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 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 408 411 161
Rank change year-on-year +3 -250 +43
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 641 749 4,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.79% 2.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.97% 2.71% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 392 492 943
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +15.38% +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 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £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 2 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 451 £63,750 -20.31% 115
UK excluding London +79 407 £57,500 -14.81% 40
Work from Home -44 262 £60,000 -25.00% 59
London -55 200 £83,750 +1.52% 73
Scotland +54 158 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North of England +53 110 £52,500 -19.23% 17
North West +35 86 £50,000 -20.00% 10
South East -19 46 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Midlands 0 43 £62,500 - 8
West Midlands -4 28 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -27 27 £50,000 -34.21% 2
Yorkshire +33 22 £53,750 -32.81% 3
East of England -12 17 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands -8 15 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Wales +8 5 £42,500 - 1
North East -11 2 £42,500 -40.35% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

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 (15.29%) FileNet
2 17 (2.65%) Cloud Foundry
3 14 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.18%) nginx
4 13 (2.03%) Apache
5 9 (1.40%) Confluence
6 7 (1.09%) CMS
6 7 (1.09%) WordPress
7 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) Liferay
8 2 (0.31%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Adobe XD
1 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (2.65%) Shopify
2 10 (1.56%) Magento
3 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 279 (43.53%) AWS
2 122 (19.03%) Amazon S3
3 108 (16.85%) Serverless
4 96 (14.98%) GitHub
5 95 (14.82%) Azure
6 87 (13.57%) GCP
7 70 (10.92%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (8.89%) SaaS
9 31 (4.84%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (2.50%) Slack
13 14 (2.18%) Google Docs
13 14 (2.18%) Lucidchart
13 14 (2.18%) Miro
14 11 (1.72%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.56%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.40%) npm
17 8 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (1.25%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.65%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.09%) AMQP
3 6 (0.94%) MQTT
4 5 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.78%) VPN
5 4 (0.62%) Broadband
6 3 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (24.80%) NoSQL
2 121 (18.88%) Elasticsearch
3 113 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
4 99 (15.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 93 (14.51%) DynamoDB
6 50 (7.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 48 (7.49%) Redis
8 45 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
9 39 (6.08%) MySQL
10 28 (4.37%) MongoDB
11 25 (3.90%) SQL Server
12 20 (3.12%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.65%) CockroachDB
14 14 (2.18%) Big Data
14 14 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (2.18%) Hadoop
14 14 (2.18%) Scylla
15 11 (1.72%) Power BI
16 9 (1.40%) Tableau
17 8 (1.25%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 146 (22.78%) Git
2 98 (15.29%) JUnit
3 56 (8.74%) Jenkins
4 53 (8.27%) GitLab
5 46 (7.18%) Jasmine
6 45 (7.02%) Mockito
7 31 (4.84%) JIRA
8 20 (3.12%) Gatling
9 18 (2.81%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.81%) Visual Studio
10 17 (2.65%) webpack
11 10 (1.56%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.40%) gulp
12 9 (1.40%) Mocha
13 8 (1.25%) Storybook
14 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.47%) NUnit
16 2 (0.31%) Babel
16 2 (0.31%) Selenium
16 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 216 (33.70%) Finance
2 192 (29.95%) Social Skills
3 141 (22.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (19.50%) Law
5 82 (12.79%) Marketing
6 50 (7.80%) Legal
7 22 (3.43%) Retail
8 21 (3.28%) Electronics
9 20 (3.12%) Billing
10 14 (2.18%) Banking
11 13 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (1.87%) Front Office
13 11 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.40%) Games
14 9 (1.40%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.94%) German Language
15 6 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
15 6 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 313 (48.83%) Developer
2 244 (38.07%) Software Engineer
3 205 (31.98%) Senior
4 110 (17.16%) Senior Developer
5 91 (14.20%) Lead
6 90 (14.04%) Full Stack Engineer
7 84 (13.10%) Full Stack Developer
8 79 (12.32%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 74 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 66 (10.30%) React Developer
11 64 (9.98%) Java Engineer
12 60 (9.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 58 (9.05%) Lead Software Engineer
14 50 (7.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 34 (5.30%) .NET Developer
16 25 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
16 25 (3.90%) Software Developer
17 21 (3.28%) Backend Developer
17 21 (3.28%) Node.js Developer
18 20 (3.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (52.73%) React
2 234 (36.51%) Node.js
3 189 (29.49%) Kafka
4 182 (28.39%) REST
5 162 (25.27%) CSS
6 155 (24.18%) HTML
7 134 (20.90%) AngularJS
8 128 (19.97%) Spring
9 104 (16.22%) Spring Integration
10 102 (15.91%) Hibernate
10 102 (15.91%) RESTful
11 98 (15.29%) J2EE
12 87 (13.57%) Web Services
13 80 (12.48%) jQuery
14 77 (12.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 64 (9.98%) JSON
16 58 (9.05%) Next.js
17 56 (8.74%) gRPC
18 55 (8.58%) .NET
19 53 (8.27%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.93%) Blog
3 37 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 30 (4.68%) Media Streaming
5 29 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (4.37%) Mobile App
7 24 (3.74%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.81%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (2.50%) IoT
12 14 (2.18%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.87%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.56%) Client/Server
15 7 (1.09%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.94%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.94%) Web3
17 5 (0.78%) 3D Graphics
17 5 (0.78%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.25%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Android
3 6 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.62%) Windows
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (57.72%) Agile
2 310 (48.36%) Software Engineering
3 262 (40.87%) Full Stack Development
4 236 (36.82%) CI/CD
5 190 (29.64%) Microservices
6 178 (27.77%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (21.84%) SDLC
8 131 (20.44%) Artificial Intelligence
9 118 (18.41%) Unit Testing
10 113 (17.63%) TDD
11 110 (17.16%) Machine Learning
12 103 (16.07%) DevOps
13 98 (15.29%) AOP
13 98 (15.29%) Document Management
14 97 (15.13%) Computer Science
15 94 (14.66%) Decision-Making
16 92 (14.35%) Continuous Integration
17 78 (12.17%) Operational Stability
18 70 (10.92%) Clean Code
19 65 (10.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 256 (39.94%) TypeScript
2 228 (35.57%) JavaScript
3 222 (34.63%) Java
4 185 (28.86%) SQL
5 115 (17.94%) Python
6 66 (10.30%) C#
7 64 (9.98%) Go
8 56 (8.74%) Scala
9 47 (7.33%) PHP
10 35 (5.46%) Kotlin
11 20 (3.12%) Rust
12 14 (2.18%) Bash
12 14 (2.18%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.56%) R
14 8 (1.25%) C
15 6 (0.94%) Ruby
16 5 (0.78%) GLSL
16 5 (0.78%) JSX
17 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (13.26%) Degree
2 63 (9.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.40%) DBS Check
4 33 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.15%) QA
2 16 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.94%) PMO
4 4 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (14.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 172 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.15%) Terraform
3 7 (1.09%) Grafana
3 7 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.47%) Consul
4 3 (0.47%) Packer
5 1 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 101 (15.76%) Oracle
2 49 (7.64%) Google
3 14 (2.18%) Dell
4 12 (1.87%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.40%) Adobe
5 9 (1.40%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.94%) Actuate
7 6 (0.94%) Confluent
8 5 (0.78%) Mapbox
9 4 (0.62%) Sybase
9 4 (0.62%) Zend
10 2 (0.31%) Apple
10 2 (0.31%) Finsemble
10 2 (0.31%) New Relic
10 2 (0.31%) OpenText
10 2 (0.31%) Pega
10 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.16%) Databricks
11 1 (0.16%) Monzo