GraphQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

GraphQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GraphQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GraphQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 313 358
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 -28
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 86 117 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.53% 2.84% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 79 125
10th Percentile £324 £410 £403
25th Percentile £375 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -6.25% +24.44%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £638
90th Percentile £590 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
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 falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +2 22 £524 +4.80% 3
Midlands +26 20 £350 -30.00% 9
North of England -10 17 £475 -13.64% 11
South East +10 16 £500 -10.31% 5
West Midlands +25 13 £350 -24.32% 4
North West +10 9 £475 -13.64% 5
East Midlands +9 7 £438 -20.45% 5
Yorkshire -7 7 £505 -8.18% 3
Wales - 5 £438 -
Scotland +44 3 £498 -9.13% 3
East of England -4 3 £650 +22.64% 3
North East +8 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 (5.81%) Apache
1 5 (5.81%) CMS
2 4 (4.65%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.49%) WordPress
4 2 (2.33%) Kentico
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) AWS
2 25 (29.07%) Azure
3 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.47%) GCP
5 8 (9.30%) Serverless
6 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.98%) GitHub
7 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.81%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (5.81%) npm
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.49%) CloudFront
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.33%) SaaS
11 1 (1.16%) BigCommerce
11 1 (1.16%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.81%) Triplestore
3 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.49%) MySQL
3 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.16%) Jackrabbit
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Git
2 7 (8.14%) GitLab
3 6 (6.98%) Postman
3 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio
4 5 (5.81%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.81%) JIRA
4 5 (5.81%) NUnit
5 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.49%) webpack
6 2 (2.33%) Selenium
6 2 (2.33%) Subversion
6 2 (2.33%) VersionOne
6 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (8.14%) Finance
3 4 (4.65%) Banking
4 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Aviation
6 1 (1.16%) Electronics
6 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.16%) Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (63.95%) Developer
2 17 (19.77%) Senior
3 15 (17.44%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (15.12%) React Developer
5 12 (13.95%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Angular Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Architect
9 6 (6.98%) Lead
10 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.49%) WordPress Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Backend Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (46.51%) React
2 24 (27.91%) Next.js
3 19 (22.09%) REST
4 18 (20.93%) Node.js
4 18 (20.93%) Redux
5 16 (18.60%) CSS
6 14 (16.28%) AngularJS
6 14 (16.28%) HTML
7 12 (13.95%) RESTful
8 10 (11.63%) gRPC
9 9 (10.47%) Apollo GraphQL
9 9 (10.47%) OAuth
10 8 (9.30%) .NET
10 8 (9.30%) JWT
10 8 (9.30%) Kafka
11 7 (8.14%) Express.js
11 7 (8.14%) NgRx
11 7 (8.14%) RxJS
12 6 (6.98%) Swagger
12 6 (6.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.16%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) CI/CD
2 23 (26.74%) Full Stack Development
3 21 (24.42%) DevOps
4 19 (22.09%) Agile
5 15 (17.44%) Scrum
6 14 (16.28%) Containerisation
7 11 (12.79%) Front End Development
8 10 (11.63%) TDD
9 9 (10.47%) Data Modelling
9 9 (10.47%) Kanban
9 9 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.47%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.47%) Waterfall
10 8 (9.30%) BDD
11 7 (8.14%) Event-Driven
11 7 (8.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (6.98%) API Development
12 6 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (6.98%) Data Privacy
12 6 (6.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) TypeScript
2 24 (27.91%) JavaScript
3 13 (15.12%) Python
3 13 (15.12%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) Java
5 5 (5.81%) SPARQL
6 3 (3.49%) C#
6 3 (3.49%) Go
7 2 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Degree
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.98%) GDPR
2 6 (6.98%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 22 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Ansible
3 1 (1.16%) rkt
3 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.14%) Google
2 2 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.33%) SAP
3 1 (1.16%) Ariba
3 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.16%) Okta
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle
3 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud