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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 392 440
Rank change year-on-year -66 +48 -75
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 65 189 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 2.62% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 27 123 77
10th Percentile £52,500 £23,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - £78,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +42.31% -13.33% +7.14%

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 3,848 7,214 7,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.34% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,952 4,073 5,744
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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
Scotland +32 27 - - 41
North of England -1 23 £70,000 +27.27% 159
Yorkshire +5 21 £72,500 +45.00% 63
Midlands -9 6 £67,500 +3.85% 135
East Midlands -22 4 £120,000 +71.43% 58
South East -4 3 £60,000 +9.09% 173
North West +9 2 £57,500 - 88
West Midlands -1 2 £50,990 -21.55% 69
South West -19 2 £66,250 +1.92% 90
Wales -22 2 £59,064 +114.78% 18
East of England +9 1 £42,500 -39.29% 119
Northern Ireland -5 1 £85,000 -5.56% 9
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 (13.85%) CMS
2 6 (9.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (64.62%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) Entra ID
3 18 (27.69%) AWS
4 16 (24.62%) Google Workspace
5 14 (21.54%) Snowflake
6 13 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (16.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (16.92%) dbt
8 7 (10.77%) GCP
9 3 (4.62%) GitHub
9 3 (4.62%) Kong
9 3 (4.62%) Serverless
10 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.08%) SaaS
11 1 (1.54%) Figma
11 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.54%) npm
11 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (1.54%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Android Studio
3 2 (3.08%) git-flow
3 2 (3.08%) Xcode
4 1 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.54%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) gulp
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Organisational Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Games
4 12 (18.46%) Finance
5 10 (15.38%) Retail
6 5 (7.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (56.92%) Senior
2 20 (30.77%) Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) IAM Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 6 (9.23%) Lead
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (6.15%) Technical Architect
10 3 (4.62%) CRM Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.62%) Lead Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Principal Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (56.92%) REST
2 28 (43.08%) OAuth
3 24 (36.92%) React
4 19 (29.23%) SOAP
5 16 (24.62%) LDAP
5 16 (24.62%) OpenID
5 16 (24.62%) SAML
6 12 (18.46%) Node.js
7 11 (16.92%) OpenAPI
7 11 (16.92%) Swagger
8 9 (13.85%) Kafka
8 9 (13.85%) RESTful
9 8 (12.31%) Next.js
10 6 (9.23%) CSS
11 5 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (6.15%) Celery
12 4 (6.15%) Django
12 4 (6.15%) Flask
12 4 (6.15%) gRPC
12 4 (6.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.69%) Cyber Threat
1 18 (27.69%) Cyberattack
2 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (81.54%) Mentoring
2 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 27 (41.54%) Agile
4 21 (32.31%) Software Engineering
5 19 (29.23%) DevOps
5 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (27.69%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (27.69%) Programme Delivery
7 16 (24.62%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (24.62%) Regulatory Compliance
7 16 (24.62%) Roadmaps
8 12 (18.46%) Coaching
8 12 (18.46%) E-Commerce
8 12 (18.46%) OO
9 11 (16.92%) API Integration
9 11 (16.92%) Asset Management
9 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.92%) Microservices
10 7 (10.77%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 31 (47.69%) PowerShell
2 20 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 19 (29.23%) Bash
4 18 (27.69%) SQL
5 17 (26.15%) JavaScript
6 16 (24.62%) T-SQL
7 12 (18.46%) C#
8 10 (15.38%) Python
9 7 (10.77%) Java
10 1 (1.54%) C
10 1 (1.54%) C++
10 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.54%) Perl
10 1 (1.54%) PHP
10 1 (1.54%) Scala
10 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) NCSC
1 18 (27.69%) NIST
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (33.85%) Terraform
2 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Nagios
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) MuleSoft
2 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) Adobe
3 3 (4.62%) Informatica
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk