GraphQL Contracts

GraphQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 353 330
Rank change year-on-year -31 -23 -31
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 135 257 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.59% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 2.87% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 190 290
10th Percentile £348 £325 £450
25th Percentile £410 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -15.61% +3.04%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £675 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £438 £525
% change year-on-year -1.71% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.20 £39.50
25th Percentile - £58.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £64.00 £72.50
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 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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 30 April 2025.

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 14 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 30 April 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 -28 109 £506 -1.22% 287
London -10 84 £580 +5.45% 176
Work from Home -23 49 £500 - 213
UK excluding London -2 24 £430 -1.71% 120
South East +37 10 £409 +2.25% 25
North of England +23 6 £417 -12.32% 59
North West +7 5 £417 -12.32% 49
Midlands +7 3 £420 +20.00% 8
Scotland +1 3 £505 -2.65% 5
West Midlands +2 2 £438 +25.00% 7
South West +33 1 £610 +39.43% 5
East of England +31 1 £500 -23.08% 12
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 10
East Midlands +7 1 £420 -11.58% 1

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 6 (4.44%) CMS
1 6 (4.44%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (57.78%) AWS
2 37 (27.41%) Azure
3 29 (21.48%) Serverless
4 25 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (17.78%) Amazon S3
6 18 (13.33%) GCP
7 15 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (11.11%) GitHub
8 12 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (8.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (8.89%) CloudFront
8 12 (8.89%) Route 53
9 9 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
10 8 (5.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (4.44%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
13 5 (3.70%) SaaS
14 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) HTTP
2 2 (1.48%) DSL
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.56%) NoSQL
1 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.81%) Redis
3 15 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (10.37%) SQL Server
5 13 (9.63%) DynamoDB
6 12 (8.89%) DocumentDB
7 8 (5.93%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.96%) MySQL
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (22.22%) Git
2 17 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.37%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.19%) CircleCI
4 7 (5.19%) JIRA
5 6 (4.44%) Postman
6 5 (3.70%) GitLab
7 3 (2.22%) Mocha
7 3 (2.22%) NUnit
7 3 (2.22%) Selenium
7 3 (2.22%) Terragrunt
7 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.48%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.48%) JMeter
8 2 (1.48%) JUnit
8 2 (1.48%) Mockito
8 2 (1.48%) MSTest
8 2 (1.48%) NSubstitute
8 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Banking
4 13 (9.63%) Retail Banking
5 6 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (60.74%) Developer
2 21 (15.56%) Senior
3 20 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (14.81%) React Developer
4 17 (12.59%) Software Engineer
5 12 (8.89%) Architect
6 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.67%) Android Developer
7 9 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.93%) Lead
9 7 (5.19%) AWS Developer
9 7 (5.19%) Backend Developer
9 7 (5.19%) C# Developer
9 7 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (5.19%) JavaScript Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (53.33%) React
2 54 (40.00%) RESTful
3 52 (38.52%) Node.js
4 21 (15.56%) Next.js
5 19 (14.07%) CSS
5 19 (14.07%) REST
6 18 (13.33%) Redux
7 17 (12.59%) HTML
8 15 (11.11%) .NET
9 14 (10.37%) Jest
10 10 (7.41%) SOAP
10 10 (7.41%) Vue
11 9 (6.67%) AngularJS
11 9 (6.67%) Kafka
11 9 (6.67%) OAuth
11 9 (6.67%) Web Services
11 9 (6.67%) WebSockets
12 7 (5.19%) Express.js
12 7 (5.19%) HTML5
12 7 (5.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Derivative
2 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.48%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.48%) PKI
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.67%) Android
2 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.04%) CI/CD
2 62 (45.93%) Agile
3 47 (34.81%) DevOps
4 42 (31.11%) Microservices
5 37 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (17.78%) SOLID
8 23 (17.04%) Code Quality
8 23 (17.04%) Software Engineering
9 21 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 21 (15.56%) TDD
10 20 (14.81%) Front End Development
11 19 (14.07%) Clean Code
12 18 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 16 (11.85%) Event-Driven
14 15 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 15 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (10.37%) API Development
15 14 (10.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.22%) TypeScript
2 52 (38.52%) JavaScript
3 24 (17.78%) Python
4 23 (17.04%) Java
5 22 (16.30%) SQL
6 17 (12.59%) C#
7 9 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.44%) Go
9 4 (2.96%) Ruby
10 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.22%) Swift
11 2 (1.48%) Bash
11 2 (1.48%) JSX
11 2 (1.48%) Perl
11 2 (1.48%) Rust
11 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.74%) Bicep
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) Degree
4 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (20.74%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.85%) Terraform
3 4 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.22%) Ansible
4 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.48%) Grafana
5 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.48%) Puppet
5 2 (1.48%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Google
2 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.19%) Salesforce
2 7 (5.19%) SAP
3 6 (4.44%) Adobe
4 5 (3.70%) Oracle
5 4 (2.96%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.22%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.48%) Apple
7 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.48%) Databricks
7 2 (1.48%) New Relic
7 2 (1.48%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.74%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.74%) TikTok
8 1 (0.74%) Typelevel