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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 320 310
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 87 103 217
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.62% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 2.49% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 72 79 138
10th Percentile £55,440 £52,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +39.13% -28.13%
75th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £142,500 - £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £92,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.51% +48.00% -21.88%

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 4,501 4,134 6,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.60% 24.95% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,356 2,799 5,468
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.10% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 6 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) AWS
2 15 (17.24%) GitHub
3 10 (11.49%) SaaS
4 8 (9.20%) Azure
5 7 (8.05%) Serverless
6 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.75%) GCP
8 4 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.45%) Datadog
9 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.45%) Sentry
10 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.15%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) DNS
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
2 1 (1.15%) MQTT
2 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.45%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.30%) Power BI
7 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.15%) MySQL
7 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Git
2 8 (9.20%) JIRA
3 3 (3.45%) Appium
3 3 (3.45%) Claude Code
3 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.30%) Storybook
5 1 (1.15%) CMake
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) Mocha
5 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (32.18%) Finance
3 16 (18.39%) Front Office
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Legal
6 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 60 (68.97%) Developer
2 42 (48.28%) Lead
3 37 (42.53%) Lead Developer
4 27 (31.03%) React Developer
5 23 (26.44%) Software Engineer
6 18 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (18.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 13 (14.94%) Senior
9 10 (11.49%) Lead Software Developer
9 10 (11.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (9.20%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (54.02%) React
2 43 (49.43%) RESTful
3 42 (48.28%) Node.js
4 36 (41.38%) React Native
5 19 (21.84%) REST
6 18 (20.69%) Kafka
6 18 (20.69%) Redux
7 15 (17.24%) Vue
8 14 (16.09%) Next.js
9 9 (10.34%) Jest
10 8 (9.20%) .NET
11 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
11 5 (5.75%) Flutter
12 4 (4.60%) CSS
12 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET
13 3 (3.45%) HTML
13 3 (3.45%) SOAP
13 3 (3.45%) Symfony
14 2 (2.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Fixed Income
2 12 (13.79%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) Blog
5 3 (3.45%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) PMI
6 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Robotics
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (39.08%) Android
1 34 (39.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Software Engineering
2 33 (37.93%) Agile
3 32 (36.78%) CI/CD
3 32 (36.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (34.48%) Technical Leadership
5 28 (32.18%) Mobile Development
6 21 (24.14%) AI
7 16 (18.39%) Investment Management
7 16 (18.39%) Order Management
7 16 (18.39%) Portfolio Management
8 15 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 14 (16.09%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.64%) Code Quality
11 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.64%) Observability
12 9 (10.34%) Computer Science
12 9 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (10.34%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) TypeScript
2 31 (35.63%) JavaScript
3 20 (22.99%) Java
3 20 (22.99%) Python
4 16 (18.39%) Go
5 13 (14.94%) SQL
6 5 (5.75%) C#
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 3 (3.45%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.45%) PHP
7 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.45%) Swift
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) WCAG
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) NCSC
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (12.64%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) CyberArk
2 2 (2.30%) Databricks
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) OpenAI