Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 May 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

GraphQL
UK > England
6 months to
18 May 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 204 403 698
Rank change year-on-year +199 +295 +321
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 1,345 617 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.68% 0.70% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.13% 1.78% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 815 521 302
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

GraphQL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 32,562 34,570 51,808
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 40.56% 39.31% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,031 28,965 43,083
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in England.

Salary trend for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2021.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in England

GraphQL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2021. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
London +195 1,002 £75,000 +3.45% 157
South East +73 92 £65,000 +18.18% 25
North of England -10 91 £53,750 +7.50% 57
North West +41 65 £55,000 +2.33% 34
South West +3 56 £50,000 -6.98% 20
Midlands +15 49 £50,000 - 17
West Midlands +8 38 £50,000 - 13
East of England +42 21 £75,000 +57.89% 11
Yorkshire -50 21 £47,500 -5.00% 13
East Midlands +1 8 £53,250 +18.33% 4
North East +1 5 £35,000 -12.50% 10
GraphQL
UK

For the 6 months to 18 May 2021, IT jobs citing GraphQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for GraphQL.

1 751 (55.84%) JavaScript
2 614 (45.65%) TypeScript
2 614 (45.65%) React
3 595 (44.24%) Node.js
4 574 (42.68%) Agile Software Development
5 466 (34.65%) Software Engineering
6 445 (33.09%) AWS
7 424 (31.52%) Microservices
8 422 (31.38%) Docker
9 399 (29.67%) Python
10 372 (27.66%) Kubernetes
11 337 (25.06%) Git (software)
12 332 (24.68%) REST
13 281 (20.89%) CSS
14 278 (20.67%) User Experience
15 266 (19.78%) DevOps
15 266 (19.78%) Java
16 256 (19.03%) TDD
17 248 (18.44%) HTML
18 232 (17.25%) Front End Development
19 230 (17.10%) GCP
20 228 (16.95%) Test Automation
21 223 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
22 220 (16.36%) Finance
23 208 (15.46%) Azure
23 208 (15.46%) Mentoring
24 207 (15.39%) SQL
25 202 (15.02%) Serverless
26 180 (13.38%) Cypress.io
27 174 (12.94%) MongoDB

GraphQL
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (9.37%) Elasticsearch
2 32 (2.38%) CMS
3 22 (1.64%) Headless CMS
4 19 (1.41%) Confluence
5 18 (1.34%) Apache
6 16 (1.19%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.74%) Drupal
8 9 (0.67%) Apache Solr
8 9 (0.67%) NServiceBus
9 8 (0.59%) IIS
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
10 7 (0.52%) nginx
11 5 (0.37%) WordPress
12 4 (0.30%) Kentico
13 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.074%) EPiServer
14 1 (0.074%) Moodle
14 1 (0.074%) Mule
Applications
1 47 (3.49%) Sketch
2 33 (2.45%) InVision
3 16 (1.19%) Figma
4 12 (0.89%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.74%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.59%) Zeplin
7 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.37%) Marvel
9 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.30%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.15%) GIMP
11 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Excel
11 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Magento
2 7 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.52%) Shopify
3 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.15%) Summit
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.074%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 445 (33.09%) AWS
2 230 (17.10%) GCP
3 208 (15.46%) Azure
4 202 (15.02%) Serverless
5 147 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
6 120 (8.92%) SaaS
7 68 (5.06%) GitHub
8 59 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 26 (1.93%) npm
10 24 (1.78%) Cloud Functions
11 23 (1.71%) CloudFront
12 22 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (1.41%) AWS Fargate
13 19 (1.41%) PaaS
14 15 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.12%) Power Platform
14 15 (1.12%) Yarn
15 14 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.19%) HTTP
2 11 (0.82%) Broadband
3 7 (0.52%) Network Security
4 4 (0.30%) Intranet
5 3 (0.22%) MQTT
5 3 (0.22%) SSH
5 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.15%) DAB
6 2 (0.15%) FTP
6 2 (0.15%) VoIP
7 1 (0.074%) DNS
7 1 (0.074%) Firewall
7 1 (0.074%) Internet
7 1 (0.074%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
2 174 (12.94%) MongoDB
3 138 (10.26%) NoSQL
4 99 (7.36%) MySQL
5 85 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 62 (4.61%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 61 (4.54%) Big Data
8 40 (2.97%) Redis
9 33 (2.45%) RDBMS
10 29 (2.16%) SQL Server
11 26 (1.93%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (1.41%) Hadoop
14 18 (1.34%) Neo4j
15 15 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.74%) Bigtable
17 9 (0.67%) CockroachDB
17 9 (0.67%) FoundationDB
18 8 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 337 (25.06%) Git (software)
2 180 (13.38%) Cypress.io
3 91 (6.77%) webpack
4 49 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 46 (3.42%) CircleCI
5 46 (3.42%) PostCSS
6 45 (3.35%) Mocha
7 44 (3.27%) Storybook
8 38 (2.83%) Selenium
9 34 (2.53%) Babel
9 34 (2.53%) GitLab
10 33 (2.45%) gulp
11 32 (2.38%) JIRA
12 29 (2.16%) Postman
13 23 (1.71%) Jasmine
14 17 (1.26%) JMeter
15 16 (1.19%) Sinon.JS
16 14 (1.04%) ESLint
17 13 (0.97%) Grunt
18 12 (0.89%) Gradle
General
1 220 (16.36%) Finance
2 146 (10.86%) Social Skills
3 86 (6.39%) Retail
4 81 (6.02%) Games
5 70 (5.20%) Banking
6 52 (3.87%) Marketing
7 47 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (2.83%) Front Office
9 15 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.04%) Law
10 14 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (0.97%) Advertising
12 12 (0.89%) Public Sector
13 11 (0.82%) Brand Awareness
14 9 (0.67%) Electronics
15 7 (0.52%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.45%) Billing
17 5 (0.37%) Back Office
18 4 (0.30%) Local Government
19 3 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 759 (56.43%) Developer
2 240 (17.84%) Senior Developer
3 190 (14.13%) React Developer
3 190 (14.13%) Software Engineer
4 157 (11.67%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 154 (11.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 103 (7.66%) Backend Developer
7 91 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 88 (6.54%) JavaScript Developer
9 59 (4.39%) Java Developer
10 58 (4.31%) Python Developer
11 54 (4.01%) Node.js Developer
11 54 (4.01%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 52 (3.87%) Lead Developer
12 52 (3.87%) Senior React Developer
13 51 (3.79%) Senior Full Stack Developer
14 38 (2.83%) Front Office Developer
15 35 (2.60%) JavaScript Engineer
16 30 (2.23%) Software Developer
17 29 (2.16%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 614 (45.65%) React
2 595 (44.24%) Node.js
3 332 (24.68%) REST
4 281 (20.89%) CSS
5 248 (18.44%) HTML
6 160 (11.90%) AngularJS
7 158 (11.75%) Redux
8 157 (11.67%) Apollo GraphQL
8 157 (11.67%) RESTful
9 148 (11.00%) Jest
10 128 (9.52%) React Native
11 127 (9.44%) Vue.js
12 122 (9.07%) Next.js
13 116 (8.62%) .NET
14 110 (8.18%) HTML5
15 103 (7.66%) Sass
16 102 (7.58%) Spring
17 95 (7.06%) CSS3
17 95 (7.06%) Kafka
18 94 (6.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 278 (20.67%) User Experience
2 100 (7.43%) Mobile App
3 75 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
4 63 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.05%) Equities
6 40 (2.97%) Hedge funds
7 39 (2.90%) Derivative
8 38 (2.83%) Credit Risk
8 38 (2.83%) Fixed Income
8 38 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 36 (2.68%) Algorithms
10 22 (1.64%) Social Media
11 21 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.49%) Client/Server
13 17 (1.26%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.12%) Blog
14 15 (1.12%) Social Network
15 13 (0.97%) Podcast
16 12 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.01%) Android
2 50 (3.72%) Apple iOS
3 42 (3.12%) Linux
4 27 (2.01%) Unix
5 15 (1.12%) Windows
6 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (42.68%) Agile Software Development
2 466 (34.65%) Software Engineering
3 424 (31.52%) Microservices
4 266 (19.78%) DevOps
5 256 (19.03%) TDD
6 232 (17.25%) Front End Development
7 228 (16.95%) Test Automation
8 208 (15.46%) Mentoring
9 170 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
10 139 (10.33%) Fintech
11 128 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 124 (9.22%) Analytics
13 122 (9.07%) Scrum
14 102 (7.58%) E-Commerce
15 101 (7.51%) OOP
16 99 (7.36%) Pair Programming
17 95 (7.06%) Machine Learning
18 91 (6.77%) Unit Testing
19 88 (6.54%) OO
20 87 (6.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 751 (55.84%) JavaScript
2 614 (45.65%) TypeScript
3 399 (29.67%) Python
4 266 (19.78%) Java
5 207 (15.39%) SQL
6 172 (12.79%) C#
7 161 (11.97%) ES6
8 149 (11.08%) Go
9 102 (7.58%) Scala
10 85 (6.32%) Kotlin
11 73 (5.43%) PHP
12 57 (4.24%) C++
13 54 (4.01%) ES7
14 52 (3.87%) Ruby
15 39 (2.90%) Rust
16 31 (2.30%) Java 8
17 27 (2.01%) Perl
18 24 (1.78%) Elixir
19 19 (1.41%) Elm
20 17 (1.26%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 82 (6.10%) Degree
2 52 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.08%) SANS
4 13 (0.97%) Security Cleared
5 10 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.67%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.37%) PhD
9 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.074%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.91%) QA
2 32 (2.38%) WCAG
3 9 (0.67%) WAI
4 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 422 (31.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.15%) ISA Server
2 2 (0.15%) LXC
3 1 (0.074%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 372 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 155 (11.52%) Terraform
3 13 (0.97%) Grafana
3 13 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.37%) Kibana
5 4 (0.30%) logstash
6 3 (0.22%) Istio
7 2 (0.15%) Ansible
7 2 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.15%) linkerd
7 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 1 (0.074%) Consul
8 1 (0.074%) OpenNebula
8 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (9.52%) Google
2 49 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 15 (1.12%) Adobe
3 15 (1.12%) Qubit
4 14 (1.04%) Apple
4 14 (1.04%) SAP
5 13 (0.97%) Spotify
6 12 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 12 (0.89%) Facebook
7 10 (0.74%) IBM
8 9 (0.67%) New Relic
9 7 (0.52%) Cadence
10 6 (0.45%) YouTube
11 5 (0.37%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.30%) Instagram
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle
12 4 (0.30%) SendGrid
12 4 (0.30%) Snapchat
12 4 (0.30%) Stackify
12 4 (0.30%) Twitter