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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 266 353
Rank change year-on-year +38 +87 -122
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 159 130 220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.01% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 3.13% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 80 119 187
10th Percentile £58,750 - £41,250
25th Percentile £73,438 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £63,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -10.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £76,250 £88,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £116,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -6.67%

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 3,097 4,157 8,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.38% 32.36% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 3,272 7,455
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,770 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +10.35% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%

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 2 April 2026.

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 11 (6.92%) JBoss
1 11 (6.92%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.17%) Azure
2 59 (37.11%) Entra ID
3 56 (35.22%) Google Workspace
4 40 (25.16%) AWS
5 18 (11.32%) SaaS
6 14 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (6.92%) dbt
7 11 (6.92%) GCP
7 11 (6.92%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.77%) Serverless
9 4 (2.52%) GitHub
10 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.26%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (37.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.26%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.26%) git-flow
3 2 (1.26%) Maven
3 2 (1.26%) Xcode
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.63%) Gradle
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.63%) Vite
4 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 75 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 58 (36.48%) Finance
2 58 (36.48%) Organisational Skills
3 34 (21.38%) Games
4 32 (20.13%) Front Office
5 2 (1.26%) Legal
6 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (52.83%) Developer
2 66 (41.51%) Senior
3 43 (27.04%) Software Engineer
4 34 (21.38%) Lead
5 32 (20.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 32 (20.13%) Lead Developer
6 21 (13.21%) IAM Developer
6 21 (13.21%) Lead Software Engineer
7 20 (12.58%) Lead Software Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Architect
8 19 (11.95%) React Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Senior Architect
9 17 (10.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (10.69%) Senior Developer
10 16 (10.06%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (50.31%) REST
2 69 (43.40%) SOAP
3 68 (42.77%) OAuth
4 56 (35.22%) LDAP
4 56 (35.22%) OpenID
4 56 (35.22%) SAML
5 54 (33.96%) React
6 43 (27.04%) Node.js
7 35 (22.01%) Kafka
7 35 (22.01%) Redux
8 23 (14.47%) React Native
9 17 (10.69%) RESTful
10 15 (9.43%) .NET
11 14 (8.81%) Spring
11 14 (8.81%) Vue
12 12 (7.55%) Hibernate
13 11 (6.92%) Middleware
13 11 (6.92%) OpenAPI
13 11 (6.92%) Swagger
14 10 (6.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (36.48%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (36.48%) Cyberattack
2 32 (20.13%) Fixed Income
3 13 (8.18%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.92%) DataPower
5 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.63%) IoT
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.81%) Android
2 12 (7.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (53.46%) Mentoring
2 69 (43.40%) Roadmaps
3 62 (38.99%) Software Engineering
4 58 (36.48%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (36.48%) Programme Delivery
5 57 (35.85%) Agile
6 56 (35.22%) Identity Access Management
6 56 (35.22%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (28.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
9 32 (20.13%) Investment Management
9 32 (20.13%) Order Management
9 32 (20.13%) Portfolio Management
10 25 (15.72%) Change Control
11 23 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (13.84%) AI
13 20 (12.58%) DevOps
14 19 (11.95%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (44.03%) PowerShell
2 58 (36.48%) Bash
2 58 (36.48%) SQL
3 56 (35.22%) T-SQL
4 49 (30.82%) TypeScript
5 46 (28.93%) Java
6 42 (26.42%) JavaScript
7 32 (20.13%) Go
8 29 (18.24%) Python
9 14 (8.81%) C#
10 7 (4.40%) Ruby
11 3 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.26%) Swift
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (3.14%) Degree
2 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (36.48%) NCSC
1 58 (36.48%) NIST
2 25 (15.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (35.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.06%) Terraform
2 3 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.52%) Databricks
3 2 (1.26%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.26%) Google
4 1 (0.63%) Apple