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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 393 442
Rank change year-on-year -59 +49 -74
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 65 189 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 2.63% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27 123 78
10th Percentile £51,500 £23,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -13.21% +6.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £78,438
90th Percentile - £78,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +42.31% -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 3,839 7,185 7,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.28% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 4,046 5,721
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
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 1 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 1 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 +27 28 - - 6
North of England +2 23 £68,750 +25.00% 19
Yorkshire -4 20 £72,500 +45.00% 5
Midlands -14 6 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East Midlands -17 4 £120,000 +71.43% 3
North West +9 3 £55,000 -4.35% 14
South East -8 3 £60,000 +9.09% 20
West Midlands -7 2 £50,990 -21.55% 3
Wales -18 2 £59,064 +114.78% 1
South West -27 2 £66,250 +1.92% 5
East of England +11 1 £42,500 -39.29% 9
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 (13.85%) CMS
2 6 (9.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (64.62%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 17 (26.15%) AWS
3 17 (26.15%) Google Workspace
4 14 (21.54%) Snowflake
5 13 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (16.92%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (16.92%) dbt
7 6 (9.23%) GCP
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
8 3 (4.62%) Kong
8 3 (4.62%) Serverless
9 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.08%) SaaS
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.54%) Figma
10 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.54%) npm
10 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Android Studio
3 2 (3.08%) git-flow
3 2 (3.08%) Xcode
4 1 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.54%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) gulp
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Games
2 19 (29.23%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Finance
4 10 (15.38%) Retail
5 5 (7.69%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Local Government
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (58.46%) Senior
2 21 (32.31%) Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) IAM Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (4.62%) CRM Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.62%) Lead Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Principal Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.00%) REST
2 29 (44.62%) OAuth
3 23 (35.38%) React
4 20 (30.77%) SOAP
5 17 (26.15%) LDAP
5 17 (26.15%) OpenID
5 17 (26.15%) SAML
6 12 (18.46%) Node.js
7 11 (16.92%) OpenAPI
7 11 (16.92%) Swagger
8 8 (12.31%) Kafka
8 8 (12.31%) Next.js
9 7 (10.77%) RESTful
10 6 (9.23%) CSS
11 4 (6.15%) .NET
11 4 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (4.62%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (4.62%) Django
12 3 (4.62%) gRPC
12 3 (4.62%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) Cyber Threat
1 19 (29.23%) Cyberattack
2 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 27 (41.54%) Agile
4 21 (32.31%) Software Engineering
5 20 (30.77%) DevOps
6 19 (29.23%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (29.23%) Programme Delivery
7 17 (26.15%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.15%) Regulatory Compliance
7 17 (26.15%) Roadmaps
8 12 (18.46%) Coaching
8 12 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.46%) E-Commerce
8 12 (18.46%) OO
9 11 (16.92%) API Integration
9 11 (16.92%) Asset Management
10 10 (15.38%) Microservices
11 7 (10.77%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) PowerShell
2 20 (30.77%) Bash
3 19 (29.23%) SQL
3 19 (29.23%) TypeScript
4 17 (26.15%) T-SQL
5 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
6 13 (20.00%) C#
7 9 (13.85%) Python
8 7 (10.77%) Java
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.54%) Perl
9 1 (1.54%) PHP
9 1 (1.54%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.23%) NCSC
1 19 (29.23%) NIST
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (33.85%) Terraform
2 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Nagios
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) MuleSoft
2 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) Adobe
3 3 (4.62%) Informatica
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk