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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 473 372
Rank change year-on-year -63 -101 +93
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 90 70 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.20% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.41% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59 59 149
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,500 £72,650
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +42.31% -18.75%

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 6,389 4,979 10,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.61% 14.57% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,103 3,116 7,877
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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 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 30 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 -25 37 £56,250 -16.67% 13
Yorkshire -26 15 £76,250 +38.64% 4
Midlands -29 13 £44,375 -36.61% 5
North West -5 12 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Wales -51 12 £70,000 -
Scotland +21 10 - - 3
South West -62 10 £80,000 +45.45% 11
North East - 10 £45,000 -
East Midlands -16 9 £42,500 -39.29% 1
South East -38 8 £60,000 -7.69% 9
West Midlands -25 4 £70,450 +0.64% 4
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 (10.00%) CMS
2 8 (8.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 8 (8.89%) Headless CMS
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Magento
1 6 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.11%) AWS
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) GitHub
4 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (13.33%) Serverless
5 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.89%) Google Workspace
7 8 (8.89%) npm
8 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.67%) CloudFront
9 6 (6.67%) GCP
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.44%) Broadband
2 2 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.67%) Redis
4 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.44%) MySQL
6 3 (3.33%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.22%) Power BI
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.11%) SQLite
8 1 (1.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Maven
3 8 (8.89%) Storybook
4 7 (7.78%) Git
5 6 (6.67%) JIRA
6 4 (4.44%) minitest
6 4 (4.44%) RSpec
7 3 (3.33%) CMake
7 3 (3.33%) GitLab
8 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.11%) fastlane
9 1 (1.11%) JMeter
9 1 (1.11%) Pa11y
9 1 (1.11%) Postman
9 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.11%) Selenium
9 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Games
3 14 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.11%) Finance
5 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.89%) Publishing
7 2 (2.22%) Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (47.78%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 15 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior Developer
5 12 (13.33%) Lead
6 11 (12.22%) Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Android Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.56%) Applications Developer
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (4.44%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.44%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Ruby Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior UI Developer
11 3 (3.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (45.56%) REST
2 31 (34.44%) React
3 30 (33.33%) Node.js
4 13 (14.44%) Android SDK
5 12 (13.33%) Ruby on Rails
6 11 (12.22%) SOAP
7 10 (11.11%) RESTful
8 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.89%) LDAP
9 8 (8.89%) MDX
9 8 (8.89%) OAuth
9 8 (8.89%) OpenID
9 8 (8.89%) SAML
10 7 (7.78%) React Native
10 7 (7.78%) Spring Boot
11 6 (6.67%) AWS CDK
11 6 (6.67%) CSS
11 6 (6.67%) Flutter
12 5 (5.56%) HTML
12 5 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 13 (14.44%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (14.44%) Social Media
3 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.78%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (7.78%) Cyberattack
4 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
5 6 (6.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.22%) PMI
6 2 (2.22%) Robotics
7 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Android
2 7 (7.78%) Linux
3 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (58.89%) CI/CD
2 38 (42.22%) Agile
3 31 (34.44%) Software Engineering
4 30 (33.33%) AI
5 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.56%) Test Automation
7 22 (24.44%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.33%) DevOps
8 21 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (23.33%) Software Architecture
9 19 (21.11%) Design Patterns
10 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (17.78%) Code Quality
11 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (16.67%) Microservices
12 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
13 14 (15.56%) Observability
14 13 (14.44%) SOLID
15 12 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) TypeScript
2 32 (35.56%) Java
3 21 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (16.67%) Python
5 14 (15.56%) Kotlin
6 12 (13.33%) Ruby
7 10 (11.11%) Bash
7 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 10 (11.11%) SQL
8 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.67%) C++
9 6 (6.67%) COBOL
10 4 (4.44%) C#
11 3 (3.33%) Embedded C++
12 2 (2.22%) C
13 1 (1.11%) Dart
13 1 (1.11%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) NCSC
2 13 (14.44%) Accessibility
3 10 (11.11%) NIST
3 10 (11.11%) WCAG
4 6 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (5.56%) QA
6 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.22%) GDPR
8 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) Adobe
2 5 (5.56%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.11%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.11%) Workday