GraphQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 319 336
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 26 80 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 2.43% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 68 82
10th Percentile £357 £313 £425
25th Percentile £409 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -15.48% -
75th Percentile £497 £550 £593
90th Percentile £529 £590 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +3.00% -15.61% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% -
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +40 10 £409 +2.25% 76
North of England +14 6 £417 -12.32% 69
North West +13 5 £417 -12.32% 59
Scotland +7 5 £478 -7.95% 5
Midlands +5 3 £420 +20.00% 9
West Midlands 0 2 £438 +25.00% 7
South West +33 1 £610 +39.43% 5
East of England +28 1 £500 -23.08% 17
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 10
East Midlands +7 1 £420 -11.58% 1
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UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.85%) Camunda
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
4 5 (19.23%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Functions
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.69%) Apigee
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Contentful
8 1 (3.85%) Firebase
8 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
8 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 4 (15.38%) Redis
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Storybook
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) NUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Postman
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) React Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Backend Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) GCP Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) React
2 13 (50.00%) RESTful
3 12 (46.15%) Node.js
4 8 (30.77%) REST
5 5 (19.23%) CSS
5 5 (19.23%) SOAP
6 4 (15.38%) Jest
6 4 (15.38%) Prisma
6 4 (15.38%) Redux
6 4 (15.38%) Spring
6 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.54%) Express.js
7 3 (11.54%) HTML
7 3 (11.54%) Next.js
7 3 (11.54%) OAuth
7 3 (11.54%) Playwright
8 2 (7.69%) CSS3
8 2 (7.69%) HTML5
8 2 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) Microservices
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (30.77%) Code Quality
4 8 (30.77%) Front End Development
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) API Development
6 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) API Integration
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Cost Management
8 4 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 9 (34.62%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) TIBCO