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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 384 442
Rank change year-on-year -69 +58 -73
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 64 187 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 2.64% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 27 121 85
10th Percentile £51,500 £23,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -13.33% +7.14%

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 3,861 7,091 7,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.11% 19.39% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,957 3,970 5,985
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,708 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +17 28 - - 31
North of England -7 22 £68,750 +25.00% 66
Yorkshire -10 19 £72,500 +48.72% 24
Midlands -21 6 £67,500 +3.85% 38
East Midlands -7 4 £120,000 +71.43% 27
North West +9 3 £55,000 -4.35% 32
South East -10 3 £60,000 +9.09% 118
West Midlands -4 2 £50,990 -21.55% 10
Wales -15 2 £59,064 +114.78% 26
South West -26 2 £66,250 +1.92% 48
East of England +12 1 £42,500 -39.29% 63
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 9 (14.06%) CMS
2 6 (9.38%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) Entra ID
3 17 (26.56%) Google Workspace
4 16 (25.00%) AWS
5 14 (21.88%) Snowflake
6 13 (20.31%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (17.19%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (17.19%) dbt
8 5 (7.81%) GCP
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub
9 3 (4.69%) Kong
9 3 (4.69%) Serverless
10 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.56%) Boomi
11 1 (1.56%) Figma
11 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Redis
4 1 (1.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) Android Studio
2 2 (3.13%) git-flow
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Xcode
3 1 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) gulp
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Games
2 19 (29.69%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Retail
5 5 (7.81%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (59.38%) Senior
2 21 (32.81%) Developer
3 14 (21.88%) Senior Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) IAM Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 6 (9.38%) Architect
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
8 5 (7.81%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.69%) E-Commerce Architect
9 3 (4.69%) E-Commerce Developer
9 3 (4.69%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.69%) Lead Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Principal Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Principal Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Senior E-Commerce Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Strategy Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.94%) REST
2 29 (45.31%) OAuth
3 23 (35.94%) React
4 20 (31.25%) SOAP
5 17 (26.56%) LDAP
5 17 (26.56%) OpenID
5 17 (26.56%) SAML
6 12 (18.75%) Node.js
7 11 (17.19%) OpenAPI
7 11 (17.19%) Swagger
8 8 (12.50%) Next.js
9 7 (10.94%) Kafka
10 6 (9.38%) CSS
10 6 (9.38%) RESTful
11 4 (6.25%) .NET
12 3 (4.69%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (3.13%) gRPC
13 2 (3.13%) Jest
13 2 (3.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Cyber Threat
1 19 (29.69%) Cyberattack
2 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (79.69%) Mentoring
2 31 (48.44%) CI/CD
3 26 (40.63%) Agile
4 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
5 20 (31.25%) DevOps
6 19 (29.69%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (29.69%) Programme Delivery
7 17 (26.56%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.56%) Regulatory Compliance
7 17 (26.56%) Roadmaps
8 12 (18.75%) Coaching
8 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.75%) E-Commerce
8 12 (18.75%) OO
9 11 (17.19%) API Integration
9 11 (17.19%) Asset Management
10 9 (14.06%) Microservices
11 7 (10.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (31.25%) Bash
3 19 (29.69%) SQL
3 19 (29.69%) TypeScript
4 17 (26.56%) T-SQL
5 16 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 13 (20.31%) C#
7 8 (12.50%) Python
8 7 (10.94%) Java
9 1 (1.56%) C
9 1 (1.56%) C++
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.56%) Perl
9 1 (1.56%) PHP
9 1 (1.56%) Scala
9 1 (1.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.69%) NCSC
1 19 (29.69%) NIST
2 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (26.56%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (34.38%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Nagios
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 4 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.69%) Adobe
3 3 (4.69%) Informatica
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.56%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk