GraphQL Job Trends in Manchester

GraphQL
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 146 102
Rank change year-on-year -40 -44 +42
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 12 9 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.16% 0.38% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.68% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile £54,625 £58,750 £48,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,188 £76,250 £66,563
90th Percentile £74,875 £77,500 £73,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 775 537 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.12% 22.64% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 596 311 510
10th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,875 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in Manchester

GraphQL
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in Manchester

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (66.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) npm
3 1 (8.33%) Bitrise
3 1 (8.33%) Firebase
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Maven
1 8 (66.67%) Storybook
2 1 (8.33%) fastlane
General
1 8 (66.67%) Publishing
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Angular Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior UI Developer
4 3 (25.00%) UI Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Lead
6 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
6 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Mobile Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Web Applications Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 8 (66.67%) MDX
2 4 (33.33%) amCharts
2 4 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) Core Data
4 1 (8.33%) Flutter
4 1 (8.33%) QML
4 1 (8.33%) Qt
4 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (66.67%) Monorepo
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Mobile Development
4 5 (41.67%) SDLC
4 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) AI
5 4 (33.33%) BDD
5 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (33.33%) Information Security
5 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) Dart
4 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (8.33%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (66.67%) WCAG
3 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Adobe