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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 258 271
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -37
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 128 106 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 2.95% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 68 92
10th Percentile £351 £404 £331
25th Percentile £424 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -27.08% +2.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.93% -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 3,967 3,595 4,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 26.44% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,672 2,368 3,428
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £654 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 29
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.63
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +13.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.92
England median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -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 13 February 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 February 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 +3 31 - - 1
Central London -17 10 £625 -7.41% 9
East London - 3 £450 - 1
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 5 (3.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.34%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) CMS
2 3 (2.34%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.38%) AWS
2 31 (24.22%) SaaS
3 22 (17.19%) Azure
4 16 (12.50%) GCP
5 11 (8.59%) GitHub
6 10 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.25%) Datadog
7 8 (6.25%) Serverless
8 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.69%) Firebase
10 5 (3.91%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.13%) Figma
11 4 (3.13%) Google Gemini
11 4 (3.13%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.34%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.34%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) HTTP
1 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.03%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.69%) MySQL
5 4 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Hasura
8 1 (0.78%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (30.47%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.03%) Git
3 5 (3.91%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.91%) Gradle
4 4 (3.13%) JUnit
4 4 (3.13%) Mockito
5 3 (2.34%) GitLab
5 3 (2.34%) JIRA
6 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.56%) Snyk
6 2 (1.56%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.56%) webpack
7 1 (0.78%) Ant
7 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) JMeter
7 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 26 (20.31%) Finance
2 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.38%) Front Office
4 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 4 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.56%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Billing
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (39.84%) Developer
2 35 (27.34%) Senior
3 17 (13.28%) Consultant
3 17 (13.28%) Senior Consultant
3 17 (13.28%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 17 (13.28%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.28%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.28%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 17 (13.28%) Technical Consultant
3 17 (13.28%) Technical Specialist
4 15 (11.72%) Lead
5 12 (9.38%) Lead Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Python Developer
6 11 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
7 8 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (50.78%) Node.js
2 44 (34.38%) React
3 36 (28.13%) REST
4 34 (26.56%) Playwright
5 31 (24.22%) Vitest
6 19 (14.84%) YAML
7 18 (14.06%) Kafka
8 17 (13.28%) Redux
9 15 (11.72%) OAuth
10 13 (10.16%) RESTful
11 12 (9.38%) Next.js
12 10 (7.81%) HTML
12 10 (7.81%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.81%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (7.03%) CSS
14 8 (6.25%) CSS3
14 8 (6.25%) Django
14 8 (6.25%) HTML5
15 7 (5.47%) Jest
16 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (32.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.47%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.78%) Animation
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.78%) Replication
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.69%) Linux
2 4 (3.13%) Android
3 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.03%) CI/CD
2 67 (52.34%) Agile
3 45 (35.16%) DevOps
4 43 (33.59%) Mentoring
5 39 (30.47%) E-Commerce
6 35 (27.34%) Software Engineering
7 33 (25.78%) Containerisation
8 31 (24.22%) Coaching
8 31 (24.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (21.88%) API Design
9 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 22 (17.19%) Observability
12 20 (15.63%) Code Quality
12 20 (15.63%) Microservices
13 19 (14.84%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (14.06%) Architectural Patterns
14 18 (14.06%) Process Improvement
15 16 (12.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.94%) TypeScript
2 36 (28.13%) Java
3 33 (25.78%) JavaScript
4 32 (25.00%) Python
5 20 (15.63%) SQL
6 14 (10.94%) Go
7 5 (3.91%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.56%) PHP
8 2 (1.56%) Swift
9 1 (0.78%) C#
9 1 (0.78%) Cypher
9 1 (0.78%) Groovy
9 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.78%) Ruby
9 1 (0.78%) Rust
9 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.34%) Degree
4 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.34%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) WCAG
4 2 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (41.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.03%) Grafana
2 9 (7.03%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.25%) Terraform
4 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (5.47%) Adobe
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.69%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.91%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.13%) Google
5 3 (2.34%) Confluent
5 3 (2.34%) New Relic
5 3 (2.34%) Oracle
6 2 (1.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.56%) Marketo
6 2 (1.56%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.78%) Apple
7 1 (0.78%) HP
7 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.78%) Okta
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk