Hybrid/Remote Apollo GraphQL Contract Job Trends

Apollo GraphQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Apollo GraphQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 305 338
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 +102
Contract jobs citing Apollo GraphQL 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.025% 0.031% 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.12% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £543 £511 -
25th Percentile £599 £528 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £699 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.31% +25.00% -35.71%
75th Percentile £799 £578 £463
90th Percentile £856 £584 -
UK median daily rate £511 £575 £350
% change year-on-year -11.13% +64.29% -44.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Apollo 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,933 2,558 3,636
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.95% 26.30% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,943 1,875 2,550
10th Percentile £356 £363 £338
25th Percentile £420 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 30 92
10th Percentile £50.38 £54.75 £24.23
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.56 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +58.14% -31.20%
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.38 £62.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £94.23 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Apollo GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apollo GraphQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apollo GraphQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apollo GraphQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Apollo GraphQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Apollo GraphQL daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Apollo GraphQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) npm
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Vite
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) DOM
2 2 (66.67%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Bazel
3 1 (33.33%) gRPC
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) Redux
3 1 (33.33%) Sass
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) TanStack
3 1 (33.33%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Monorepo
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Product Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Product Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) ITGC
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
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