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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 494 372
Rank change year-on-year -87 -122 +70
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 90 44 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.13% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 0.95% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 75 31 127
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -18.52%
75th Percentile £68,225 £76,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £77,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £70,500 £92,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.78% +54.17% -25.00%

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 7,288 4,624 10,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 13.36% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,587 2,783 5,952
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,025
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,375 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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
Midlands -25 29 £45,000 -28.00% 19
East Midlands - 26 £45,000 - 8
North of England -64 23 £57,500 -16.36% 41
North West -31 13 £60,000 -11.11% 30
South West -62 12 £80,000 +39.13% 23
Wales -66 12 £70,000 - 6
South East -47 9 £62,500 -3.85% 27
North East - 9 £45,000 - 1
Scotland +11 4 - - 34
West Midlands -44 3 £60,900 -2.56% 11
East of England -40 1 £80,000 - 12
Yorkshire -42 1 £90,000 +30.91% 10
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 20 (22.22%) CMS
1 20 (22.22%) Headless CMS
2 8 (8.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Magento
2 6 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) AWS
2 17 (18.89%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) GitHub
4 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (10.00%) GCP
5 9 (10.00%) Serverless
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.89%) npm
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.67%) CloudFront
9 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.22%) SaaS
12 1 (1.11%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Broadband
2 1 (1.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.56%) Redis
4 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.44%) MySQL
6 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.33%) Spatial Data
6 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.22%) Power BI
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Storybook
3 8 (8.89%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) Maven
4 5 (5.56%) JIRA
5 4 (4.44%) CMake
5 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.44%) minitest
5 4 (4.44%) RSpec
6 3 (3.33%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.11%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.11%) JMeter
7 1 (1.11%) Pa11y
7 1 (1.11%) Postman
7 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.11%) Selenium
7 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 12 (13.33%) Finance
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.89%) Publishing
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Electronics
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
6 3 (3.33%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (54.44%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) React Developer
3 16 (17.78%) Senior
4 14 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (14.44%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.22%) Architect
6 11 (12.22%) E-Commerce Developer
6 11 (12.22%) Lead
7 10 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (10.00%) CMS Developer
9 8 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.67%) AWS Developer
12 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (5.56%) Magento Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Embedded Engineer
13 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Ruby Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.00%) REST
2 34 (37.78%) React
3 28 (31.11%) Node.js
4 17 (18.89%) Next.js
5 12 (13.33%) Ruby on Rails
6 10 (11.11%) RESTful
7 9 (10.00%) CSS
8 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) HTML
8 8 (8.89%) MDX
9 7 (7.78%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.78%) Terraform
10 6 (6.67%) AWS CDK
10 6 (6.67%) Flutter
10 6 (6.67%) React Native
11 5 (5.56%) Jest
11 5 (5.56%) SOAP
11 5 (5.56%) Vue
12 4 (4.44%) .NET
12 4 (4.44%) Sidekiq
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
3 6 (6.67%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.22%) PMI
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.11%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Linux
2 6 (6.67%) Android
2 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.56%) CI/CD
2 33 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 23 (25.56%) Test Automation
4 22 (24.44%) Agile
5 21 (23.33%) AI
6 20 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (20.00%) DevOps
7 18 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 18 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (17.78%) Microservices
9 15 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 14 (15.56%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.33%) Event-Driven
11 12 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 11 (12.22%) B2B
12 11 (12.22%) Front End Development
12 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 20 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 17 (18.89%) Java
4 15 (16.67%) Python
5 12 (13.33%) Ruby
6 10 (11.11%) SQL
7 6 (6.67%) COBOL
8 5 (5.56%) C++
9 4 (4.44%) Bash
9 4 (4.44%) C#
9 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.33%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.11%) Dart
11 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.11%) Swift
11 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.11%) Degree
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.44%) Accessibility
2 11 (12.22%) WCAG
3 9 (10.00%) NCSC
4 6 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (6.67%) QA
5 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.44%) NIST
6 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.22%) GDPR
6 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Grafana
2 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Adobe
2 7 (7.78%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Databricks
4 3 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.11%) Workday