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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 306 328
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 48 85 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.52% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 64 76
10th Percentile £261 £316 £400
25th Percentile £323 £375 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -11.68% -7.36%
75th Percentile £473 £533 £596
90th Percentile £527 £587 £663
UK median daily rate £518 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -0.48% -13.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

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 2,730 3,368 4,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.43% 16.25% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,203 3,044
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 240 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.44 £22.34
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -1.24% +7.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.84%

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

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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 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
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 15 July 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 +48 22 £340 -32.00% 23
North of England -5 12 £425 -10.53% 44
North West +8 8 £425 -8.11% 22
Midlands -6 8 £420 +12.00% 11
Scotland -1 6 £450 +0.28% 4
West Midlands 0 5 £438 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire 0 4 - - 19
East Midlands -8 3 £380 -13.14% 3
GraphQL
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 (2.08%) Camunda
1 1 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP HR
1 3 (6.25%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
2 11 (22.92%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (18.75%) GCP
3 9 (18.75%) Serverless
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.50%) GitHub
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
6 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) Apigee
7 3 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (6.25%) Firebase
7 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.08%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Wireless
2 1 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 8 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.50%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Jenkins
2 15 (31.25%) JIRA
3 13 (27.08%) Git
4 9 (18.75%) Cypress.io
5 6 (12.50%) Subversion
6 4 (8.33%) Storybook
7 3 (6.25%) Android Studio
7 3 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (6.25%) CircleCI
7 3 (6.25%) Eclipse
7 3 (6.25%) GitLab
7 3 (6.25%) Xcode
8 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
4 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (58.33%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) React Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Architect
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Support
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) UX Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (54.17%) React
2 23 (47.92%) RESTful
3 16 (33.33%) REST
4 14 (29.17%) Node.js
5 12 (25.00%) Kafka
6 11 (22.92%) gRPC
6 11 (22.92%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (18.75%) CSS
8 6 (12.50%) Jest
8 6 (12.50%) Playwright
9 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.42%) Django
9 5 (10.42%) Express.js
9 5 (10.42%) SOAP
9 5 (10.42%) Spring
9 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
10 4 (8.33%) Apollo GraphQL
10 4 (8.33%) OAuth
10 4 (8.33%) Redux
10 4 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
2 3 (6.25%) Android
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 27 (56.25%) Agile
3 23 (47.92%) Microservices
4 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.08%) DevOps
5 13 (27.08%) User Experience
6 12 (25.00%) Scrum
7 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 10 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.83%) TDD
8 8 (16.67%) API Development
8 8 (16.67%) BDD
8 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 8 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 8 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 16 (33.33%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 14 (29.17%) Java
4 13 (27.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.67%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 3 (6.25%) Apex Code
7 3 (6.25%) Bash
7 3 (6.25%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 8 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.17%) WCAG
2 1 (2.08%) HL7
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Grafana
3 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) PagerDuty
4 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.25%) SAP
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) Adobe
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) TIBCO