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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 256 206
Rank change year-on-year +38 -50 +100
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 5 31 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.089% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 2.09% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 30
10th Percentile £34,623 £48,875 £38,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £55,625 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,813 £77,500
90th Percentile - £76,250 £88,250
England median annual salary £95,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +58.33% -25.00% +14.29%

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 689 1,483 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.32% 14.79% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 479 866 930
10th Percentile £36,650 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,149 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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
West Midlands +43 4 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East Midlands +6 1 £37,500 -43.40% 5
GraphQL
England

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) CMS
1 3 (60.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Contentful
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Figma
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Local Government
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Officer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) CSS3
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (40.00%) hapi
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) Material-UI
3 2 (40.00%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (40.00%) MERN Stack
3 2 (40.00%) NestJS
3 2 (40.00%) React Native
3 2 (40.00%) Vue
4 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (20.00%) Jest
4 1 (20.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google