GraphQL Job Trends in South Wales

GraphQL
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +23
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 2 25 1
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.26% 3.97% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.45% 15.72% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2 25 1
10th Percentile £57,118 - -
25th Percentile £57,847 £23,750 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,064 £27,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +114.78% - -52.17%
75th Percentile £60,280 £65,000 £31,250
90th Percentile £61,010 - -
Wales median annual salary £59,064 £27,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year +114.78% -33.33% -28.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 58 159 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.50% 25.24% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 52 111 111
10th Percentile £38,750 £23,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,307 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -9.89% -2.78%
75th Percentile £75,128 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £47,750 £52,186
% change year-on-year +15.18% -8.50% -0.60%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in South Wales

GraphQL
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bridgend - 2 £59,064 -
GraphQL
Wales

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft