GraphQL Contract Job Trends in the South West

GraphQL
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GraphQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 114 133
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 1 31 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% 1.14% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 7.33% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 24 16
10th Percentile - £406 £397
25th Percentile - £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -8.17% -1.48%
75th Percentile - £555 £700
90th Percentile - £590 -
England median daily rate £505 £534 £600
% change year-on-year -5.43% -11.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 277 423 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.24% 15.61% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 251 406
10th Percentile £316 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £533 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +3.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £673 £690 £713
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 32
10th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £68.13 £64.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.38 £72.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% +4.17% -1.23%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the South West

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GraphQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Gloucestershire +20 1 £650 +21.95%
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft