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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 376 451
Rank change year-on-year -61 +75 -96
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 72 194 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.54% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 2.77% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28 128 90
10th Percentile £51,750 £29,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile - £80,000 £81,375
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -10.34% +3.57%

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 3,886 7,008 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.51% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 3,898 6,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 14 January 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 14 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
Scotland +29 33 - - 26
North of England -13 22 £66,250 +20.45% 60
Yorkshire -10 19 £72,500 +52.63% 20
Midlands -15 6 £67,500 +3.85% 29
South West -24 5 £72,500 +11.54% 36
East Midlands -18 4 £120,000 +68.42% 20
North West +3 3 £55,000 -4.35% 35
South East -3 3 £60,000 +9.09% 99
West Midlands -5 2 £50,990 -21.55% 9
Wales -14 2 £59,064 +27.70% 20
East of England +13 1 £42,500 -39.29% 45
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 9 (12.50%) CMS
2 6 (8.33%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (66.67%) Azure
2 27 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 24 (33.33%) Google Workspace
4 16 (22.22%) AWS
5 14 (19.44%) Snowflake
6 13 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (15.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (15.28%) dbt
8 5 (6.94%) GCP
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub
9 3 (4.17%) Kong
9 3 (4.17%) Serverless
10 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.78%) SaaS
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.39%) npm
11 1 (1.39%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
4 1 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Android Studio
2 3 (4.17%) Xcode
3 2 (2.78%) git-flow
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.39%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) gulp
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 34 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.11%) Organisational Skills
3 24 (33.33%) Games
4 13 (18.06%) Finance
5 10 (13.89%) Retail
6 5 (6.94%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Senior
2 24 (33.33%) Developer
3 16 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 12 (16.67%) IAM Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 6 (8.33%) Architect
8 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 5 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (4.17%) CRM Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.17%) Lead Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Principal Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (65.28%) REST
2 36 (50.00%) OAuth
3 27 (37.50%) SOAP
4 24 (33.33%) LDAP
4 24 (33.33%) OpenID
4 24 (33.33%) React
4 24 (33.33%) SAML
5 12 (16.67%) Node.js
6 11 (15.28%) OpenAPI
6 11 (15.28%) Swagger
7 8 (11.11%) Next.js
8 7 (9.72%) Kafka
9 6 (8.33%) CSS
9 6 (8.33%) RESTful
10 4 (5.56%) .NET
11 3 (4.17%) Apollo GraphQL
11 3 (4.17%) Jest
11 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.17%) React Native
11 3 (4.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.11%) Cyber Threat
1 26 (36.11%) Cyberattack
2 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (80.56%) Mentoring
2 32 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 26 (36.11%) Agile
3 26 (36.11%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (36.11%) Programme Delivery
4 24 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 24 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 24 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 22 (30.56%) Software Engineering
6 20 (27.78%) DevOps
7 19 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.67%) Coaching
9 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (16.67%) E-Commerce
9 12 (16.67%) OO
10 11 (15.28%) API Integration
10 11 (15.28%) Asset Management
11 9 (12.50%) Microservices
12 7 (9.72%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 27 (37.50%) Bash
3 24 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 21 (29.17%) SQL
5 20 (27.78%) TypeScript
6 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 13 (18.06%) C#
8 8 (11.11%) Python
9 7 (9.72%) Java
10 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.78%) Swift
11 1 (1.39%) C
11 1 (1.39%) C++
11 1 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) PHP
11 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (36.11%) NCSC
1 26 (36.11%) NIST
2 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (30.56%) Terraform
2 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Nagios
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) MuleSoft
2 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.17%) Adobe
3 3 (4.17%) Informatica
3 3 (4.17%) SAP
4 2 (2.78%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.39%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.39%) Splunk