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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 424 376
Rank change year-on-year -78 -48 +105
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 94 107 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.37% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.14% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 35 96 214
10th Percentile - £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £75,313 £66,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,875 £73,250
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 5,331 4,997 14,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.97% 17.13% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 3,187 10,560
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 £88,449 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 4 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 4 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 -34 38 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Scotland +33 32 - - 1
Yorkshire -31 21 £62,500 +11.11%
South West -59 11 £76,250 +17.31% 4
North East - 10 £45,000 - 2
North West -12 7 £65,750 +1.15% 10
South East -48 6 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Midlands -49 5 £80,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands -39 3 £80,000 +23.08% 3
East Midlands -29 2 - - 3
East of England -30 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 8
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
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.55%) Azure
2 35 (37.23%) Entra ID
2 35 (37.23%) Google Workspace
3 15 (15.96%) AWS
4 7 (7.45%) GitHub
5 5 (5.32%) Serverless
6 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (3.19%) dbt
6 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.19%) npm
6 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.06%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.06%) Boomi
7 1 (1.06%) Firebase
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
7 1 (1.06%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 48 (51.06%) 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%) 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 5 (5.32%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) Maven
3 3 (3.19%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) Storybook
4 1 (1.06%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.06%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.06%) fastlane
4 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 43 (45.74%) Games
2 40 (42.55%) Social Skills
3 35 (37.23%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.57%) Finance
6 4 (4.26%) Retail
7 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Marketing
7 3 (3.19%) Publishing
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 46 (48.94%) Developer
2 32 (34.04%) Senior
3 16 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (17.02%) Senior Developer
4 13 (13.83%) IAM Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Lead
7 7 (7.45%) Android Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (6.38%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Systems Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Android Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (69.15%) REST
2 38 (40.43%) OAuth
3 36 (38.30%) SOAP
4 35 (37.23%) LDAP
4 35 (37.23%) OpenID
4 35 (37.23%) SAML
5 31 (32.98%) React
6 23 (24.47%) Node.js
7 13 (13.83%) Android SDK
8 8 (8.51%) Next.js
9 6 (6.38%) .NET
9 6 (6.38%) React Native
10 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.32%) Flutter
10 5 (5.32%) RESTful
11 4 (4.26%) CSS
11 4 (4.26%) Jest
11 4 (4.26%) Kafka
12 3 (3.19%) ASP.NET
12 3 (3.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (37.23%) Cyber Threat
1 35 (37.23%) Cyberattack
2 18 (19.15%) Mobile App
3 14 (14.89%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (13.83%) Social Media
5 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.13%) Robotics
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
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 50 (53.19%) Mentoring
2 40 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 37 (39.36%) Roadmaps
4 35 (37.23%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (37.23%) Identity Access Management
4 35 (37.23%) Programme Delivery
4 35 (37.23%) Regulatory Compliance
5 30 (31.91%) Agile
6 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (22.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (21.28%) DevOps
9 19 (20.21%) Software Engineering
10 18 (19.15%) Software Architecture
11 17 (18.09%) AI
12 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
13 15 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (14.89%) Design Patterns
14 14 (14.89%) Observability
15 13 (13.83%) SOLID
16 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.43%) PowerShell
2 35 (37.23%) Bash
2 35 (37.23%) T-SQL
3 32 (34.04%) TypeScript
4 21 (22.34%) Java
5 18 (19.15%) SQL
6 17 (18.09%) JavaScript
7 15 (15.96%) Kotlin
8 8 (8.51%) C#
9 6 (6.38%) Python
10 3 (3.19%) C
10 3 (3.19%) C++
11 2 (2.13%) Swift
12 1 (1.06%) Dart
12 1 (1.06%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.06%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (37.23%) NCSC
1 35 (37.23%) NIST
2 7 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) WCAG
4 2 (2.13%) QA
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (37.23%) 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 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe
3 1 (1.06%) Databricks
3 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.06%) SnapLogic
3 1 (1.06%) Workday