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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 404 388
Rank change year-on-year -82 -16 -32
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 95 137 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 2.78% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 34 123 208
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £73,250
UK median annual salary £95,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.03% +11.54% -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 5,126 4,920 13,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.83% 17.12% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,468 10,303
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +25 37 - - 2
North of England -33 31 £62,500 -1.96% 10
Yorkshire -40 23 £95,000 +123.53% 1
South West -63 10 £72,500 +11.54% 5
South East -40 7 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Midlands -48 7 £80,000 +14.29% 8
North East - 6 £45,000 - 3
West Midlands -35 4 £73,750 +13.46%
East Midlands -38 3 £120,000 +71.43% 8
North West -23 2 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East of England -22 1 £45,000 -25.00%
Wales -33 1 £61,496 -5.39%
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 -
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 6 (6.32%) CMS
2 4 (4.21%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 48 (50.53%) Azure
2 37 (38.95%) Entra ID
3 35 (36.84%) Google Workspace
4 14 (14.74%) AWS
5 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.42%) Snowflake
6 7 (7.37%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (7.37%) dbt
6 7 (7.37%) GitHub
7 6 (6.32%) Serverless
8 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.11%) GCP
10 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.05%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.05%) Kong
10 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (51.58%) Broadband
2 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.16%) Redis
4 3 (3.16%) Spatial Data
4 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.16%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) JIRA
2 5 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Android Studio
3 2 (2.11%) Xcode
4 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.05%) git-flow
4 1 (1.05%) GitLab
4 1 (1.05%) Maven
4 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (46.32%) Games
2 40 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 36 (37.89%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.47%) Finance
6 6 (6.32%) Retail
7 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.05%) Automotive
8 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (45.26%) Developer
2 38 (40.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.84%) Senior Developer
4 14 (14.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (13.68%) IAM Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Lead
8 7 (7.37%) Android Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Systems Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Android Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Applications Developer
11 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (65.26%) REST
2 43 (45.26%) OAuth
3 36 (37.89%) SOAP
4 35 (36.84%) LDAP
4 35 (36.84%) OpenID
4 35 (36.84%) SAML
5 31 (32.63%) React
6 20 (21.05%) Node.js
7 13 (13.68%) Android SDK
8 10 (10.53%) Next.js
9 8 (8.42%) React Native
10 7 (7.37%) OpenAPI
10 7 (7.37%) RESTful
10 7 (7.37%) Swagger
11 6 (6.32%) .NET
12 5 (5.26%) Jest
13 4 (4.21%) CSS
13 4 (4.21%) Flutter
13 4 (4.21%) Kafka
14 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.89%) Cyber Threat
1 36 (37.89%) Cyberattack
2 18 (18.95%) Mobile App
3 14 (14.74%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (13.68%) Social Media
5 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.05%) Robotics
8 1 (1.05%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Android
2 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.05%) Mentoring
2 44 (46.32%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.95%) Roadmaps
4 36 (37.89%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (37.89%) Programme Delivery
5 35 (36.84%) Agile
5 35 (36.84%) Identity Access Management
5 35 (36.84%) Regulatory Compliance
6 28 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (23.16%) DevOps
8 20 (21.05%) Software Engineering
9 19 (20.00%) Software Architecture
10 16 (16.84%) AI
10 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.79%) Design Patterns
11 15 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (15.79%) Observability
12 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (13.68%) SOLID
14 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.32%) PowerShell
2 36 (37.89%) Bash
3 35 (36.84%) T-SQL
4 29 (30.53%) TypeScript
5 22 (23.16%) SQL
6 20 (21.05%) Java
7 16 (16.84%) JavaScript
8 15 (15.79%) Kotlin
9 12 (12.63%) C#
10 7 (7.37%) Python
11 4 (4.21%) C
11 4 (4.21%) C++
12 2 (2.11%) Swift
13 1 (1.05%) Embedded C
13 1 (1.05%) Embedded C++
13 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (37.89%) NCSC
1 36 (37.89%) NIST
2 7 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 35 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Terraform
2 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.16%) Nagios
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe
2 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
2 1 (1.05%) Databricks
2 1 (1.05%) Informatica
2 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.05%) SAP