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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 254 287
Rank change year-on-year -33 +33 -23
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 160 132 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.96% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 3.69% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 101 81
10th Percentile £430 £340 £425
25th Percentile £550 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £850 £719
England median daily rate £600 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.19% -11.17%
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 4,563 3,579 4,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.62% 26.08% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,023 2,508 3,209
10th Percentile £390 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £787 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 25 25
10th Percentile £23.69 £31.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.09 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.16 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.63 £62.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.70 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -17 16 £556 -7.29% 11
West London -16 10 £604 +24.52% 3
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 8 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.13%) 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 3 (1.88%) 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 95 (59.38%) AWS
2 34 (21.25%) Azure
3 33 (20.63%) Serverless
4 31 (19.38%) GCP
5 22 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (10.63%) GitHub
7 13 (8.13%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.88%) SaaS
9 9 (5.63%) Datadog
9 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.13%) Boomi
10 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.50%) Amazon Neptune
11 4 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) HTTP
1 2 (1.25%) NaaS
1 2 (1.25%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.88%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.75%) MySQL
4 6 (3.75%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.13%) Metadata
6 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.50%) Redis
6 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.88%) Stardog
7 3 (1.88%) TigerGraph
7 3 (1.88%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) Git
1 18 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.50%) 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%) Gradle
7 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
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%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.25%) Storybook
8 1 (0.63%) fastlane
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) Spock
General
1 52 (32.50%) Finance
2 36 (22.50%) Front Office
3 23 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
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
7 3 (1.88%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.25%) Billing
8 2 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.25%) Marketing
8 2 (1.25%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (48.13%) Developer
2 43 (26.88%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 31 (19.38%) Senior
5 26 (16.25%) Lead
6 23 (14.38%) Lead Developer
7 22 (13.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (13.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 20 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
10 19 (11.88%) React Developer
11 14 (8.75%) Senior Developer
12 13 (8.13%) Java Developer
13 12 (7.50%) Architect
14 11 (6.88%) Java Engineer
15 10 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 9 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
17 8 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
17 8 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
18 6 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (49.38%) React
2 69 (43.13%) Node.js
3 60 (37.50%) REST
4 57 (35.63%) Kafka
5 42 (26.25%) Redux
6 24 (15.00%) Next.js
7 17 (10.63%) RESTful
8 15 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.38%) Playwright
9 13 (8.13%) Jest
10 12 (7.50%) CSS
10 12 (7.50%) Vue
11 10 (6.25%) HTML
12 9 (5.63%) OAuth
12 9 (5.63%) OAuth2
12 9 (5.63%) Spring
13 8 (5.00%) Middleware
13 8 (5.00%) React Native
13 8 (5.00%) SOAP
13 8 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.63%) Fixed Income
2 22 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.50%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.63%) CMDB
11 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.63%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Android
2 6 (3.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (42.50%) Agile
2 56 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 55 (34.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 54 (33.75%) Software Engineering
5 36 (22.50%) Investment Management
6 33 (20.63%) E-Commerce
7 32 (20.00%) Order Management
7 32 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
8 25 (15.63%) AI
8 25 (15.63%) Microservices
9 23 (14.38%) API Design
10 22 (13.75%) Event-Driven
10 22 (13.75%) User Experience
11 21 (13.13%) Mentoring
12 20 (12.50%) Observability
12 20 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.88%) DevOps
13 19 (11.88%) TDD
14 18 (11.25%) API Integration
14 18 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 103 (64.38%) TypeScript
2 57 (35.63%) Java
3 54 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 53 (33.13%) Python
5 42 (26.25%) Go
6 25 (15.63%) SQL
7 14 (8.75%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.75%) C#
8 6 (3.75%) Cypher
9 5 (3.13%) SPARQL
9 5 (3.13%) Swift
10 3 (1.88%) Bash
10 3 (1.88%) Bicep
10 3 (1.88%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.88%) Ruby
10 3 (1.88%) Rust
10 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.25%) C++
11 2 (1.25%) Elixir
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 10 (6.25%) QA
2 9 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.13%) WCAG
4 3 (1.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) ITGC
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.38%) 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 9 (5.63%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.75%) Google
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle
4 4 (2.50%) SAP
5 3 (1.88%) Workday
6 2 (1.25%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.25%) Ciena
6 2 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.25%) Netlify
6 2 (1.25%) New Relic
6 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.63%) Braze
7 1 (0.63%) BT
7 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.63%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic