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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 245 324
Rank change year-on-year +30 +79 -82
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 164 213 134
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.26% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.02% 4.64% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 113 115 120
10th Percentile £65,500 £53,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £62,750 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £113,750
England median annual salary £93,750 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +38.89% -15.63% +14.29%

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 2,722 4,592 5,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.59% 27.17% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 2,953 4,691
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 7 £92,500 +54.17% 4
West London -3 1 - -
East London - 1 - - 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 8 (4.88%) Headless CMS
2 7 (4.27%) Confluence
2 7 (4.27%) JBoss
2 7 (4.27%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.44%) Appian
3 4 (2.44%) CMS
4 2 (1.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Shopify
2 4 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (45.12%) AWS
2 28 (17.07%) GitHub
3 26 (15.85%) Azure
4 24 (14.63%) Serverless
5 18 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (10.37%) Figma
7 16 (9.76%) Amazon S3
7 16 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (7.32%) GCP
10 9 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.49%) SaaS
11 8 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.88%) Google Analytics
11 8 (4.88%) Vercel
12 7 (4.27%) Datadog
13 6 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) Broadband
2 2 (1.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.10%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.10%) RDBMS
5 7 (4.27%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.44%) Pinecone
8 4 (2.44%) Weaviate
9 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.83%) MySQL
10 2 (1.22%) Redis
11 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.61%) Big Data
11 1 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 29 (17.68%) Git
2 19 (11.59%) Cypress.io
3 12 (7.32%) JIRA
4 8 (4.88%) Visual Studio
4 8 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.05%) Selenium
7 4 (2.44%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.83%) JMeter
8 3 (1.83%) Postman
8 3 (1.83%) webpack
9 2 (1.22%) Mocha
10 1 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.61%) ESLint
10 1 (0.61%) GitLab
10 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 62 (37.80%) Finance
2 52 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 34 (20.73%) Front Office
4 17 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.10%) Law
6 8 (4.88%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Banking
8 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Back Office
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Games
11 1 (0.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (50.61%) Developer
2 57 (34.76%) Senior
3 53 (32.32%) Software Engineer
4 42 (25.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (14.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 23 (14.02%) Senior Developer
7 21 (12.80%) Lead
8 17 (10.37%) React Developer
9 16 (9.76%) Java Developer
9 16 (9.76%) Lead Developer
10 15 (9.15%) Lead Software Developer
10 15 (9.15%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (6.71%) Architect
13 10 (6.10%) Angular Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Kafka Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (66.46%) React
2 62 (37.80%) Node.js
3 46 (28.05%) CSS
4 43 (26.22%) HTML
4 43 (26.22%) REST
5 42 (25.61%) Kafka
6 30 (18.29%) Redux
7 27 (16.46%) RESTful
8 26 (15.85%) AngularJS
9 22 (13.41%) Spring
10 18 (10.98%) Jest
10 18 (10.98%) Next.js
11 17 (10.37%) Tailwind CSS
12 16 (9.76%) .NET
12 16 (9.76%) Vue
13 13 (7.93%) Vitest
14 12 (7.32%) Express.js
15 11 (6.71%) gRPC
16 10 (6.10%) Playwright
17 9 (5.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 26 (15.85%) Fixed Income
3 18 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (6.10%) Hedge funds
6 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
6 10 (6.10%) Mobile App
6 10 (6.10%) Reference Data
7 7 (4.27%) DataPower
8 6 (3.66%) CMDB
9 5 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.05%) Hackathon
10 4 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.44%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.83%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.22%) Linux
2 2 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (57.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 92 (56.10%) Agile
3 78 (47.56%) Software Engineering
4 52 (31.71%) CI/CD
5 41 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (23.17%) AI
6 38 (23.17%) Microservices
7 32 (19.51%) Test Automation
7 32 (19.51%) User Experience
8 30 (18.29%) Mentoring
9 27 (16.46%) Analytics
10 25 (15.24%) DevOps
11 24 (14.63%) Investment Management
11 24 (14.63%) Order Management
11 24 (14.63%) Portfolio Management
12 22 (13.41%) Clean Code
12 22 (13.41%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (12.80%) Front End Development
14 19 (11.59%) Event-Driven
14 19 (11.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (70.12%) TypeScript
2 89 (54.27%) JavaScript
3 55 (33.54%) Java
4 38 (23.17%) Python
5 32 (19.51%) Go
6 31 (18.90%) SQL
7 20 (12.20%) Rust
8 7 (4.27%) C#
9 6 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.05%) Ruby
11 4 (2.44%) Objective-C
11 4 (2.44%) Swift
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.88%) Degree
2 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.22%) ISEB
4 2 (1.22%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.22%) MCP
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.29%) Accessibility
2 22 (13.41%) QA
3 7 (4.27%) WCAG
4 6 (3.66%) GDPR
5 5 (3.05%) PERC
6 4 (2.44%) SLA
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (6.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.93%) Terraform
3 4 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.49%) Apple
3 6 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.44%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.83%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe
6 1 (0.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Marketo
6 1 (0.61%) Netlify
6 1 (0.61%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.61%) Splunk