GraphQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 403 389
Rank change year-on-year -127 -14 +22
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 219 298 674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.61% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 3.34% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 156 238 387
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +36.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £111,563 £105,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% -17.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,188 8,919 20,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 18.15% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,603 5,899 15,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GraphQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GraphQL job vacancy trend in the UK

GraphQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 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
England -140 188 £87,500 -5.41% 214
Work from Home -6 122 £95,000 +35.71% 221
London -103 120 £95,000 -5.00% 39
UK excluding London -61 91 £60,000 +2.13% 236
North of England -24 36 £55,000 -16.98% 56
Yorkshire -27 16 £62,500 +13.64% 21
Scotland +25 15 - - 26
Midlands -28 12 £45,000 -33.33% 29
North West -14 10 £65,750 -2.59% 33
Wales -48 10 £80,000 +14.29% 15
North East - 10 £45,000 - 2
South West -65 9 £75,000 +36.36% 22
East Midlands -21 8 £42,500 -39.29% 16
South East -39 7 £57,500 +4.55% 52
West Midlands -29 4 £80,000 +23.08% 13
East of England -25 1 £45,000 -18.18% 24
Northern Ireland -57 1 £62,500 -26.47% 14

GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (5.02%) Confluence
2 10 (4.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (3.65%) CMS
4 7 (3.20%) Headless CMS
5 6 (2.74%) JBoss
6 4 (1.83%) IIS
7 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.28%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.55%) AWS
2 51 (23.29%) Azure
3 29 (13.24%) Entra ID
3 29 (13.24%) Google Workspace
4 23 (10.50%) GitHub
4 23 (10.50%) Serverless
5 15 (6.85%) SaaS
6 14 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.94%) GCP
8 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.11%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (3.65%) CloudFront
11 6 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.74%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.81%) Broadband
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
2 4 (1.83%) HTTP
3 2 (0.91%) MQTT
3 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.39%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.65%) MySQL
5 6 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.28%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.28%) Redis
7 3 (1.37%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.91%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (10.05%) Git
2 13 (5.94%) JIRA
3 10 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.65%) Storybook
5 7 (3.20%) Maven
6 6 (2.74%) Claude Code
7 5 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.37%) Selenium
8 3 (1.37%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.91%) ESLint
9 2 (0.91%) GitLab
9 2 (0.91%) minitest
9 2 (0.91%) RSpec
10 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.46%) Postman
10 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 71 (32.42%) Finance
3 34 (15.53%) Front Office
4 29 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (11.87%) Games
6 15 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.28%) Publishing
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.46%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (57.08%) Developer
2 58 (26.48%) Lead
3 49 (22.37%) Lead Developer
4 44 (20.09%) Software Engineer
5 38 (17.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 37 (16.89%) Senior
7 34 (15.53%) React Developer
8 32 (14.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 25 (11.42%) Architect
10 21 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (9.13%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (7.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (6.85%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 12 (5.48%) Java Engineer
15 11 (5.02%) IAM Developer
16 10 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (4.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
18 8 (3.65%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 8 (3.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.84%) React
1 96 (43.84%) REST
2 82 (37.44%) Node.js
3 50 (22.83%) RESTful
4 38 (17.35%) Kafka
5 36 (16.44%) Redux
5 36 (16.44%) SOAP
6 34 (15.53%) OAuth
7 30 (13.70%) OpenID
7 30 (13.70%) React Native
7 30 (13.70%) SAML
8 29 (13.24%) LDAP
9 20 (9.13%) .NET
9 20 (9.13%) Next.js
10 19 (8.68%) Vue
11 17 (7.76%) AngularJS
12 13 (5.94%) Android SDK
13 10 (4.57%) Ruby on Rails
13 10 (4.57%) Spring Boot
14 9 (4.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.61%) Fixed Income
2 26 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.87%) Cyber Threat
2 26 (11.87%) Cyberattack
3 19 (8.68%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.94%) Social Media
6 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.74%) Digital Wallet
7 6 (2.74%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.91%) DataPower
10 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.91%) Mobile Wallet
10 2 (0.91%) Robotics
11 1 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.72%) Android
2 28 (12.79%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.83%) Windows
3 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.37%) Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (39.73%) Agile
2 86 (39.27%) Software Engineering
3 76 (34.70%) CI/CD
3 76 (34.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (20.09%) AI
5 43 (19.63%) Technical Leadership
6 42 (19.18%) Mentoring
7 38 (17.35%) Microservices
7 38 (17.35%) Roadmaps
8 35 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (15.53%) Investment Management
10 33 (15.07%) Portfolio Management
10 33 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.61%) Order Management
12 31 (14.16%) DevOps
12 31 (14.16%) Mobile Development
13 30 (13.70%) Event-Driven
14 29 (13.24%) Identity Access Management
15 28 (12.79%) Regulatory Compliance
15 28 (12.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.01%) TypeScript
2 73 (33.33%) Java
3 64 (29.22%) JavaScript
4 44 (20.09%) Python
5 40 (18.26%) SQL
6 33 (15.07%) Go
7 30 (13.70%) C#
8 29 (13.24%) Bash
8 29 (13.24%) PowerShell
8 29 (13.24%) T-SQL
9 14 (6.39%) Kotlin
10 10 (4.57%) Ruby
11 7 (3.20%) C++
12 6 (2.74%) COBOL
13 4 (1.83%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.37%) C
15 1 (0.46%) Dart
15 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.46%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.11%) Degree
2 6 (2.74%) AWS Certification
2 6 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.28%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.61%) NCSC
2 29 (13.24%) NIST
3 16 (7.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.48%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.65%) WCAG
6 7 (3.20%) QA
7 6 (2.74%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (1.37%) GDPR
9 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.91%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.13%) Terraform
2 12 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.28%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.91%) Nagios
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (6.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.57%) Adobe
3 8 (3.65%) Google
4 7 (3.20%) Databricks
5 4 (1.83%) Oracle
6 2 (0.91%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.46%) Foundry
7 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.46%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.46%) Solace
7 1 (0.46%) Splunk
7 1 (0.46%) Workday