GraphQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

GraphQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 259 236
Rank change year-on-year +35 -23 0
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 121 216 513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.88% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% 3.49% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 146 406
10th Percentile £331 £450 £425
25th Percentile £431 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.55%
75th Percentile £579 £697 £649
90th Percentile £675 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.50 -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £75.50 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

GraphQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GraphQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL.

GraphQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

GraphQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GraphQL.

GraphQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GraphQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (9.92%) CMS
2 10 (8.26%) Headless CMS
3 5 (4.13%) Kentico
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.11%) AWS
2 30 (24.79%) Azure
3 16 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.74%) GCP
5 9 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.79%) Azure API Management
6 7 (5.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (5.79%) GitHub
6 7 (5.79%) NuGet
7 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.13%) Serverless
8 4 (3.31%) npm
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.48%) CloudFront
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.48%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) HTTP
2 3 (2.48%) DNS
2 3 (2.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.48%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.48%) Triplestore
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (17.36%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.13%) Storybook
3 5 (4.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.31%) GitLab
4 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.48%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.48%) NUnit
5 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.48%) Snyk
5 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.48%) webpack
6 1 (0.83%) Gradle
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 25 (20.66%) Finance
2 16 (13.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.44%) Front Office
4 8 (6.61%) Retail
5 7 (5.79%) Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Retail Banking
7 5 (4.13%) Marketing
7 5 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) German Language
9 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Electronics
9 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (63.64%) Developer
2 31 (25.62%) React Developer
3 27 (22.31%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (12.40%) Architect
5 13 (10.74%) JavaScript Developer
5 13 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.92%) Full Stack Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) E-Commerce Developer
8 10 (8.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.44%) Azure Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Senior
10 8 (6.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Lead
10 8 (6.61%) Technical Architect
11 7 (5.79%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Angular Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) DevOps Developer
13 5 (4.13%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (51.24%) React
2 39 (32.23%) Node.js
2 39 (32.23%) REST
3 27 (22.31%) CSS
4 26 (21.49%) Next.js
5 25 (20.66%) HTML
6 16 (13.22%) Redux
7 14 (11.57%) AngularJS
8 10 (8.26%) .NET
8 10 (8.26%) HTML5
8 10 (8.26%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.26%) Web Services
9 9 (7.44%) Kafka
9 9 (7.44%) React Native
10 8 (6.61%) Material-UI
10 8 (6.61%) Spring
11 7 (5.79%) SOAP
11 7 (5.79%) YAML
12 6 (4.96%) Fastify
12 6 (4.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Fixed Income
1 8 (6.61%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.65%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Android
1 6 (4.96%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.19%) Full Stack Development
2 36 (29.75%) Agile
3 35 (28.93%) Software Engineering
4 34 (28.10%) DevOps
5 25 (20.66%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.53%) E-Commerce
6 20 (16.53%) Microservices
7 16 (13.22%) TDD
8 14 (11.57%) Front End Development
9 13 (10.74%) Analytics
9 13 (10.74%) Fintech
10 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (9.09%) Scrum
11 10 (8.26%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.44%) BDD
13 8 (6.61%) Asset Management
13 8 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (6.61%) Investment Management
13 8 (6.61%) Performance Attribution
13 8 (6.61%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.41%) TypeScript
2 49 (40.50%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.31%) Java
4 21 (17.36%) SQL
5 20 (16.53%) Python
6 8 (6.61%) C#
6 8 (6.61%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.13%) Go
7 5 (4.13%) PHP
8 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.48%) Bicep
9 3 (2.48%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.83%) DataFlex
10 1 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared
1 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) QA
3 2 (1.65%) GDPR
3 2 (1.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (15.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Terraform
3 4 (3.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.48%) Grafana
4 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.83%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.83%) Istio
5 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
1 4 (3.31%) SAP
2 2 (1.65%) Google
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.65%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe
3 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (0.83%) Splunk