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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 250 347
Rank change year-on-year -11 +97 -117
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 110 205 147
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 1.25% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.04% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 51 115 124
10th Percentile £56,631 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,248 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -10.34% +3.57%

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 2,739 5,074 6,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.91% 30.92% 30.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,104 3,232 5,744
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 16 January 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 9 (8.18%) JBoss
1 9 (8.18%) WebSphere
2 7 (6.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.91%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Shopify
2 3 (2.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.73%) Azure
2 35 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 32 (29.09%) Google Workspace
4 19 (17.27%) AWS
5 17 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.73%) Serverless
7 11 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (10.00%) dbt
7 11 (10.00%) GitHub
7 11 (10.00%) SaaS
7 11 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.36%) GCP
9 6 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (36.36%) Broadband
2 1 (0.91%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.45%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.82%) MySQL
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 6 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.73%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.73%) JMeter
5 3 (2.73%) Postman
5 3 (2.73%) Selenium
5 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.82%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.82%) git-flow
6 2 (1.82%) Xcode
7 1 (0.91%) Gradle
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.91%) Vite
7 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 55 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.91%) Organisational Skills
3 28 (25.45%) Finance
4 23 (20.91%) Games
5 4 (3.64%) Retail
6 3 (2.73%) Legal
7 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Local Government
8 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (59.09%) Senior
2 38 (34.55%) Developer
3 21 (19.09%) Senior Developer
4 16 (14.55%) Software Engineer
5 15 (13.64%) IAM Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Architect
7 12 (10.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (10.00%) Senior Architect
9 8 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (6.36%) React Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 5 (4.55%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (4.55%) Lead
13 4 (3.64%) .NET Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Senior React Developer
13 4 (3.64%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (58.18%) REST
2 44 (40.00%) OAuth
2 44 (40.00%) SOAP
3 37 (33.64%) React
4 32 (29.09%) LDAP
4 32 (29.09%) OpenID
4 32 (29.09%) SAML
5 16 (14.55%) Node.js
6 15 (13.64%) .NET
7 14 (12.73%) OpenAPI
7 14 (12.73%) Swagger
8 13 (11.82%) Spring
9 12 (10.91%) CSS
9 12 (10.91%) Middleware
9 12 (10.91%) React Native
10 10 (9.09%) Hibernate
10 10 (9.09%) HTML
11 9 (8.18%) Next.js
12 8 (7.27%) gRPC
12 8 (7.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.91%) Cyber Threat
1 34 (30.91%) Cyberattack
2 20 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.18%) DataPower
3 9 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.45%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.91%) IoT
8 1 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Android
2 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.00%) Mentoring
2 44 (40.00%) Agile
2 44 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 44 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 34 (30.91%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (30.91%) Programme Delivery
4 32 (29.09%) Identity Access Management
4 32 (29.09%) Regulatory Compliance
4 32 (29.09%) Software Engineering
5 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (21.82%) Microservices
7 23 (20.91%) AI
8 22 (20.00%) DevOps
9 21 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (18.18%) Event-Driven
11 17 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (14.55%) Front End Development
13 15 (13.64%) User Experience
14 14 (12.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 47 (42.73%) PowerShell
2 43 (39.09%) SQL
3 35 (31.82%) Bash
4 34 (30.91%) TypeScript
5 32 (29.09%) T-SQL
6 18 (16.36%) JavaScript
7 16 (14.55%) C#
8 13 (11.82%) Java
9 10 (9.09%) Ruby
10 8 (7.27%) Python
11 3 (2.73%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.82%) PHP
12 2 (1.82%) Swift
13 1 (0.91%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.91%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.91%) NCSC
1 34 (30.91%) NIST
2 14 (12.73%) Accessibility
3 12 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (9.09%) QA
5 8 (7.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.64%) Terraform
2 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.73%) Google
3 2 (1.82%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.91%) Apple
4 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.91%) SnapLogic