GraphQL Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GraphQL
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GraphQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 116 143
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 10 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.61% 0.45% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 2.52% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £406 £313 £530
25th Percentile £428 £325 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -27.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £625
90th Percentile - - £640
South East median daily rate £269 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -32.75% -23.81% -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 323 397 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.73% 17.74% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 273 299
10th Percentile £315 £363 £313
25th Percentile £395 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £662 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile - £50.87 £40.05
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -22.40%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £54.94
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £63.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the Thames Valley

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the Thames Valley

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Berkshire +18 10 £525 +20.00%
GraphQL
South East

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
2 1 (10.00%) Twilio
2 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Playwright
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (10.00%) Fastify
4 1 (10.00%) FHIR
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) LangChain
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
2 4 (40.00%) UX Design
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) WCAG
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk