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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 271 275
Rank change year-on-year +50 +4 -47
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 155 120 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.76% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.16% 2.91% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 87 115
10th Percentile £334 £403 £405
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £663
90th Percentile £850 £700 £722
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £55.60 - £72.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £72.13
Median hourly rate £58.50 £52.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £76.13
90th Percentile £62.20 - £76.95
England median hourly rate £58.50 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 3,729 4,120 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.49% 26.20% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 2,702 3,952
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £34.04 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £37.88 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £44.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.86% -24.14% -
75th Percentile £63.19 £59.42 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.90 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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
West London +5 22 £493 +20.42% 5
Central London +14 19 £600 -3.15% 57
East London - 3 £450 - 4
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 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) CMS
3 3 (1.94%) Confluence
3 3 (1.94%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.65%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (49.68%) AWS
2 27 (17.42%) SaaS
3 24 (15.48%) Azure
4 22 (14.19%) Amazon S3
5 20 (12.90%) GitHub
6 18 (11.61%) Serverless
7 17 (10.97%) GCP
8 15 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (4.52%) Datadog
9 7 (4.52%) Firebase
10 6 (3.87%) Figma
10 6 (3.87%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.58%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (2.58%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.39%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.81%) RDBMS
5 7 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.87%) MySQL
7 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.29%) Redis
9 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.65%) Flink
10 1 (0.65%) Hasura
10 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.97%) Git
3 7 (4.52%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.23%) Gradle
5 4 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.58%) GitLab
5 4 (2.58%) JUnit
5 4 (2.58%) Mockito
6 3 (1.94%) JIRA
6 3 (1.94%) Maven
6 3 (1.94%) webpack
7 2 (1.29%) Snyk
8 1 (0.65%) Ant
8 1 (0.65%) ESLint
8 1 (0.65%) Gatling
8 1 (0.65%) gulp
8 1 (0.65%) JMeter
8 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 45 (29.03%) Finance
2 26 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.48%) Front Office
4 8 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Banking
6 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Publishing
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (46.45%) Developer
2 41 (26.45%) Senior
3 22 (14.19%) Software Engineer
4 16 (10.32%) React Developer
5 15 (9.68%) Lead
6 14 (9.03%) Lead Developer
7 13 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 11 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Java Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.81%) Backend Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Lead Software Developer
12 8 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (5.16%) Python Developer
12 8 (5.16%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 8 (5.16%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 8 (5.16%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 8 (5.16%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (45.81%) Node.js
2 64 (41.29%) React
3 48 (30.97%) REST
4 27 (17.42%) Kafka
5 26 (16.77%) Redux
6 21 (13.55%) RESTful
7 20 (12.90%) Playwright
7 20 (12.90%) Vitest
8 18 (11.61%) OAuth
9 15 (9.68%) Next.js
10 14 (9.03%) YAML
11 12 (7.74%) CSS
12 11 (7.10%) HTML
12 11 (7.10%) OAuth2
12 11 (7.10%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (6.45%) Svelte
14 9 (5.81%) CSS3
14 9 (5.81%) HTML5
14 9 (5.81%) Spring
14 9 (5.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.74%) Fixed Income
2 12 (7.74%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.58%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.29%) IVR
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Animation
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Android
1 5 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.19%) Agile
2 66 (42.58%) CI/CD
3 52 (33.55%) DevOps
4 43 (27.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (26.45%) Software Engineering
6 39 (25.16%) Mentoring
7 34 (21.94%) Containerisation
7 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (19.35%) E-Commerce
9 26 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (16.13%) Microservices
11 23 (14.84%) API Design
12 21 (13.55%) Coaching
12 21 (13.55%) User Experience
13 20 (12.90%) AI
14 19 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (12.26%) Code Quality
14 19 (12.26%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (10.97%) Front End Development
15 17 (10.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (56.77%) TypeScript
2 57 (36.77%) Python
3 51 (32.90%) Java
3 51 (32.90%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.42%) Go
5 20 (12.90%) SQL
6 13 (8.39%) Ruby
7 9 (5.81%) PHP
8 6 (3.87%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.94%) Swift
10 2 (1.29%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.65%) C#
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.81%) Degree
2 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) GDPR
2 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.94%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.29%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (30.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (29.68%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.32%) Terraform
3 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.23%) Grafana
5 4 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.94%) Ansible
6 3 (1.94%) Istio
6 3 (1.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (4.52%) Adobe
1 7 (4.52%) Google
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.87%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.58%) Oracle
3 4 (2.58%) Splunk
3 4 (2.58%) YouTube
4 3 (1.94%) Confluent
4 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.29%) Databricks
5 2 (1.29%) Marketo
5 2 (1.29%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.29%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.29%) Teradata
6 1 (0.65%) Apple
6 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.65%) HP
6 1 (0.65%) Informatica
6 1 (0.65%) New Relic
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce