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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 393 455
Rank change year-on-year -88 +62 0
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 46 224 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 2.63% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 23 101 94
10th Percentile £43,750 £23,750 £47,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £78,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +42.31% -16.13% +11.51%

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 4,083 8,517 7,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.54% 17.94% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,728 4,817 6,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,981 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,339
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 9 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 9 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 -54 23 £60,000 +9.09% 72
Yorkshire +6 15 £68,750 +37.50% 11
Scotland +8 10 - - 26
North West -48 8 £60,000 +2.13% 57
South East +16 4 £56,250 +2.27% 176
Midlands +19 3 £34,480 -46.95% 10
East of England +17 2 £42,500 -48.48% 10
South West +10 2 £53,750 -17.31% 6
East Midlands +8 2 - - 7
West Midlands +16 1 £34,480 -46.95% 3
Northern Ireland 0 1 £85,000 -5.56% 8
Wales -18 1 £56,631 +105.93% 4
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 5 (10.87%) CMS
1 5 (10.87%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.17%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 21 (45.65%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Serverless
4 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) Google Workspace
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (8.70%) dbt
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.35%) Kong
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) npm
8 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Broadband
2 1 (2.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.17%) git-flow
3 1 (2.17%) gulp
3 1 (2.17%) NUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.17%) webpack
3 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Games
2 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Retail
4 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Senior
2 18 (39.13%) Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Architect
5 6 (13.04%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) IAM Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) CRM Architect
9 2 (4.35%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (4.35%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Lead Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Principal Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Principal Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) React
2 22 (47.83%) REST
3 13 (28.26%) Node.js
4 10 (21.74%) RESTful
5 9 (19.57%) Kafka
5 9 (19.57%) OAuth
6 8 (17.39%) SOAP
7 7 (15.22%) Next.js
8 5 (10.87%) .NET
8 5 (10.87%) CSS
8 5 (10.87%) HTML
8 5 (10.87%) LDAP
8 5 (10.87%) OpenID
8 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (10.87%) SAML
9 4 (8.70%) Celery
9 4 (8.70%) Django
9 4 (8.70%) Flask
9 4 (8.70%) Swagger
9 4 (8.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (13.04%) Cyberattack
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Mentoring
2 21 (45.65%) Agile
3 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 11 (23.91%) DevOps
6 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.57%) Microservices
8 8 (17.39%) AI
8 8 (17.39%) E-Commerce
8 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
10 6 (13.04%) Clean Code
10 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (13.04%) Programme Delivery
10 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
11 5 (10.87%) Coaching
11 5 (10.87%) Kanban
11 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
11 5 (10.87%) OO
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 11 (23.91%) PowerShell
4 10 (21.74%) Python
5 8 (17.39%) C#
5 8 (17.39%) SQL
6 7 (15.22%) Bash
7 5 (10.87%) T-SQL
8 4 (8.70%) Java
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) C++
9 1 (2.17%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
9 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) NCSC
1 6 (13.04%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) MuleSoft
2 4 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Adobe
4 2 (4.35%) Informatica
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk