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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 471 375
Rank change year-on-year -58 -96 +95
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 91 76 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.22% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 1.50% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 56 65 169
10th Percentile £41,563 £42,250 £37,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +44.00% -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 6,220 5,060 11,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.56% 14.94% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 3,190 8,715
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 £67,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -23 36 £55,000 -16.98% 13
Yorkshire -27 15 £76,250 +38.64% 5
Scotland +28 12 - - 1
Midlands -27 12 £43,750 -37.50% 6
Wales -43 12 £70,000 -
North West -6 11 £60,000 -11.11% 8
South West -56 10 £80,000 +45.45% 10
North East - 10 £45,000 -
East Midlands -22 9 £42,500 -39.29% 1
South East -31 8 £58,750 -2.08% 13
West Midlands -32 3 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -12 1 £45,000 -18.18% 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 (9.89%) CMS
2 8 (8.79%) Headless CMS
3 7 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (4.40%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Magento
1 6 (6.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) AWS
2 23 (25.27%) Azure
3 16 (17.58%) GitHub
4 14 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 12 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (13.19%) Google Workspace
5 12 (13.19%) Serverless
6 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.69%) npm
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.59%) CloudFront
8 6 (6.59%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.30%) SaaS
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (28.57%) Broadband
2 2 (2.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.59%) Redis
3 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) MySQL
5 3 (3.30%) Spatial Data
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) SQLite
6 1 (1.10%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.79%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Maven
3 7 (7.69%) Storybook
4 6 (6.59%) JIRA
5 4 (4.40%) minitest
5 4 (4.40%) RSpec
6 3 (3.30%) GitLab
7 2 (2.20%) CMake
7 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.10%) fastlane
8 1 (1.10%) Gatling
8 1 (1.10%) JMeter
8 1 (1.10%) Postman
8 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.10%) Selenium
8 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Games
3 14 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (13.19%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (9.89%) Finance
6 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.69%) Publishing
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Automotive
9 1 (1.10%) Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (49.45%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.09%) Architect
5 11 (12.09%) Lead
6 7 (7.69%) Android Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Lead Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Applications Developer
8 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (5.49%) IAM Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Android Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.40%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Ruby Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (48.35%) REST
2 32 (35.16%) React
3 29 (31.87%) Node.js
4 15 (16.48%) SOAP
5 13 (14.29%) Android SDK
6 12 (13.19%) LDAP
6 12 (13.19%) OAuth
6 12 (13.19%) OpenID
6 12 (13.19%) Ruby on Rails
6 12 (13.19%) SAML
7 11 (12.09%) RESTful
8 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.69%) MDX
9 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
10 6 (6.59%) AWS CDK
10 6 (6.59%) CSS
10 6 (6.59%) React Native
11 5 (5.49%) Flutter
11 5 (5.49%) HTML
11 5 (5.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) Mobile App
2 14 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (14.29%) Social Media
4 11 (12.09%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (12.09%) Cyberattack
5 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
6 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
7 6 (6.59%) Digital Wallet
7 6 (6.59%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Robotics
9 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.10%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Android
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
3 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 37 (40.66%) Agile
3 29 (31.87%) AI
3 29 (31.87%) Software Engineering
4 25 (27.47%) Mentoring
5 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.08%) DevOps
6 21 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 20 (21.98%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (20.88%) Software Architecture
9 18 (19.78%) Design Patterns
10 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (16.48%) Code Quality
11 15 (16.48%) Microservices
12 14 (15.38%) Observability
12 14 (15.38%) Roadmaps
12 14 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 13 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.26%) TypeScript
2 31 (34.07%) Java
3 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.38%) Bash
4 14 (15.38%) Kotlin
4 14 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.19%) Python
5 12 (13.19%) Ruby
5 12 (13.19%) T-SQL
6 11 (12.09%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) COBOL
8 5 (5.49%) C#
8 5 (5.49%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) C
9 2 (2.20%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.10%) Dart
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%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) NCSC
2 14 (15.38%) NIST
3 12 (13.19%) Accessibility
4 9 (9.89%) WCAG
5 6 (6.59%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (5.49%) QA
7 2 (2.20%) GDPR
8 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
5 1 (1.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Adobe
2 5 (5.49%) Google
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.10%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.10%) Workday