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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 324 166
Rank change year-on-year -84 -158 +58
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 622 1,067 4,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 1.07% 2.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 3.55% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 386 517 930
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £52,500
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 £92,500 £89,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £107,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £58,495
% change year-on-year -14.81% +15.39% +6.35%

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 21,099 30,098 66,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.26% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15,738 18,568 30,087
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,939 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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 20 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 20 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 -145 422 £65,000 -18.75% 120
UK excluding London -40 401 £57,500 -14.81% 66
Work from Home -118 274 £62,500 -21.88% 72
London -91 187 £85,000 +3.03% 64
Scotland +46 168 £60,000 -7.69%
North of England -10 95 £52,500 -19.23% 19
North West +17 73 £50,000 -20.00% 10
South East -44 45 £57,500 -9.80% 18
Midlands -13 41 £65,000 - 16
South West -42 28 £50,000 -37.50% 4
West Midlands +20 27 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Yorkshire +38 22 £53,750 -32.81% 7
East of England -46 18 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East Midlands -30 14 £60,000 -14.29% 4
Wales +9 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 (15.76%) FileNet
2 22 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.73%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (2.25%) nginx
5 10 (1.61%) Apache
6 8 (1.29%) Confluence
7 7 (1.13%) WordPress
8 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.80%) CMS
10 2 (0.32%) IIS
10 2 (0.32%) Liferay
10 2 (0.32%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Adobe XD
1 6 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 17 (2.73%) Shopify
2 9 (1.45%) Magento
3 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 266 (42.77%) AWS
2 129 (20.74%) Amazon S3
3 105 (16.88%) Serverless
4 96 (15.43%) GCP
5 94 (15.11%) Azure
6 89 (14.31%) GitHub
7 70 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (10.45%) SaaS
9 27 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (3.86%) Slack
11 22 (3.54%) Google Docs
11 22 (3.54%) Lucidchart
11 22 (3.54%) Miro
12 20 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.89%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (1.77%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.61%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.45%) npm
17 8 (1.29%) Figma
17 8 (1.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.73%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.13%) AMQP
3 6 (0.96%) MQTT
4 5 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.80%) VPN
5 4 (0.64%) Broadband
6 3 (0.48%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (23.15%) NoSQL
2 124 (19.94%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (15.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 90 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
5 79 (12.70%) DynamoDB
6 45 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (7.23%) Redis
7 37 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 35 (5.63%) MySQL
9 27 (4.34%) MongoDB
10 23 (3.70%) SQL Server
11 22 (3.54%) Big Data
11 22 (3.54%) Hadoop
11 22 (3.54%) Scylla
12 18 (2.89%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.73%) CockroachDB
14 14 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.77%) Power BI
16 9 (1.45%) Tableau
17 8 (1.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 141 (22.67%) Git
2 98 (15.76%) JUnit
3 57 (9.16%) Jenkins
4 47 (7.56%) GitLab
5 46 (7.40%) Jasmine
6 45 (7.23%) Mockito
7 26 (4.18%) JIRA
8 19 (3.05%) webpack
9 18 (2.89%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.89%) Visual Studio
10 10 (1.61%) Gatling
11 9 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.45%) gulp
11 9 (1.45%) Mocha
12 8 (1.29%) Storybook
13 3 (0.48%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.48%) NUnit
14 2 (0.32%) Bower
14 2 (0.32%) Selenium
14 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 217 (34.89%) Finance
2 183 (29.42%) Social Skills
3 151 (24.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (20.42%) Law
5 82 (13.18%) Marketing
6 49 (7.88%) Legal
7 20 (3.22%) Retail
