GraphQL Contracts in Scotland

GraphQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 116 141
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +27
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 6 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% 0.11% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 0.53% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £418 - £450
25th Percentile £423 £375 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% -22.45%
75th Percentile £488 £425 £531
90th Percentile £512 - £595
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 403 380 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.27% 20.00% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 265 446
10th Percentile £313 £325 £388
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £613
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £51.50 £18.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% +0.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.42% +4.93%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in Scotland

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in Scotland

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +14 6 £450 - 2
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Cognito
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Firebase
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 4 (66.67%) Storybook
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) React Developer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Jest
2 4 (66.67%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Amplify
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (16.67%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) OWASP
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google