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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 336 291
Rank change year-on-year -7 -45 -37
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 253 439 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.74% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.85% 3.19% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 286 648
10th Percentile £325 £448 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +24.29%
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 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +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 4 May 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 16 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 4 May 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 -41 202 £506 -15.27% 94
London -15 130 £550 -13.39% 42
Work from Home +42 121 £500 -13.04% 54
UK excluding London +21 79 £450 -14.29% 50
Midlands +39 19 £350 -30.00% 12
South East +16 16 £400 -32.20% 6
West Midlands +35 15 £350 -26.32% 7
South West +19 14 £438 -12.50% 8
Scotland +40 11 £519 +10.37% 1
North of England -13 11 £475 -13.64% 15
North West +15 9 £475 -13.64% 4
Wales +19 5 £438 -2.78% 1
East Midlands +23 4 £475 -9.95% 5
East of England 0 3 £650 +22.64% 6
North East +18 1 £650 - 2
Yorkshire -13 1 £300 -45.45% 9

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 17 (6.72%) CMS
2 14 (5.53%) Headless CMS
3 7 (2.77%) Kentico
4 6 (2.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.48%) AWS
2 53 (20.95%) Azure
3 28 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (7.91%) Serverless
6 18 (7.11%) GCP
7 11 (4.35%) Azure API Management
8 10 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (3.95%) NuGet
9 8 (3.16%) GitHub
10 7 (2.77%) SaaS
11 6 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.98%) Figma
12 5 (1.98%) Miro
12 5 (1.98%) npm
13 4 (1.58%) CloudFront
13 4 (1.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.58%) DNS
1 4 (1.58%) FTP
1 4 (1.58%) VPN
2 2 (0.79%) 5G
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) SMS
3 1 (0.40%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.95%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.98%) MySQL
8 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.58%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (0.40%) Redis
10 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 46 (18.18%) Git
2 22 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 18 (7.11%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.14%) Postman
5 12 (4.74%) JIRA
6 7 (2.77%) Visual Studio
6 7 (2.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.37%) NUnit
8 5 (1.98%) GitLab
8 5 (1.98%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.98%) Storybook
8 5 (1.98%) webpack
9 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.58%) Gradle
9 4 (1.58%) Snyk
10 3 (1.19%) Mocha
10 3 (1.19%) Selenium
10 3 (1.19%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (17.00%) Finance
2 37 (14.62%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.53%) Banking
4 13 (5.14%) Retail
5 10 (3.95%) Front Office
6 8 (3.16%) Marketing
7 7 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Electronics
9 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.58%) German Language
10 4 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.79%) French Language
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 156 (61.66%) Developer
2 57 (22.53%) React Developer
3 45 (17.79%) Full Stack Developer
4 41 (16.21%) Senior
5 29 (11.46%) Architect
6 26 (10.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 21 (8.30%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.11%) Lead
9 16 (6.32%) Full Stack Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) JavaScript Developer
10 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.74%) Technical Architect
12 11 (4.35%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Developer
13 10 (3.95%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (3.56%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.77%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (55.34%) React
2 79 (31.23%) Node.js
3 63 (24.90%) REST
4 54 (21.34%) Next.js
5 43 (17.00%) CSS
6 40 (15.81%) Redux
7 37 (14.62%) HTML
8 26 (10.28%) AngularJS
9 23 (9.09%) .NET
10 18 (7.11%) RESTful
11 15 (5.93%) Playwright
11 15 (5.93%) Spring Boot
12 14 (5.53%) Jest
12 14 (5.53%) Kafka
12 14 (5.53%) Spring
13 13 (5.14%) SOAP
14 12 (4.74%) YAML
15 11 (4.35%) Express.js
15 11 (4.35%) HTML5
15 11 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.56%) Fixed Income
3 9 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.77%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.19%) Wiki
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.40%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Android
1 7 (2.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.04%) Agile
2 75 (29.64%) Full Stack Development
3 61 (24.11%) CI/CD
4 59 (23.32%) DevOps
5 49 (19.37%) Software Engineering
6 36 (14.23%) Front End Development
6 36 (14.23%) Microservices
6 36 (14.23%) TDD
7 27 (10.67%) E-Commerce
7 27 (10.67%) Test Automation
8 24 (9.49%) Scrum
9 19 (7.51%) BDD
9 19 (7.51%) Fintech
9 19 (7.51%) Unit Testing
10 18 (7.11%) Analytics
11 17 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (6.32%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (5.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (5.14%) Kanban
14 13 (5.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 113 (44.66%) TypeScript
2 86 (33.99%) JavaScript
3 47 (18.58%) SQL
4 46 (18.18%) Java
4 46 (18.18%) Python
5 16 (6.32%) C#
6 13 (5.14%) Go
6 13 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.37%) Bicep
7 6 (2.37%) PHP
7 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
8 1 (0.40%) Scala
8 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (5.53%) SC Cleared
1 14 (5.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.77%) Degree
4 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.58%) QA
4 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (14.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.49%) Terraform
3 6 (2.37%) Kibana
4 5 (1.98%) Grafana
4 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.58%) Ansible
6 2 (0.79%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) rkt
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
1 8 (3.16%) SAP
2 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.58%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.40%) Ariba
6 1 (0.40%) Dell
6 1 (0.40%) Google
6 1 (0.40%) Intel
6 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.40%) New Relic
6 1 (0.40%) Okta
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk