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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 261 273
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 -43
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 149 113 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 2.77% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 78 106
10th Percentile £331 £404 £413
25th Percentile £450 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £850 £700 £728
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.05
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £72.13
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £76.13
90th Percentile - - £76.95
England median hourly rate £62.00 £48.75 £61.00
% change year-on-year +27.18% -20.08% -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 3,756 4,078 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 25.94% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 2,668 3,761
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +5 28 £493 +20.42%
Central London +2 14 £600 +2.21% 4
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 6 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) CMS
3 3 (2.01%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.28%) AWS
2 32 (21.48%) SaaS
3 25 (16.78%) Azure
4 18 (12.08%) GitHub
5 16 (10.74%) GCP
6 15 (10.07%) Amazon S3
6 15 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.38%) Serverless
8 10 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.04%) Datadog
10 7 (4.70%) Firebase
11 6 (4.03%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.36%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.36%) Figma
12 5 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.68%) Google Gemini
14 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.71%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.71%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.70%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.03%) MySQL
5 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.34%) Redis
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.67%) Hasura
9 1 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (24.16%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.41%) Git
3 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.68%) Gradle
4 4 (2.68%) JUnit
4 4 (2.68%) Mockito
5 3 (2.01%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.01%) GitLab
5 3 (2.01%) JIRA
5 3 (2.01%) webpack
6 2 (1.34%) Maven
6 2 (1.34%) Snyk
7 1 (0.67%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.67%) Ant
7 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.67%) Mocha
7 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 39 (26.17%) Finance
2 22 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.09%) Front Office
4 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.36%) Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Billing
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (43.62%) Developer
2 43 (28.86%) Senior
3 19 (12.75%) Software Engineer
4 15 (10.07%) Lead
5 14 (9.40%) Consultant
5 14 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (9.40%) Lead Developer
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Consultant
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 14 (9.40%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 14 (9.40%) Technical Consultant
5 14 (9.40%) Technical Specialist
6 12 (8.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 12 (8.05%) React Developer
7 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.71%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.04%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (52.35%) Node.js
2 56 (37.58%) React
3 46 (30.87%) REST
4 27 (18.12%) Playwright
4 27 (18.12%) Vitest
5 23 (15.44%) Kafka
5 23 (15.44%) Redux
6 18 (12.08%) YAML
7 17 (11.41%) OAuth
8 16 (10.74%) RESTful
9 13 (8.72%) Next.js
10 12 (8.05%) CSS
10 12 (8.05%) HTML
11 11 (7.38%) OAuth2
11 11 (7.38%) Ruby on Rails
12 10 (6.71%) CSS3
12 10 (6.71%) HTML5
12 10 (6.71%) OpenTelemetry
13 8 (5.37%) Web Services
14 7 (4.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.05%) Fixed Income
4 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.36%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.68%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (2.01%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Animation
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.36%) Android
1 5 (3.36%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (53.69%) Agile
2 70 (46.98%) CI/CD
3 53 (35.57%) DevOps
4 42 (28.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (27.52%) Mentoring
6 39 (26.17%) Software Engineering
7 36 (24.16%) E-Commerce
8 35 (23.49%) Containerisation
9 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (18.12%) Coaching
12 25 (16.78%) API Design
13 24 (16.11%) Microservices
14 21 (14.09%) Code Quality
15 19 (12.75%) AI
15 19 (12.75%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (12.75%) Test Automation
16 18 (12.08%) Architectural Patterns
17 16 (10.74%) Observability
17 16 (10.74%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.40%) TypeScript
2 49 (32.89%) JavaScript
3 48 (32.21%) Java
4 47 (31.54%) Python
5 26 (17.45%) Go
6 19 (12.75%) SQL
7 13 (8.72%) Ruby
8 9 (6.04%) PHP
9 6 (4.03%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.01%) Swift
11 2 (1.34%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.67%) C#
12 1 (0.67%) Groovy
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.37%) Degree
1 8 (5.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.34%) QA
3 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.34%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (36.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (33.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.07%) Terraform
3 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.37%) Grafana
5 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.34%) Ansible
6 2 (1.34%) Istio
6 2 (1.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (4.70%) Adobe
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Google
2 6 (4.03%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.68%) YouTube
4 3 (2.01%) Confluent
4 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle
4 3 (2.01%) Splunk
5 2 (1.34%) Databricks
5 2 (1.34%) Marketo
5 2 (1.34%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.34%) Teradata
6 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.67%) Apple
6 1 (0.67%) HP
6 1 (0.67%) Informatica
6 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.67%) Okta