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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 485 367
Rank change year-on-year -67 -118 +93
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 88 67 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.37% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 61 55 144
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £38,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,500 £73,025
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +46.15% -18.75%

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 6,486 4,904 10,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 14.26% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,151 3,053 7,338
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,625 £73,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -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 6 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 6 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 -28 36 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Yorkshire -24 14 £90,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands -33 13 £43,750 -37.50% 5
North West -4 12 £60,000 -17.24% 6
Wales -45 12 £70,000 - 1
South West -56 12 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North East - 10 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands -11 9 £42,500 -39.29% 3
South East -42 9 £62,500 -3.85% 9
Scotland +28 6 - - 2
West Midlands -29 4 £70,450 +0.64% 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 10 (11.36%) CMS
2 9 (10.23%) Headless CMS
3 8 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (4.55%) Confluence
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Magento
2 6 (6.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.18%) AWS
2 16 (18.18%) GitHub
3 15 (17.05%) Azure
4 12 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (13.64%) Serverless
5 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.09%) npm
7 7 (7.95%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.95%) GCP
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.82%) CloudFront
9 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.41%) Google Workspace
10 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.32%) Broadband
2 2 (2.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.82%) Redis
4 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.55%) MySQL
6 3 (3.41%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.27%) Power BI
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.14%) SQLite
8 1 (1.14%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.23%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) Maven
2 9 (10.23%) Storybook
3 7 (7.95%) JIRA
4 4 (4.55%) CMake
4 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.55%) minitest
4 4 (4.55%) RSpec
5 3 (3.41%) GitLab
6 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.14%) fastlane
6 1 (1.14%) JMeter
6 1 (1.14%) Pa11y
6 1 (1.14%) Postman
6 1 (1.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.14%) Selenium
6 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Games
3 14 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.36%) Finance
5 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (9.09%) Publishing
7 3 (3.41%) Electronics
7 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.14%) Automotive
9 1 (1.14%) Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (51.14%) Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Senior
3 14 (15.91%) Senior Developer
4 12 (13.64%) Lead
5 11 (12.50%) Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Android Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Lead Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Applications Developer
8 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Android Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Embedded Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) React Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (42.05%) REST
2 33 (37.50%) React
3 30 (34.09%) Node.js
4 13 (14.77%) Android SDK
5 12 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
6 10 (11.36%) RESTful
7 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
8 8 (9.09%) CSS
8 8 (9.09%) MDX
9 7 (7.95%) HTML
9 7 (7.95%) React Native
9 7 (7.95%) Spring Boot
10 6 (6.82%) AWS CDK
10 6 (6.82%) Flutter
10 6 (6.82%) SOAP
11 5 (5.68%) Jest
11 5 (5.68%) Kafka
11 5 (5.68%) Next.js
11 5 (5.68%) Vue
12 4 (4.55%) Sidekiq
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Mobile App
2 13 (14.77%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (14.77%) Social Media
3 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.82%) Digital Wallet
4 6 (6.82%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.27%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) PMI
6 2 (2.27%) Robotics
7 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Android
2 8 (9.09%) Linux
3 6 (6.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 37 (42.05%) Agile
3 32 (36.36%) AI
3 32 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 25 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (28.41%) Test Automation
5 22 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (25.00%) Software Architecture
6 21 (23.86%) DevOps
7 19 (21.59%) Design Patterns
8 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (19.32%) Code Quality
10 16 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 15 (17.05%) Containerisation
11 15 (17.05%) Microservices
11 15 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (15.91%) Observability
13 13 (14.77%) SOLID
14 12 (13.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 11 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (38.64%) TypeScript
2 32 (36.36%) Java
3 22 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.18%) Python
5 14 (15.91%) Kotlin
6 12 (13.64%) Ruby
7 9 (10.23%) SQL
8 7 (7.95%) C++
9 6 (6.82%) COBOL
10 5 (5.68%) Bash
10 5 (5.68%) PowerShell
11 4 (4.55%) C#
11 4 (4.55%) Embedded C++
12 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (2.27%) C
14 1 (1.14%) Dart
14 1 (1.14%) Embedded C
14 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
1 6 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (6.82%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) Accessibility
2 11 (12.50%) WCAG
3 10 (11.36%) NCSC
4 6 (6.82%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (6.82%) QA
5 5 (5.68%) NIST
6 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.27%) GDPR
8 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Terraform
2 5 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Kibana
5 1 (1.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Adobe
2 5 (5.68%) Google
3 4 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.14%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.14%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.14%) Workday