GraphQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 324 295
Rank change year-on-year -12 -29 -64
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 251 432 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.75% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 3.26% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 285 658
10th Percentile £325 £447 £425
25th Percentile £419 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £590 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £56.20 £39.50 -
25th Percentile £58.00 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £72.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £77.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Daily rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GraphQL.

Hourly rate trend for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England -21 208 £513 -14.58% 118
London -16 124 £550 -14.06% 62
Work from Home +27 120 £500 -13.04% 71
UK excluding London +14 85 £450 -14.29% 66
South West +6 21 £515 +3.00% 4
Midlands +28 19 £350 -30.00% 16
South East +17 16 £400 -32.20% 18
North of England -4 15 £475 -13.64% 19
West Midlands +30 14 £350 -26.32% 12
North West +12 9 £475 -13.64% 10
Scotland +39 6 £498 -9.13%
East Midlands +18 5 £438 -17.06% 4
Yorkshire -10 5 £505 -9.82% 7
Wales - 5 £438 - 1
East of England +1 3 £650 +22.64% 7
North East +12 1 £650 - 2

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 (7.17%) CMS
2 15 (5.98%) Headless CMS
3 8 (3.19%) Apache
4 7 (2.79%) Kentico
5 3 (1.20%) Confluence
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (46.61%) AWS
2 62 (24.70%) Azure
3 26 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (8.76%) GCP
6 19 (7.57%) Serverless
7 15 (5.98%) GitHub
8 11 (4.38%) Azure API Management
9 9 (3.59%) Amazon Cognito
9 9 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (3.59%) NuGet
10 8 (3.19%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.79%) npm
11 7 (2.79%) SaaS
12 5 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.99%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.99%) Miro
13 4 (1.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.98%) HTTP
2 4 (1.59%) DNS
2 4 (1.59%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) AMQP
3 2 (0.80%) FTP
3 2 (0.80%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.98%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.79%) Triplestore
8 6 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.99%) MySQL
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.59%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
12 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 43 (17.13%) Git
2 23 (9.16%) Cypress.io
3 14 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.78%) GitLab
5 10 (3.98%) Postman
6 9 (3.59%) JIRA
7 8 (3.19%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.79%) NUnit
8 7 (2.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.99%) Storybook
9 5 (1.99%) webpack
10 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.59%) Gradle
10 4 (1.59%) Mocha
10 4 (1.59%) Snyk
11 3 (1.20%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Subversion
12 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.80%) Maven
12 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (15.14%) Finance
1 38 (15.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.58%) Banking
3 13 (5.18%) Retail
4 9 (3.59%) Front Office
5 7 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.39%) Marketing
6 6 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.39%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.99%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.99%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.59%) German Language
9 3 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Electronics
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.80%) French Language
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 149 (59.36%) Developer
2 50 (19.92%) React Developer
3 42 (16.73%) Full Stack Developer
4 39 (15.54%) Senior
5 27 (10.76%) Architect
6 26 (10.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 19 (7.57%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.77%) Lead
9 14 (5.58%) Full Stack Engineer
9 14 (5.58%) JavaScript Developer
9 14 (5.58%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.38%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.98%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.98%) E-Commerce Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Angular Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Azure Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 7 (2.79%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (51.39%) React
2 71 (28.29%) Node.js
3 65 (25.90%) REST
4 56 (22.31%) Next.js
5 46 (18.33%) CSS
6 39 (15.54%) HTML
6 39 (15.54%) Redux
7 28 (11.16%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.76%) RESTful
9 21 (8.37%) .NET
9 21 (8.37%) Kafka
10 15 (5.98%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.58%) gRPC
11 14 (5.58%) Spring
12 13 (5.18%) Express.js
12 13 (5.18%) SOAP
13 12 (4.78%) OAuth
14 11 (4.38%) HTML5
15 10 (3.98%) Playwright
15 10 (3.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.59%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.19%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.80%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.80%) Wiki
7 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.40%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.40%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.79%) Linux
2 6 (2.39%) Android
2 6 (2.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.69%) Agile
1 72 (28.69%) Full Stack Development
2 69 (27.49%) CI/CD
3 63 (25.10%) DevOps
4 47 (18.73%) Software Engineering
5 35 (13.94%) Microservices
5 35 (13.94%) TDD
6 33 (13.15%) Front End Development
7 28 (11.16%) Test Automation
8 25 (9.96%) E-Commerce
9 23 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (8.76%) Scrum
11 20 (7.97%) BDD
12 18 (7.17%) Analytics
13 16 (6.37%) Containerisation
13 16 (6.37%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (5.98%) Data Modelling
14 15 (5.98%) Fintech
15 14 (5.58%) Kanban
16 13 (5.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 113 (45.02%) TypeScript
2 88 (35.06%) JavaScript
3 49 (19.52%) Java
4 48 (19.12%) SQL
5 45 (17.93%) Python
6 13 (5.18%) Kotlin
7 12 (4.78%) Go
8 11 (4.38%) C#
9 7 (2.79%) SPARQL
10 6 (2.39%) PHP
11 5 (1.99%) Bicep
11 5 (1.99%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (8.76%) SC Cleared
1 22 (8.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.59%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.19%) Degree
4 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.59%) GDPR
3 4 (1.59%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.59%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (17.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (14.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.57%) Terraform
3 6 (2.39%) Grafana
3 6 (2.39%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (0.80%) Istio
5 2 (0.80%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) rkt
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
2 6 (2.39%) SAP
3 5 (1.99%) Google
4 4 (1.59%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.80%) Adobe
7 1 (0.40%) Ariba
7 1 (0.40%) Dell
7 1 (0.40%) Intel
7 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.40%) New Relic
7 1 (0.40%) Okta
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Splunk