Apollo GraphQL Contract Job Trends

Apollo GraphQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apollo GraphQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 566 625
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 +189
Contract jobs citing Apollo GraphQL 8 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.018% 0.028%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.082% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £500 £325 £338
25th Percentile £516 £344 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £511
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -21.72% -14.83%
75th Percentile £588 £444 £599
90th Percentile £624 £455 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £325 £511
% change year-on-year +76.92% -36.40% -14.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,486 8,575 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 22.42% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 5,593 7,918
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 186 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%

Apollo GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apollo GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apollo GraphQL in the UK

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apollo GraphQL over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apollo GraphQL in the UK

Apollo GraphQL
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +33 8 £575 +43.75% 6
UK excluding London +2 5 £575 +76.92% 1
South East - 4 £575 -
Work from Home +9 3 £500 +11.11% 5
London +23 1 £660 +55.29% 5
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Apollo GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Firebase
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (87.50%) React
3 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Next.js
4 2 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth
5 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 1 (12.50%) React Native
5 1 (12.50%) Redux
5 1 (12.50%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) User Experience
1 4 (50.00%) UX Design
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
3 1 (12.50%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat