GraphQL Job Trends in London

GraphQL
England > London

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 205 296
Rank change year-on-year -103 +91 -26
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 120 200 212
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 1.60% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 6.02% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 100 157 144
10th Percentile £72,500 £59,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £142,500 £116,750
England median annual salary £87,500 £92,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -21.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,422 3,325 5,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.38% 26.64% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 2,321 4,523
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £108,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in London

GraphQL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in London

GraphQL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -16 6 £82,500 -19.51% 5
West London -8 5 - - 2
South London - 2 - -
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) JBoss
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.50%) IIS
5 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.83%) AWS
2 27 (22.50%) Azure
3 12 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 12 (10.00%) Google Workspace
3 12 (10.00%) SaaS
4 9 (7.50%) GCP
5 8 (6.67%) Serverless
6 7 (5.83%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (5.83%) GitHub
7 6 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.67%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) Broadband
2 4 (3.33%) DNS
2 4 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.17%) MySQL
4 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 5 (4.17%) Claude Code
4 3 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.50%) Storybook
5 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.67%) ESLint
5 2 (1.67%) Selenium
5 2 (1.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) Vite
General
1 60 (50.00%) Finance
2 51 (42.50%) Social Skills
3 34 (28.33%) Front Office
4 12 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Retail
6 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (64.17%) Developer
2 48 (40.00%) Lead
3 43 (35.83%) Lead Developer
4 38 (31.67%) Software Engineer
5 32 (26.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 32 (26.67%) React Developer
6 22 (18.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
7 20 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
8 17 (14.17%) Senior
9 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (10.83%) Architect
11 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (9.17%) Java Engineer
12 9 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (6.67%) Java Developer
13 8 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
13 8 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
14 5 (4.17%) IAM Developer
14 5 (4.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (50.00%) React
2 49 (40.83%) Node.js
3 45 (37.50%) REST
4 40 (33.33%) RESTful
5 36 (30.00%) Redux
6 33 (27.50%) Kafka
7 24 (20.00%) React Native
8 18 (15.00%) SOAP
9 17 (14.17%) OAuth
10 16 (13.33%) Vue
11 14 (11.67%) Next.js
12 13 (10.83%) OpenID
12 13 (10.83%) SAML
13 12 (10.00%) .NET
13 12 (10.00%) LDAP
14 10 (8.33%) AngularJS
15 6 (5.00%) JWT
15 6 (5.00%) WebSockets
16 5 (4.17%) Playwright
16 5 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.67%) Fixed Income
2 18 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (8.33%) Cyberattack
4 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.67%) DataPower
6 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.17%) Android
1 23 (19.17%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (40.83%) Agile
3 48 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (28.33%) Investment Management
5 32 (26.67%) Order Management
5 32 (26.67%) Portfolio Management
6 30 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 29 (24.17%) CI/CD
8 23 (19.17%) Mobile Development
9 21 (17.50%) Microservices
10 18 (15.00%) Event-Driven
10 18 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 17 (14.17%) AI
12 16 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 15 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
15 12 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
16 11 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 58 (48.33%) TypeScript
2 43 (35.83%) JavaScript
3 42 (35.00%) Java
4 34 (28.33%) Python
5 33 (27.50%) Go
6 24 (20.00%) SQL
7 23 (19.17%) C#
8 12 (10.00%) Bash
8 12 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 12 (10.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.50%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.67%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (7.50%) Degree
2 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (10.00%) NIST
2 10 (8.33%) NCSC
3 2 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) PSD2
4 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.67%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.83%) Solace
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk