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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 456 376
Rank change year-on-year -78 -80 +79
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 91 85 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.25% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.66% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53 73 199
10th Percentile £41,900 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £84,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +36.00% -21.88%

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 6,135 5,114 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.57% 15.13% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 3,236 9,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%

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 16 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 16 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 -22 36 £55,000 -16.98% 8
Yorkshire -28 16 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Scotland +22 15 - - 1
Midlands -18 12 £45,000 -33.33% 4
North West -8 10 £65,750 -2.59% 6
Wales -48 10 £80,000 +14.29% 2
North East - 10 £45,000 -
South West -56 9 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East Midlands -32 8 £42,500 -39.29% 1
South East -28 7 £57,500 +4.55% 13
West Midlands -31 4 £80,000 +23.08% 3
East of England -17 1 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Northern Ireland -58 1 £62,500 -26.47% 7
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 8 (8.79%) CMS
2 7 (7.69%) Headless CMS
3 5 (5.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (4.40%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (5.49%) Magento
3 1 (1.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
2 23 (25.27%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) Entra ID
3 17 (18.68%) Google Workspace
4 16 (17.58%) GitHub
5 14 (15.38%) Serverless
6 12 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.59%) CloudFront
10 5 (5.49%) npm
11 4 (4.40%) GCP
12 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.30%) SaaS
13 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (1.10%) Boomi
13 1 (1.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (31.87%) Broadband
2 2 (2.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.49%) Redis
4 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.30%) Spatial Data
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 2 (2.20%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.59%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) Maven
3 5 (5.49%) Storybook
4 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.20%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) minitest
4 2 (2.20%) RSpec
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.10%) CMake
5 1 (1.10%) fastlane
5 1 (1.10%) Gatling
5 1 (1.10%) JMeter
5 1 (1.10%) Selenium
5 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Games
3 17 (18.68%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.79%) Finance
5 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Publishing
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (46.15%) Developer
2 19 (20.88%) Senior
3 16 (17.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Architect
4 11 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Lead
6 7 (7.69%) Android Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 6 (6.59%) IAM Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Lead Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Android Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.30%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (53.85%) REST
2 34 (37.36%) React
3 31 (34.07%) Node.js
4 18 (19.78%) SOAP
5 17 (18.68%) LDAP
5 17 (18.68%) OAuth
5 17 (18.68%) OpenID
5 17 (18.68%) SAML
6 13 (14.29%) Android SDK
7 10 (10.99%) RESTful
7 10 (10.99%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.59%) AWS CDK
9 6 (6.59%) Next.js
9 6 (6.59%) React Native
10 5 (5.49%) .NET
10 5 (5.49%) Flutter
10 5 (5.49%) Kafka
10 5 (5.49%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Mobile App
2 16 (17.58%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (17.58%) Cyberattack
3 14 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (14.29%) Social Media
5 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
6 6 (6.59%) Digital Wallet
6 6 (6.59%) Mainframe
6 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Robotics
8 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.10%) Mobile Wallet
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Android
2 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.30%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.65%) CI/CD
2 36 (39.56%) Agile
3 26 (28.57%) AI
3 26 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 26 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.27%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (25.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (24.18%) DevOps
5 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (21.98%) Roadmaps
7 18 (19.78%) Software Architecture
7 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.68%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (17.58%) Microservices
9 16 (17.58%) Programme Delivery
9 16 (17.58%) Regulatory Compliance
10 15 (16.48%) Design Patterns
10 15 (16.48%) Observability
11 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.36%) TypeScript
2 31 (34.07%) Java
3 19 (20.88%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.68%) Bash
4 17 (18.68%) PowerShell
4 17 (18.68%) T-SQL
5 14 (15.38%) Kotlin
6 10 (10.99%) Python
6 10 (10.99%) Ruby
6 10 (10.99%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) COBOL
8 5 (5.49%) C#
8 5 (5.49%) C++
9 3 (3.30%) C
10 1 (1.10%) Dart
10 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.10%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
1 6 (6.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (6.59%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.18%) NCSC
2 17 (18.68%) NIST
3 11 (12.09%) Accessibility
4 7 (7.69%) WCAG
5 6 (6.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (4.40%) QA
7 2 (2.20%) GDPR
8 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Nagios
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (5.49%) Adobe
2 3 (3.30%) Google
3 2 (2.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.10%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.10%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.10%) Workday