GraphQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 494 336
Rank change year-on-year -89 -158 +104
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 84 45 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.13% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.96% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 33 135
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,081 £35,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £71,500 £93,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.73% +56.25% -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,301 4,706 10,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.67% 13.70% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,642 2,846 6,409
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,738 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Midlands -25 23 £45,000 -10.00% 18
North of England -53 23 £57,500 -16.36% 44
East Midlands -22 20 £45,000 +20.00% 10
North West -21 13 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Wales -64 12 £70,000 - 5
South West -65 12 £80,000 +45.45% 19
South East -51 9 £62,500 -10.71% 25
North East - 9 £45,000 - 2
Scotland +6 5 - - 18
West Midlands -37 3 £60,900 -2.56% 8
Yorkshire -52 1 £90,000 +33.33% 13
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (20.24%) CMS
1 17 (20.24%) Headless CMS
2 8 (9.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Magento
2 6 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) GitHub
3 12 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (10.71%) GCP
4 9 (10.71%) Serverless
5 8 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (9.52%) npm
6 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.14%) CloudFront
8 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.38%) SaaS
11 1 (1.19%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Broadband
2 2 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.95%) Redis
4 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.76%) MySQL
6 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.57%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.38%) Power BI
8 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.19%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.71%) Storybook
3 8 (9.52%) Git
3 8 (9.52%) Maven
4 5 (5.95%) JIRA
5 4 (4.76%) CMake
5 4 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.76%) minitest
5 4 (4.76%) RSpec
6 3 (3.57%) GitLab
7 1 (1.19%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.19%) fastlane
7 1 (1.19%) JMeter
7 1 (1.19%) Pa11y
7 1 (1.19%) Postman
7 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 12 (14.29%) Finance
4 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.52%) Publishing
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Electronics
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 3 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Developer
2 16 (19.05%) Senior
3 15 (17.86%) React Developer
4 14 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (15.48%) Senior Developer
6 12 (14.29%) Architect
7 10 (11.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 10 (11.90%) Lead
8 8 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (8.33%) CMS Developer
9 7 (8.33%) E-Commerce Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.86%) REST
2 33 (39.29%) React
3 28 (33.33%) Node.js
4 13 (15.48%) Next.js
5 12 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
6 10 (11.90%) RESTful
7 9 (10.71%) CSS
8 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 8 (9.52%) HTML
8 8 (9.52%) MDX
9 7 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 7 (8.33%) Terraform
10 6 (7.14%) AWS CDK
10 6 (7.14%) Flutter
10 6 (7.14%) React Native
11 5 (5.95%) Jest
11 5 (5.95%) Kafka
11 5 (5.95%) SOAP
11 5 (5.95%) Vue
12 4 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.14%) Digital Wallet
3 6 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.38%) PMI
6 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Robotics
6 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Android
2 6 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) CI/CD
2 33 (39.29%) Software Engineering
3 23 (27.38%) Test Automation
4 22 (26.19%) Agile
5 21 (25.00%) AI
6 20 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (21.43%) DevOps
8 17 (20.24%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (19.05%) Microservices
10 15 (17.86%) Code Quality
10 15 (17.86%) Containerisation
11 14 (16.67%) E-Commerce
11 14 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 12 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 11 (13.10%) Decision-Making
13 11 (13.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (13.10%) Front End Development
13 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
2 20 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 17 (20.24%) Java
4 15 (17.86%) Python
5 12 (14.29%) Ruby
6 9 (10.71%) SQL
7 6 (7.14%) C++
7 6 (7.14%) COBOL
8 4 (4.76%) Bash
8 4 (4.76%) C#
8 4 (4.76%) Embedded C++
8 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.19%) C
9 1 (1.19%) Dart
9 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.19%) Swift
9 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.19%) Degree
3 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.10%) WCAG
3 9 (10.71%) NCSC
4 6 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (7.14%) QA
5 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.76%) NIST
6 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.38%) GDPR
6 2 (2.38%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Adobe
2 7 (8.33%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.19%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.19%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.19%) Workday