GraphQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GraphQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GraphQL over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 322 373
Rank change year-on-year +20 +51 -43
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 83 122 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 2.90% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 81 114
10th Percentile £325 £413 £389
25th Percentile £375 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £533 £600 £638
90th Percentile £590 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% +40.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,257 4,203 6,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,139 3,144 4,316
10th Percentile £324 £351 £362
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 87 146
10th Percentile £21.88 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.49 £79.19 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GraphQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +3 20 £524 +4.80% 4
Midlands +32 18 £350 -30.00% 14
South East +30 16 £400 -32.77% 18
North of England -1 15 £475 -13.64% 19
West Midlands +32 14 £350 -26.32% 10
North West +17 9 £475 -13.64% 7
Scotland +39 6 £498 -9.13%
Yorkshire -14 5 £505 -9.82% 9
Wales - 5 £438 - 1
East Midlands +14 4 £475 -9.95% 4
East of England -6 3 £650 +22.64% 9
North East +12 1 £650 - 3
GraphQL
UK

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.02%) Apache
1 5 (6.02%) CMS
2 4 (4.82%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.41%) Kentico
4 1 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 23 (27.71%) Azure
3 9 (10.84%) Serverless
4 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.43%) GCP
6 6 (7.23%) GitHub
6 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.82%) CloudFront
9 3 (3.61%) npm
9 3 (3.61%) SaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.20%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.20%) Figma
10 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.20%) Miro
10 1 (1.20%) PaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.02%) Triplestore
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.20%) Jackrabbit
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (19.28%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) GitLab
2 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 7 (8.43%) Postman
3 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
3 6 (7.23%) Visual Studio
4 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.02%) NUnit
5 4 (4.82%) webpack
6 3 (3.61%) Subversion
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
7 2 (2.41%) VersionOne
7 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.20%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Finance
3 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Aviation
7 1 (1.20%) Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (61.45%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Senior
3 14 (16.87%) React Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Lead
8 7 (8.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (7.23%) Architect
10 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Test Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Angular Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Technical Leader
12 2 (2.41%) JavaScript Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Lead Architect
12 2 (2.41%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (53.01%) React
2 23 (27.71%) Next.js
3 21 (25.30%) Node.js
3 21 (25.30%) REST
4 18 (21.69%) Redux
5 16 (19.28%) HTML
6 15 (18.07%) CSS
7 11 (13.25%) AngularJS
8 10 (12.05%) RESTful
9 9 (10.84%) gRPC
9 9 (10.84%) Kafka
10 8 (9.64%) OAuth
11 7 (8.43%) .NET
11 7 (8.43%) Express.js
11 7 (8.43%) Playwright
12 6 (7.23%) Apollo GraphQL
12 6 (7.23%) JWT
12 6 (7.23%) Vue
13 5 (6.02%) Apache Jena
13 5 (6.02%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.20%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Android
2 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) CI/CD
2 22 (26.51%) Full Stack Development
3 20 (24.10%) Agile
3 20 (24.10%) DevOps
4 15 (18.07%) Scrum
5 13 (15.66%) Front End Development
6 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
6 12 (14.46%) TDD
7 10 (12.05%) BDD
7 10 (12.05%) Kanban
7 10 (12.05%) Waterfall
8 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.43%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.43%) Test Automation
10 6 (7.23%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (7.23%) Computer Science
11 5 (6.02%) Load Testing
11 5 (6.02%) Performance Testing
11 5 (6.02%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) TypeScript
2 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.46%) SQL
4 11 (13.25%) Python
5 8 (9.64%) Java
6 5 (6.02%) SPARQL
7 4 (4.82%) Go
8 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
2 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 22 (26.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
3 1 (1.20%) Kibana
3 1 (1.20%) rkt
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.02%) Google
2 3 (3.61%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Ariba
4 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.20%) Okta
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud