GraphQL Job Trends in the Midlands

GraphQL
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 193 234
Rank change year-on-year -24 +41 +38
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 9 43 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.71% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 4.17% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5 24 43
10th Percentile £42,123 £53,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 - £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £87,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.63% -3.57% -3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 655 1,030 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.78% 16.90% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 544 573 1,381
10th Percentile £32,238 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GraphQL

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
East Midlands -22 5 £120,000 +71.43% 1
West Midlands +3 4 £61,250 -5.77% 3
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Kong
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Google Workspace
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
1 2 (22.22%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) CRM Architect
1 3 (33.33%) CRM Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce Architect
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
1 3 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Principal Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Strategy Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Supply Chain Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Development Officer
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 5 (55.56%) REST
3 4 (44.44%) Kafka
4 3 (33.33%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (22.22%) LDAP
5 2 (22.22%) OAuth
5 2 (22.22%) OpenID
5 2 (22.22%) SAML
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 1 (11.11%) EDI
6 1 (11.11%) Flutter
6 1 (11.11%) gRPC
6 1 (11.11%) JSON
6 1 (11.11%) Middleware
6 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (11.11%) RESTful
6 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) API Design
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (33.33%) B2B
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) C
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NCSC
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Nagios
3 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
1 3 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 3 (33.33%) SAP