GraphQL Contracts in Manchester

GraphQL
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 87 109
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 3 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 2.49% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £464 £395 £457
25th Percentile £466 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -7.32% -4.65%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £627
90th Percentile £521 £515 £665
North West median daily rate £417 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -12.32% -13.64% +4.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in Manchester

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Apigee
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Contentful
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) CircleCI
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Puppeteer
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Express.js
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
3 1 (33.33%) Next.js
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) React Native
3 1 (33.33%) Redux
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
80 GraphQL jobs in the North West