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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 202 206
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +66
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 6 41 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.076% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 3.84% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 20
10th Percentile £40,081 £53,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,894 - £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £94,375 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £109,750 £73,750 £81,375
England median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +7.14%

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 634 1,068 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.07% 16.39% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 523 588 907
10th Percentile £32,125 £34,190 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,800 £75,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the Midlands

GraphQL
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 8 January 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 -7 4 £120,000 +71.43% 23
West Midlands -4 2 £50,990 -21.55% 10
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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Kong
3 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) CRM Architect
1 3 (50.00%) CRM Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce Architect
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Strategy Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Supply Chain Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Development Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) IAM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 3 (50.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) LDAP
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) OpenID
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (50.00%) SAP