GraphQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 324 170
Rank change year-on-year -85 -154 +78
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 592 1,105 3,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 1.06% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 3.48% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 388 533 880
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,998
% change year-on-year -14.81% +16.38% +5.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

GraphQL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -158 392 £65,000 -18.75% 109
UK excluding London -37 384 £57,500 -14.81% 58
Work from Home -132 264 £65,000 -13.33% 63
London -92 174 £85,000 +3.03% 46
Scotland +48 168 £60,000 +4.35% 1
North of England -15 77 £52,500 -19.23% 24
North West +9 54 £48,750 -11.36% 11
Midlands +3 45 £65,000 - 10
South East -29 41 £57,500 -8.00% 9
West Midlands +36 32 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South West -18 31 £50,000 -37.50% 8
Yorkshire +49 23 £57,500 -28.13% 11
East of England -39 19 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East Midlands -26 16 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Wales +13 5 £42,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +11 1 £60,000 -7.69%

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 96 (16.22%) FileNet
2 23 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.87%) Cloud Foundry
4 13 (2.20%) nginx
5 10 (1.69%) Confluence
6 9 (1.52%) Apache
7 7 (1.18%) WordPress
8 6 (1.01%) CMS
8 6 (1.01%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Liferay
9 2 (0.34%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (3.04%) Shopify
2 9 (1.52%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 239 (40.37%) AWS
2 127 (21.45%) Amazon S3
3 104 (17.57%) GCP
4 96 (16.22%) Azure
5 95 (16.05%) Serverless
6 84 (14.19%) GitHub
7 68 (11.49%) SaaS
8 60 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (4.39%) Slack
11 23 (3.89%) Google Docs
11 23 (3.89%) Lucidchart
11 23 (3.89%) Miro
12 18 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.86%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.52%) npm
16 8 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
16 8 (1.35%) Figma
16 8 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.87%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.18%) AMQP
3 6 (1.01%) MQTT
4 5 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.68%) Broadband
6 3 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) DNS
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (21.62%) NoSQL
2 126 (21.28%) Elasticsearch
3 98 (16.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 74 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (9.46%) DynamoDB
6 36 (6.08%) MySQL
6 36 (6.08%) Redis
7 35 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.39%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.89%) Big Data
9 23 (3.89%) Hadoop
9 23 (3.89%) Scylla
10 21 (3.55%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.87%) CockroachDB
12 15 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.03%) Power BI
14 11 (1.86%) Tableau
15 8 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 122 (20.61%) Git
2 96 (16.22%) JUnit
3 58 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 45 (7.60%) Jasmine
5 44 (7.43%) Mockito
6 33 (5.57%) GitLab
7 24 (4.05%) JIRA
8 22 (3.72%) webpack
9 19 (3.21%) Visual Studio
10 18 (3.04%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.69%) gulp
12 9 (1.52%) Mocha
13 8 (1.35%) Storybook
14 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.51%) NUnit
16 2 (0.34%) Babel
16 2 (0.34%) Bower
16 2 (0.34%) Moq
General
1 210 (35.47%) Finance
2 157 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 148 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 123 (20.78%) Law
5 82 (13.85%) Marketing
6 48 (8.11%) Legal
7 21 (3.55%) Front Office
8 19 (3.21%) Retail
9 15 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.36%) Banking
11 11 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.52%) Games
12 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.35%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.01%) German Language
14 6 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Automotive
15 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 295 (49.83%) Developer
2 220 (37.16%) Software Engineer
3 182 (30.74%) Senior
4 104 (17.57%) Senior Developer
5 95 (16.05%) Full Stack Engineer
6 86 (14.53%) Lead
7 84 (14.19%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 81 (13.68%) Full Stack Developer
9 72 (12.16%) React Developer
10 62 (10.47%) Java Engineer
11 58 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
11 58 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 51 (8.61%) Lead Software Engineer
13 47 (7.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 36 (6.08%) Principal Engineer
15 33 (5.57%) .NET Developer
16 23 (3.89%) Principal Software Engineer
16 23 (3.89%) Software Developer
17 21 (3.55%) Backend Developer
17 21 (3.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (55.07%) React
2 236 (39.86%) Node.js
3 198 (33.45%) Kafka
4 158 (26.69%) CSS
5 147 (24.83%) HTML
6 136 (22.97%) REST
7 126 (21.28%) AngularJS
8 125 (21.11%) Spring
9 102 (17.23%) Spring Integration
10 99 (16.72%) Hibernate
11 96 (16.22%) J2EE
12 88 (14.86%) RESTful
13 75 (12.67%) jQuery
14 74 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 63 (10.64%) JSON
16 56 (9.46%) .NET
17 54 (9.12%) Next.js
18 52 (8.78%) JMS
19 50 (8.45%) gRPC
20 49 (8.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.95%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.60%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.57%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (4.22%) Mobile App
6 20 (3.38%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.36%) IoT
10 12 (2.03%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.86%) Blog
12 9 (1.52%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.01%) Web3
14 5 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
14 5 (0.84%) Animation
14 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.18%) Android
3 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.68%) Windows
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (55.41%) Agile
2 284 (47.97%) Software Engineering
3 229 (38.68%) Full Stack Development
4 215 (36.32%) CI/CD
5 180 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
6 170 (28.72%) Microservices
7 139 (23.48%) SDLC
8 134 (22.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 110 (18.58%) Machine Learning
10 97 (16.39%) Decision-Making
11 96 (16.22%) AOP
11 96 (16.22%) Document Management
12 89 (15.03%) TDD
13 87 (14.70%) Unit Testing
14 79 (13.34%) Operational Stability
15 75 (12.67%) Computer Science
16 71 (11.99%) User Experience
17 67 (11.32%) Clean Code
17 67 (11.32%) DevOps
18 61 (10.30%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 255 (43.07%) TypeScript
2 224 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 212 (35.81%) Java
4 181 (30.57%) SQL
5 127 (21.45%) Python
6 69 (11.66%) Go
7 64 (10.81%) C#
8 46 (7.77%) PHP
9 34 (5.74%) Kotlin
10 27 (4.56%) Scala
11 23 (3.89%) Bash
12 19 (3.21%) Rust
13 14 (2.36%) VB.NET
14 9 (1.52%) R
15 8 (1.35%) C
16 7 (1.18%) Ruby
17 5 (0.84%) GLSL
17 5 (0.84%) JSX
17 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (10.30%) Degree
2 42 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.57%) Master's Degree
4 31 (5.24%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.05%) QA
2 20 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.35%) WCAG
4 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (12.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 188 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.91%) Terraform
3 7 (1.18%) Grafana
3 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.51%) Consul
4 3 (0.51%) Packer
5 1 (0.17%) cPanel
5 1 (0.17%) Plesk
Vendors
1 99 (16.72%) Oracle
2 64 (10.81%) Google
3 23 (3.89%) Dell
4 10 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.35%) Adobe
6 8 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.01%) Actuate
7 6 (1.01%) Confluent
8 5 (0.84%) Mapbox
9 3 (0.51%) Apple
9 3 (0.51%) Sybase
9 3 (0.51%) Zend
10 2 (0.34%) OpenText
10 2 (0.34%) Pega
10 2 (0.34%) SAP
10 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.17%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.17%) Databricks
11 1 (0.17%) Informatica