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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 212 270
Rank change year-on-year -105 +58 -15
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 133 155 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.15% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 3.93% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 90
10th Percentile £401 £352 £424
25th Percentile £513 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £638
90th Percentile £784 £850 £702
England median daily rate £575 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +11.65% -3.38% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -27.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% -13.93%

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 5,309 3,943 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.31% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 2,726 3,483
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £711
90th Percentile £763 £820 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

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 September 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 September 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 -33 13 £535 -10.83% 15
West London -33 7 £604 +24.52% 7
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 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.75%) Luigi
5 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.75%) Sketch
3 1 (0.75%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) AWS
2 44 (33.08%) Azure
3 40 (30.08%) Serverless
4 23 (17.29%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (15.79%) GCP
6 20 (15.04%) GitHub
7 17 (12.78%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.27%) SaaS
9 10 (7.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (6.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.51%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (4.51%) Datadog
12 5 (3.76%) Boomi
12 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.01%) AtomSphere
13 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) DSL
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.53%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.27%) MySQL
3 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.51%) Metadata
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.76%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.76%) Pinecone
6 5 (3.76%) Weaviate
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.26%) Redis
7 3 (2.26%) Stardog
7 3 (2.26%) TigerGraph
8 2 (1.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (18.80%) Git
2 18 (13.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.77%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.77%) Vite
5 5 (3.76%) JSUnit
6 4 (3.01%) GitLab
6 4 (3.01%) JUnit
7 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.26%) Gradle
7 3 (2.26%) Maven
7 3 (2.26%) webpack
8 2 (1.50%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.50%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.50%) Mockito
8 2 (1.50%) Postman
8 2 (1.50%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.50%) Storybook
9 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.75%) fastlane
9 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
General
1 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
2 25 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.51%) Front Office
4 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.01%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Marketing
5 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Back Office
6 3 (2.26%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Police
8 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (39.10%) Developer
2 34 (25.56%) Senior
3 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) React Developer
6 11 (8.27%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Architect
7 9 (6.77%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Azure Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Energy Trading Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (4.51%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (51.88%) REST
2 56 (42.11%) React
3 37 (27.82%) Node.js
4 28 (21.05%) Kafka
5 27 (20.30%) Next.js
6 21 (15.79%) CSS
7 19 (14.29%) HTML
7 19 (14.29%) OAuth
7 19 (14.29%) OAuth2
8 15 (11.28%) AngularJS
9 14 (10.53%) RESTful
10 13 (9.77%) CSS3
10 13 (9.77%) HTML5
11 12 (9.02%) Spring
11 12 (9.02%) Vue
12 11 (8.27%) Playwright
12 11 (8.27%) Spring Boot
12 11 (8.27%) Terraform
13 10 (7.52%) .NET
13 10 (7.52%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.77%) AI Agents
5 8 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.01%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.50%) Life Science
8 2 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Android
2 6 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.61%) CI/CD
2 43 (32.33%) Agile
3 37 (27.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (24.06%) Microservices
5 30 (22.56%) Event-Driven
6 29 (21.80%) E-Commerce
7 27 (20.30%) AI
8 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.54%) User Experience
10 21 (15.79%) DevOps
11 20 (15.04%) API Design
11 20 (15.04%) Mentoring
11 20 (15.04%) TDD
12 19 (14.29%) API Integration
12 19 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (13.53%) Data Modelling
13 18 (13.53%) Software Engineering
14 15 (11.28%) Front End Development
15 14 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.39%) TypeScript
2 38 (28.57%) Python
3 33 (24.81%) JavaScript
4 32 (24.06%) Java
5 30 (22.56%) SQL
6 13 (9.77%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.02%) Go
8 5 (3.76%) C#
8 5 (3.76%) Cypher
8 5 (3.76%) Swift
9 4 (3.01%) SPARQL
10 3 (2.26%) Bash
10 3 (2.26%) Gremlin
10 3 (2.26%) Ruby
10 3 (2.26%) Rust
10 3 (2.26%) Scala
10 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.50%) Bicep
11 2 (1.50%) Elixir
12 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (8.27%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) WCAG
4 4 (3.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) ITGC
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (16.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Grafana
2 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Google
2 8 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.26%) Databricks
3 7 (5.26%) Oracle
4 4 (3.01%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.01%) SAP
4 4 (3.01%) Workday
5 3 (2.26%) Confluent
6 2 (1.50%) Adobe
6 2 (1.50%) New Relic
7 1 (0.75%) Braze
7 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.75%) Netlify
7 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic