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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 265 277
Rank change year-on-year +46 +12 -67
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 154 121 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.76% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.39% 2.82% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 85 121
10th Percentile £354 £410 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £675
90th Percentile £850 £695 £750
England median daily rate £525 £529 £575
% change year-on-year -0.76% -8.00% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.05
25th Percentile - £51.25 £72.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £76.13
90th Percentile - - £76.95
England median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -20.08% -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 3,507 4,295 5,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.20% 26.94% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,377 2,841 4,067
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 38
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.28 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.88 £40.20
Median hourly rate £51.97 £43.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.79% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.70 £73.24
90th Percentile £85.95 £73.80 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 +25 21 £600 -3.15% 42
West London +9 18 £493 -6.19% 3
East London - 2 £495 - 7
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 7 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.90%) Apache
3 4 (2.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.95%) CMS
4 3 (1.95%) Confluence
5 2 (1.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (54.55%) AWS
2 24 (15.58%) Amazon S3
3 23 (14.94%) Azure
4 21 (13.64%) GitHub
4 21 (13.64%) SaaS
5 20 (12.99%) GCP
5 20 (12.99%) Serverless
6 18 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.84%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.55%) Firebase
11 6 (3.90%) Datadog
11 6 (3.90%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.25%) Figma
12 5 (3.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
1 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.83%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.49%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.90%) MySQL
6 4 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.95%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.95%) Flink
8 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.30%) OLTP
8 2 (1.30%) Redis
8 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.65%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) Hasura
9 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.39%) Git
3 7 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 6 (3.90%) Gradle
5 5 (3.25%) GitLab
6 4 (2.60%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.60%) Maven
7 3 (1.95%) JIRA
7 3 (1.95%) JUnit
7 3 (1.95%) Mockito
7 3 (1.95%) webpack
8 2 (1.30%) Snyk
9 1 (0.65%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.65%) ESLint
9 1 (0.65%) Gatling
9 1 (0.65%) gulp
9 1 (0.65%) Mocha
9 1 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 46 (29.87%) Finance
2 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Front Office
4 8 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.19%) Banking
5 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing
7 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.65%) Publishing
7 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (48.05%) Developer
2 37 (24.03%) Senior
3 23 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 16 (10.39%) React Developer
5 14 (9.09%) Lead
5 14 (9.09%) Lead Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Backend Developer
8 11 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.49%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.19%) Lead Software Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 7 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.90%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (43.51%) Node.js
2 66 (42.86%) React
3 46 (29.87%) REST
4 28 (18.18%) Kafka
5 26 (16.88%) Redux
6 24 (15.58%) RESTful
7 20 (12.99%) OAuth
8 16 (10.39%) Next.js
9 12 (7.79%) Playwright
9 12 (7.79%) Vitest
10 11 (7.14%) AngularJS
10 11 (7.14%) CSS
10 11 (7.14%) HTML
10 11 (7.14%) OAuth2
10 11 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
10 11 (7.14%) Spring
10 11 (7.14%) Svelte
11 10 (6.49%) JWT
11 10 (6.49%) WebSockets
12 9 (5.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 12 (7.79%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.60%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.95%) IVR
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.25%) Android
1 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (53.25%) Agile
2 62 (40.26%) CI/CD
3 53 (34.42%) DevOps
4 43 (27.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (26.62%) Software Engineering
6 35 (22.73%) Mentoring
7 31 (20.13%) Containerisation
7 31 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (17.53%) Microservices
9 25 (16.23%) User Experience
10 24 (15.58%) E-Commerce
11 22 (14.29%) AI
11 22 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (11.69%) API Design
13 18 (11.69%) Front End Development
14 17 (11.04%) Observability
15 16 (10.39%) Performance Optimisation
16 15 (9.74%) Test Automation
17 14 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 82 (53.25%) TypeScript
2 61 (39.61%) Python
3 53 (34.42%) JavaScript
4 51 (33.12%) Java
5 32 (20.78%) Go
6 21 (13.64%) SQL
7 12 (7.79%) Ruby
8 9 (5.84%) PHP
9 6 (3.90%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.95%) C#
10 3 (1.95%) Swift
11 2 (1.30%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.84%) Degree
2 5 (3.25%) AWS Certification
2 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) GDPR
2 5 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.30%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (25.97%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.39%) Terraform
3 10 (6.49%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.90%) Grafana
5 4 (2.60%) Ansible
5 4 (2.60%) Istio
5 4 (2.60%) Kibana
5 4 (2.60%) Puppet
5 4 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.84%) Google
2 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.90%) Adobe
3 6 (3.90%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.25%) Splunk
5 4 (2.60%) Oracle
5 4 (2.60%) YouTube
6 3 (1.95%) Confluent
6 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.95%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.30%) Databricks
7 2 (1.30%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.30%) Teradata
8 1 (0.65%) Apple
8 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica
8 1 (0.65%) Marketo
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce