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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 221 250
Rank change year-on-year -95 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 137 155 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.15% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 3.89% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 113 90
10th Percentile £402 £354 £424
25th Percentile £510 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £638
90th Percentile £786 £850 £702
England median daily rate £575 £520 £533
% change year-on-year +10.58% -2.44% -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 5,356 3,982 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.57% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,747 3,469
10th Percentile £400 £366 £377
25th Percentile £450 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 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 19 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 14 £568 -5.42% 22
West London -35 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 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.73%) Luigi
5 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.73%) Sketch
3 1 (0.73%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.73%) Magento
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.55%) AWS
2 49 (35.77%) Azure
3 44 (32.12%) Serverless
4 24 (17.52%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (17.52%) GCP
4 24 (17.52%) GitHub
5 18 (13.14%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.03%) SaaS
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (6.57%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.11%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.38%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (4.38%) Datadog
11 6 (4.38%) Vertex AI
12 5 (3.65%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) DSL
1 1 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.71%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.87%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.03%) MySQL
3 11 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.11%) Pinecone
5 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.38%) Metadata
6 6 (4.38%) Weaviate
7 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.65%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.19%) Redis
8 3 (2.19%) Stardog
8 3 (2.19%) TigerGraph
9 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (20.44%) Git
2 19 (13.87%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.49%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.57%) Vite
5 5 (3.65%) GitLab
5 5 (3.65%) JSUnit
5 5 (3.65%) JUnit
6 4 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.92%) Gradle
6 4 (2.92%) Maven
7 3 (2.19%) Mockito
7 3 (2.19%) webpack
8 2 (1.46%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.46%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.46%) Postman
8 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.46%) Storybook
9 1 (0.73%) fastlane
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (17.52%) Finance
4 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Front Office
5 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.92%) Banking
6 4 (2.92%) Marketing
6 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Back Office
7 3 (2.19%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (37.96%) Developer
2 34 (24.82%) Senior
3 18 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (10.95%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) React Developer
6 11 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Architect
7 9 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Azure Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Energy Trading Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.38%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Mobile Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (53.28%) REST
2 55 (40.15%) React
3 38 (27.74%) Node.js
4 29 (21.17%) Kafka
5 26 (18.98%) Next.js
6 21 (15.33%) CSS
7 20 (14.60%) OAuth
7 20 (14.60%) OAuth2
8 19 (13.87%) HTML
9 15 (10.95%) AngularJS
10 14 (10.22%) RESTful
11 13 (9.49%) CSS3
11 13 (9.49%) HTML5
11 13 (9.49%) Spring
12 12 (8.76%) .NET
12 12 (8.76%) Spring Boot
12 12 (8.76%) Vue
13 11 (8.03%) Playwright
13 11 (8.03%) Terraform
14 10 (7.30%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.22%) AI Agents
4 10 (7.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.92%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.92%) Taxonomies
7 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Life Science
8 2 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.73%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.73%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.11%) Android
2 6 (4.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.53%) CI/CD
2 44 (32.12%) Agile
3 37 (27.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (25.55%) Event-Driven
5 32 (23.36%) AI
5 32 (23.36%) Microservices
6 29 (21.17%) E-Commerce
7 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (18.25%) DevOps
9 24 (17.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 21 (15.33%) TDD
10 21 (15.33%) User Experience
11 20 (14.60%) API Design
11 20 (14.60%) Mentoring
12 19 (13.87%) API Integration
12 19 (13.87%) Data Modelling
12 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
13 18 (13.14%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (11.68%) Observability
14 16 (11.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (56.93%) TypeScript
2 41 (29.93%) Python
3 36 (26.28%) Java
4 35 (25.55%) JavaScript
5 32 (23.36%) SQL
6 14 (10.22%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.84%) Go
8 7 (5.11%) C#
9 5 (3.65%) Cypher
9 5 (3.65%) Swift
10 4 (2.92%) Scala
10 4 (2.92%) SPARQL
11 3 (2.19%) Bash
11 3 (2.19%) Gremlin
11 3 (2.19%) Ruby
11 3 (2.19%) Rust
11 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.46%) Bicep
12 2 (1.46%) Elixir
13 1 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (9.49%) Degree
2 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) QA
2 8 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.65%) WCAG
4 4 (2.92%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.73%) ITGC
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (18.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.92%) Grafana
2 4 (2.92%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) Google
3 9 (6.57%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle
4 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.11%) Databricks
6 5 (3.65%) SAP
7 4 (2.92%) Workday
8 3 (2.19%) Confluent
8 3 (2.19%) Foundry
8 3 (2.19%) IBM
8 3 (2.19%) UiPath
9 2 (1.46%) Adobe
9 2 (1.46%) New Relic
10 1 (0.73%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.73%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.73%) Pega
10 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic