GraphQL Contracts

GraphQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 340 347 267
Rank change year-on-year +7 -80 -38
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 253 397 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.74% 3.12% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 261 692
10th Percentile £325 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £600 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -11.90% -6.25% +24.44%
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 £71.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £75.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
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 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 12 June 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 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
England -20 215 £520 -13.33% 99
London -6 129 £550 -14.73% 60
Work from Home +34 115 £519 -9.78% 67
UK excluding London -2 86 £463 -11.90% 36
South West +2 22 £524 +4.80% 3
Midlands +26 20 £350 -30.00% 9
North of England -10 17 £475 -13.64% 12
South East +10 16 £500 -10.31% 5
West Midlands +25 13 £350 -24.32% 4
North West +10 9 £475 -13.64% 6
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
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 (7.11%) CMS
2 15 (5.93%) Headless CMS
3 8 (3.16%) Apache
4 6 (2.37%) Kentico
5 3 (1.19%) Confluence
5 3 (1.19%) nginx
5 3 (1.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (49.01%) AWS
2 62 (24.51%) Azure
3 26 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (8.70%) GCP
5 18 (7.11%) Serverless
6 16 (6.32%) GitHub
7 10 (3.95%) Azure API Management
7 10 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (3.56%) Amazon Cognito
8 9 (3.56%) npm
9 8 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (3.16%) NuGet
9 8 (3.16%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.37%) Figma
10 6 (2.37%) SaaS
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.98%) Miro
12 4 (1.58%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.58%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) VPN
3 3 (1.19%) AMQP
4 2 (0.79%) FTP
4 2 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.74%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.77%) MySQL
8 7 (2.77%) Triplestore
9 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.40%) GIS
12 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
12 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 44 (17.39%) Git
2 22 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 12 (4.74%) GitLab
4 11 (4.35%) Postman
5 10 (3.95%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.16%) JIRA
6 8 (3.16%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.77%) NUnit
8 6 (2.37%) Selenium
8 6 (2.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.98%) Mocha
9 5 (1.98%) Storybook
10 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.58%) Gradle
10 4 (1.58%) Snyk
10 4 (1.58%) webpack
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.79%) VersionOne
General
1 37 (14.62%) Finance
1 37 (14.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.32%) Banking
3 14 (5.53%) Retail
4 9 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.37%) Front Office
5 6 (2.37%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.37%) Marketing
5 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
6 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.19%) Electronics
7 3 (1.19%) German Language
7 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.79%) French Language
9 1 (0.40%) Automotive
9 1 (0.40%) Law
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 145 (57.31%) Developer
2 43 (17.00%) React Developer
2 43 (17.00%) Senior
3 39 (15.42%) Full Stack Developer
4 25 (9.88%) Architect
5 24 (9.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 21 (8.30%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.93%) Lead
9 14 (5.53%) JavaScript Developer
10 13 (5.14%) Angular Developer
11 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Full Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.56%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 7 (2.77%) Senior Java Engineer
15 7 (2.77%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (46.25%) React
2 69 (27.27%) REST
3 65 (25.69%) Node.js
4 53 (20.95%) Next.js
5 45 (17.79%) CSS
6 36 (14.23%) HTML
7 35 (13.83%) AngularJS
7 35 (13.83%) Redux
8 24 (9.49%) RESTful
9 23 (9.09%) .NET
10 20 (7.91%) Kafka
11 17 (6.72%) gRPC
11 17 (6.72%) Spring Boot
12 15 (5.93%) Express.js
13 14 (5.53%) OAuth
13 14 (5.53%) Spring
14 13 (5.14%) SOAP
15 12 (4.74%) HTML5
16 11 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
16 11 (4.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.79%) Wiki
8 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.40%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Android
2 5 (1.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.06%) Agile
2 70 (27.67%) Full Stack Development
3 65 (25.69%) CI/CD
4 64 (25.30%) DevOps
5 49 (19.37%) Software Engineering
6 36 (14.23%) Microservices
7 33 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 31 (12.25%) TDD
9 30 (11.86%) Front End Development
10 25 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (9.88%) Scrum
11 21 (8.30%) E-Commerce
12 19 (7.51%) BDD
13 18 (7.11%) Containerisation
14 17 (6.72%) Analytics
14 17 (6.72%) Event-Driven
15 16 (6.32%) Data Modelling
16 14 (5.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 14 (5.53%) Fintech
17 13 (5.14%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 110 (43.48%) TypeScript
2 89 (35.18%) JavaScript
3 51 (20.16%) Java
4 49 (19.37%) SQL
5 46 (18.18%) Python
6 13 (5.14%) C#
6 13 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.95%) Go
8 7 (2.77%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.37%) PHP
10 5 (1.98%) Bicep
10 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 23 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.16%) AWS Certification
2 8 (3.16%) Degree
3 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.79%) 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 11 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) GDPR
2 6 (2.37%) HIPAA
2 6 (2.37%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (18.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.11%) Terraform
3 7 (2.77%) Grafana
3 7 (2.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.58%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Istio
6 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) rkt
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.77%) Google
3 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.37%) SAP
4 3 (1.19%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe
5 2 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.79%) Spotify
6 1 (0.40%) Ariba
6 1 (0.40%) Dell
6 1 (0.40%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.40%) Intel
6 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.40%) New Relic
6 1 (0.40%) Okta
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk