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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 101 157
Rank change year-on-year -43 +56 +68
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 9 81 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.38% 1.99% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 9.19% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 19
10th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - +15.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,875
90th Percentile - £76,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 528 881 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 22.28% 21.68% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 294 510 706
10th Percentile £38,225 £41,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,743 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,875 £80,125 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in Manchester

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Contentful
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) NUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) React
2 6 (66.67%) Node.js
3 4 (44.44%) Next.js
4 2 (22.22%) Redux
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) Express.js
5 1 (11.11%) Jest
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (11.11%) MACH
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) React Native
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) API Development
3 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) Re-Platforming
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Order Management
4 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
6 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) SAP