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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 226 287
Rank change year-on-year -27 +61 -44
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 12 9 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.088% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 1.14% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 23
10th Percentile - £44,125 £27,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £56,038 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £87,500 £95,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +46.15% -18.75%

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 926 789 1,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.82% 13.96% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 701 552 1,342
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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

GraphQL
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

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 July 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 23 July 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 9 £42,500 -39.29% 1
West Midlands -32 3 £80,000 +14.29% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) CMS
1 8 (66.67%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (25.00%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) React
2 2 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile Wallet
1 1 (8.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) B2B
1 6 (50.00%) B2C
1 6 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks