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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 365 453
Rank change year-on-year -79 +88 -98
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 80 202 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 2.90% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33 134 116
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £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 £87,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,625 £81,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -

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 3,967 6,954 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.01% 19.55% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,024 3,855 7,415
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,188 £45,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +5.12% -4.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,050 £84,056
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,222
% change year-on-year - +2.81% -6.34%

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 23 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 23 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 +19 38 - - 31
North of England -9 22 £66,250 +20.45% 82
Yorkshire -12 18 £71,250 +50.00% 35
Midlands -14 8 £67,500 +3.85% 54
South West -32 5 £72,500 +11.54% 58
North West 0 4 £57,500 - 38
West Midlands -2 4 £61,250 -5.77% 12
East Midlands -16 4 £120,000 +71.43% 39
South East -18 3 £60,000 +9.09% 132
Wales -17 2 £59,064 -9.13% 26
East of England +10 1 £42,500 -39.29% 64
Northern Ireland -11 1 £62,500 -30.56% 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 9 (11.25%) CMS
2 6 (7.50%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) Azure
2 32 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 29 (36.25%) Google Workspace
4 17 (21.25%) AWS
5 14 (17.50%) Snowflake
6 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (13.75%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (13.75%) dbt
8 5 (6.25%) Serverless
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.75%) GCP
10 3 (3.75%) Kong
11 2 (2.50%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.50%) SaaS
12 1 (1.25%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (1.25%) Boomi
12 1 (1.25%) npm
12 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 1 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Redis
2 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.50%) TimescaleDB
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Android Studio
2 3 (3.75%) Xcode
3 2 (2.50%) git-flow
4 1 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) gulp
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 42 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.75%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (36.25%) Games
4 13 (16.25%) Finance
5 10 (12.50%) Retail
6 5 (6.25%) Marketing
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (55.00%) Senior
2 26 (32.50%) Developer
3 16 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 13 (16.25%) IAM Developer
5 11 (13.75%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) CRM Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.75%) Lead Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Principal Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (68.75%) REST
2 41 (51.25%) OAuth
3 32 (40.00%) SOAP
4 29 (36.25%) LDAP
4 29 (36.25%) OpenID
4 29 (36.25%) React
4 29 (36.25%) SAML
5 16 (20.00%) Node.js
6 11 (13.75%) OpenAPI
6 11 (13.75%) Swagger
7 10 (12.50%) Next.js
8 6 (7.50%) CSS
8 6 (7.50%) Kafka
9 5 (6.25%) .NET
9 5 (6.25%) RESTful
10 4 (5.00%) React Native
11 3 (3.75%) Apollo GraphQL
11 3 (3.75%) Jest
11 3 (3.75%) Redux
12 2 (2.50%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 31 (38.75%) Cyber Threat
1 31 (38.75%) Cyberattack
2 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (77.50%) Mentoring
2 33 (41.25%) CI/CD
3 31 (38.75%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (38.75%) Programme Delivery
4 30 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 29 (36.25%) Identity Access Management
5 29 (36.25%) Regulatory Compliance
6 27 (33.75%) Agile
7 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 23 (28.75%) DevOps
9 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (16.25%) E-Commerce
13 12 (15.00%) Coaching
13 12 (15.00%) OO
14 11 (13.75%) API Integration
14 11 (13.75%) Asset Management
15 10 (12.50%) Microservices
16 8 (10.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) PowerShell
2 32 (40.00%) Bash
3 29 (36.25%) T-SQL
4 24 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 22 (27.50%) SQL
6 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
7 13 (16.25%) C#
8 9 (11.25%) Java
9 8 (10.00%) Python
10 2 (2.50%) C
10 2 (2.50%) C++
10 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.50%) Swift
11 1 (1.25%) Perl
11 1 (1.25%) PHP
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (38.75%) NCSC
1 31 (38.75%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 29 (36.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Nagios
3 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.75%) Adobe
3 3 (3.75%) Informatica
3 3 (3.75%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.25%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk