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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 352 446
Rank change year-on-year -80 +94 -69
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 90 199 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% 2.98% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 34 138 151
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,625 £36,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £86,875 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -3.45%

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 4,081 6,688 10,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.78% 20.08% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,112 3,746 8,808
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,250
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 £83,750 £85,000 £82,514
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +15 44 - - 7
North of England -20 22 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Yorkshire -23 18 £67,500 +35.00% 3
Midlands -21 9 £67,500 +3.85% 3
South West -44 6 £72,500 +11.54% 7
East Midlands -26 5 £120,000 +71.43% 1
North West +3 4 £57,500 - 16
West Midlands +2 4 £61,250 -5.77% 2
South East -36 4 £60,000 +9.09% 14
East of England +10 2 £43,750 -32.69% 6
Wales -17 2 £59,064 -9.13%
Northern Ireland -17 1 £62,500 -30.56% 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 9 (10.00%) CMS
2 6 (6.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (66.67%) Azure
2 41 (45.56%) Entra ID
3 38 (42.22%) Google Workspace
4 17 (18.89%) AWS
5 14 (15.56%) Snowflake
6 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (12.22%) dbt
8 4 (4.44%) Serverless
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) Kong
9 3 (3.33%) SaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.11%) Figma
11 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (45.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.22%) Redis
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) Android Studio
2 3 (3.33%) Xcode
3 2 (2.22%) git-flow
4 1 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.11%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) gulp
4 1 (1.11%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 48 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (44.44%) Organisational Skills
3 36 (40.00%) Games
4 13 (14.44%) Finance
5 10 (11.11%) Retail
6 5 (5.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Local Government
7 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (51.11%) Senior
2 30 (33.33%) Developer
3 16 (17.78%) IAM Developer
3 16 (17.78%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Architect
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Systems Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Lead
11 3 (3.33%) CRM Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.33%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Principal Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (71.11%) REST
2 50 (55.56%) OAuth
3 41 (45.56%) SOAP
4 38 (42.22%) LDAP
4 38 (42.22%) OpenID
4 38 (42.22%) SAML
5 29 (32.22%) React
6 15 (16.67%) Node.js
7 11 (12.22%) OpenAPI
7 11 (12.22%) Swagger
8 9 (10.00%) Next.js
9 6 (6.67%) CSS
9 6 (6.67%) Kafka
10 5 (5.56%) .NET
10 5 (5.56%) RESTful
11 4 (4.44%) React Native
12 3 (3.33%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (3.33%) Jest
13 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
13 2 (2.22%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 40 (44.44%) Cyber Threat
1 40 (44.44%) Cyberattack
2 7 (7.78%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Social Media
6 1 (1.11%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.89%) Mentoring
2 40 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (44.44%) Programme Delivery
3 39 (43.33%) Roadmaps
4 38 (42.22%) Identity Access Management
4 38 (42.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 33 (36.67%) CI/CD
6 29 (32.22%) Agile
7 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
8 22 (24.44%) DevOps
8 22 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (13.33%) Coaching
11 12 (13.33%) E-Commerce
11 12 (13.33%) OO
12 11 (12.22%) API Integration
12 11 (12.22%) Asset Management
13 10 (11.11%) Microservices
14 9 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.89%) PowerShell
2 41 (45.56%) Bash
3 38 (42.22%) T-SQL
4 26 (28.89%) SQL
5 24 (26.67%) TypeScript
6 18 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (15.56%) C#
8 10 (11.11%) Java
9 8 (8.89%) Python
10 3 (3.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.22%) C
11 2 (2.22%) C++
11 2 (2.22%) Swift
12 1 (1.11%) Perl
12 1 (1.11%) PHP
12 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.11%) Degree
1 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (44.44%) NCSC
1 40 (44.44%) NIST
2 7 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) Terraform
2 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.22%) Nagios
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.44%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.33%) Adobe
3 3 (3.33%) Informatica
3 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.33%) SAP
4 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.11%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.11%) Splunk