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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 289 333
Rank change year-on-year -15 +44 -126
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 103 191 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 3.21% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74 90 161
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 £113,750
UK median annual salary £93,750 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +44.23% -18.75% +14.29%

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 3,398 5,954 7,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.08% 29.68% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,197 3,933 6,173
10th Percentile £38,650 £40,000 £41,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,348 £84,056
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 26 October 2025.

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 10 (9.71%) Headless CMS
2 8 (7.77%) Confluence
3 6 (5.83%) CMS
4 2 (1.94%) JBoss
4 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.97%) Strapi
5 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Shopify
2 3 (2.91%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.31%) AWS
2 29 (28.16%) Serverless
3 28 (27.18%) Azure
4 18 (17.48%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (12.62%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.62%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (12.62%) GCP
6 12 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (11.65%) Figma
7 10 (9.71%) GitHub
8 8 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (7.77%) Google Analytics
8 8 (7.77%) Vercel
9 6 (5.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.88%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.42%) NoSQL
2 16 (15.53%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.74%) DynamoDB
4 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.83%) Redis
5 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Git
2 13 (12.62%) Cypress.io
3 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.77%) JIRA
4 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.91%) JMeter
5 3 (2.91%) Postman
5 3 (2.91%) Selenium
5 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.97%) ESLint
6 1 (0.97%) git-flow
6 1 (0.97%) Vite
6 1 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 37 (35.92%) Finance
2 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 24 (23.30%) Front Office
4 5 (4.85%) Games
5 4 (3.88%) Retail
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Advertising
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 66 (64.08%) Developer
2 40 (38.83%) Senior
3 30 (29.13%) Software Engineer
4 25 (24.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (23.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 24 (23.30%) Senior Developer
6 20 (19.42%) Lead
7 17 (16.50%) React Developer
8 15 (14.56%) Lead Developer
8 15 (14.56%) Lead Software Developer
8 15 (14.56%) Lead Software Engineer
9 13 (12.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (9.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (7.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (7.77%) Senior React Developer
12 7 (6.80%) .NET Developer
12 7 (6.80%) Architect
12 7 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (6.80%) Java Engineer
13 6 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (70.87%) React
2 54 (52.43%) Node.js
3 36 (34.95%) Kafka
4 30 (29.13%) CSS
5 29 (28.16%) Redux
6 26 (25.24%) HTML
6 26 (25.24%) REST
7 24 (23.30%) RESTful
8 23 (22.33%) Next.js
9 15 (14.56%) AngularJS
10 14 (13.59%) Jest
11 13 (12.62%) Tailwind CSS
12 12 (11.65%) gRPC
12 12 (11.65%) Vue
13 11 (10.68%) .NET
14 8 (7.77%) .NET Core
14 8 (7.77%) Express.js
14 8 (7.77%) Playwright
14 8 (7.77%) Vitest
15 7 (6.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.30%) Fixed Income
2 13 (12.62%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.91%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.94%) Animation
8 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.94%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.94%) DataPower
9 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.97%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.97%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Linux
1 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (76.70%) Agile
2 46 (44.66%) Full-Stack Development
3 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
3 39 (37.86%) Mentoring
4 35 (33.98%) Software Engineering
5 27 (26.21%) Microservices
6 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.24%) User Experience
7 24 (23.30%) Investment Management
7 24 (23.30%) Order Management
7 24 (23.30%) Portfolio Management
8 23 (22.33%) Clean Code
9 22 (21.36%) AI
10 19 (18.45%) Front End Development
11 17 (16.50%) DevOps
12 15 (14.56%) Event-Driven
12 15 (14.56%) Unit Testing
13 14 (13.59%) E-Commerce
13 14 (13.59%) Test Automation
13 14 (13.59%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 73 (70.87%) TypeScript
2 58 (56.31%) JavaScript
3 29 (28.16%) Java
3 29 (28.16%) Python
4 25 (24.27%) Go
5 24 (23.30%) SQL
6 11 (10.68%) C#
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.91%) Bash
8 3 (2.91%) Ruby
9 2 (1.94%) HLSL
9 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.97%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.33%) Accessibility
2 20 (19.42%) QA
3 9 (8.74%) WCAG
4 2 (1.94%) NCSC
4 2 (1.94%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Argo
3 1 (0.97%) Kibana
3 1 (0.97%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.77%) Apple
3 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.97%) Databricks
4 1 (0.97%) Google
4 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.97%) Netlify
4 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.97%) SnapLogic