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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 109 142
Rank change year-on-year -22 +33 +81
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 5 64 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 1.74% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 8.06% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £58,000 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £49,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £70,500 £71,125 £78,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +13.04%

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 378 794 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.78% 21.65% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 311 462 612
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,125 £39,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Next.js
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Jest
4 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (20.00%) MACH
4 1 (20.00%) Redux
4 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Personalization
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker