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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 210 265
Rank change year-on-year -115 +55 +6
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 138 155 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.16% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 3.92% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 113 85
10th Percentile £405 £338 £418
25th Percentile £501 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £623
90th Percentile £787 £850 £688
England median daily rate £575 £525 £529
% change year-on-year +9.52% -0.76% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -28.57%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% +12.82% -20.08%

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 5,419 3,957 4,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 29.54% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 2,710 3,232
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £850
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 23
10th Percentile £31.20 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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 October 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 14 October 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 -28 16 £543 -9.58% 24
West London -33 7 £604 +22.64% 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 8 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
2 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.72%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.72%) Sketch
3 1 (0.72%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (53.62%) AWS
2 47 (34.06%) Azure
3 46 (33.33%) Serverless
4 26 (18.84%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (17.39%) GitHub
6 22 (15.94%) GCP
7 19 (13.77%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (6.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (6.52%) SaaS
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (5.07%) Datadog
12 7 (5.07%) Entra ID
13 6 (4.35%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (4.35%) Vertex AI
14 5 (3.62%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.12%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.22%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.97%) MySQL
3 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.52%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.35%) Metadata
6 5 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.62%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.62%) Pinecone
7 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.90%) Weaviate
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.17%) Stardog
8 3 (2.17%) TigerGraph
9 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.45%) Power BI
9 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (18.84%) Git
2 20 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.42%) Cypress.io
4 8 (5.80%) Vite
5 7 (5.07%) Gradle
6 5 (3.62%) GitLab
6 5 (3.62%) JSUnit
6 5 (3.62%) JUnit
7 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.90%) Maven
8 3 (2.17%) Mockito
8 3 (2.17%) webpack
9 2 (1.45%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (1.45%) Postman
9 2 (1.45%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.45%) Storybook
9 2 (1.45%) Xcode
10 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.72%) Crashlytics
General
1 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.84%) Finance
2 26 (18.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.35%) Banking
3 6 (4.35%) Front Office
4 5 (3.62%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.90%) Marketing
5 4 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.90%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Back Office
6 3 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.72%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (35.51%) Developer
2 33 (23.91%) Senior
3 18 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (11.59%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Architect
7 10 (7.25%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) React Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Azure Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.07%) JavaScript Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Energy Trading Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.35%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Mobile Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (51.45%) REST
2 56 (40.58%) React
3 41 (29.71%) Node.js
4 29 (21.01%) Kafka
5 27 (19.57%) Next.js
6 22 (15.94%) OAuth
6 22 (15.94%) OAuth2
7 19 (13.77%) CSS
8 17 (12.32%) HTML
9 16 (11.59%) RESTful
10 15 (10.87%) AngularJS
11 12 (8.70%) .NET
11 12 (8.70%) CSS3
11 12 (8.70%) HTML5
11 12 (8.70%) Spring
11 12 (8.70%) Terraform
12 11 (7.97%) Playwright
12 11 (7.97%) Spring Boot
12 11 (7.97%) Vue
13 10 (7.25%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.49%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.14%) AI Agents
4 11 (7.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.62%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.90%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.90%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.45%) Life Science
8 2 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.72%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Android
1 8 (5.80%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.65%) CI/CD
2 49 (35.51%) Agile
3 37 (26.81%) Event-Driven
4 36 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (24.64%) Microservices
6 30 (21.74%) AI
6 30 (21.74%) E-Commerce
7 29 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 24 (17.39%) DevOps
10 23 (16.67%) TDD
11 20 (14.49%) API Design
11 20 (14.49%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (13.77%) API Integration
12 19 (13.77%) User Experience
13 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
13 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
14 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
14 17 (12.32%) Test Automation
15 15 (10.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (55.80%) TypeScript
2 39 (28.26%) Python
3 37 (26.81%) JavaScript
4 36 (26.09%) Java
5 31 (22.46%) SQL
6 17 (12.32%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.80%) Go
8 7 (5.07%) C#
8 7 (5.07%) Swift
9 6 (4.35%) Scala
10 5 (3.62%) Cypher
11 4 (2.90%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.17%) Bash
12 3 (2.17%) Gremlin
12 3 (2.17%) Ruby
12 3 (2.17%) Rust
12 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.45%) Bicep
13 2 (1.45%) Elixir
14 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.87%) Degree
2 10 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.90%) GDPR
4 4 (2.90%) WCAG
5 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) ITGC
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (20.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.62%) Grafana
3 4 (2.90%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.97%) Google
3 9 (6.52%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.80%) Oracle
4 8 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.07%) Databricks
6 5 (3.62%) SAP
7 4 (2.90%) Workday
8 3 (2.17%) Confluent
8 3 (2.17%) Foundry
8 3 (2.17%) IBM
8 3 (2.17%) UiPath
9 2 (1.45%) New Relic
10 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.72%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.72%) SnapLogic