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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 489 351
Rank change year-on-year -80 -138 +106
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 80 55 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.16% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.10% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 43 140
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £38,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £76,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +40.00% -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 7,298 5,002 11,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.13% 14.34% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,751 3,103 7,501
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,056
% change year-on-year - +7.05% -6.58%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -41 29 £55,000 -21.43% 36
Midlands -22 14 £43,125 -38.39% 12
North West -12 12 £60,000 -20.00% 26
Wales -55 12 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -12 11 £42,500 -39.29% 9
South West -65 11 £80,000 +23.08% 15
North East - 10 £45,000 - 3
South East -30 9 £62,500 -7.41% 20
Yorkshire -42 7 £90,000 +30.91% 7
Scotland +11 5 - - 11
West Midlands -34 3 £60,900 -18.80% 3
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 11 (13.75%) CMS
2 10 (12.50%) Headless CMS
3 8 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (3.75%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Magento
2 6 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (47.50%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) GitHub
3 14 (17.50%) Azure
4 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (12.50%) Serverless
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (10.00%) npm
8 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
8 7 (8.75%) GCP
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.50%) CloudFront
10 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.50%) SaaS
13 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Broadband
2 2 (2.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.25%) Redis
4 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.00%) MySQL
6 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.75%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.50%) Power BI
8 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.25%) Storybook
3 8 (10.00%) Git
3 8 (10.00%) Maven
4 6 (7.50%) JIRA
5 4 (5.00%) CMake
5 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.00%) minitest
5 4 (5.00%) RSpec
6 3 (3.75%) GitLab
7 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.25%) fastlane
7 1 (1.25%) Gatling
7 1 (1.25%) Pa11y
7 1 (1.25%) Postman
7 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.00%) Publishing
5 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.50%) Games
7 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.75%) Electronics
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (48.75%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Senior
3 13 (16.25%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.75%) Lead
5 10 (12.50%) Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) React Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) E-Commerce Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (5.00%) Ruby Developer
11 3 (3.75%) C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (42.50%) REST
2 32 (40.00%) React
3 29 (36.25%) Node.js
4 12 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 10 (12.50%) RESTful
6 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.00%) CSS
6 8 (10.00%) MDX
7 7 (8.75%) HTML
7 7 (8.75%) React Native
7 7 (8.75%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.75%) Terraform
8 6 (7.50%) Android SDK
8 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
8 6 (7.50%) Flutter
9 5 (6.25%) Jest
9 5 (6.25%) Kafka
9 5 (6.25%) Next.js
9 5 (6.25%) SOAP
9 5 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.50%) Digital Wallet
3 6 (7.50%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.50%) Social Media
4 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) PMI
5 2 (2.50%) Robotics
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Android
2 8 (10.00%) Linux
3 6 (7.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 32 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 29 (36.25%) Agile
4 25 (31.25%) AI
4 25 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 20 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (23.75%) DevOps
7 17 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 15 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 15 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 14 (17.50%) Software Architecture
11 13 (16.25%) Microservices
12 12 (15.00%) Design Patterns
12 12 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
14 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven
14 10 (12.50%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) TypeScript
2 23 (28.75%) Java
3 21 (26.25%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.75%) Python
5 12 (15.00%) Ruby
6 9 (11.25%) SQL
7 7 (8.75%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.50%) C++
8 6 (7.50%) COBOL
9 4 (5.00%) Bash
9 4 (5.00%) C#
9 4 (5.00%) Embedded C++
9 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.25%) C
10 1 (1.25%) Dart
10 1 (1.25%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.25%) Swift
10 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (7.50%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.75%) WCAG
3 9 (11.25%) NCSC
4 6 (7.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (7.50%) QA
5 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (5.00%) NIST
6 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.50%) GDPR
7 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Adobe
2 5 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.25%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.25%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.25%) Workday