GraphQL Contracts

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 319 276
Rank change year-on-year -19 -43 -52
Contract jobs citing GraphQL 253 418 854
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.74% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.79% 3.23% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 279 676
10th Percentile £325 £435 £425
25th Percentile £419 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £590 £695 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -14.29% -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 £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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +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 2 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 2 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 -22 213 £507 -15.50% 115
London -2 129 £550 -14.06% 73
Work from Home +26 117 £500 -13.04% 59
UK excluding London +11 85 £450 -14.29% 40
South West +9 21 £515 +3.00% 2
Midlands +34 19 £350 -30.00% 8
South East +6 16 £400 -32.20% 6
North of England -6 16 £475 -13.64% 17
West Midlands +23 14 £350 -24.32% 5
North West +10 9 £475 -13.64% 10
Yorkshire -7 6 £505 -9.82% 3
Scotland +38 5 £498 -9.13% 3
East Midlands +11 5 £438 -17.06% 3
Wales - 5 £438 - 1
East of England -1 3 £650 +22.64% 2
North East +11 1 £650 - 4

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 7 (2.77%) Kentico
5 3 (1.19%) Confluence
5 3 (1.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (47.83%) AWS
2 62 (24.51%) Azure
3 26 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (8.70%) GCP
6 20 (7.91%) Serverless
7 16 (6.32%) GitHub
8 11 (4.35%) Azure API Management
9 9 (3.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 9 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (3.56%) NuGet
10 8 (3.16%) npm
10 8 (3.16%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.77%) SaaS
12 6 (2.37%) Figma
13 5 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.98%) Miro
14 4 (1.58%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) 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 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.74%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.77%) MySQL
7 7 (2.77%) Triplestore
8 6 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.40%) GIS
11 1 (0.40%) Jackrabbit
11 1 (0.40%) Redis
11 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 44 (17.39%) Git
2 24 (9.49%) Cypress.io
3 14 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.74%) GitLab
4 12 (4.74%) Postman
5 9 (3.56%) JIRA
6 8 (3.16%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.77%) NUnit
7 7 (2.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.98%) Mocha
8 5 (1.98%) Selenium
8 5 (1.98%) Storybook
8 5 (1.98%) webpack
9 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.58%) Gradle
9 4 (1.58%) Snyk
10 3 (1.19%) Subversion
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.79%) Maven
11 2 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (14.62%) Finance
1 37 (14.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.32%) Banking
3 13 (5.14%) Retail
4 8 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.77%) Front Office
6 6 (2.37%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.37%) Marketing
6 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Electronics
8 3 (1.19%) German Language
8 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.79%) French Language
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 145 (57.31%) Developer
2 48 (18.97%) React Developer
3 41 (16.21%) Senior
4 38 (15.02%) Full Stack Developer
5 26 (10.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 25 (9.88%) Architect
7 20 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.72%) Lead
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.53%) JavaScript Developer
11 12 (4.74%) Full Stack Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) E-Commerce Developer
13 10 (3.95%) Angular Developer
13 10 (3.95%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.95%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.56%) Azure Developer
14 9 (3.56%) Java Engineer
15 8 (3.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 8 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (2.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (49.01%) React
2 69 (27.27%) Node.js
2 69 (27.27%) REST
3 53 (20.95%) Next.js
4 45 (17.79%) CSS
5 38 (15.02%) HTML
5 38 (15.02%) Redux
6 32 (12.65%) AngularJS
7 23 (9.09%) RESTful
8 22 (8.70%) .NET
9 21 (8.30%) Kafka
10 17 (6.72%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.32%) gRPC
12 15 (5.93%) Express.js
13 14 (5.53%) OAuth
13 14 (5.53%) Spring
14 13 (5.14%) SOAP
15 11 (4.35%) HTML5
15 11 (4.35%) React Native
16 10 (3.95%) Jest
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 6 (2.37%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
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%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.40%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.40%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.40%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.77%) Linux
2 6 (2.37%) Android
2 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.06%) Agile
2 68 (26.88%) CI/CD
2 68 (26.88%) Full Stack Development
3 65 (25.69%) DevOps
4 49 (19.37%) Software Engineering
5 36 (14.23%) Microservices
6 33 (13.04%) Front End Development
6 33 (13.04%) TDD
7 30 (11.86%) Test Automation
8 24 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (9.49%) Scrum
9 23 (9.09%) E-Commerce
10 20 (7.91%) BDD
11 17 (6.72%) Containerisation
12 16 (6.32%) Analytics
12 16 (6.32%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (5.93%) Data Modelling
13 15 (5.93%) Event-Driven
13 15 (5.93%) Fintech
14 14 (5.53%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.27%) TypeScript
2 90 (35.57%) JavaScript
3 51 (20.16%) Java
4 47 (18.58%) SQL
5 45 (17.79%) Python
6 14 (5.53%) Kotlin
7 11 (4.35%) C#
7 11 (4.35%) Go
8 7 (2.77%) SPARQL
9 6 (2.37%) PHP
10 5 (1.98%) Bicep
10 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.40%) DataFlex
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (8.30%) SC Cleared
1 21 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.16%) 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 12 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.37%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.98%) GDPR
3 5 (1.98%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (19.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (17.00%) 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
5 2 (0.79%) 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 (2.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.37%) Google
2 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
2 6 (2.37%) SAP
3 3 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (1.19%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe
4 2 (0.79%) Spotify
5 1 (0.40%) Ariba
5 1 (0.40%) Dell
5 1 (0.40%) Intel
5 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.40%) New Relic
5 1 (0.40%) Okta
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.40%) Splunk