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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 262 264
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 133 94 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.75% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.20% 2.87% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 60 89
10th Percentile £352 £368 £331
25th Percentile £513 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +6.59% -14.06%
75th Percentile £800 £691 £675
90th Percentile - £730 £720
England median daily rate £600 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +12.15% +1.90% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £61.40 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.80 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.67%

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 4,160 3,274 4,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.36% 26.03% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 2,301 3,346
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 24
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +21.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £76.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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
West London -17 16 - - 2
Central London -12 14 £575 -14.81% 6
South London - 1 £775 -
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 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) AWS
2 23 (17.29%) GCP
3 20 (15.04%) Azure
4 17 (12.78%) SaaS
5 11 (8.27%) Datadog
6 9 (6.77%) GitHub
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.51%) Serverless
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.26%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.50%) Boomi
11 2 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.50%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) HTTP
1 2 (1.50%) NaaS
1 2 (1.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) DSL
2 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.02%) MySQL
4 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.51%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.26%) Pinecone
5 3 (2.26%) Weaviate
6 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.50%) Flink
6 2 (1.50%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.50%) Redis
6 2 (1.50%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.75%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) Git
3 7 (5.26%) Vite
4 5 (3.76%) Gradle
5 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.01%) GitLab
6 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.50%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.50%) Selenium
7 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.75%) fastlane
8 1 (0.75%) Maven
8 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.75%) Spock
8 1 (0.75%) Storybook
General
1 47 (35.34%) Finance
2 38 (28.57%) Front Office
3 12 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.27%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Banking
6 3 (2.26%) Billing
6 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.26%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Police
8 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (52.63%) Developer
2 37 (27.82%) Software Engineer
3 32 (24.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 31 (23.31%) Senior
5 27 (20.30%) Lead
6 23 (17.29%) Lead Developer
7 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (13.53%) React Developer
9 15 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (9.02%) Java Engineer
12 11 (8.27%) Consultant
12 11 (8.27%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (8.27%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 11 (8.27%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 11 (8.27%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 11 (8.27%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 11 (8.27%) Technical Consultant
12 11 (8.27%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (50.38%) React
2 66 (49.62%) Node.js
3 47 (35.34%) REST
4 44 (33.08%) Kafka
5 39 (29.32%) Redux
6 21 (15.79%) Playwright
7 16 (12.03%) Vitest
8 13 (9.77%) Next.js
9 12 (9.02%) RESTful
10 11 (8.27%) OpenTelemetry
11 10 (7.52%) YAML
12 9 (6.77%) AngularJS
12 9 (6.77%) Vue
13 8 (6.02%) Django
13 8 (6.02%) Jest
14 7 (5.26%) Middleware
14 7 (5.26%) OAuth
14 7 (5.26%) React Native
15 6 (4.51%) gRPC
15 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.81%) Fixed Income
2 27 (20.30%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Android
1 6 (4.51%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (46.62%) Agile
2 54 (40.60%) Software Engineering
3 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
4 45 (33.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (28.57%) E-Commerce
6 33 (24.81%) Investment Management
7 32 (24.06%) Order Management
7 32 (24.06%) Portfolio Management
8 31 (23.31%) Mentoring
9 27 (20.30%) Observability
10 26 (19.55%) DevOps
11 21 (15.79%) API Design
11 21 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.53%) Code Quality
12 18 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (13.53%) Test Automation
13 17 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (12.03%) AI
14 16 (12.03%) Coaching
14 16 (12.03%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 85 (63.91%) TypeScript
2 49 (36.84%) Python
3 48 (36.09%) Java
3 48 (36.09%) JavaScript
4 36 (27.07%) Go
5 14 (10.53%) SQL
6 7 (5.26%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.26%) Swift
8 2 (1.50%) Bicep
8 2 (1.50%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Cypher
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.75%) Degree
3 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) WCAG
3 2 (1.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) ITGC
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (26.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.02%) Grafana
2 12 (9.02%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.02%) Terraform
4 2 (1.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.75%) Istio
5 1 (0.75%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.26%) New Relic
3 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.50%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.50%) Ciena
4 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.50%) Netlify
4 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe
5 1 (0.75%) Braze
5 1 (0.75%) BT
5 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.75%) SAP
5 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic