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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 330 309
Rank change year-on-year -53 -21 -26
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 79 102 217
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.61% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 2.47% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 64 78 137
10th Percentile £55,350 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +39.13% -28.13%
75th Percentile £95,625 £142,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £142,500 - £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £92,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.51% +48.00% -21.88%

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 4,493 4,133 6,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.47% 24.90% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,352 2,805 5,436
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

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 24 August 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 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.91%) AWS
2 15 (18.99%) GitHub
3 10 (12.66%) SaaS
4 8 (10.13%) Azure
5 7 (8.86%) Serverless
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.06%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.80%) Datadog
8 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.80%) GCP
8 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.80%) Sentry
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Broadband
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) MQTT
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.80%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.53%) Power BI
7 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.27%) MySQL
7 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) JIRA
3 3 (3.80%) Appium
3 3 (3.80%) Claude Code
3 3 (3.80%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.53%) Storybook
5 1 (1.27%) CMake
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.27%) Mocha
5 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (60.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Finance
3 8 (10.13%) Front Office
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Legal
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (65.82%) Developer
2 37 (46.84%) Lead
3 32 (40.51%) Lead Developer
4 25 (31.65%) React Developer
5 16 (20.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (18.99%) Software Engineer
7 13 (16.46%) Senior
8 8 (10.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 8 (10.13%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Lead Software Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.80%) CyberArk Specialist
12 3 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 3 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Senior Quality Engineer
12 3 (3.80%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (54.43%) RESTful
2 39 (49.37%) React
3 36 (45.57%) React Native
4 34 (43.04%) Node.js
5 19 (24.05%) REST
6 14 (17.72%) Next.js
7 13 (16.46%) Vue
8 10 (12.66%) Kafka
8 10 (12.66%) Redux
9 9 (11.39%) Jest
10 8 (10.13%) .NET
11 5 (6.33%) Flutter
12 4 (5.06%) CSS
12 4 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
13 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET
13 3 (3.80%) HTML
13 3 (3.80%) SOAP
13 3 (3.80%) Symfony
14 2 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.13%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.33%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Blog
5 3 (3.80%) Clustering
6 2 (2.53%) PMI
6 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Robotics
7 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (43.04%) Android
1 34 (43.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) CI/CD
1 32 (40.51%) Software Engineering
2 30 (37.97%) Technical Leadership
3 28 (35.44%) Mobile Development
4 26 (32.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (31.65%) Agile
6 21 (26.58%) AI
7 15 (18.99%) Test Automation
8 14 (17.72%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (13.92%) Code Quality
10 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
10 11 (13.92%) Observability
11 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
11 9 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (11.39%) Decision-Making
11 9 (11.39%) User Experience
12 8 (10.13%) Investment Management
12 8 (10.13%) Order Management
12 8 (10.13%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) TypeScript
2 23 (29.11%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.72%) Python
4 13 (16.46%) SQL
5 12 (15.19%) Java
6 8 (10.13%) Go
7 5 (6.33%) C#
8 3 (3.80%) Bash
8 3 (3.80%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.80%) PHP
8 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.80%) Swift
9 1 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.06%) QA
2 4 (5.06%) WCAG
3 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.80%) NCSC
3 3 (3.80%) NIST
4 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.80%) Grafana
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.80%) CyberArk
2 2 (2.53%) Databricks
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.27%) Adobe
3 1 (1.27%) Google
3 1 (1.27%) OpenAI