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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 134 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +68
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 2 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.070% 0.71% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 3.26% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 6
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £51,875 £49,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £61,250 £73,125 £76,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -28.00%

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 360 583 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.54% 21.88% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 308 352 628
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,500 £39,100
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +1.74%

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
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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Games Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Chemistry
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Personalization
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript