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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 437 406
Rank change year-on-year -50 -31 +61
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 94 102 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 2.03% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 37 92 212
10th Percentile £44,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 £65,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,375 £73,175
UK median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -21.88%

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 5,454 5,027 14,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.22% 17.07% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 3,165 10,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £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 £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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
North of England -22 35 £47,500 -26.92% 9
Scotland +37 30 - -
Yorkshire -32 18 £62,500 +11.11% 1
South West -54 11 £76,250 +17.31% 2
North East - 10 £45,000 - 2
North West -4 7 £65,750 +1.15% 6
Midlands -26 7 £55,000 -21.43% 3
South East -46 6 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Midlands -24 4 £45,000 -35.71% 2
West Midlands -26 3 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Wales -44 3 £80,000 +18.52%
East of England -21 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 2
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 4 (4.26%) CMS
1 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.13%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.06%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.43%) Azure
2 34 (36.17%) Entra ID
2 34 (36.17%) Google Workspace
3 19 (20.21%) AWS
4 10 (10.64%) GitHub
5 8 (8.51%) Serverless
6 6 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.19%) npm
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.13%) CloudFront
9 2 (2.13%) dbt
9 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.06%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 46 (48.94%) Broadband
2 2 (2.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.19%) Spatial Data
4 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.13%) Redis
5 2 (2.13%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.06%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) Maven
3 3 (3.19%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Storybook
4 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.06%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.06%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.06%) Gatling
5 1 (1.06%) JMeter
5 1 (1.06%) Pa11y
5 1 (1.06%) Postman
5 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.06%) Xcode
5 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (43.62%) Games
2 37 (39.36%) Social Skills
3 34 (36.17%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.51%) Finance
6 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Publishing
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (46.81%) Developer
2 29 (30.85%) Senior
3 16 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (14.89%) Senior Developer
5 13 (13.83%) IAM Developer
6 10 (10.64%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Lead
8 8 (8.51%) Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Android Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (6.38%) Lead Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Systems Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Android Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Applications Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Senior Architect
13 3 (3.19%) Development Engineer
13 3 (3.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (68.09%) REST
2 36 (38.30%) OAuth
3 35 (37.23%) SOAP
4 34 (36.17%) LDAP
4 34 (36.17%) OpenID
4 34 (36.17%) SAML
5 28 (29.79%) React
6 25 (26.60%) Node.js
7 13 (13.83%) Android SDK
8 6 (6.38%) .NET
8 6 (6.38%) Next.js
8 6 (6.38%) React Native
9 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.32%) Flutter
9 5 (5.32%) RESTful
10 4 (4.26%) Jest
10 4 (4.26%) Kafka
11 3 (3.19%) MDX
11 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (35.11%) Cyber Threat
1 33 (35.11%) Cyberattack
2 18 (19.15%) Mobile App
3 14 (14.89%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (13.83%) Social Media
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.13%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.13%) Robotics
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Android
2 5 (5.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Mentoring
2 40 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 36 (38.30%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (37.23%) Roadmaps
5 34 (36.17%) Identity Access Management
6 33 (35.11%) Programme Delivery
6 33 (35.11%) Regulatory Compliance
7 31 (32.98%) Agile
8 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (21.28%) AI
10 20 (21.28%) Software Engineering
11 19 (20.21%) DevOps
12 18 (19.15%) Software Architecture
13 17 (18.09%) Test Automation
14 14 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (14.89%) Design Patterns
14 14 (14.89%) Observability
15 13 (13.83%) SOLID
16 10 (10.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) PowerShell
2 34 (36.17%) Bash
2 34 (36.17%) T-SQL
3 29 (30.85%) TypeScript
4 24 (25.53%) Java
5 18 (19.15%) SQL
6 15 (15.96%) JavaScript
6 15 (15.96%) Kotlin
7 7 (7.45%) C#
8 6 (6.38%) Python
9 3 (3.19%) C
9 3 (3.19%) C++
9 3 (3.19%) Ruby
10 2 (2.13%) COBOL
10 2 (2.13%) Swift
11 1 (1.06%) Dart
11 1 (1.06%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.06%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
1 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (37.23%) NCSC
2 34 (36.17%) NIST
3 8 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.26%) WCAG
5 2 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (2.13%) QA
6 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Terraform
2 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.13%) Nagios
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) Adobe
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.06%) Databricks
2 1 (1.06%) Google
2 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.06%) SnapLogic
2 1 (1.06%) Workday