GraphQL Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GraphQL
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 7 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.24% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 1.18% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £576 - £416
25th Percentile £578 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.06% -10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £598 £475 -
90th Percentile £603 - £658
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 424 254 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.35% 19.92% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 158 290
10th Percentile £363 £424 £374
25th Percentile £413 £457 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% -8.41%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £729 £650
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £35.91 -
25th Percentile - £66.95 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £96.21 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year - +290.45% -64.80%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile - - £51.43
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GraphQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

GraphQL job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Yorkshire -9 7 £585 +30.06% 1
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bundler
2 1 (14.29%) ESLint
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jasmine
2 1 (14.29%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (14.29%) Mocha
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Celery
2 4 (57.14%) Django
2 4 (57.14%) FastAPI
2 4 (57.14%) Flask
2 4 (57.14%) gRPC
2 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) WebSockets
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) React
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Handlebars
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) Mustache
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Design Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) AI
3 4 (57.14%) Clean Code
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) OOP
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
4 3 (42.86%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform