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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 392 444
Rank change year-on-year -78 +52 +21
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 48 221 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 2.59% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24 107 94
10th Percentile £43,750 £23,750 £46,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £73,438 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +42.31% -16.13% +10.71%

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 3,895 8,517 7,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.63% 18.03% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 4,802 5,881
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -20 23 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Yorkshire +3 15 £68,750 +44.74% 7
Scotland +7 11 - - 8
North West -30 8 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Midlands +18 4 £77,240 +18.83% 8
South East +13 3 £47,500 -13.64% 28
East Midlands +13 3 £120,000 +84.62% 2
East of England +9 2 £42,500 -48.48% 2
South West +6 2 £53,750 -17.31% 7
Wales -18 2 £59,064 +114.78% 2
West Midlands +20 1 £34,480 -46.95% 6
Northern Ireland +3 1 £85,000 -5.56% 4
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 6 (12.50%) CMS
1 6 (12.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.08%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.50%) Serverless
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (10.42%) dbt
6 5 (10.42%) GCP
6 5 (10.42%) Google Workspace
7 3 (6.25%) Kong
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.17%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.08%) MySQL
4 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) git-flow
4 1 (2.08%) Android Studio
4 1 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.08%) gulp
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) NUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
4 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.08%) webpack
4 1 (2.08%) Xcode
General
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Games
2 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Retail
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Senior
2 17 (35.42%) Developer
3 10 (20.83%) Senior Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.33%) IAM Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.25%) CRM Architect
8 3 (6.25%) E-Commerce Architect
8 3 (6.25%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Strategy Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) React
2 22 (45.83%) REST
3 12 (25.00%) Node.js
4 10 (20.83%) OAuth
4 10 (20.83%) RESTful
5 9 (18.75%) Kafka
6 8 (16.67%) Next.js
6 8 (16.67%) SOAP
7 5 (10.42%) LDAP
7 5 (10.42%) OpenAPI
7 5 (10.42%) OpenID
7 5 (10.42%) SAML
7 5 (10.42%) Swagger
8 4 (8.33%) Celery
8 4 (8.33%) Django
8 4 (8.33%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.33%) Flask
8 4 (8.33%) gRPC
8 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Mentoring
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
4 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.08%) DevOps
6 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.92%) Microservices
7 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
7 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 8 (16.67%) AI
10 6 (12.50%) API Integration
10 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 6 (12.50%) Coaching
10 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.50%) Kanban
10 6 (12.50%) OO
10 6 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
10 6 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 18 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 13 (27.08%) PowerShell
3 10 (20.83%) Python
4 9 (18.75%) SQL
5 8 (16.67%) C#
6 7 (14.58%) Bash
7 5 (10.42%) Java
7 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) NCSC
1 6 (12.50%) NIST
2 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) MuleSoft
2 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.33%) SAP
4 3 (6.25%) Adobe
4 3 (6.25%) Informatica
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk