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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 287 329
Rank change year-on-year +47 +42 -112
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 163 118 262
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.11% 2.92% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 85 109 202
10th Percentile £62,898 - £41,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -3.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% +7.69% -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 3,189 4,047 8,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.85% 30.28% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 3,238 7,475
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,800 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 22 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 9 (5.52%) JBoss
1 9 (5.52%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (44.79%) Azure
2 59 (36.20%) Entra ID
3 56 (34.36%) Google Workspace
4 41 (25.15%) AWS
5 19 (11.66%) SaaS
6 12 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.75%) GCP
8 10 (6.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (6.13%) dbt
8 10 (6.13%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.07%) Serverless
10 4 (2.45%) GitHub
11 3 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.61%) Azure API Management
13 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (36.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.68%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.61%) Redis
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.82%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.23%) Maven
3 2 (1.23%) Xcode
4 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.61%) git-flow
4 1 (0.61%) Gradle
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.61%) Vite
4 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 77 (47.24%) Social Skills
2 58 (35.58%) Organisational Skills
3 55 (33.74%) Finance
4 34 (20.86%) Games
5 32 (19.63%) Front Office
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (54.60%) Developer
2 62 (38.04%) Senior
3 43 (26.38%) Software Engineer
4 38 (23.31%) Lead
5 34 (20.86%) Lead Developer
6 32 (19.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 21 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (12.88%) IAM Developer
7 21 (12.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 21 (12.88%) React Developer
8 20 (12.27%) Lead Software Developer
9 17 (10.43%) Architect
9 17 (10.43%) Senior Architect
10 16 (9.82%) Senior Developer
10 16 (9.82%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (5.52%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (4.91%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (4.91%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (49.08%) REST
2 68 (41.72%) OAuth
3 67 (41.10%) SOAP
4 58 (35.58%) React
5 56 (34.36%) LDAP
5 56 (34.36%) OpenID
5 56 (34.36%) SAML
6 46 (28.22%) Node.js
7 35 (21.47%) Redux
8 34 (20.86%) Kafka
9 27 (16.56%) React Native
10 23 (14.11%) RESTful
11 17 (10.43%) Vue
12 12 (7.36%) .NET
12 12 (7.36%) Spring
13 11 (6.75%) Next.js
14 10 (6.13%) AngularJS
14 10 (6.13%) Hibernate
14 10 (6.13%) OpenAPI
14 10 (6.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (35.58%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (35.58%) Cyberattack
2 32 (19.63%) Fixed Income
3 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.52%) DataPower
5 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
9 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.04%) Android
2 16 (9.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (50.92%) Mentoring
2 67 (41.10%) Roadmaps
3 65 (39.88%) Software Engineering
4 58 (35.58%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (35.58%) Programme Delivery
5 57 (34.97%) Agile
6 56 (34.36%) Identity Access Management
6 56 (34.36%) Regulatory Compliance
7 49 (30.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (22.70%) CI/CD
9 34 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (19.63%) Investment Management
10 32 (19.63%) Order Management
10 32 (19.63%) Portfolio Management
11 25 (15.34%) Change Control
11 25 (15.34%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (14.11%) AI
13 21 (12.88%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.33%) PowerShell
2 58 (35.58%) Bash
3 57 (34.97%) SQL
4 56 (34.36%) T-SQL
5 53 (32.52%) TypeScript
6 44 (26.99%) Java
7 42 (25.77%) JavaScript
8 32 (19.63%) Go
9 29 (17.79%) Python
10 13 (7.98%) C#
11 7 (4.29%) Ruby
12 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.23%) Swift
14 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.91%) Degree
2 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (35.58%) NCSC
1 58 (35.58%) NIST
2 25 (15.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (34.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.82%) Terraform
2 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Kibana
3 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.45%) Databricks
3 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (0.61%) Apple