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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 412 324
Rank change year-on-year +109 -88 -160
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 562 638 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 0.62% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.10% 3.00% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 238 392 499
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,000
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% +15.38%

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 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £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 28 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 28 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 +172 545 £75,000 +15.38% 1,400
Work from Home +169 374 £63,000 +0.80% 683
London +151 251 £95,000 +11.76% 309
UK excluding London +28 192 £60,000 +4.35% 1,283
South East +109 65 £55,000 -4.35% 381
East of England +64 38 £57,500 -17.86% 178
North of England -33 31 £65,000 +23.81% 295
South West +119 30 £65,000 +30.00% 142
North West -61 20 £65,000 +30.00% 150
Midlands +37 19 £67,500 +3.85% 222
West Midlands +47 11 £65,000 - 118
Yorkshire +49 9 £42,500 -20.93% 120
Scotland -14 9 £55,000 -8.33% 59
East Midlands +33 8 £70,000 +16.67% 89
Wales +48 6 £67,500 +58.82% 30
North East +49 2 - - 28

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 (3.20%) CMS
2 14 (2.49%) Confluence
2 14 (2.49%) Headless CMS
3 5 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.53%) Apache
4 3 (0.53%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.36%) Strapi
6 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Shopify
2 2 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 202 (35.94%) AWS
2 148 (26.33%) Serverless
3 109 (19.40%) AWS Lambda
4 89 (15.84%) Amazon S3
5 74 (13.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 64 (11.39%) Azure
7 30 (5.34%) GitHub
8 26 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (3.91%) GCP
10 20 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (1.96%) Datadog
12 11 (1.96%) SaaS
13 10 (1.78%) Contentful
14 9 (1.60%) Figma
15 8 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.42%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.42%) Snowflake
16 6 (1.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 288 (51.25%) Broadband
2 12 (2.14%) HTTP
3 6 (1.07%) MQTT
4 5 (0.89%) SMS
4 5 (0.89%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (18.68%) DynamoDB
2 77 (13.70%) Elasticsearch
3 48 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 46 (8.19%) NoSQL
5 26 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (4.63%) SQL Server
6 21 (3.74%) Redis
7 14 (2.49%) MySQL
8 8 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.07%) Power BI
10 5 (0.89%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.89%) DocumentDB
11 4 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.36%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 52 (9.25%) Git
2 27 (4.80%) JIRA
3 11 (1.96%) PowerBuilder
4 9 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.42%) Storybook
6 7 (1.25%) Selenium
7 6 (1.07%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.07%) GitLab
8 5 (0.89%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.71%) Postman
9 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.53%) Maven
10 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.53%) Vite
10 3 (0.53%) webpack
11 2 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 222 (39.50%) Games
2 63 (11.21%) Finance
3 49 (8.72%) Social Skills
4 33 (5.87%) Banking
5 19 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.31%) Retail Banking
8 10 (1.78%) Retail
9 8 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.07%) Law
10 6 (1.07%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.89%) Marketing
12 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.71%) Legal
13 3 (0.53%) Front Office
13 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 387 (68.86%) Senior
2 192 (34.16%) Developer
3 125 (22.24%) Senior Developer
4 78 (13.88%) Software Engineer
5 77 (13.70%) AWS Developer
6 54 (9.61%) Lead
7 42 (7.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (4.63%) React Developer
10 21 (3.74%) Software Developer
11 20 (3.56%) Senior Software Developer
12 17 (3.02%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (2.67%) Technical Leader
14 13 (2.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (2.31%) Node.js Developer
15 12 (2.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
15 12 (2.14%) Lead Software Engineer
16 11 (1.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 10 (1.78%) Lead Developer
18 9 (1.60%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (46.98%) React
2 215 (38.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 215 (38.26%) WebGL
3 97 (17.26%) Node.js
4 72 (12.81%) Serverless Framework
5 71 (12.63%) REST
6 58 (10.32%) RESTful
7 55 (9.79%) CSS
8 52 (9.25%) HTML
9 34 (6.05%) .NET
10 26 (4.63%) Kafka
11 25 (4.45%) React Native
12 24 (4.27%) AngularJS
13 23 (4.09%) Next.js
13 23 (4.09%) Redux
14 22 (3.91%) Jest
15 20 (3.56%) HTML5
15 20 (3.56%) WebSockets
16 19 (3.38%) CSS3
17 18 (3.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 215 (38.26%) Animation
2 35 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.05%) Mobile App
4 19 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.96%) Reinsurance
6 10 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.53%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.36%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.36%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.36%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.36%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.20%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 6 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.89%) Android
4 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (53.38%) Artificial Intelligence
2 269 (47.86%) Problem-Solving
3 218 (38.79%) Prototyping
4 215 (38.26%) 3D Animation
4 215 (38.26%) Rapid Prototyping
4 215 (38.26%) Storytelling
4 215 (38.26%) Visual Effects
5 156 (27.76%) Agile
6 153 (27.22%) CI/CD
7 133 (23.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (20.82%) Clean Code
9 115 (20.46%) Mentoring
10 113 (20.11%) Event-Driven
11 108 (19.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 104 (18.51%) Software Engineering
13 87 (15.48%) Microservices
14 84 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
15 57 (10.14%) DevOps
16 47 (8.36%) Unit Testing
17 46 (8.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 248 (44.13%) TypeScript
2 215 (38.26%) HLSL
3 165 (29.36%) JavaScript
4 127 (22.60%) Python
5 63 (11.21%) SQL
6 43 (7.65%) C#
7 42 (7.47%) Rust
8 27 (4.80%) Java
9 9 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.25%) Go
11 6 (1.07%) Bash
11 6 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.71%) PHP
13 3 (0.53%) OpenEdge ABL
13 3 (0.53%) Progress 4GL
14 1 (0.18%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) R
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (13.52%) AWS Certification
2 21 (3.74%) Degree
3 10 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.60%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.07%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.96%) QA
2 8 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.18%) GDPR
3 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (9.61%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (16.01%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.91%) Terraform
3 13 (2.31%) Ansible
3 13 (2.31%) Grafana
3 13 (2.31%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.71%) Argo
5 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (3.91%) Google
2 21 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.67%) Databricks
4 7 (1.25%) VMware
5 5 (0.89%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.53%) Progress
8 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.36%) Okta
8 2 (0.36%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.36%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.36%) Splunk
8 2 (0.36%) UiPath
9 1 (0.18%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.18%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.18%) Facebook
9 1 (0.18%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.18%) Snow
9 1 (0.18%) Spotify