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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 333 296
Rank change year-on-year -32 -37 -8
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 101 103 219
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.62% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 2.55% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 81 82 146
10th Percentile £56,250 £51,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £78,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +31.25% -25.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +46.15% -18.75%

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 4,163 4,041 6,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.36% 24.43% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,710 5,231
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 9 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 7 (6.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.59%) AWS
2 14 (13.86%) GitHub
3 9 (8.91%) Azure
3 9 (8.91%) SaaS
4 7 (6.93%) GCP
4 7 (6.93%) Serverless
5 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.96%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.97%) Datadog
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.97%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.97%) Sentry
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Broadband
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
2 1 (0.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) MQTT
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.91%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.97%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.98%) Power BI
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Git
2 9 (8.91%) JIRA
3 3 (2.97%) Appium
3 3 (2.97%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.99%) CMake
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.99%) Maven
5 1 (0.99%) Mocha
5 1 (0.99%) Storybook
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 35 (34.65%) Finance
3 24 (23.76%) Front Office
4 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Games
6 2 (1.98%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (73.27%) Developer
2 49 (48.51%) Lead
3 44 (43.56%) Lead Developer
4 30 (29.70%) React Developer
4 30 (29.70%) Software Engineer
5 24 (23.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 20 (19.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (15.84%) Senior
8 15 (14.85%) Lead Software Developer
8 15 (14.85%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (7.92%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (6.93%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.94%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.94%) Java Engineer
12 6 (5.94%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (5.94%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.96%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (53.47%) React
2 48 (47.52%) Node.js
3 43 (42.57%) RESTful
4 36 (35.64%) React Native
5 26 (25.74%) Kafka
5 26 (25.74%) Redux
6 21 (20.79%) REST
7 17 (16.83%) Vue
8 13 (12.87%) Next.js
9 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.92%) Jest
10 7 (6.93%) .NET
11 6 (5.94%) JSON
11 6 (5.94%) XML
12 5 (4.95%) Flutter
12 5 (4.95%) OAuth
12 5 (4.95%) SOAP
13 4 (3.96%) CSS
13 4 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (2.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Fixed Income
2 11 (10.89%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.96%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.97%) Blog
4 3 (2.97%) Clustering
4 3 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.97%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) PMI
6 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Robotics
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (33.66%) Android
1 34 (33.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.53%) Software Engineering
2 41 (40.59%) Agile
2 41 (40.59%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (30.69%) CI/CD
3 31 (30.69%) Technical Leadership
4 29 (28.71%) Mobile Development
5 24 (23.76%) Investment Management
5 24 (23.76%) Order Management
5 24 (23.76%) Portfolio Management
6 19 (18.81%) AI
7 15 (14.85%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.86%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.88%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.88%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.89%) Observability
12 10 (9.90%) User Experience
13 9 (8.91%) Computer Science
13 9 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (8.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.50%) TypeScript
2 39 (38.61%) JavaScript
3 29 (28.71%) Java
4 26 (25.74%) Python
5 24 (23.76%) Go
6 18 (17.82%) SQL
7 5 (4.95%) Bash
7 5 (4.95%) C#
7 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.97%) PHP
8 3 (2.97%) Swift
8 3 (2.97%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (8.91%) Degree
2 2 (1.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.95%) NCSC
1 5 (4.95%) NIST
2 4 (3.96%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (11.88%) Docker
2 5 (4.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.96%) Grafana
3 2 (1.98%) Terraform
4 1 (0.99%) Kibana
4 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) Databricks
2 2 (1.98%) CyberArk
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe
3 1 (0.99%) Google
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.99%) OpenAI