GraphQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GraphQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 222 267
Rank change year-on-year -30 +45 -30
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 52 123 221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.80% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.03% 3.36% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 88 145
10th Percentile £370 £329 £450
25th Percentile £412 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £570 £576 £700
90th Percentile £587 £679 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +3.00% -15.61% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £75.50
UK median hourly rate - £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +1.67% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

GraphQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GraphQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GraphQL.

GraphQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GraphQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GraphQL.

GraphQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (9.62%) CMS
1 5 (9.62%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.92%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) AWS
2 20 (38.46%) Serverless
3 19 (36.54%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (23.08%) Azure
5 11 (21.15%) Amazon S3
6 8 (15.38%) GCP
7 6 (11.54%) GitHub
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.85%) Apigee
11 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.85%) SaaS
12 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) DynamoDB
2 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.54%) Redis
4 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.69%) MySQL
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Cypress.io
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 7 (13.46%) Git
4 6 (11.54%) Postman
5 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.69%) GitLab
6 3 (5.77%) Mocha
6 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.85%) JIRA
7 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.92%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.92%) gulp
8 1 (1.92%) JUnit
8 1 (1.92%) Mockito
8 1 (1.92%) NUnit
8 1 (1.92%) Selenium
8 1 (1.92%) Storybook
8 1 (1.92%) webpack
General
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Billing
4 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Games
4 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
4 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (57.69%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) React Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Backend Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.54%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.77%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Lead
9 3 (5.77%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (61.54%) React
2 28 (53.85%) Node.js
3 16 (30.77%) RESTful
4 11 (21.15%) REST
5 10 (19.23%) Next.js
6 8 (15.38%) CSS
6 8 (15.38%) Redux
7 7 (13.46%) HTML
8 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
8 6 (11.54%) Vue
9 5 (9.62%) HTML5
9 5 (9.62%) Jest
9 5 (9.62%) Kafka
9 5 (9.62%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (9.62%) OpenAPI
9 5 (9.62%) Swagger
9 5 (9.62%) WebSockets
10 4 (7.69%) AWS CDK
10 4 (7.69%) OAuth
10 4 (7.69%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.77%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 25 (48.08%) Agile
2 25 (48.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (36.54%) Microservices
4 17 (32.69%) DevOps
5 12 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (19.23%) TDD
7 9 (17.31%) Code Quality
7 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
8 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 7 (13.46%) Front End Development
9 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
10 6 (11.54%) API Development
10 6 (11.54%) Clean Code
10 6 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Design Patterns
10 6 (11.54%) User Experience
11 5 (9.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) TypeScript
2 23 (44.23%) JavaScript
3 11 (21.15%) Java
4 9 (17.31%) SQL
5 8 (15.38%) Python
6 2 (3.85%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) Bicep
7 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.85%) Google
1 2 (3.85%) New Relic
2 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
2 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle
2 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.92%) SAP
2 1 (1.92%) Typelevel