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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 347 395
Rank change year-on-year -100 +48 -18
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 98 146 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 3.05% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 30 128 190
10th Percentile £52,250 £48,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £93,125 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% +7.69% -13.33%

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 4,748 4,786 13,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.05% 18.48% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,660 3,701 10,062
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £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 £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

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 April 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 April 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 +5 45 - - 4
North of England -64 29 £85,000 +38.78% 14
Yorkshire -39 26 £95,000 +100.00% 5
Midlands -49 9 £80,000 +23.08% 8
South West -68 7 £71,250 +9.62% 9
East Midlands -51 5 £120,000 +71.43% 6
West Midlands -23 4 £73,750 +13.46% 2
South East -74 3 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Wales -35 2 £59,064 -9.13% 1
East of England -37 2 £43,750 -27.08% 10
North West -43 2 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East - 1 £55,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 1
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 8 (8.16%) CMS
2 4 (4.08%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 59 (60.20%) Azure
2 41 (41.84%) Entra ID
3 38 (38.78%) Google Workspace
4 14 (14.29%) AWS
4 14 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 13 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (11.22%) dbt
7 7 (7.14%) Serverless
8 3 (3.06%) GitHub
8 3 (3.06%) Kong
9 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.04%) GCP
9 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.02%) Figma
10 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (54.08%) Broadband
2 1 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.06%) Redis
2 3 (3.06%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
3 2 (2.04%) Android Studio
3 2 (2.04%) git-flow
3 2 (2.04%) Xcode
4 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) gulp
4 1 (1.02%) Maven
4 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 48 (48.98%) Games
2 43 (43.88%) Social Skills
3 40 (40.82%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (13.27%) Finance
4 13 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.16%) Retail
6 3 (3.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
7 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (45.92%) Senior
2 38 (38.78%) Developer
3 16 (16.33%) Senior Developer
4 15 (15.31%) IAM Developer
5 11 (11.22%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Android Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Systems Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Android Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Applications Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.08%) Principal Architect
11 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (62.24%) REST
2 50 (51.02%) OAuth
3 40 (40.82%) SOAP
4 38 (38.78%) LDAP
4 38 (38.78%) OpenID
4 38 (38.78%) SAML
5 29 (29.59%) React
6 15 (15.31%) Node.js
7 13 (13.27%) Android SDK
8 11 (11.22%) OpenAPI
8 11 (11.22%) Swagger
9 9 (9.18%) Next.js
10 7 (7.14%) Kafka
11 5 (5.10%) CSS
11 5 (5.10%) React Native
12 4 (4.08%) .NET
12 4 (4.08%) RESTful
13 3 (3.06%) Apollo GraphQL
13 3 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (3.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.82%) Cyber Threat
1 40 (40.82%) Cyberattack
2 15 (15.31%) Mobile App
3 14 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (13.27%) Social Media
5 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.02%) IoT
8 1 (1.02%) Robotics
8 1 (1.02%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (69.39%) Mentoring
2 46 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 40 (40.82%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (40.82%) Programme Delivery
3 40 (40.82%) Roadmaps
4 38 (38.78%) Agile
4 38 (38.78%) Identity Access Management
4 38 (38.78%) Regulatory Compliance
5 29 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.47%) DevOps
7 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (20.41%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.33%) Observability
9 16 (16.33%) Software Architecture
10 15 (15.31%) AI
10 15 (15.31%) Design Patterns
11 14 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (13.27%) SOLID
13 12 (12.24%) Coaching
13 12 (12.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.06%) PowerShell
2 40 (40.82%) Bash
3 38 (38.78%) T-SQL
4 24 (24.49%) SQL
4 24 (24.49%) TypeScript
5 22 (22.45%) Java
6 17 (17.35%) JavaScript
7 15 (15.31%) Kotlin
8 14 (14.29%) C#
9 7 (7.14%) Python
10 4 (4.08%) C
10 4 (4.08%) C++
11 2 (2.04%) Swift
12 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.82%) NCSC
1 40 (40.82%) NIST
2 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 38 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) Terraform
2 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) Nagios
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
5 1 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) Adobe
2 3 (3.06%) Informatica
2 3 (3.06%) MuleSoft
2 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.06%) SAP
3 2 (2.04%) CyberArk