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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 247 277
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 123 113 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.80% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.28% 3.13% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 75 87
10th Percentile £350 £405 £370
25th Percentile £409 £501 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
England median daily rate £475 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -27.08% +2.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -13.93% -12.86%

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 3,745 3,613 4,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.39% 25.64% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,363 3,449
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.95% -2.87%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £764 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +5 31 - - 10
Central London -13 10 £563 -4.50% 19
East London - 3 £450 - 10
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 5 (4.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
2 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.44%) CMS
2 3 (2.44%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Shopify
2 2 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.89%) AWS
2 32 (26.02%) SaaS
3 24 (19.51%) Azure
4 17 (13.82%) GitHub
5 15 (12.20%) GCP
6 14 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.32%) Datadog
7 9 (7.32%) Serverless
8 8 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.88%) Firebase
11 5 (4.07%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (4.07%) Figma
12 4 (3.25%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.25%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (3.25%) Google Gemini
12 4 (3.25%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.44%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
1 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.13%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.25%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.25%) MySQL
4 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Hasura
Development Applications
1 40 (32.52%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.57%) Git
3 6 (4.88%) Gradle
4 5 (4.07%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.25%) JUnit
5 4 (3.25%) Mockito
6 3 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.44%) GitLab
6 3 (2.44%) JIRA
6 3 (2.44%) webpack
7 2 (1.63%) Maven
7 2 (1.63%) Snyk
8 1 (0.81%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.81%) Ant
8 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.81%) NeoLoad
General
1 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.01%) Finance
3 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Front Office
5 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Billing
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Publishing
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (34.96%) Developer
2 40 (32.52%) Senior
3 17 (13.82%) Consultant
3 17 (13.82%) Senior Consultant
3 17 (13.82%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 17 (13.82%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.82%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.82%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.82%) Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.82%) Technical Specialist
4 11 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (6.50%) Cloud Specialist
6 7 (5.69%) Backend Developer
6 7 (5.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 7 (5.69%) Lead
6 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) JavaScript Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.07%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (50.41%) Node.js
2 39 (31.71%) React
3 36 (29.27%) REST
4 31 (25.20%) Playwright
4 31 (25.20%) Vitest
5 20 (16.26%) YAML
6 16 (13.01%) OAuth
7 13 (10.57%) Next.js
8 12 (9.76%) CSS
8 12 (9.76%) HTML
8 12 (9.76%) RESTful
9 11 (8.94%) Kafka
9 11 (8.94%) OAuth2
10 10 (8.13%) CSS3
10 10 (8.13%) HTML5
10 10 (8.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (8.13%) Redux
11 7 (5.69%) Jest
11 7 (5.69%) Spring
11 7 (5.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) Animation
6 1 (0.81%) IVR
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.81%) Replication
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Android
1 4 (3.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.91%) CI/CD
2 64 (52.03%) Agile
3 51 (41.46%) DevOps
4 44 (35.77%) Mentoring
5 40 (32.52%) E-Commerce
6 34 (27.64%) Containerisation
7 33 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (25.20%) Coaching
9 30 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (22.76%) API Design
11 27 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (20.33%) Software Engineering
13 22 (17.89%) Code Quality
14 21 (17.07%) Microservices
14 21 (17.07%) Test Automation
15 19 (15.45%) Observability
16 18 (14.63%) Process Improvement
17 17 (13.82%) Performance Optimisation
18 16 (13.01%) AI
18 16 (13.01%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 76 (61.79%) TypeScript
2 32 (26.02%) Java
3 28 (22.76%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.51%) Python
5 18 (14.63%) SQL
6 13 (10.57%) Go
7 5 (4.07%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.44%) PHP
9 2 (1.63%) Ruby
9 2 (1.63%) Swift
10 1 (0.81%) C#
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.81%) Rust
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) GDPR
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.63%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.63%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (47.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (43.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.57%) Terraform
3 10 (8.13%) Grafana
4 9 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.63%) Ansible
6 2 (1.63%) Istio
6 2 (1.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (5.69%) Adobe
2 6 (4.88%) Google
2 6 (4.88%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.07%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.44%) Confluent
4 3 (2.44%) New Relic
4 3 (2.44%) Oracle
4 3 (2.44%) Splunk
5 2 (1.63%) Databricks
5 2 (1.63%) Marketo
5 2 (1.63%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) Apple
6 1 (0.81%) HP
6 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) Okta