GraphQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 414 319
Rank change year-on-year +118 -95 -152
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 580 616 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 0.62% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.00% 2.92% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 254 383 517
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £54,214 £48,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -18.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +15.39%

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 9,670 21,106 30,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 21.12% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,194 15,745 18,594
10th Percentile £37,622 £36,250 £40,834
25th Percentile £50,454 £45,000 £50,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Salary trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 16 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 20 May 2025. 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 +186 558 £75,000 +15.38% 485
Work from Home +173 391 £63,000 +0.80% 361
London +150 250 £95,000 +11.76% 357
UK excluding London +21 210 £60,000 +4.35% 257
South East +113 69 £55,000 -4.35% 109
East of England +59 40 £60,000 -14.29% 11
North of England -5 36 £65,000 +25.00% 75
South West +107 32 £65,000 +30.00% 8
North West -53 23 £65,000 +30.00% 61
Midlands +40 22 £67,500 +3.85% 8
West Midlands +46 13 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -12 12 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Yorkshire +60 11 £42,500 -20.93% 14
East Midlands +19 9 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Wales +43 7 £65,000 +52.94% 3
North East - 2 - -

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.10%) CMS
2 14 (2.41%) Headless CMS
3 13 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.52%) OpenEdge
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Appian
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.34%) Strapi
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Shopify
1 2 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 207 (35.69%) AWS
2 150 (25.86%) Serverless
3 112 (19.31%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (15.17%) Amazon S3
5 75 (12.93%) AWS Step Functions
6 63 (10.86%) Azure
7 30 (5.17%) GitHub
8 25 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (3.79%) GCP
10 19 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (3.10%) SaaS
12 10 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.72%) Contentful
12 10 (1.72%) Datadog
13 9 (1.55%) Figma
14 8 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.38%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.38%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.21%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 288 (49.66%) Broadband
2 11 (1.90%) HTTP
3 5 (0.86%) MQTT
4 4 (0.69%) SMS
4 4 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (18.62%) DynamoDB
2 80 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (9.48%) NoSQL
4 51 (8.79%) MongoDB
5 29 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.79%) Redis
7 14 (2.41%) MySQL
8 7 (1.21%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.03%) Power BI
10 5 (0.86%) DocumentDB
11 4 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.34%) Metadata
13 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 64 (11.03%) Git
2 30 (5.17%) JIRA
3 11 (1.90%) PowerBuilder
4 10 (1.72%) Storybook
5 8 (1.38%) Selenium
6 7 (1.21%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.21%) GitLab
7 6 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.86%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.86%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.69%) Postman
9 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.69%) webpack
10 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.52%) Maven
10 3 (0.52%) NUnit
10 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 222 (38.28%) Games
2 63 (10.86%) Finance
3 47 (8.10%) Social Skills
4 33 (5.69%) Banking
5 18 (3.10%) Investment Banking
6 17 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.24%) Retail Banking
8 11 (1.90%) Retail
9 7 (1.21%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.03%) Law
11 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.52%) Front Office
12 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.17%) Advertising
14 1 (0.17%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 398 (68.62%) Senior
2 204 (35.17%) Developer
3 132 (22.76%) Senior Developer
4 79 (13.62%) Software Engineer
5 78 (13.45%) AWS Developer
6 55 (9.48%) Lead
7 44 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (3.97%) React Developer
10 22 (3.79%) Software Developer
11 21 (3.62%) Senior Software Developer
12 17 (2.93%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (2.59%) Technical Leader
14 14 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (2.24%) Node.js Developer
15 13 (2.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 12 (2.07%) Lead Software Engineer
17 11 (1.90%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
18 9 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
18 9 (1.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (46.55%) React
2 215 (37.07%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 215 (37.07%) WebGL
3 106 (18.28%) Node.js
4 74 (12.76%) REST
5 72 (12.41%) Serverless Framework
6 67 (11.55%) RESTful
7 56 (9.66%) CSS
8 54 (9.31%) HTML
9 34 (5.86%) .NET
10 26 (4.48%) React Native
10 26 (4.48%) Redux
11 24 (4.14%) Kafka
12 23 (3.97%) Jest
12 23 (3.97%) Next.js
13 22 (3.79%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.62%) HTML5
14 21 (3.62%) WebSockets
15 19 (3.28%) CSS3
16 18 (3.10%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 216 (37.24%) Animation
2 39 (6.72%) Mobile App
3 33 (5.69%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.90%) Reinsurance
6 10 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.69%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.34%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.34%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.93%) Linux
2 8 (1.38%) Android
3 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.21%) Windows
4 6 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (51.72%) Artificial Intelligence
2 267 (46.03%) Problem-Solving
3 218 (37.59%) Prototyping
4 215 (37.07%) 3D Animation
4 215 (37.07%) Rapid Prototyping
4 215 (37.07%) Storytelling
4 215 (37.07%) Visual Effects
5 164 (28.28%) Agile
6 155 (26.72%) CI/CD
7 139 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 119 (20.52%) Mentoring
9 118 (20.34%) Clean Code
10 116 (20.00%) Event-Driven
11 111 (19.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 107 (18.45%) Software Engineering
13 92 (15.86%) Microservices
14 87 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
15 60 (10.34%) DevOps
16 51 (8.79%) Unit Testing
17 49 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 254 (43.79%) TypeScript
2 215 (37.07%) HLSL
3 172 (29.66%) JavaScript
4 129 (22.24%) Python
5 70 (12.07%) SQL
6 45 (7.76%) C#
7 42 (7.24%) Rust
8 31 (5.34%) Java
9 9 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.21%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.03%) Bash
11 6 (1.03%) Go
12 4 (0.69%) PHP
13 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.52%) OpenEdge ABL
13 3 (0.52%) Progress 4GL
13 3 (0.52%) Swift
14 1 (0.17%) R
14 1 (0.17%) SHACL
14 1 (0.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 76 (13.10%) AWS Certification
2 22 (3.79%) Degree
3 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.72%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.03%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.07%) QA
2 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (10.00%) Docker
2 5 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 89 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.62%) Terraform
3 14 (2.41%) Grafana
3 14 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.07%) Ansible
5 5 (0.86%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.45%) Google
3 15 (2.59%) Databricks
4 7 (1.21%) VMware
5 5 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.69%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.52%) Progress
8 2 (0.34%) Okta
8 2 (0.34%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.34%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.34%) UiPath
9 1 (0.17%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.17%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.17%) IBM
9 1 (0.17%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.17%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.17%) Snow
9 1 (0.17%) Splunk
9 1 (0.17%) Spotify
9 1 (0.17%) Teradata