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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 251 257
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -31
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 135 102 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.76% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.42% 2.88% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 66 94
10th Percentile £352 £403 £331
25th Percentile £425 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £580 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +8.92% -11.25%
75th Percentile £744 £688 £672
90th Percentile £800 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £67.50
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £68.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -24.46% -0.71%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £70.75
90th Percentile - - £71.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -21.64% -4.29%

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 3,948 3,536 4,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.90% 26.25% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,668 2,340 3,435
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 30
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.35
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.79
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 16 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 16 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 +4 31 - - 1
Central London -19 9 £625 -7.41% 10
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London -11 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 4 (2.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.22%) CMS
2 3 (2.22%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.48%) Apache
3 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.52%) AWS
2 32 (23.70%) SaaS
3 22 (16.30%) Azure
4 18 (13.33%) GCP
5 11 (8.15%) GitHub
6 10 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.67%) Serverless
8 8 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.93%) Datadog
9 7 (5.19%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.44%) Firebase
11 4 (2.96%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.96%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.22%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.22%) Figma
12 3 (2.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.44%) MySQL
5 4 (2.96%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.96%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Hasura
8 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (28.15%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.93%) Git
3 5 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.70%) Gradle
4 4 (2.96%) JUnit
4 4 (2.96%) Mockito
5 3 (2.22%) GitLab
5 3 (2.22%) JIRA
6 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.48%) Selenium
6 2 (1.48%) Snyk
6 2 (1.48%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.74%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Ant
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) NeoLoad
General
1 34 (25.19%) Finance
2 20 (14.81%) Front Office
3 19 (14.07%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.44%) Banking
5 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Billing
7 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Publishing
7 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (43.70%) Developer
2 34 (25.19%) Senior
3 21 (15.56%) Lead
4 19 (14.07%) Software Engineer
5 17 (12.59%) Consultant
5 17 (12.59%) Lead Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Consultant
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 17 (12.59%) Technical Consultant
5 17 (12.59%) Technical Specialist
6 16 (11.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.15%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Lead Software Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Cloud Specialist
11 7 (5.19%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.33%) Node.js
2 51 (37.78%) React
3 36 (26.67%) REST
4 34 (25.19%) Playwright
5 31 (22.96%) Vitest
6 28 (20.74%) Kafka
7 25 (18.52%) Redux
8 19 (14.07%) YAML
9 15 (11.11%) OAuth
10 13 (9.63%) RESTful
11 12 (8.89%) Next.js
12 10 (7.41%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (6.67%) HTML
14 8 (5.93%) CSS
14 8 (5.93%) Django
15 7 (5.19%) AngularJS
15 7 (5.19%) CSS3
15 7 (5.19%) HTML5
15 7 (5.19%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.85%) Fixed Income
3 9 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.19%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Animation
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Android
3 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.81%) Agile
2 72 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 44 (32.59%) DevOps
3 44 (32.59%) Mentoring
4 43 (31.85%) Software Engineering
5 40 (29.63%) E-Commerce
6 36 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (23.70%) Containerisation
8 31 (22.96%) Coaching
9 28 (20.74%) API Design
10 27 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 21 (15.56%) Microservices
12 21 (15.56%) Observability
13 20 (14.81%) Code Quality
14 19 (14.07%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
15 18 (13.33%) Process Improvement
16 16 (11.85%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (63.70%) TypeScript
2 42 (31.11%) Java
3 40 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 36 (26.67%) Python
5 21 (15.56%) Go
6 19 (14.07%) SQL
7 5 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.48%) PHP
8 2 (1.48%) Swift
9 1 (0.74%) C#
9 1 (0.74%) Cypher
9 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) Rust
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) GDPR
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.22%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) WCAG
4 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.48%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (38.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (34.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Grafana
2 9 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 8 (5.93%) Terraform
4 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (4.44%) Adobe
1 6 (4.44%) Microsoft
1 6 (4.44%) OpenAI
2 5 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.96%) Google
4 3 (2.22%) Confluent
4 3 (2.22%) New Relic
4 3 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (1.48%) Databricks
5 2 (1.48%) Marketo
5 2 (1.48%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) HP
6 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Netlify
6 1 (0.74%) Okta
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk