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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 324 163
Rank change year-on-year -83 -161 +58
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 625 1,047 4,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 1.06% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 3.52% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 389 500 930
10th Percentile £41,250 £49,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £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 £92,813 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £58,498
% change year-on-year -14.81% +15.39% +6.36%

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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 17 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 23 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 -131 427 £65,000 -18.75% 93
UK excluding London -34 402 £57,500 -14.81% 42
Work from Home -138 271 £62,500 -21.88% 59
London -82 189 £85,000 +3.03% 48
Scotland +51 166 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England -6 97 £52,500 -19.23% 15
North West +17 74 £50,000 -20.00% 9
South East -42 46 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Midlands -16 41 £65,000 - 10
South West -34 29 £50,000 -37.50% 3
West Midlands +14 27 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Yorkshire +39 22 £53,750 -32.81% 4
East of England -44 17 £70,000 - 6
East Midlands -18 14 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Wales +9 5 £42,500 - 1
North East -29 1 £42,500 -40.35% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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 (15.68%) FileNet
2 20 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.72%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (2.24%) nginx
5 11 (1.76%) Apache
6 8 (1.28%) Confluence
7 7 (1.12%) WordPress
8 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.80%) CMS
10 2 (0.32%) IIS
10 2 (0.32%) Liferay
10 2 (0.32%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Adobe XD
1 6 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (2.72%) Shopify
2 10 (1.60%) Magento
3 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 267 (42.72%) AWS
2 127 (20.32%) Amazon S3
3 106 (16.96%) Serverless
4 93 (14.88%) Azure
5 92 (14.72%) GCP
6 90 (14.40%) GitHub
7 70 (11.20%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (10.08%) SaaS
9 25 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (3.52%) Slack
11 20 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.20%) Google Docs
11 20 (3.20%) Lucidchart
11 20 (3.20%) Miro
12 19 (3.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (1.76%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.60%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.44%) npm
16 8 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.72%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.12%) AMQP
3 6 (0.96%) MQTT
4 5 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.80%) VPN
5 4 (0.64%) Broadband
6 3 (0.48%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (23.52%) NoSQL
2 124 (19.84%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (15.84%) Apache Cassandra
4 94 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
5 79 (12.64%) DynamoDB
6 45 (7.20%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (7.20%) Redis
7 38 (6.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (5.92%) MySQL
9 27 (4.32%) MongoDB
10 24 (3.84%) SQL Server
11 20 (3.20%) Big Data
11 20 (3.20%) Hadoop
11 20 (3.20%) Scylla
12 18 (2.88%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.72%) CockroachDB
14 14 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.76%) Power BI
16 9 (1.44%) Tableau
17 8 (1.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 143 (22.88%) Git
2 98 (15.68%) JUnit
3 56 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.68%) GitLab
5 46 (7.36%) Jasmine
6 45 (7.20%) Mockito
7 27 (4.32%) JIRA
8 18 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.88%) Visual Studio
8 18 (2.88%) webpack
9 11 (1.76%) Gatling
10 10 (1.60%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.44%) gulp
11 9 (1.44%) Mocha
12 8 (1.28%) Storybook
13 3 (0.48%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.48%) NUnit
14 2 (0.32%) Moq
14 2 (0.32%) Selenium
14 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 217 (34.72%) Finance
2 182 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 149 (23.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (20.32%) Law
5 82 (13.12%) Marketing
6 49 (7.84%) Legal
7 21 (3.36%) Retail
8 14 (2.24%) Banking
8 14 (2.24%) Front Office
9 13 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (1.92%) Electronics
11 11 (1.76%) Billing
11 11 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.44%) Games
12 9 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.96%) German Language
13 6 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 307 (49.12%) Developer
2 238 (38.08%) Software Engineer
3 192 (30.72%) Senior
4 106 (16.96%) Senior Developer
5 92 (14.72%) Full Stack Engineer
6 90 (14.40%) Lead
7 82 (13.12%) Full Stack Developer
8 81 (12.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 68 (10.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (10.72%) React Developer
11 64 (10.24%) Java Engineer
12 60 (9.60%) Java Software Engineer
13 55 (8.80%) Lead Software Engineer
14 49 (7.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 33 (5.28%) .NET Developer
16 31 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
17 25 (4.00%) Software Developer
18 21 (3.36%) Backend Developer
18 21 (3.36%) Node.js Developer
19 20 (3.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (53.28%) React
2 235 (37.60%) Node.js
3 196 (31.36%) Kafka
4 164 (26.24%) REST
5 162 (25.92%) CSS
6 155 (24.80%) HTML
7 132 (21.12%) AngularJS
8 127 (20.32%) Spring
9 104 (16.64%) Spring Integration
10 102 (16.32%) RESTful
11 101 (16.16%) Hibernate
12 98 (15.68%) J2EE
13 78 (12.48%) jQuery
14 76 (12.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 70 (11.20%) Web Services
16 64 (10.24%) JSON
17 57 (9.12%) .NET
18 56 (8.96%) gRPC
19 55 (8.80%) Next.js
20 53 (8.48%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.88%) Algorithms
3 30 (4.80%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 26 (4.16%) Blog
6 18 (2.88%) Media Streaming
6 18 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.24%) Fixed Income
8 14 (2.24%) IoT
8 14 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.44%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.96%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.96%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.96%) Web3
13 5 (0.80%) 3D Graphics
13 5 (0.80%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.28%) Linux
2 7 (1.12%) Android
3 6 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.64%) Windows
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (56.64%) Agile
2 305 (48.80%) Software Engineering
3 252 (40.32%) Full Stack Development
4 234 (37.44%) CI/CD
5 185 (29.60%) Microservices
6 181 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (22.72%) SDLC
8 133 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (17.92%) Machine Learning
10 109 (17.44%) TDD
11 106 (16.96%) Unit Testing
12 98 (15.68%) AOP
12 98 (15.68%) Document Management
13 95 (15.20%) Decision-Making
14 89 (14.24%) DevOps
15 87 (13.92%) Computer Science
16 80 (12.80%) Operational Stability
17 76 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
18 71 (11.36%) User Experience
19 68 (10.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 254 (40.64%) TypeScript
2 230 (36.80%) JavaScript
3 219 (35.04%) Java
4 184 (29.44%) SQL
5 120 (19.20%) Python
6 70 (11.20%) Go
7 65 (10.40%) C#
8 47 (7.52%) PHP
9 45 (7.20%) Scala
10 33 (5.28%) Kotlin
11 20 (3.20%) Bash
11 20 (3.20%) Rust
12 14 (2.24%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.60%) R
14 8 (1.28%) C
15 6 (0.96%) Ruby
16 5 (0.80%) GLSL
16 5 (0.80%) JSX
17 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (11.84%) Degree
2 53 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.56%) DBS Check
4 32 (5.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.64%) QA
2 17 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.96%) PMO
4 5 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (13.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 179 (28.64%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.28%) Terraform
3 7 (1.12%) Grafana
3 7 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.48%) Consul
4 3 (0.48%) Packer
5 1 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 101 (16.16%) Oracle
2 56 (8.96%) Google
3 20 (3.20%) Dell
4 11 (1.76%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.44%) Adobe
5 9 (1.44%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.96%) Actuate
7 6 (0.96%) Confluent
8 5 (0.80%) Mapbox
9 4 (0.64%) Zend
10 3 (0.48%) Sybase
11 2 (0.32%) Apple
11 2 (0.32%) Finsemble
11 2 (0.32%) New Relic
11 2 (0.32%) OpenText
11 2 (0.32%) Pega
11 2 (0.32%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.16%) Databricks
12 1 (0.16%) Monzo