GraphQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 334 303
Rank change year-on-year -21 -31 -54
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 254 451 810
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.75% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 3.24% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 291 631
10th Percentile £325 £450 £425
25th Percentile £409 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £56.20 £39.50 -
25th Percentile £58.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £72.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £77.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

GraphQL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -28 202 £506 -15.63% 109
London -20 131 £550 -14.73% 46
Work from Home +39 122 £500 -13.04% 63
UK excluding London +18 79 £438 -16.67% 58
Midlands +35 20 £350 -30.35% 10
West Midlands +42 16 £350 -24.32% 6
South East +18 16 £400 -22.33% 9
South West +17 13 £438 -12.50% 8
Scotland +31 11 £519 +10.37% 1
North of England -7 10 £475 -13.64% 24
North West +12 9 £475 -13.64% 11
Wales +21 6 £431 -4.17% 1
East Midlands +18 4 £475 -9.95% 4
East of England +7 3 £650 +22.64% 7
North East +19 1 £650 - 2

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 16 (6.30%) CMS
2 13 (5.12%) Headless CMS
3 7 (2.76%) Confluence
3 7 (2.76%) Kentico
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 112 (44.09%) AWS
2 54 (21.26%) Azure
3 27 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (7.87%) GCP
6 19 (7.48%) Serverless
7 11 (4.33%) Azure API Management
8 10 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (3.94%) NuGet
9 9 (3.54%) GitHub
10 7 (2.76%) SaaS
11 6 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.97%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.97%) Figma
13 4 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.57%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.57%) CloudFront
13 4 (1.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) DNS
1 4 (1.57%) FTP
1 4 (1.57%) VPN
2 2 (0.79%) 5G
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.94%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.36%) MySQL
6 6 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.57%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.39%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (0.39%) Redis
10 1 (0.39%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 47 (18.50%) Git
2 20 (7.87%) Cypress.io
3 17 (6.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.12%) JIRA
5 12 (4.72%) Postman
6 7 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.36%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.97%) GitLab
8 5 (1.97%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.97%) NUnit
8 5 (1.97%) Storybook
8 5 (1.97%) webpack
9 4 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.57%) Gradle
9 4 (1.57%) Snyk
10 3 (1.18%) Selenium
10 3 (1.18%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) Mocha
11 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (16.93%) Finance
2 37 (14.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.72%) Banking
4 11 (4.33%) Front Office
4 11 (4.33%) Retail
5 8 (3.15%) Marketing
6 7 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Electronics
7 5 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.97%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.57%) German Language
9 2 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.79%) French Language
9 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 159 (62.60%) Developer
2 57 (22.44%) React Developer
3 46 (18.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 38 (14.96%) Senior
5 29 (11.42%) Architect
6 25 (9.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 21 (8.27%) Software Engineer
8 20 (7.87%) Lead
9 17 (6.69%) Full Stack Engineer
10 15 (5.91%) JavaScript Developer
10 15 (5.91%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.72%) E-Commerce Developer
11 12 (4.72%) Technical Architect
12 11 (4.33%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 8 (3.15%) Java Developer
15 8 (3.15%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (54.33%) React
2 78 (30.71%) Node.js
3 66 (25.98%) REST
4 52 (20.47%) Next.js
5 46 (18.11%) CSS
6 40 (15.75%) HTML
6 40 (15.75%) Redux
7 25 (9.84%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.66%) .NET
9 18 (7.09%) RESTful
10 15 (5.91%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.51%) Kafka
11 14 (5.51%) Playwright
11 14 (5.51%) Spring
12 13 (5.12%) HTML5
12 13 (5.12%) Jest
12 13 (5.12%) SOAP
12 13 (5.12%) Web Services
13 12 (4.72%) YAML
14 11 (4.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.72%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.94%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.18%) Wiki
6 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.39%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.39%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.15%) Android
1 8 (3.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.31%) Full Stack Development
2 74 (29.13%) Agile
3 59 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 59 (23.23%) DevOps
4 47 (18.50%) Software Engineering
5 35 (13.78%) Front End Development
5 35 (13.78%) Microservices
6 34 (13.39%) TDD
7 29 (11.42%) E-Commerce
8 26 (10.24%) Test Automation
9 24 (9.45%) Scrum
10 19 (7.48%) Analytics
10 19 (7.48%) Fintech
10 19 (7.48%) Unit Testing
11 18 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (6.69%) BDD
13 16 (6.30%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (5.91%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (4.72%) Clean Code
15 12 (4.72%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 109 (42.91%) TypeScript
2 88 (34.65%) JavaScript
3 47 (18.50%) Java
3 47 (18.50%) Python
4 46 (18.11%) SQL
5 17 (6.69%) C#
6 13 (5.12%) Go
6 13 (5.12%) Kotlin
7 9 (3.54%) PHP
8 6 (2.36%) Bicep
8 6 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) DataFlex
9 1 (0.39%) Scala
9 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (5.51%) SC Cleared
1 14 (5.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.54%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.76%) Degree
4 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.94%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.97%) QA
System Software
1 34 (13.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.45%) Terraform
3 6 (2.36%) Kibana
4 4 (1.57%) Ansible
4 4 (1.57%) Grafana
4 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.79%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
6 1 (0.39%) rkt
Vendors
1 9 (3.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.76%) SAP
3 6 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.57%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle
7 1 (0.39%) Dell
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) Intel
7 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.39%) New Relic
7 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Splunk