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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 354 434
Rank change year-on-year -140 +80 -47
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 45 334 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.60% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 3.39% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 33 135 129
10th Percentile £34,081 £35,450 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £63,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +54.17% -25.00% +14.29%

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 4,391 9,853 8,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 17.78% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 5,977 6,712
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -78 22 £68,750 +25.00% 19
Yorkshire +3 12 £67,500 +28.57% 6
North West -63 10 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East +5 9 £70,000 +21.74% 17
Midlands +25 5 £50,000 -23.08% 4
West Midlands +34 4 £62,500 -3.85% 1
South West +58 3 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Wales +4 3 £70,000 +154.55% 3
East Midlands +19 1 £37,500 -43.40% 3
Northern Ireland +17 1 £85,000 -5.56% 2
East of England -21 1 - - 3
Scotland -31 1 - - 1
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) CMS
1 9 (20.00%) Headless CMS
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 2 (4.44%) Strapi
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) Serverless
3 12 (26.67%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) Contentful
5 5 (11.11%) SaaS
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.44%) Figma
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.22%) npm
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Broadband
2 1 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) MongoDB
1 13 (28.89%) NoSQL
2 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (13.33%) Redis
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) JIRA
3 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) Storybook
6 1 (2.22%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.22%) NUnit
6 1 (2.22%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.22%) Subversion
6 1 (2.22%) Xcode
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Games
4 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Local Government
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Developer
2 16 (35.56%) Senior
3 9 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (15.56%) JavaScript Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 7 (15.56%) Software Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (6.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (6.67%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) React Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (64.44%) React
2 23 (51.11%) Node.js
3 21 (46.67%) REST
4 11 (24.44%) CSS
4 11 (24.44%) RESTful
5 10 (22.22%) HTML
6 8 (17.78%) AngularJS
6 8 (17.78%) Express.js
7 7 (15.56%) Kafka
7 7 (15.56%) Next.js
8 6 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (13.33%) React Native
8 6 (13.33%) Vue
9 5 (11.11%) Bootstrap
9 5 (11.11%) gRPC
9 5 (11.11%) hapi
9 5 (11.11%) NestJS
9 5 (11.11%) Redux
10 4 (8.89%) FastAPI
10 4 (8.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Agile
2 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
3 21 (46.67%) Mentoring
4 17 (37.78%) Software Engineering
5 13 (28.89%) DevOps
6 12 (26.67%) Microservices
7 11 (24.44%) API Development
8 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (17.78%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (17.78%) E-Commerce
9 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (15.56%) Clean Code
10 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (13.33%) Kanban
11 6 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
11 6 (13.33%) Scrum
11 6 (13.33%) TDD
12 5 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 31 (68.89%) TypeScript
2 26 (57.78%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.89%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) C++
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) PHP
7 1 (2.22%) R
7 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Terraform
2 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk