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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 266 327
Rank change year-on-year +8 +61 -116
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 119 209 153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.11% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.32% 3.65% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 77 117 135
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £107,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +42.31% -16.13% +10.71%

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 2,754 5,725 6,370
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.01% 30.44% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 3,767 5,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 9 December 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 9 (7.56%) Headless CMS
2 7 (5.88%) Confluence
2 7 (5.88%) JBoss
2 7 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Shopify
2 3 (2.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (45.38%) AWS
2 37 (31.09%) Azure
3 23 (19.33%) Serverless
4 18 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.45%) GCP
6 15 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.92%) Amazon S3
8 11 (9.24%) Figma
8 11 (9.24%) GitHub
9 10 (8.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (7.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (7.56%) dbt
10 9 (7.56%) Entra ID
10 9 (7.56%) SaaS
10 9 (7.56%) Snowflake
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.72%) Google Analytics
11 8 (6.72%) Vercel
12 6 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.76%) Broadband
2 1 (0.84%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.24%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.52%) Redis
8 2 (1.68%) MySQL
9 1 (0.84%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (16.81%) Git
2 12 (10.08%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.72%) JIRA
5 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.52%) JMeter
6 3 (2.52%) Postman
6 3 (2.52%) Selenium
6 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.84%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.84%) ESLint
8 1 (0.84%) Gradle
8 1 (0.84%) Maven
8 1 (0.84%) Vite
8 1 (0.84%) webpack
8 1 (0.84%) Xcode
General
1 52 (43.70%) Finance
2 42 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.17%) Front Office
4 8 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.88%) Games
6 4 (3.36%) Retail
7 3 (2.52%) Legal
8 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Advertising
9 1 (0.84%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (54.62%) Developer
2 56 (47.06%) Senior
3 37 (31.09%) Software Engineer
4 24 (20.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 24 (20.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (20.17%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.97%) Lead
6 15 (12.61%) Lead Developer
6 15 (12.61%) Lead Software Developer
6 15 (12.61%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (10.92%) React Developer
8 12 (10.08%) Architect
9 11 (9.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (6.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 7 (5.88%) .NET Developer
12 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
12 7 (5.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (61.34%) React
2 50 (42.02%) Node.js
3 36 (30.25%) Kafka
4 34 (28.57%) REST
5 29 (24.37%) Redux
6 27 (22.69%) CSS
7 24 (20.17%) RESTful
8 23 (19.33%) HTML
9 20 (16.81%) Next.js
10 16 (13.45%) .NET
10 16 (13.45%) OAuth
10 16 (13.45%) SOAP
11 14 (11.76%) Jest
12 13 (10.92%) gRPC
12 13 (10.92%) Tailwind CSS
13 12 (10.08%) AngularJS
13 12 (10.08%) OpenAPI
13 12 (10.08%) Swagger
13 12 (10.08%) Vue
14 11 (9.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.17%) Fixed Income
2 19 (15.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.72%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (6.72%) Cyberattack
4 7 (5.88%) DataPower
4 7 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.84%) IoT
9 1 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.75%) Agile
2 53 (44.54%) Mentoring
3 52 (43.70%) Software Engineering
4 47 (39.50%) CI/CD
4 47 (39.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (26.89%) Microservices
5 32 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (21.85%) AI
7 25 (21.01%) User Experience
8 24 (20.17%) Investment Management
8 24 (20.17%) Order Management
8 24 (20.17%) Portfolio Management
9 22 (18.49%) DevOps
10 19 (15.97%) Clean Code
11 18 (15.13%) Event-Driven
12 17 (14.29%) Front End Development
12 17 (14.29%) Roadmaps
12 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.61%) Unit Testing
14 14 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 70 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 56 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 36 (30.25%) SQL
4 35 (29.41%) Java
5 29 (24.37%) Python
6 25 (21.01%) Go
7 19 (15.97%) PowerShell
8 17 (14.29%) C#
9 9 (7.56%) Bash
10 7 (5.88%) Ruby
11 6 (5.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.01%) Accessibility
2 17 (14.29%) QA
3 9 (7.56%) WCAG
4 8 (6.72%) NCSC
4 8 (6.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (10.08%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) Terraform
2 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) Apple
3 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.52%) Google
4 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.84%) Netlify
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) SnapLogic