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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 446 381
Rank change year-on-year -65 -65 +77
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 90 94 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.30% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 1.86% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 45 84 212
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,125 £72,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +33.33% -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 5,882 5,066 14,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 15.91% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,745 3,196 10,601
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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
North of England -36 35 £50,000 -25.93% 12
Scotland +27 20 - -
Yorkshire -31 16 £62,500 +11.11% 3
South West -65 11 £76,250 +17.31% 6
Midlands -32 10 £45,000 -33.33% 3
North East - 10 £45,000 - 1
North West -7 9 £71,500 +5.93% 8
East Midlands -19 7 £43,125 -38.39% 1
South East -45 7 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Wales -45 5 £80,000 +18.52%
West Midlands -31 3 £80,000 +23.08% 2
East of England -22 1 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Northern Ireland -44 1 £62,500 -26.47% 9
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 7 (7.78%) CMS
2 6 (6.67%) Headless CMS
3 4 (4.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Magento
1 4 (4.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) AWS
1 26 (28.89%) Azure
2 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 24 (26.67%) Google Workspace
3 12 (13.33%) GitHub
4 11 (12.22%) Serverless
5 8 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.44%) CloudFront
7 4 (4.44%) npm
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.22%) SaaS
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.11%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.11%) Boomi
10 1 (1.11%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 36 (40.00%) Broadband
2 2 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.33%) Spatial Data
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.22%) Redis
6 2 (2.22%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 5 (5.56%) Maven
3 4 (4.44%) Storybook
4 3 (3.33%) Git
5 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.11%) CMake
6 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.11%) fastlane
6 1 (1.11%) Gatling
6 1 (1.11%) JMeter
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.11%) Selenium
6 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.44%) Games
3 24 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.89%) Finance
6 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.44%) Publishing
8 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Advertising
9 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Developer
2 20 (22.22%) Senior
3 16 (17.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Lead
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.00%) Architect
5 9 (10.00%) IAM Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Android Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (7.78%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Systems Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (61.11%) REST
2 32 (35.56%) React
3 28 (31.11%) Node.js
4 25 (27.78%) SOAP
5 24 (26.67%) LDAP
5 24 (26.67%) OAuth
5 24 (26.67%) OpenID
5 24 (26.67%) SAML
6 13 (14.44%) Android SDK
7 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.67%) React Native
8 5 (5.56%) .NET
8 5 (5.56%) Flutter
8 5 (5.56%) Next.js
8 5 (5.56%) RESTful
8 5 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (5.56%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.44%) Jest
9 4 (4.44%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Cyber Threat
1 23 (25.56%) Cyberattack
2 18 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 14 (15.56%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (14.44%) Social Media
5 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.44%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (4.44%) Mainframe
7 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.22%) Robotics
9 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Android
2 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 31 (34.44%) Mentoring
3 30 (33.33%) Agile
4 28 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (28.89%) Roadmaps
6 24 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
7 23 (25.56%) AI
7 23 (25.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (25.56%) Programme Delivery
7 23 (25.56%) Regulatory Compliance
8 22 (24.44%) Software Engineering
9 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (20.00%) Software Architecture
11 17 (18.89%) DevOps
11 17 (18.89%) Test Automation
12 14 (15.56%) Design Patterns
12 14 (15.56%) Observability
13 13 (14.44%) SOLID
14 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (12.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) TypeScript
2 27 (30.00%) Java
3 24 (26.67%) Bash
3 24 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 24 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 16 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.67%) Kotlin
6 12 (13.33%) SQL
7 6 (6.67%) Python
8 5 (5.56%) C++
8 5 (5.56%) Ruby
9 4 (4.44%) C#
9 4 (4.44%) COBOL
10 3 (3.33%) C
11 2 (2.22%) Swift
12 1 (1.11%) Dart
12 1 (1.11%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.11%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.00%) NCSC
2 24 (26.67%) NIST
3 9 (10.00%) Accessibility
4 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (5.56%) WCAG
6 4 (4.44%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (2.22%) QA
8 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Nagios
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.44%) Adobe
2 1 (1.11%) Databricks
2 1 (1.11%) Google
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic
2 1 (1.11%) Workday