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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 382 450
Rank change year-on-year -91 +68 +12
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 48 229 103
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% 2.60% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 26 115 93
10th Percentile £43,750 £23,750 £46,500
25th Percentile £53,533 £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 £75,313 £66,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,250 £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 3,896 8,815 7,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.55% 18.28% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,909 5,066 5,878
10th Percentile £30,000 £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 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%

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 22 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 22 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 -28 23 £63,750 +21.43% 42
Yorkshire +5 16 £70,000 +51.35% 10
Scotland +16 12 - - 39
North West -10 7 £60,000 +6.67% 28
Midlands +25 4 £77,240 +18.83% 11
South East +17 3 £53,750 -2.27% 33
East Midlands +16 3 £120,000 +71.43% 3
South West +4 2 £53,750 -17.31% 9
Wales -15 2 £59,064 +114.78% 7
West Midlands +28 1 £34,480 -46.95% 8
East of England +9 1 £42,500 -39.29% 4
Northern Ireland +6 1 £85,000 -5.56% 2
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 7 (14.58%) CMS
1 7 (14.58%) 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 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 20 (41.67%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (12.50%) dbt
6 6 (12.50%) GCP
7 5 (10.42%) Google Workspace
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (6.25%) Kong
10 2 (4.17%) Azure API Management
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (4.17%) GitHub
10 2 (4.17%) SaaS
11 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.08%) Boomi
11 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
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 19 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Games
2 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Local Government
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Senior
2 16 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.33%) IAM Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.25%) CRM Architect
8 3 (6.25%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
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
3 12 (25.00%) OAuth
4 11 (22.92%) RESTful
5 9 (18.75%) Next.js
6 8 (16.67%) Kafka
7 7 (14.58%) SOAP
8 6 (12.50%) OpenAPI
8 6 (12.50%) Swagger
9 5 (10.42%) .NET
9 5 (10.42%) LDAP
9 5 (10.42%) OpenID
9 5 (10.42%) SAML
10 4 (8.33%) CSS
10 4 (8.33%) Django
10 4 (8.33%) gRPC
10 4 (8.33%) HTML
10 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 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 34 (70.83%) Mentoring
2 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (43.75%) Agile
4 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 14 (29.17%) DevOps
6 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (22.92%) E-Commerce
7 11 (22.92%) Microservices
7 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (16.67%) API Integration
10 7 (14.58%) Coaching
10 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven
10 7 (14.58%) OO
11 6 (12.50%) AI
11 6 (12.50%) Asset Management
11 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (12.50%) Kanban
11 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 6 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) JavaScript
1 17 (35.42%) TypeScript
2 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 10 (20.83%) SQL
4 9 (18.75%) C#
5 8 (16.67%) Python
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 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 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
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.25%) Adobe
3 3 (6.25%) Informatica
3 3 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk