Apollo GraphQL Contract Job Trends in the South East

Apollo GraphQL
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Apollo GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 161 -
Rank change year-on-year -68 - -
Contract jobs citing Apollo GraphQL 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% 0.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £516 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% - -
75th Percentile £549 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £533 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -7.39% +43.75% -36.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Apollo 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 954 582 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.52% 16.80% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 404 517
10th Percentile £313 £303 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.62%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £625 £670
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 21 36
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.85 £27.38
25th Percentile £52.19 £32.31 £56.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% +0.57%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.93 £58.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

Apollo GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apollo GraphQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Apollo GraphQL job vacancy trend in the South East

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apollo GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apollo GraphQL within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Hampshire - 2 £533 -
Apollo GraphQL
England

Apollo GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus