GraphQL Contracts in the North West

GraphQL
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 115 133
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +25
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 10 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.17% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.27% 1.02% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 16
10th Percentile £351 £385 £406
25th Percentile £361 £400 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £492 £525 £637
90th Percentile £512 £555 £648
England median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 440 392 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.26% 16.34% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 278 464
10th Percentile £317 £350 £337
25th Percentile £375 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £537 £605 £619
90th Percentile £621 £825 £668
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 18
10th Percentile £27.60 £43.90 £37.78
25th Percentile £30.00 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +46.17% -34.03%
75th Percentile - £71.87 -
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.90 £64.13
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the North West.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the North West

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the North West over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Manchester +13 8 £475 +5.56% 19
Cheshire -15 2 £354 - 3
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Camunda
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Apigee
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (10.00%) Contentful
4 1 (10.00%) n8n
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (30.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (20.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Node.js
2 8 (80.00%) React
3 6 (60.00%) RESTful
4 4 (40.00%) Playwright
5 3 (30.00%) Express.js
5 3 (30.00%) Next.js
5 3 (30.00%) OAuth
5 3 (30.00%) Puppeteer
5 3 (30.00%) REST
6 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) CSS3
6 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (20.00%) HTML5
6 2 (20.00%) Jest
6 2 (20.00%) Vue
7 1 (10.00%) React Native
7 1 (10.00%) Redux
7 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) API Development
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
6 2 (20.00%) API Design
6 2 (20.00%) Fintech
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO