GraphQL Contracts in the West Midlands

GraphQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 100 116
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +57
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GraphQL 9 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.52% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 3.09% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £429 £305 -
25th Percentile £456 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -5.26% -24.00%
75th Percentile £579 £475 £541
90th Percentile £622 £505 £558
England median daily rate £512 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -3.94% -11.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 283 324 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.41% 16.99% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 203 235
10th Percentile £354 £339 £335
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £674 £603
90th Percentile £661 £750 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 1
10th Percentile £33.91 £30.55 -
25th Percentile £37.93 £55.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +32.35% -26.72%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.49% -0.80% +4.17%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the West Midlands

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coventry 0 5 £505 +68.33% 2
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
GraphQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SAP HR
1 4 (44.44%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce Technical Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (44.44%) SAP PI
1 4 (44.44%) Visualforce
2 3 (33.33%) React
3 2 (22.22%) Jest
3 2 (22.22%) Next.js
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Django
4 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 1 (11.11%) Flask
4 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
4 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
4 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (11.11%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) Redux
4 1 (11.11%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) Data Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 4 (44.44%) ETL
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Sequence Diagram
4 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (44.44%) Use Case
4 4 (44.44%) User Stories
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
6 2 (22.22%) Service Management
7 1 (11.11%) Analytics
7 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Apex Code
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce
2 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft