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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 105 97
Rank change year-on-year -48 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.21% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.69% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £485 - £339
25th Percentile £516 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.88%
75th Percentile £597 - £512
90th Percentile £600 - £515
England median daily rate £600 £551 £525
% change year-on-year +8.84% +5.00% -12.50%

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 623 236 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.05% 17.72% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 149 233
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £442 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £610
90th Percentile £630 £628 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile £25.20 - -
25th Percentile £53.06 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +46.70% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in Yorkshire

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 9 July 2026. 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 -23 6 £575 - 3
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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Vite
General
1 4 (66.67%) Games
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Backend Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (66.67%) Technical Debt
4 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (16.67%) Progressive Web App
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) UX Design
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker