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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 499 340
Rank change year-on-year -73 -159 +117
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 82 54 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.16% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.10% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 63 42 140
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,375 £38,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £73,125 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +41.67% -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 7,257 4,931 10,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.01% 14.21% 18.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,697 3,048 7,097
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 3 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 3 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
North of England -41 28 £51,250 -26.79% 36
Midlands -32 17 £43,750 -37.50% 8
East Midlands -10 14 £42,500 -39.29% 7
North West -15 12 £60,000 -20.00% 27
Wales -52 12 £70,000 - 1
South West -66 11 £80,000 +45.45% 17
South East -36 9 £62,500 -7.41% 20
North East - 9 £45,000 - 2
Yorkshire -58 7 £90,000 +30.91% 7
Scotland +15 5 - - 11
West Midlands -31 3 £60,900 -18.80% 1
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 13 (15.85%) CMS
2 12 (14.63%) Headless CMS
3 8 (9.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.66%) Confluence
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Magento
2 6 (7.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (48.78%) AWS
2 16 (19.51%) GitHub
3 14 (17.07%) Azure
4 12 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (12.20%) Serverless
6 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (9.76%) npm
8 7 (8.54%) Amazon S3
8 7 (8.54%) GCP
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.32%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.44%) SaaS
13 1 (1.22%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) Broadband
2 2 (2.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.10%) Redis
4 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) MySQL
6 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.66%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.44%) Power BI
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.98%) Storybook
3 8 (9.76%) Git
3 8 (9.76%) Maven
4 6 (7.32%) JIRA
5 4 (4.88%) CMake
5 4 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.88%) minitest
5 4 (4.88%) RSpec
6 3 (3.66%) GitLab
7 1 (1.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.22%) fastlane
7 1 (1.22%) JMeter
7 1 (1.22%) Pa11y
7 1 (1.22%) Postman
7 1 (1.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.76%) Manufacturing
4 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.76%) Publishing
5 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.32%) Games
7 3 (3.66%) Electronics
8 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (15.85%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.41%) Lead
5 10 (12.20%) Architect
5 10 (12.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (10.98%) React Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) E-Commerce Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Lead Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.88%) Ruby Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Computer Vision Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (40.24%) REST
2 32 (39.02%) React
3 28 (34.15%) Node.js
4 12 (14.63%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (12.20%) RESTful
6 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.76%) CSS
6 8 (9.76%) MDX
7 7 (8.54%) HTML
7 7 (8.54%) Next.js
7 7 (8.54%) React Native
7 7 (8.54%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.54%) Terraform
8 6 (7.32%) Android SDK
8 6 (7.32%) AWS CDK
8 6 (7.32%) Flutter
9 5 (6.10%) Jest
9 5 (6.10%) Kafka
9 5 (6.10%) SOAP
9 5 (6.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.32%) Digital Wallet
3 6 (7.32%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.32%) Social Media
4 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) PMI
5 2 (2.44%) Robotics
6 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.63%) Android
2 8 (9.76%) Linux
3 6 (7.32%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.88%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 31 (37.80%) Software Engineering
3 29 (35.37%) Agile
4 25 (30.49%) AI
5 24 (29.27%) Test Automation
6 19 (23.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (21.95%) DevOps
8 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (19.51%) Code Quality
10 15 (18.29%) Mentoring
10 15 (18.29%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
11 14 (17.07%) Software Architecture
12 13 (15.85%) Microservices
13 12 (14.63%) Design Patterns
13 12 (14.63%) E-Commerce
13 12 (14.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 11 (13.41%) Decision-Making
15 10 (12.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.24%) TypeScript
2 23 (28.05%) Java
3 21 (25.61%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.29%) Python
5 12 (14.63%) Ruby
6 9 (10.98%) SQL
7 7 (8.54%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.32%) C++
8 6 (7.32%) COBOL
9 4 (4.88%) Bash
9 4 (4.88%) C#
9 4 (4.88%) Embedded C++
9 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) C
10 1 (1.22%) Dart
10 1 (1.22%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.22%) Swift
10 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (7.32%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.41%) WCAG
3 9 (10.98%) NCSC
4 6 (7.32%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (7.32%) QA
5 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.88%) NIST
6 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.44%) GDPR
7 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.22%) Grafana
2 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Adobe
2 5 (6.10%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.22%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.22%) Workday