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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 361 455
Rank change year-on-year -84 +94 -68
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 91 187 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 2.95% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34 136 154
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,625 £36,500
25th Percentile £56,848 £51,250 £45,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £86,875 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,375 £77,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £66,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +40.15% -5.71% -3.45%

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 4,231 6,335 11,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 20.14% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 3,736 8,848
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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
Scotland +24 46 - - 3
North of England -31 21 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Yorkshire -25 17 £72,500 +61.11%
Midlands -33 9 £67,500 +3.85% 4
South West -48 7 £66,250 +1.92% 3
East Midlands -31 5 £120,000 +68.42% 3
North West -9 4 £57,500 - 13
West Midlands -13 4 £61,250 -5.77% 1
South East -43 3 £60,000 +9.09% 13
East of England 0 2 £43,750 -32.69% 5
Wales -14 2 £59,064 -9.13%
Northern Ireland -28 1 £62,500 -30.56%
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 (9.89%) CMS
2 6 (6.59%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (68.13%) Azure
2 43 (47.25%) Entra ID
3 40 (43.96%) Google Workspace
4 16 (17.58%) AWS
5 14 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 13 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (12.09%) dbt
8 5 (5.49%) Serverless
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) GitHub
9 3 (3.30%) Kong
10 2 (2.20%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.20%) SaaS
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.10%) Boomi
11 1 (1.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 43 (47.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) Redis
4 2 (2.20%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) Android Studio
2 2 (2.20%) git-flow
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Xcode
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) gulp
3 1 (1.10%) Maven
3 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 48 (52.75%) Social Skills
2 42 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
3 38 (41.76%) Games
4 13 (14.29%) Finance
5 10 (10.99%) Retail
6 5 (5.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Local Government
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (51.65%) Senior
2 32 (35.16%) Developer
3 17 (18.68%) IAM Developer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Systems Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.30%) CRM Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.30%) E-Commerce Developer
9 3 (3.30%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Strategy Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (72.53%) REST
2 52 (57.14%) OAuth
3 43 (47.25%) SOAP
4 40 (43.96%) LDAP
4 40 (43.96%) OpenID
4 40 (43.96%) SAML
5 28 (30.77%) React
6 14 (15.38%) Node.js
7 11 (12.09%) OpenAPI
7 11 (12.09%) Swagger
8 9 (9.89%) Next.js
9 6 (6.59%) Kafka
10 5 (5.49%) .NET
10 5 (5.49%) CSS
10 5 (5.49%) RESTful
11 4 (4.40%) React Native
12 3 (3.30%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (3.30%) Jest
12 3 (3.30%) Spring
13 2 (2.20%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (46.15%) Cyber Threat
1 42 (46.15%) Cyberattack
2 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Social Media
6 1 (1.10%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Android
2 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.02%) Mentoring
2 42 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (46.15%) Programme Delivery
3 41 (45.05%) Roadmaps
4 40 (43.96%) Identity Access Management
4 40 (43.96%) Regulatory Compliance
5 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
6 29 (31.87%) Agile
7 23 (25.27%) DevOps
8 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
9 21 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.19%) Coaching
12 12 (13.19%) E-Commerce
13 11 (12.09%) API Integration
13 11 (12.09%) Asset Management
13 11 (12.09%) Microservices
13 11 (12.09%) OO
14 8 (8.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (60.44%) PowerShell
2 43 (47.25%) Bash
3 40 (43.96%) T-SQL
4 26 (28.57%) SQL
5 24 (26.37%) TypeScript
6 17 (18.68%) JavaScript
7 14 (15.38%) C#
8 10 (10.99%) Java
9 7 (7.69%) Python
10 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.20%) C
11 2 (2.20%) C++
11 2 (2.20%) Swift
12 1 (1.10%) PHP
12 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.10%) Degree
1 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (46.15%) NCSC
1 42 (46.15%) NIST
2 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 40 (43.96%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (24.18%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.20%) Nagios
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.30%) Adobe
3 3 (3.30%) Informatica
3 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.30%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.10%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.10%) SnapLogic