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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 231 270
Rank change year-on-year -63 +39 +5
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 146 136 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.00% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.20% 3.86% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 104 86
10th Percentile £400 £340 £425
25th Percentile £525 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £850 £709
England median daily rate £588 £509 £533
% change year-on-year +15.54% -4.60% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +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 4,568 3,520 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 25.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,446 3,162
10th Percentile £393 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%

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 17 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 17 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 -16 16 £556 -7.29% 2
West London -17 10 £604 +24.52% 2
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 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Luigi
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.68%) Magento
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 78 (53.42%) AWS
2 37 (25.34%) Azure
3 32 (21.92%) Serverless
4 26 (17.81%) GCP
5 21 (14.38%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (11.64%) GitHub
7 13 (8.90%) Amazon S3
8 11 (7.53%) SaaS
9 9 (6.16%) Datadog
9 9 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.42%) Boomi
11 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.42%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.74%) Amazon Neptune
12 4 (2.74%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.74%) AtomSphere
12 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) NaaS
1 2 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) DSL
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.11%) MySQL
5 5 (3.42%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.42%) Metadata
5 5 (3.42%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.74%) Redis
6 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.05%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.05%) Stardog
7 3 (2.05%) TigerGraph
7 3 (2.05%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) Git
2 17 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.90%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.16%) Vite
5 5 (3.42%) JSUnit
6 4 (2.74%) webpack
7 3 (2.05%) GitLab
7 3 (2.05%) Gradle
8 2 (1.37%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.37%) JUnit
8 2 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.37%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.37%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.37%) Storybook
9 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.68%) fastlane
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (23.97%) Finance
2 26 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (13.70%) Front Office
5 5 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.74%) Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Back Office
7 3 (2.05%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
7 3 (2.05%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.37%) Billing
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Marketing
8 2 (1.37%) Publishing
8 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (42.47%) Developer
2 32 (21.92%) Senior
3 27 (18.49%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (11.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 16 (10.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (10.27%) Lead
7 15 (10.27%) React Developer
8 14 (9.59%) Senior Developer
9 13 (8.90%) Lead Developer
10 12 (8.22%) Architect
11 11 (7.53%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
12 10 (6.85%) Lead Software Developer
13 9 (6.16%) Java Engineer
13 9 (6.16%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Backend Developer
14 6 (4.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 6 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (43.84%) React
2 63 (43.15%) REST
3 52 (35.62%) Node.js
4 41 (28.08%) Kafka
5 26 (17.81%) Next.js
6 25 (17.12%) Redux
7 17 (11.64%) RESTful
8 15 (10.27%) Playwright
9 14 (9.59%) CSS
10 12 (8.22%) Jest
10 12 (8.22%) Spring
11 11 (7.53%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.53%) HTML
11 11 (7.53%) OAuth
11 11 (7.53%) OAuth2
11 11 (7.53%) Spring Boot
12 8 (5.48%) React Native
12 8 (5.48%) SOAP
12 8 (5.48%) Vue
13 7 (4.79%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (13.01%) Cloud Native
3 17 (11.64%) Fixed Income
4 9 (6.16%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.74%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.68%) CMDB
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Android
2 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.36%) Agile
1 56 (38.36%) CI/CD
2 43 (29.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (25.34%) Software Engineering
4 32 (21.92%) E-Commerce
5 27 (18.49%) Microservices
6 26 (17.81%) AI
7 23 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.07%) API Design
8 22 (15.07%) User Experience
9 21 (14.38%) Event-Driven
9 21 (14.38%) Mentoring
10 20 (13.70%) Investment Management
10 20 (13.70%) Observability
11 19 (13.01%) DevOps
11 19 (13.01%) TDD
12 18 (12.33%) API Integration
13 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (11.64%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (11.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (60.27%) TypeScript
2 43 (29.45%) Java
3 40 (27.40%) JavaScript
3 40 (27.40%) Python
4 26 (17.81%) Go
5 25 (17.12%) SQL
6 13 (8.90%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.11%) C#
8 5 (3.42%) Cypher
8 5 (3.42%) SPARQL
8 5 (3.42%) Swift
9 3 (2.05%) Bash
9 3 (2.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) Gremlin
9 3 (2.05%) Ruby
9 3 (2.05%) Rust
9 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.37%) C++
10 2 (1.37%) Elixir
11 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.16%) Degree
2 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) QA
2 8 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.74%) WCAG
5 3 (2.05%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) ITGC
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (17.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 24 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.59%) Terraform
3 6 (4.11%) Grafana
3 6 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.37%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
5 1 (0.68%) linkerd
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.85%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.79%) Google
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle
4 5 (3.42%) SAP
5 4 (2.74%) Workday
6 3 (2.05%) Confluent
7 2 (1.37%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.37%) Ciena
7 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.37%) New Relic
7 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe
8 1 (0.68%) Braze
8 1 (0.68%) BT
8 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Netlify
8 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic