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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 324 168
Rank change year-on-year -90 -156 +62
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 594 1,081 3,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 1.07% 2.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 3.56% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 383 525 895
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £52,250
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 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,998
% change year-on-year -14.81% +16.38% +0.87%

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 21,085 30,349 64,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.08% 40.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,771 18,723 29,931
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 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%
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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GraphQL in the UK

GraphQL
Top 16 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 11 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 -168 393 £65,000 -18.75% 88
UK excluding London -43 385 £57,500 -14.81% 52
Work from Home -135 267 £62,500 -21.88% 50
London -98 175 £85,000 +3.03% 34
Scotland +50 169 £60,000 +4.35% 1
North of England -25 77 £51,498 -20.77% 20
North West +4 56 £48,750 -11.36% 7
South East -51 46 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Midlands -12 42 £65,000 - 11
West Midlands +18 28 £65,000 +8.33% 7
South West -49 28 £50,000 -37.50% 4
Yorkshire +38 21 £55,000 -31.25% 10
East of England -32 18 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East Midlands -29 15 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Wales +7 5 £42,500 - 1
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 (16.50%) FileNet
2 23 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (2.36%) nginx
5 10 (1.68%) Apache
6 9 (1.52%) Confluence
7 7 (1.18%) WordPress
8 6 (1.01%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.84%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 2 (0.34%) Liferay
10 2 (0.34%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (2.86%) Shopify
2 9 (1.52%) Magento
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (39.90%) AWS
2 129 (21.72%) Amazon S3
3 97 (16.33%) GCP
4 95 (15.99%) Serverless
5 93 (15.66%) Azure
6 84 (14.14%) GitHub
7 66 (11.11%) SaaS
8 59 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (4.38%) Slack
11 23 (3.87%) Google Docs
11 23 (3.87%) Lucidchart
11 23 (3.87%) Miro
12 19 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.02%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.68%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.52%) npm
16 8 (1.35%) Figma
16 8 (1.35%) Google Analytics
17 7 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.86%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.18%) AMQP
3 6 (1.01%) MQTT
4 5 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.67%) Broadband
6 3 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (22.05%) NoSQL
2 126 (21.21%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 78 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (9.60%) DynamoDB
6 38 (6.40%) Redis
7 36 (6.06%) MySQL
8 35 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (4.38%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (3.87%) Big Data
11 23 (3.87%) Hadoop
11 23 (3.87%) Scylla
12 22 (3.70%) SQL Server
13 18 (3.03%) Relational Database
14 17 (2.86%) CockroachDB
15 15 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (2.02%) Power BI
17 10 (1.68%) Tableau
18 8 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 129 (21.72%) Git
2 98 (16.50%) JUnit
3 57 (9.60%) Jenkins
4 46 (7.74%) Jasmine
5 45 (7.58%) Mockito
6 32 (5.39%) GitLab
7 26 (4.38%) JIRA
8 20 (3.37%) webpack
9 18 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 18 (3.03%) Visual Studio
10 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.52%) gulp
11 9 (1.52%) Mocha
12 8 (1.35%) Storybook
13 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.51%) NUnit
13 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.34%) Babel
14 2 (0.34%) Gatling
14 2 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 218 (36.70%) Finance
2 163 (27.44%) Social Skills
3 152 (25.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (21.38%) Law
5 82 (13.80%) Marketing
6 50 (8.42%) Legal
7 20 (3.37%) Retail
8 18 (3.03%) Front Office
9 15 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (2.36%) Banking
11 11 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.52%) Games
12 9 (1.52%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.01%) German Language
13 6 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Automotive
14 3 (0.51%) Electronics
15 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 297 (50.00%) Developer
2 224 (37.71%) Software Engineer
3 182 (30.64%) Senior
4 103 (17.34%) Senior Developer
5 95 (15.99%) Full Stack Engineer
6 86 (14.48%) Lead
7 84 (14.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 82 (13.80%) Full Stack Developer
9 70 (11.78%) React Developer
10 64 (10.77%) Java Engineer
11 61 (10.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 60 (10.10%) Java Software Engineer
13 51 (8.59%) Lead Software Engineer
14 45 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 34 (5.72%) Principal Engineer
16 32 (5.39%) .NET Developer
17 24 (4.04%) Software Developer
18 23 (3.87%) Principal Software Engineer
19 21 (3.54%) Backend Developer
19 21 (3.54%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (54.88%) React
2 232 (39.06%) Node.js
3 200 (33.67%) Kafka
4 156 (26.26%) CSS
5 149 (25.08%) HTML
6 141 (23.74%) REST
7 130 (21.89%) AngularJS
8 127 (21.38%) Spring
9 104 (17.51%) Spring Integration
10 101 (17.00%) Hibernate
11 98 (16.50%) J2EE
12 90 (15.15%) RESTful
13 77 (12.96%) jQuery
14 73 (12.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 65 (10.94%) JSON
16 56 (9.43%) .NET
16 56 (9.43%) gRPC
17 53 (8.92%) JMS
18 51 (8.59%) RabbitMQ
18 51 (8.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.74%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 31 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 18 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.36%) IoT
9 13 (2.19%) Blog
10 12 (2.02%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.01%) Web3
14 5 (0.84%) 3D Graphics
14 5 (0.84%) Animation
14 5 (0.84%) Media Streaming
14 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.18%) Android
3 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.67%) Windows
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (55.89%) Agile
2 285 (47.98%) Software Engineering
3 232 (39.06%) Full Stack Development
4 217 (36.53%) CI/CD
5 179 (30.13%) Microservices
6 173 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (23.91%) SDLC
8 134 (22.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (18.86%) Machine Learning
10 98 (16.50%) AOP
10 98 (16.50%) Document Management
11 97 (16.33%) TDD
12 95 (15.99%) Decision-Making
13 89 (14.98%) Unit Testing
14 80 (13.47%) Operational Stability
15 78 (13.13%) Computer Science
16 70 (11.78%) User Experience
17 69 (11.62%) DevOps
18 67 (11.28%) Clean Code
19 59 (9.93%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 250 (42.09%) TypeScript
2 222 (37.37%) JavaScript
3 212 (35.69%) Java
4 184 (30.98%) SQL
5 120 (20.20%) Python
6 73 (12.29%) Go
7 61 (10.27%) C#
8 47 (7.91%) PHP
9 31 (5.22%) Kotlin
10 29 (4.88%) Scala
11 23 (3.87%) Bash
12 20 (3.37%) Rust
13 14 (2.36%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.68%) R
15 8 (1.35%) C
16 6 (1.01%) Ruby
17 5 (0.84%) GLSL
17 5 (0.84%) JSX
18 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (10.94%) Degree
2 44 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.39%) Master's Degree
4 31 (5.22%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.38%) QA
2 19 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.18%) WCAG
4 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 78 (13.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 184 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.56%) Terraform
3 7 (1.18%) Grafana
3 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.51%) Consul
4 3 (0.51%) Packer
5 1 (0.17%) Plesk
Vendors
1 101 (17.00%) Oracle
2 63 (10.61%) Google
3 23 (3.87%) Dell
4 12 (2.02%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.35%) Adobe
7 7 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.01%) Actuate
8 6 (1.01%) Confluent
9 5 (0.84%) Mapbox
10 4 (0.67%) Zend
11 3 (0.51%) Apple
11 3 (0.51%) Sybase
12 2 (0.34%) Finsemble
12 2 (0.34%) OpenText
12 2 (0.34%) Pega
12 2 (0.34%) SAP
12 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.17%) Aderant
13 1 (0.17%) Monzo