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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 351 344
Rank change year-on-year -35 -7 -42
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 146 254 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% 2.86% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 187 282
10th Percentile £340 £325 £450
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -15.25% +2.61%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -4.55%
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 6,620 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.77% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

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 5 May 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 5 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
England -22 114 £520 +4.00% 369
London +6 87 £586 +6.59% 246
Work from Home -21 54 £500 - 278
UK excluding London 0 28 £450 - 198
South East +36 9 £388 -3.13% 96
North of England +19 7 £417 -12.32% 62
Scotland +8 7 £450 -13.25% 5
North West +11 6 £417 -12.32% 50
Midlands +3 3 £420 +20.00% 9
West Midlands +5 2 £438 +25.00% 4
East of England +29 1 £500 -23.08% 14
South West +22 1 £610 +39.43% 10
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 12
East Midlands +11 1 £420 -11.58% 4

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 (4.11%) CMS
1 6 (4.11%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Camunda
3 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 88 (60.27%) AWS
2 35 (23.97%) Serverless
3 34 (23.29%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (22.60%) Amazon S3
4 33 (22.60%) Azure
5 21 (14.38%) GCP
6 18 (12.33%) GitHub
7 15 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (9.59%) Amazon Cognito
8 14 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (8.90%) CloudFront
10 12 (8.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 12 (8.22%) Route 53
11 11 (7.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.42%) Datadog
15 5 (3.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (3.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) HTTP
2 2 (1.37%) DSL
3 1 (0.68%) Broadband
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.44%) NoSQL
2 19 (13.01%) Amazon Aurora
2 19 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.96%) DynamoDB
3 16 (10.96%) Redis
4 14 (9.59%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.22%) DocumentDB
6 9 (6.16%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.11%) MySQL
8 5 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.37%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 32 (21.92%) Git
2 23 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.01%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.85%) JIRA
5 8 (5.48%) CircleCI
6 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.11%) GitLab
7 6 (4.11%) Postman
8 4 (2.74%) Storybook
9 3 (2.05%) Mocha
9 3 (2.05%) NUnit
9 3 (2.05%) Selenium
9 3 (2.05%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.37%) JMeter
10 2 (1.37%) JUnit
10 2 (1.37%) Mockito
10 2 (1.37%) MSTest
10 2 (1.37%) Subversion
10 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.18%) Finance
3 19 (13.01%) Banking
4 13 (8.90%) Retail Banking
5 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.42%) Retail
7 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (57.53%) Developer
2 24 (16.44%) React Developer
2 24 (16.44%) Senior
3 19 (13.01%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (13.01%) Software Engineer
4 15 (10.27%) Architect
5 11 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.16%) Android Developer
7 9 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.48%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Lead
9 7 (4.79%) AWS Developer
9 7 (4.79%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (4.79%) JavaScript Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) GCP Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (56.16%) React
2 56 (38.36%) Node.js
3 54 (36.99%) RESTful
4 24 (16.44%) REST
5 23 (15.75%) CSS
6 22 (15.07%) Next.js
7 18 (12.33%) Jest
7 18 (12.33%) Redux
8 17 (11.64%) HTML
9 15 (10.27%) .NET
10 14 (9.59%) AngularJS
11 12 (8.22%) SOAP
12 11 (7.53%) Kafka
13 10 (6.85%) AWS CDK
13 10 (6.85%) OAuth
13 10 (6.85%) Vue
13 10 (6.85%) WebSockets
14 9 (6.16%) Spring
14 9 (6.16%) Web Services
15 8 (5.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.90%) Derivative
3 10 (6.85%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.79%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.05%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.37%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.37%) PKI
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Android
2 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 71 (48.63%) Agile
3 50 (34.25%) DevOps
4 45 (30.82%) Microservices
5 40 (27.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (19.86%) Software Engineering
7 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (17.81%) Clean Code
8 26 (17.81%) SOLID
9 24 (16.44%) TDD
10 22 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (14.38%) Test Automation
12 19 (13.01%) Code Quality
12 19 (13.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (12.33%) Containerisation
13 18 (12.33%) Front End Development
13 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
13 18 (12.33%) User Experience
14 16 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (10.27%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (43.15%) TypeScript
2 55 (37.67%) JavaScript
3 30 (20.55%) Python
4 26 (17.81%) Java
5 25 (17.12%) SQL
6 19 (13.01%) C#
7 10 (6.85%) Go
8 9 (6.16%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.74%) Ruby
10 3 (2.05%) Bash
10 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.05%) Swift
11 2 (1.37%) JSX
11 2 (1.37%) Perl
11 2 (1.37%) Rust
11 2 (1.37%) Scala
11 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) Degree
4 8 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 6 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (19.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (24.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.64%) Terraform
3 6 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Grafana
4 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.37%) Puppet
5 2 (1.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (8.90%) Google
2 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
2 7 (4.79%) SAP
3 6 (4.11%) Adobe
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle
5 4 (2.74%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (2.74%) New Relic
6 3 (2.05%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.05%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.37%) Apple
7 2 (1.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.68%) TikTok
8 1 (0.68%) Typelevel