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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 80 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +30
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GraphQL 13 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.28% 0.33% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 1.59% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £400 - £363
25th Percentile £438 £375 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £561 £500 £550
90th Percentile £583 £545 £575
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -9.09%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 193 252 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.05% 20.84% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 173 306
10th Percentile £339 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -4.48%
75th Percentile £545 £688 £600
90th Percentile £612 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £445 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -10.01% -4.90% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £70.63 £63.25 £62.00
25th Percentile £71.56 £64.38 £63.13
Median hourly rate £76.25 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84.06 £73.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £73.90 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -34.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in Manchester

GraphQL
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 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) Serverless
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (38.46%) Apigee
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (30.77%) GitHub
5 4 (30.77%) SaaS
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (15.38%) Datadog
7 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (15.38%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) DynamoDB
2 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Redis
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
2 5 (38.46%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) CircleCI
3 3 (23.08%) GitLab
4 2 (15.38%) Gradle
4 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 2 (15.38%) SonarLint
4 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Java Technical Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) RESTful
2 8 (61.54%) Node.js
3 7 (53.85%) React
4 5 (38.46%) Playwright
5 4 (30.77%) Express.js
5 4 (30.77%) JWT
5 4 (30.77%) Next.js
5 4 (30.77%) OAuth
6 3 (23.08%) Dropwizard
6 3 (23.08%) J2EE
6 3 (23.08%) Jest
6 3 (23.08%) Micronaut
6 3 (23.08%) Puppeteer
6 3 (23.08%) REST
6 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
7 2 (15.38%) Celery
7 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
8 1 (7.69%) React Native
8 1 (7.69%) Redux
8 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) N-Tier
3 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) API Design
5 4 (30.77%) API Development
5 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
5 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
5 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 4 (30.77%) OOP
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
6 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Observability
6 3 (23.08%) SOLID
6 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 7 (53.85%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Gigya
1 3 (23.08%) Google
1 3 (23.08%) PagerDuty