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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 242 285
Rank change year-on-year -36 +43 -34
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 160 129 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.95% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 3.64% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 96 91
10th Percentile £467 £365 £375
25th Percentile £550 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £800 £706 £657
90th Percentile - £850 £688
England median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -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 4,490 3,547 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.06% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,976 2,465 3,435
10th Percentile £389 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £719
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -7.46%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -14 17 £600 -4.76% 16
West London -16 10 £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 7 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) Magento
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 93 (58.13%) AWS
2 31 (19.38%) Azure
3 30 (18.75%) GCP
3 30 (18.75%) Serverless
4 20 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (10.63%) GitHub
6 12 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.25%) SaaS
8 9 (5.63%) Datadog
8 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.50%) Boomi
10 4 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.88%) Amazon Neptune
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) NaaS
1 2 (1.25%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) DSL
2 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.88%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.88%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.00%) MySQL
4 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.13%) Neo4j
4 5 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.50%) Metadata
5 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.50%) Redis
5 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.88%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.25%) Flink
7 2 (1.25%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Git
1 19 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.88%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.63%) Vite
4 5 (3.13%) JSUnit
5 4 (2.50%) GitLab
5 4 (2.50%) webpack
6 3 (1.88%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.88%) Gradle
7 2 (1.25%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.25%) JUnit
7 2 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.25%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.25%) Selenium
7 2 (1.25%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.25%) Storybook
7 2 (1.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
General
1 54 (33.75%) Finance
2 37 (23.13%) Front Office
3 23 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (13.75%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.50%) Retail
7 3 (1.88%) Back Office
7 3 (1.88%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.88%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.25%) Billing
8 2 (1.25%) Marketing
8 2 (1.25%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (49.38%) Developer
2 43 (26.88%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 30 (18.75%) Senior
5 29 (18.13%) Lead
6 24 (15.00%) Lead Developer
7 21 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (13.13%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (11.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (11.88%) React Developer
10 13 (8.13%) Architect
10 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
10 13 (8.13%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Java Engineer
12 10 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
14 8 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
15 6 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (50.00%) React
2 65 (40.63%) Node.js
3 60 (37.50%) REST
4 56 (35.00%) Kafka
5 42 (26.25%) Redux
6 23 (14.38%) Next.js
7 18 (11.25%) RESTful
8 15 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.38%) Playwright
9 13 (8.13%) Jest
10 12 (7.50%) Vue
11 11 (6.88%) CSS
12 9 (5.63%) HTML
12 9 (5.63%) React Native
12 9 (5.63%) Spring
13 8 (5.00%) OAuth
13 8 (5.00%) OAuth2
13 8 (5.00%) Spring Boot
14 7 (4.38%) Middleware
14 7 (4.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.63%) Fixed Income
2 21 (13.13%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) CMDB
10 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Android
2 6 (3.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.88%) Agile
2 57 (35.63%) CI/CD
3 55 (34.38%) Software Engineering
4 53 (33.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (22.50%) Investment Management
6 32 (20.00%) Order Management
6 32 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
7 31 (19.38%) E-Commerce
8 24 (15.00%) Microservices
9 22 (13.75%) AI
9 22 (13.75%) Event-Driven
9 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
9 22 (13.75%) User Experience
10 21 (13.13%) API Design
10 21 (13.13%) Observability
11 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (11.88%) TDD
12 19 (11.88%) Test Automation
13 18 (11.25%) DevOps
14 17 (10.63%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (63.13%) TypeScript
2 57 (35.63%) Java
3 53 (33.13%) JavaScript
3 53 (33.13%) Python
4 42 (26.25%) Go
5 23 (14.38%) SQL
6 13 (8.13%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.75%) C#
8 5 (3.13%) Cypher
8 5 (3.13%) Swift
9 4 (2.50%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.88%) Bicep
10 3 (1.88%) Ruby
10 3 (1.88%) Rust
11 2 (1.25%) Bash
11 2 (1.25%) C++
11 2 (1.25%) Elixir
11 2 (1.25%) Gremlin
11 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (5.63%) Degree
1 9 (5.63%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) QA
2 8 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.13%) WCAG
4 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) ITGC
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.13%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Grafana
3 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.25%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.63%) Istio
5 1 (0.63%) linkerd
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.13%) Google
4 3 (1.88%) Oracle
4 3 (1.88%) SAP
5 2 (1.25%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.25%) Ciena
5 2 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.25%) Netlify
5 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.25%) Workday
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe
6 1 (0.63%) Braze
6 1 (0.63%) BT
6 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.63%) New Relic
6 1 (0.63%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic