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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 323 167
Rank change year-on-year -96 -156 +70
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 596 1,089 3,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 1.05% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 3.48% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 388 523 901
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 £90,375 £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 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
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 £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 3 May 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -158 394 £65,000 -18.75% 102
UK excluding London -30 387 £57,500 -14.81% 56
Work from Home -130 268 £63,750 -15.00% 56
London -89 175 £85,000 +3.03% 43
Scotland +49 170 £60,000 +4.35% 2
North of England -18 77 £52,500 -19.23% 18
North West +4 54 £48,750 -11.36% 5
Midlands +13 45 £65,000 - 12
South East -48 45 £57,500 -8.00% 6
West Midlands +30 32 £65,000 +8.33% 7
South West -43 28 £50,000 -37.50% 10
Yorkshire +35 23 £57,500 -28.13% 10
East of England -34 19 £70,000 -3.45% 6
East Midlands -16 16 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Wales +7 5 £42,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +9 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 98 (16.44%) FileNet
2 23 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (2.35%) nginx
5 10 (1.68%) Apache
5 10 (1.68%) Confluence
6 8 (1.34%) WordPress
7 6 (1.01%) CMS
7 6 (1.01%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Liferay
8 2 (0.34%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (3.02%) Shopify
2 9 (1.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 238 (39.93%) AWS
2 129 (21.64%) Amazon S3
3 101 (16.95%) GCP
4 96 (16.11%) Serverless
5 94 (15.77%) Azure
6 85 (14.26%) GitHub
7 66 (11.07%) SaaS
8 60 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (4.36%) Slack
11 23 (3.86%) Google Docs
11 23 (3.86%) Lucidchart
11 23 (3.86%) Miro
12 19 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.01%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.85%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.51%) npm
16 8 (1.34%) Amazon Cognito
16 8 (1.34%) Figma
16 8 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.85%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.17%) AMQP
3 6 (1.01%) MQTT
4 5 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.67%) Broadband
6 3 (0.50%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) DNS
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (21.81%) NoSQL
2 128 (21.48%) Elasticsearch
3 100 (16.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 77 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (9.40%) DynamoDB
6 36 (6.04%) MySQL
6 36 (6.04%) Redis
7 35 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.36%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.86%) Big Data
9 23 (3.86%) Hadoop
9 23 (3.86%) Scylla
10 22 (3.69%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.85%) CockroachDB
11 17 (2.85%) Relational Database
12 16 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (2.01%) Power BI
14 11 (1.85%) Tableau
15 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 127 (21.31%) Git
2 98 (16.44%) JUnit
3 59 (9.90%) Jenkins
4 46 (7.72%) Jasmine
5 45 (7.55%) Mockito
6 33 (5.54%) GitLab
7 25 (4.19%) JIRA
8 22 (3.69%) webpack
9 19 (3.19%) Visual Studio
10 18 (3.02%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.68%) gulp
12 9 (1.51%) Mocha
13 8 (1.34%) Storybook
14 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.50%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.50%) NUnit
16 2 (0.34%) Babel
16 2 (0.34%) Bower
16 2 (0.34%) Moq
General
1 215 (36.07%) Finance
2 161 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 151 (25.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 126 (21.14%) Law
5 82 (13.76%) Marketing
6 50 (8.39%) Legal
7 20 (3.36%) Retail
8 19 (3.19%) Front Office
9 16 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.35%) Banking
11 11 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.51%) Games
12 9 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.34%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.01%) German Language
14 6 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Automotive
16 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.17%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 299 (50.17%) Developer
2 221 (37.08%) Software Engineer
3 183 (30.70%) Senior
4 105 (17.62%) Senior Developer
5 95 (15.94%) Full Stack Engineer
6 86 (14.43%) Lead
7 84 (14.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 82 (13.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 71 (11.91%) React Developer
10 64 (10.74%) Java Engineer
11 60 (10.07%) Java Software Engineer
12 59 (9.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 51 (8.56%) Lead Software Engineer
14 47 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 34 (5.70%) .NET Developer
15 34 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (3.86%) Principal Software Engineer
16 23 (3.86%) Software Developer
17 21 (3.52%) Backend Developer
18 20 (3.36%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (54.87%) React
2 235 (39.43%) Node.js
3 202 (33.89%) Kafka
4 158 (26.51%) CSS
5 150 (25.17%) HTML
6 139 (23.32%) REST
7 129 (21.64%) AngularJS
8 127 (21.31%) Spring
9 104 (17.45%) Spring Integration
10 101 (16.95%) Hibernate
11 98 (16.44%) J2EE
12 90 (15.10%) RESTful
13 77 (12.92%) jQuery
14 73 (12.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 65 (10.91%) JSON
16 57 (9.56%) .NET
17 54 (9.06%) gRPC
18 53 (8.89%) JMS
19 52 (8.72%) RabbitMQ
20 51 (8.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 126 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.72%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.54%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.02%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.85%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.35%) IoT
10 12 (2.01%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.85%) Blog
12 9 (1.51%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.01%) Blockchain
14 6 (1.01%) Web3
15 5 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
15 5 (0.84%) Animation
15 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.67%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.17%) Android
3 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.67%) Windows
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (55.87%) Agile
2 283 (47.48%) Software Engineering
3 232 (38.93%) Full Stack Development
4 219 (36.74%) CI/CD
5 178 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (29.36%) Microservices
7 142 (23.83%) SDLC
8 136 (22.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (18.79%) Machine Learning
10 98 (16.44%) AOP
10 98 (16.44%) Document Management
11 95 (15.94%) Decision-Making
12 94 (15.77%) TDD
13 88 (14.77%) Unit Testing
14 80 (13.42%) Operational Stability
15 76 (12.75%) Computer Science
16 71 (11.91%) User Experience
17 68 (11.41%) DevOps
18 67 (11.24%) Clean Code
19 61 (10.23%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 253 (42.45%) TypeScript
2 223 (37.42%) JavaScript
3 211 (35.40%) Java
4 185 (31.04%) SQL
5 124 (20.81%) Python
6 72 (12.08%) Go
7 62 (10.40%) C#
8 48 (8.05%) PHP
9 32 (5.37%) Kotlin
10 27 (4.53%) Scala
11 23 (3.86%) Bash
12 19 (3.19%) Rust
13 14 (2.35%) VB.NET
14 9 (1.51%) R
15 8 (1.34%) C
16 6 (1.01%) Ruby
17 5 (0.84%) GLSL
17 5 (0.84%) JSX
17 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (10.57%) Degree
2 42 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.54%) Master's Degree
4 31 (5.20%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.19%) QA
2 20 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.34%) WCAG
4 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (13.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 186 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (5.87%) Terraform
3 7 (1.17%) Grafana
3 7 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.50%) Consul
4 3 (0.50%) Packer
5 1 (0.17%) cPanel
5 1 (0.17%) Plesk
Vendors
1 101 (16.95%) Oracle
2 65 (10.91%) Google
3 23 (3.86%) Dell
4 12 (2.01%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.51%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.34%) Adobe
6 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.01%) Actuate
7 6 (1.01%) Confluent
8 5 (0.84%) Mapbox
9 4 (0.67%) Zend
10 3 (0.50%) Apple
10 3 (0.50%) Sybase
11 2 (0.34%) OpenText
11 2 (0.34%) Pega
11 2 (0.34%) SAP
11 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.17%) New Relic
12 1 (0.17%) Panasonic