8 16 (2.57%) Front Office
9 14 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (2.25%) Banking
10 11 (1.77%) Electronics
10 11 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.61%) Billing
12 9 (1.45%) Games
12 9 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.96%) German Language
13 6 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 303 (48.71%) Developer
2 239 (38.42%) Software Engineer
3 190 (30.55%) Senior
4 104 (16.72%) Senior Developer
5 93 (14.95%) Full Stack Engineer
6 90 (14.47%) Lead
7 83 (13.34%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 80 (12.86%) Full Stack Developer
9 67 (10.77%) React Developer
10 66 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 64 (10.29%) Java Engineer
12 60 (9.65%) Java Software Engineer
13 55 (8.84%) Lead Software Engineer
14 49 (7.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 33 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
16 32 (5.14%) .NET Developer
17 25 (4.02%) Software Developer
18 22 (3.54%) Principal Software Engineer
19 21 (3.38%) Backend Developer
19 21 (3.38%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (52.89%) React
2 233 (37.46%) Node.js
3 198 (31.83%) Kafka
4 162 (26.05%) CSS
5 161 (25.88%) REST
6 155 (24.92%) HTML
7 132 (21.22%) AngularJS
8 127 (20.42%) Spring
9 104 (16.72%) Spring Integration
10 101 (16.24%) Hibernate
10 101 (16.24%) RESTful
11 98 (15.76%) J2EE
12 78 (12.54%) jQuery
13 75 (12.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 68 (10.93%) Web Services
15 65 (10.45%) JSON
16 56 (9.00%) .NET
16 56 (9.00%) gRPC
17 55 (8.84%) Next.js
18 53 (8.52%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 126 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.23%) Algorithms
3 32 (5.14%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (4.50%) Mobile App
6 25 (4.02%) Blog
7 18 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.73%) Media Streaming
9 16 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.25%) IoT
11 13 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 13 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.45%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.96%) Blockchain
15 6 (0.96%) Web3
16 5 (0.80%) 3D Graphics
16 5 (0.80%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.29%) Linux
2 7 (1.13%) Android
3 6 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.64%) Windows
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (56.91%) Agile
2 307 (49.36%) Software Engineering
3 246 (39.55%) Full Stack Development
4 231 (37.14%) CI/CD
5 184 (29.58%) Microservices
6 183 (29.42%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (22.67%) SDLC
8 133 (21.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 112 (18.01%) Machine Learning
10 108 (17.36%) TDD
11 105 (16.88%) Unit Testing
12 98 (15.76%) AOP
12 98 (15.76%) Document Management
13 95 (15.27%) Decision-Making
14 88 (14.15%) DevOps
15 86 (13.83%) Computer Science
16 80 (12.86%) Operational Stability
17 74 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
17 74 (11.90%) User Experience
18 67 (10.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 251 (40.35%) TypeScript
2 228 (36.66%) JavaScript
3 219 (35.21%) Java
4 183 (29.42%) SQL
5 125 (20.10%) Python
6 72 (11.58%) Go
7 61 (9.81%) C#
8 46 (7.40%) PHP
9 45 (7.23%) Scala
10 34 (5.47%) Kotlin
11 22 (3.54%) Bash
12 20 (3.22%) Rust
13 14 (2.25%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.61%) R
15 8 (1.29%) C
16 6 (0.96%) Ruby
17 5 (0.80%) GLSL
17 5 (0.80%) JSX
18 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
19 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (11.74%) Degree
2 52 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.59%) DBS Check
4 32 (5.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.32%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.50%) QA
2 18 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.96%) PMO
3 6 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (13.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 182 (29.26%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.31%) Terraform
3 7 (1.13%) Grafana
3 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.48%) Consul
4 3 (0.48%) Packer
5 1 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 101 (16.24%) Oracle
2 59 (9.49%) Google
3 22 (3.54%) Dell
4 11 (1.77%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.29%) Adobe
7 7 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.96%) Actuate
8 6 (0.96%) Confluent
9 5 (0.80%) Mapbox
10 4 (0.64%) Zend
11 3 (0.48%) Sybase
12 2 (0.32%) Apple
12 2 (0.32%) Finsemble
12 2 (0.32%) OpenText
12 2 (0.32%) Pega
12 2 (0.32%) SAP
12 2 (0.32%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.16%) Databricks
13 1 (0.16%) Monzo