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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 373 463
Rank change year-on-year -135 +90 -32
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 35 230 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 2.65% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 20 103 96
10th Percentile £43,750 £23,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £77,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £93,750 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +44.23% -18.75% +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 4,305 8,691 7,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 18.04% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,605 4,993 6,251
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +2.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £84,056
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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -69 20 £60,000 +9.09% 69
Yorkshire +1 12 £67,500 +35.00% 14
North West -61 8 £60,000 +4.35% 52
Scotland 0 4 - - 66
South East -12 4 £56,250 +7.14% 81
South West +23 3 £60,000 -7.69% 7
West Midlands +28 1 £34,480 -46.95% 6
Midlands +16 1 £34,480 -46.95% 14
Northern Ireland +5 1 £85,000 -5.56%
East of England 0 1 - - 3
Wales -11 1 £56,631 +105.93% 15
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 3 (8.57%) CMS
1 3 (8.57%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.86%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.71%) dbt
6 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Boomi
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Broadband
2 1 (2.86%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Redis
5 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Android Studio
2 1 (2.86%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.86%) git-flow
2 1 (2.86%) NUnit
2 1 (2.86%) Selenium
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Games
2 2 (5.71%) Marketing
2 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
1 16 (45.71%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Senior Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) IAM Developer
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
7 1 (2.86%) Principal Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) React
2 16 (45.71%) REST
3 10 (28.57%) Node.js
3 10 (28.57%) RESTful
4 7 (20.00%) Kafka
5 5 (14.29%) .NET
5 5 (14.29%) Next.js
5 5 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (11.43%) Celery
6 4 (11.43%) CSS
6 4 (11.43%) Django
6 4 (11.43%) FastAPI
6 4 (11.43%) Flask
6 4 (11.43%) gRPC
6 4 (11.43%) HTML
6 4 (11.43%) OAuth
6 4 (11.43%) Redux
6 4 (11.43%) SOAP
6 4 (11.43%) WebSockets
7 3 (8.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.71%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 19 (54.29%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) AI
6 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
8 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 5 (14.29%) Front End Development
9 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 4 (11.43%) API Development
10 4 (11.43%) Coaching
10 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
10 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (11.43%) Kanban
10 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) TypeScript
2 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) C#
6 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.57%) Bash
8 2 (5.71%) Java
8 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.86%) C
9 1 (2.86%) C++
9 1 (2.86%) Go
9 1 (2.86%) Perl
9 1 (2.86%) PHP
9 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.71%) NCSC
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk