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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 404 392
Rank change year-on-year -81 -12 -39
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 92 113 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.35% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 32 102 215
10th Percentile - £47,050 £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 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £86,125 £73,250
UK median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% +15.38% -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 5,220 4,800 13,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 16.85% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,122 3,089 10,388
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £89,975 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 25 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 25 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 35 - - 3
North of England -27 34 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Yorkshire -37 21 £62,500 +21.95%
South West -70 9 £76,250 +17.31% 2
North East - 9 £45,000 - 1
Midlands -45 6 £73,750 +9.26% 5
South East -46 6 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West -13 4 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands -35 4 £73,750 +13.46% 2
East Midlands -29 2 - - 3
East of England -21 1 £45,000 -21.74%
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 3
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 4 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 43 (46.74%) Azure
2 36 (39.13%) Entra ID
3 35 (38.04%) Google Workspace
4 14 (15.22%) AWS
5 6 (6.52%) GitHub
5 6 (6.52%) Serverless
6 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (5.43%) dbt
6 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.09%) GCP
9 1 (1.09%) npm
9 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (53.26%) Broadband
2 1 (1.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.26%) Redis
4 3 (3.26%) Spatial Data
4 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.26%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (1.09%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.09%) Storybook
4 1 (1.09%) Xcode
General
1 44 (47.83%) Games
2 39 (42.39%) Social Skills
3 36 (39.13%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.70%) Finance
6 4 (4.35%) Retail
7 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (48.91%) Developer
2 34 (36.96%) Senior
3 16 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 13 (14.13%) IAM Developer
5 10 (10.87%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Lead
7 7 (7.61%) Android Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (5.43%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Systems Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Android Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (67.39%) REST
2 40 (43.48%) OAuth
3 36 (39.13%) SOAP
4 35 (38.04%) LDAP
4 35 (38.04%) OpenID
4 35 (38.04%) SAML
5 30 (32.61%) React
6 22 (23.91%) Node.js
7 13 (14.13%) Android SDK
8 8 (8.70%) Next.js
9 6 (6.52%) .NET
9 6 (6.52%) React Native
9 6 (6.52%) RESTful
10 5 (5.43%) OpenAPI
10 5 (5.43%) Swagger
11 4 (4.35%) CSS
11 4 (4.35%) Flutter
11 4 (4.35%) Jest
12 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (3.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.13%) Cyber Threat
1 36 (39.13%) Cyberattack
2 17 (18.48%) Mobile App
3 14 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (14.13%) Social Media
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.09%) Robotics
7 1 (1.09%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.57%) Android
2 4 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (56.52%) Mentoring
2 38 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 37 (40.22%) Roadmaps
4 36 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (39.13%) Programme Delivery
5 35 (38.04%) Identity Access Management
5 35 (38.04%) Regulatory Compliance
6 32 (34.78%) Agile
7 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 19 (20.65%) DevOps
9 19 (20.65%) Software Architecture
10 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (17.39%) AI
12 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (15.22%) Design Patterns
12 14 (15.22%) Observability
13 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (14.13%) SOLID
14 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.57%) PowerShell
2 36 (39.13%) Bash
3 35 (38.04%) T-SQL
4 30 (32.61%) TypeScript
5 20 (21.74%) Java
6 19 (20.65%) SQL
7 15 (16.30%) JavaScript
8 14 (15.22%) Kotlin
9 10 (10.87%) C#
10 6 (6.52%) Python
11 4 (4.35%) C
11 4 (4.35%) C++
12 1 (1.09%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.09%) Embedded C++
12 1 (1.09%) Scala
12 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (39.13%) NCSC
1 36 (39.13%) NIST
2 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) QA
5 1 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (38.04%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.26%) Nagios
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.09%) Adobe
2 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
2 1 (1.09%) Databricks