Hybrid/Remote GraphQL Job Trends

GraphQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GraphQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 262 338
Rank change year-on-year +7 +76 -123
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 115 207 135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 1.20% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.20% 3.95% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 59 117 111
10th Percentile £55,555 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +42.31% -14.75% +8.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

GraphQL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,740 5,245 6,311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.84% 30.49% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,155 3,402 5,360
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%

GraphQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

GraphQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GraphQL
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GraphQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GraphQL

GraphQL
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GraphQL over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

GraphQL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.96%) Headless CMS
1 8 (6.96%) JBoss
1 8 (6.96%) WebSphere
2 7 (6.09%) Confluence
3 3 (2.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Shopify
2 3 (2.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.48%) Azure
2 37 (32.17%) AWS
3 22 (19.13%) Entra ID
4 21 (18.26%) Serverless
5 19 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (16.52%) Google Workspace
6 14 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (10.43%) Amazon S3
7 12 (10.43%) GCP
7 12 (10.43%) GitHub
8 11 (9.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (9.57%) dbt
8 11 (9.57%) Snowflake
9 10 (8.70%) Figma
9 10 (8.70%) SaaS
10 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (6.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (6.09%) Google Analytics
10 7 (6.09%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.48%) Broadband
2 1 (0.87%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.22%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.74%) MySQL
7 2 (1.74%) Redis
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Git
2 11 (9.57%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.83%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.96%) JIRA
5 3 (2.61%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.61%) JMeter
5 3 (2.61%) Postman
5 3 (2.61%) Selenium
5 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.74%) git-flow
6 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.87%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.87%) Gradle
7 1 (0.87%) Maven
7 1 (0.87%) Vite
7 1 (0.87%) webpack
7 1 (0.87%) Xcode
General
1 52 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.30%) Finance
3 21 (18.26%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (13.04%) Games
5 8 (6.96%) Front Office
6 4 (3.48%) Retail
7 3 (2.61%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Senior
2 50 (43.48%) Developer
3 25 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 21 (18.26%) Software Engineer
5 16 (13.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (11.30%) Architect
7 11 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) IAM Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Lead
9 9 (7.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 8 (6.96%) React Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Senior Architect
11 6 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.35%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (46.96%) React
2 48 (41.74%) REST
3 31 (26.96%) Node.js
3 31 (26.96%) OAuth
4 30 (26.09%) SOAP
5 23 (20.00%) CSS
6 21 (18.26%) RESTful
7 19 (16.52%) HTML
7 19 (16.52%) Kafka
7 19 (16.52%) LDAP
7 19 (16.52%) OpenID
7 19 (16.52%) SAML
8 18 (15.65%) Next.js
9 15 (13.04%) .NET
10 14 (12.17%) OpenAPI
10 14 (12.17%) Swagger
11 13 (11.30%) gRPC
11 13 (11.30%) Jest
11 13 (11.30%) Redux
12 12 (10.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.26%) Cyber Threat
1 21 (18.26%) Cyberattack
2 19 (16.52%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) DataPower
3 8 (6.96%) Fixed Income
4 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.35%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.87%) IoT
10 1 (0.87%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Android
2 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (58.26%) Mentoring
2 65 (56.52%) Agile
3 48 (41.74%) CI/CD
4 38 (33.04%) Software Engineering
5 33 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (26.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (26.96%) Roadmaps
7 30 (26.09%) Microservices
8 26 (22.61%) AI
9 24 (20.87%) User Experience
10 23 (20.00%) DevOps
11 21 (18.26%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (18.26%) Programme Delivery
12 19 (16.52%) Event-Driven
12 19 (16.52%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (16.52%) Regulatory Compliance
13 18 (15.65%) Front End Development
14 17 (14.78%) Clean Code
15 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
16 15 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) TypeScript
2 42 (36.52%) SQL
3 36 (31.30%) JavaScript
4 34 (29.57%) PowerShell
5 22 (19.13%) Bash
6 20 (17.39%) Java
7 19 (16.52%) T-SQL
8 17 (14.78%) C#
8 17 (14.78%) Python
9 9 (7.83%) Go
10 8 (6.96%) Ruby
11 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.87%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.87%) Accessibility
2 21 (18.26%) NCSC
2 21 (18.26%) NIST
3 13 (11.30%) QA
4 9 (7.83%) WCAG
5 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (16.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.04%) Terraform
2 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Apple
3 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.61%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.87%) SnapLogic