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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 264 259
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 128 87 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.69% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 2.66% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 97
10th Percentile £352 £378 £331
25th Percentile £454 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +6.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £663
90th Percentile - £708 £721
England median daily rate £600 £515 £519
% change year-on-year +16.50% -0.72% -13.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £61.40 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.80 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.67%

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 4,206 3,271 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.73% 26.07% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,817 2,296 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 26
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +41.24% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -8 19 - - 3
Central London -19 13 £588 -12.96% 6
South London - 1 £775 -
East London - 1 £450 -
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 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.34%) CMS
2 2 (1.56%) Apache
2 2 (1.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.78%) AWS
2 21 (16.41%) GCP
3 19 (14.84%) Azure
3 19 (14.84%) SaaS
4 11 (8.59%) Datadog
5 7 (5.47%) GitHub
5 7 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.69%) Serverless
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.56%) iPaaS
7 2 (1.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.56%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) HTTP
1 2 (1.56%) NaaS
1 2 (1.56%) WAN
2 1 (0.78%) DSL
2 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.16%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.25%) MySQL
4 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.91%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.34%) Pinecone
6 3 (2.34%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.56%) Flink
7 2 (1.56%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.56%) Redis
7 2 (1.56%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.78%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.81%) Git
3 5 (3.91%) Gradle
4 4 (3.13%) GitLab
5 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.34%) Vite
6 2 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.56%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.78%) fastlane
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.78%) Mockito
7 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.78%) Spock
7 1 (0.78%) Storybook
7 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 45 (35.16%) Finance
2 37 (28.91%) Front Office
3 12 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.34%) Banking
5 3 (2.34%) Billing
5 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Police
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (53.91%) Developer
2 35 (27.34%) Software Engineer
3 32 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 32 (25.00%) Senior
4 28 (21.88%) Lead
5 23 (17.97%) Lead Developer
6 20 (15.63%) Lead Software Developer
6 20 (15.63%) Lead Software Engineer
7 15 (11.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (11.72%) React Developer
8 14 (10.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Consultant
9 12 (9.38%) Java Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 12 (9.38%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 12 (9.38%) Technical Consultant
9 12 (9.38%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (53.91%) Node.js
2 62 (48.44%) React
3 44 (34.38%) REST
4 42 (32.81%) Kafka
5 39 (30.47%) Redux
6 25 (19.53%) Playwright
7 20 (15.63%) Vitest
8 13 (10.16%) YAML
9 12 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (8.59%) Next.js
10 11 (8.59%) RESTful
11 10 (7.81%) AngularJS
12 9 (7.03%) Vue
13 8 (6.25%) Jest
14 7 (5.47%) Django
14 7 (5.47%) HTML
15 6 (4.69%) CSS
15 6 (4.69%) Middleware
15 6 (4.69%) OAuth
15 6 (4.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 31 (24.22%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.47%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.69%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) CMDB
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.69%) Linux
2 3 (2.34%) Android
3 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (52.34%) Agile
2 54 (42.19%) Software Engineering
3 52 (40.63%) CI/CD
4 47 (36.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (28.13%) Mentoring
6 34 (26.56%) E-Commerce
7 32 (25.00%) Investment Management
7 32 (25.00%) Order Management
7 32 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
8 30 (23.44%) DevOps
9 28 (21.88%) Observability
10 23 (17.97%) Containerisation
11 22 (17.19%) Code Quality
12 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (15.63%) API Design
13 20 (15.63%) Coaching
13 20 (15.63%) Test Automation
14 16 (12.50%) Microservices
15 15 (11.72%) AI
15 15 (11.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 85 (66.41%) TypeScript
2 48 (37.50%) Java
3 47 (36.72%) JavaScript
3 47 (36.72%) Python
4 36 (28.13%) Go
5 13 (10.16%) SQL
6 5 (3.91%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.56%) Bicep
7 2 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (0.78%) Cypher
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) Ruby
8 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.13%) QA
2 4 (3.13%) WCAG
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (30.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.16%) Grafana
2 13 (10.16%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.03%) Terraform
4 2 (1.56%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.78%) Istio
5 1 (0.78%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.13%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.34%) New Relic
3 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.56%) Adobe
4 2 (1.56%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.56%) Ciena
4 2 (1.56%) Netlify
4 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.78%) Braze
5 1 (0.78%) BT
5 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.78%) Marketo
5 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.78%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.78%) SAP