94%) Next.js
7 17 (11.04%) RESTful
8 15 (9.74%) Playwright
9 12 (7.79%) AngularJS
10 11 (7.14%) Jest
11 10 (6.49%) OAuth
12 9 (5.84%) OAuth2
12 9 (5.84%) Spring
12 9 (5.84%) Vue
13 8 (5.19%) Django
13 8 (5.19%) Middleware
13 8 (5.19%) Spring Boot
14 7 (4.55%) CSS
14 7 (4.55%) React Native
14 7 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.43%) Fixed Income
2 19 (12.34%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.39%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.95%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.65%) CMDB
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.65%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.55%) Android
2 6 (3.90%) Apple iOS
3 5 (3.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.56%) Agile
2 56 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 46 (29.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (23.38%) Investment Management
6 32 (20.78%) Order Management
6 32 (20.78%) Portfolio Management
7 30 (19.48%) E-Commerce
8 24 (15.58%) Mentoring
8 24 (15.58%) Observability
9 22 (14.29%) AI
9 22 (14.29%) Microservices
10 21 (13.64%) Event-Driven
11 20 (12.99%) User Experience
12 19 (12.34%) API Design
13 18 (11.69%) Containerisation
13 18 (11.69%) TDD
14 17 (11.04%) API Integration
14 17 (11.04%) DevOps
14 17 (11.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (59.74%) TypeScript
2 55 (35.71%) Java
3 54 (35.06%) Python
4 50 (32.47%) JavaScript
5 39 (25.32%) Go
6 20 (12.99%) SQL
7 11 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.25%) Cypher
8 5 (3.25%) Swift
9 4 (2.60%) C#
9 4 (2.60%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.95%) Bicep
11 2 (1.30%) Bash
11 2 (1.30%) C++
11 2 (1.30%) Gremlin
11 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.65%) PHP
12 1 (0.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (4.55%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) QA
2 9 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) WCAG
4 3 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) ITGC
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (17.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (14.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.44%) Terraform
3 6 (3.90%) Grafana
3 6 (3.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.30%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.65%) Istio
5 1 (0.65%) linkerd
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.95%) Google
3 3 (1.95%) SAP
4 2 (1.30%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.30%) Ciena
4 2 (1.30%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.30%) Netlify
4 2 (1.30%) New Relic
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle
4 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.30%) Workday
5 1 (0.65%) Adobe
5 1 (0.65%) Braze
5 1 (0.65%) BT
5 1 (0.65%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic