GraphQL Job Trends in England

GraphQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 338 486
Rank change year-on-year -103 +148 -163
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 162 374 200
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.78% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 3.59% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 110 223 184
10th Percentile £57,000 £50,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £66,563 £53,750 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £101,875 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +37.40% -9.66% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

GraphQL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,275 10,427 11,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.82% 21.62% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,828 6,131 10,043
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in England

GraphQL
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -12 114 £92,500 +2.78% 87
North of England -8 21 £66,250 +20.45% 61
Yorkshire -11 18 £72,500 +52.63% 20
Midlands -16 6 £67,500 +3.85% 29
South West -37 5 £72,500 +11.54% 37
East Midlands -23 4 £120,000 +68.42% 20
North West +8 3 £55,000 -4.35% 36
South East -12 3 £60,000 +9.09% 103
West Midlands -6 2 £50,990 -21.55% 9
East of England +14 1 £42,500 -39.29% 46
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.56%) CMS
1 9 (5.56%) JBoss
1 9 (5.56%) WebSphere
2 7 (4.32%) Confluence
3 6 (3.70%) Headless CMS
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.47%) Appian
5 2 (1.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Shopify
2 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (31.48%) AWS
2 40 (24.69%) Azure
3 25 (15.43%) GitHub
4 16 (9.88%) Serverless
5 15 (9.26%) SaaS
6 13 (8.02%) Entra ID
7 12 (7.41%) Google Workspace
8 11 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.17%) GCP
10 9 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.94%) Figma
12 6 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (3.09%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.09%) Datadog
14 4 (2.47%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.11%) Broadband
2 2 (1.23%) AMQP
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.64%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.17%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.17%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.32%) MySQL
4 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.47%) Pinecone
6 4 (2.47%) Weaviate
7 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.85%) Redis
8 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.62%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.62%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (15.43%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) Cypress.io
3 12 (7.41%) JIRA
4 8 (4.94%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (4.32%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.09%) Selenium
7 4 (2.47%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.47%) webpack
8 3 (1.85%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.85%) JMeter
8 3 (1.85%) Postman
8 3 (1.85%) Xcode
9 2 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.23%) GitLab
9 2 (1.23%) Mocha
10 1 (0.62%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.62%) gulp
10 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.62%) Vite
General
1 62 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.75%) Finance
3 18 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.11%) Retail
4 12 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.17%) Front Office
6 7 (4.32%) Law
7 5 (3.09%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Games
9 2 (1.23%) Back Office
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (45.68%) Senior
2 59 (36.42%) Developer
3 32 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 23 (14.20%) Senior Developer
5 21 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Architect
6 18 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (9.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (8.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 10 (6.17%) Angular Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Kafka Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Senior Architect
10 9 (5.56%) Lead
10 9 (5.56%) React Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.70%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (57.41%) React
2 80 (49.38%) REST
3 41 (25.31%) Node.js
4 36 (22.22%) CSS
5 28 (17.28%) HTML
6 23 (14.20%) SOAP
6 23 (14.20%) Spring
7 22 (13.58%) Kafka
8 18 (11.11%) RESTful
9 17 (10.49%) .NET
9 17 (10.49%) Next.js
10 15 (9.26%) AngularJS
10 15 (9.26%) Jest
10 15 (9.26%) OAuth
11 13 (8.02%) React Native
12 12 (7.41%) LDAP
12 12 (7.41%) Middleware
12 12 (7.41%) OpenID
12 12 (7.41%) SAML
13 11 (6.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (7.41%) Cyberattack
4 12 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (6.17%) Hedge funds
5 10 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.17%) Mobile App
5 10 (6.17%) Reference Data
6 9 (5.56%) DataPower
7 7 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.70%) CMDB
9 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.09%) Hackathon
10 4 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.23%) Equities
12 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Android
2 3 (1.85%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.85%) Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
1 63 (38.89%) Mentoring
2 62 (38.27%) CI/CD
3 59 (36.42%) Agile
4 58 (35.80%) Software Engineering
5 37 (22.84%) Microservices
6 35 (21.60%) AI
6 35 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (19.14%) Roadmaps
8 28 (17.28%) DevOps
8 28 (17.28%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 27 (16.67%) User Experience
10 25 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (14.81%) Event-Driven
12 23 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (14.20%) E-Commerce
12 23 (14.20%) Test Automation
13 19 (11.73%) Analytics
13 19 (11.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (58.02%) TypeScript
2 65 (40.12%) JavaScript
3 38 (23.46%) Java
4 36 (22.22%) SQL
5 22 (13.58%) Python
6 14 (8.64%) Rust
7 13 (8.02%) Bash
7 13 (8.02%) PowerShell
8 12 (7.41%) Ruby
8 12 (7.41%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.70%) Go
10 4 (2.47%) C#
10 4 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.85%) PHP
11 3 (1.85%) Swift
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.62%) Perl
12 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (3.70%) Degree
2 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
2 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.23%) ISEB
3 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.23%) MCP
4 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 18 (11.11%) QA
3 12 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.41%) NCSC
3 12 (7.41%) NIST
4 8 (4.94%) WCAG
5 6 (3.70%) GDPR
6 5 (3.09%) PERC
7 4 (2.47%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 12 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.73%) Terraform
3 4 (2.47%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
5 1 (0.62%) Grafana
5 1 (0.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.94%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.47%) Adobe
4 4 (2.47%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.47%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.85%) Informatica
5 3 (1.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.62%) Apple
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.62%) Marketo
6 1 (0.62%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.62%) Splunk