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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 366 443
Rank change year-on-year -69 +77 -82
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 85 201 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 2.91% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 34 135 141
10th Percentile £50,750 £38,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,875 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £65,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +29.77% -6.43% -1.41%

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 4,016 6,896 10,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.95% 19.85% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,053 3,803 8,231
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,700 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 30 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 30 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 +16 40 - - 24
North of England -12 22 £66,250 +20.45% 48
Yorkshire -15 18 £71,250 +42.50% 14
Midlands -17 8 £67,500 +3.85% 22
South West -27 6 £72,500 +11.54% 28
North West +7 4 £57,500 - 29
West Midlands -5 4 £61,250 -5.77% 5
East Midlands -20 4 £120,000 +71.43% 16
South East -21 4 £60,000 +9.09% 67
East of England +16 2 £43,750 -46.97% 27
Wales -19 2 £59,064 -9.13% 14
Northern Ireland -14 1 £62,500 -30.56% 3
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 (10.59%) CMS
2 6 (7.06%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) Azure
2 36 (42.35%) Entra ID
3 33 (38.82%) Google Workspace
4 17 (20.00%) AWS
5 14 (16.47%) Snowflake
6 13 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (12.94%) dbt
8 5 (5.88%) Serverless
9 4 (4.71%) GitHub
10 3 (3.53%) GCP
10 3 (3.53%) Kong
10 3 (3.53%) SaaS
11 2 (2.35%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.18%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.18%) Figma
12 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (41.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) Redis
3 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.35%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) Android Studio
2 3 (3.53%) Xcode
3 2 (2.35%) git-flow
4 1 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.18%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) gulp
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 44 (51.76%) Social Skills
2 35 (41.18%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (36.47%) Games
4 13 (15.29%) Finance
5 10 (11.76%) Retail
6 5 (5.88%) Marketing
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Local Government
7 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (54.12%) Senior
2 29 (34.12%) Developer
3 17 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 15 (17.65%) IAM Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Architect
9 5 (5.88%) Lead
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Systems Developer
11 3 (3.53%) CRM Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Principal Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (69.41%) REST
2 45 (52.94%) OAuth
3 36 (42.35%) SOAP
4 33 (38.82%) LDAP
4 33 (38.82%) OpenID
4 33 (38.82%) SAML
5 30 (35.29%) React
6 16 (18.82%) Node.js
7 11 (12.94%) OpenAPI
7 11 (12.94%) Swagger
8 10 (11.76%) Next.js
9 7 (8.24%) CSS
10 6 (7.06%) Kafka
10 6 (7.06%) RESTful
11 5 (5.88%) .NET
12 4 (4.71%) React Native
13 3 (3.53%) Apollo GraphQL
13 3 (3.53%) HTML
13 3 (3.53%) Jest
13 3 (3.53%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 35 (41.18%) Cyber Threat
1 35 (41.18%) Cyberattack
2 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Android
2 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (77.65%) Mentoring
2 35 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (41.18%) Programme Delivery
3 34 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 33 (38.82%) CI/CD
4 33 (38.82%) Identity Access Management
4 33 (38.82%) Regulatory Compliance
5 28 (32.94%) Agile
6 24 (28.24%) Software Engineering
7 23 (27.06%) DevOps
8 22 (25.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.29%) E-Commerce
12 12 (14.12%) Coaching
12 12 (14.12%) OO
13 11 (12.94%) API Integration
13 11 (12.94%) Asset Management
14 10 (11.76%) Microservices
15 9 (10.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (56.47%) PowerShell
2 36 (42.35%) Bash
3 33 (38.82%) T-SQL
4 25 (29.41%) SQL
4 25 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
6 14 (16.47%) C#
7 9 (10.59%) Java
8 8 (9.41%) Python
9 2 (2.35%) C
9 2 (2.35%) C++
9 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.35%) Swift
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.18%) Degree
1 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (41.18%) NCSC
1 35 (41.18%) NIST
2 6 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 33 (38.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (28.24%) Terraform
2 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Nagios
3 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) MuleSoft
2 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.53%) Adobe
3 3 (3.53%) Informatica
3 3 (3.53%) SAP
4 2 (2.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.18%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.18%) Splunk