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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 269 349
Rank change year-on-year +37 +80 -112
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 166 143 205
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 1.03% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 3.14% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 84 121 175
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -10.34% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £89,375
90th Percentile - £90,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £67,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +41.26% -3.93% -6.67%

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 2,976 4,558 8,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.75% 32.82% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,170 3,310 7,396
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,228 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +10.38% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,275 £110,000 £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 12 March 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 11 (6.63%) JBoss
1 11 (6.63%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.81%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Shopify
2 2 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (45.78%) Azure
2 60 (36.14%) Entra ID
3 57 (34.34%) Google Workspace
4 43 (25.90%) AWS
5 18 (10.84%) SaaS
6 14 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (6.63%) dbt
7 11 (6.63%) GCP
7 11 (6.63%) Snowflake
8 7 (4.22%) GitHub
8 7 (4.22%) Serverless
9 4 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.20%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.20%) Figma
12 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.60%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.60%) MySQL
4 1 (0.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.64%) Git
2 5 (3.01%) JIRA
3 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.20%) git-flow
4 2 (1.20%) Maven
4 2 (1.20%) Xcode
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) Gradle
5 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.60%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 75 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 60 (36.14%) Finance
3 59 (35.54%) Organisational Skills
4 35 (21.08%) Games
5 32 (19.28%) Front Office
6 2 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (51.81%) Developer
2 69 (41.57%) Senior
3 44 (26.51%) Software Engineer
4 32 (19.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 32 (19.28%) Lead
5 29 (17.47%) Lead Developer
6 22 (13.25%) IAM Developer
7 21 (12.65%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (12.05%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (11.45%) Architect
9 19 (11.45%) Senior Architect
10 18 (10.84%) Senior Developer
11 17 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (10.24%) React Developer
12 16 (9.64%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
15 9 (5.42%) Java Engineer
16 8 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (52.41%) REST
2 70 (42.17%) SOAP
3 69 (41.57%) OAuth
4 61 (36.75%) React
5 57 (34.34%) LDAP
5 57 (34.34%) OpenID
5 57 (34.34%) SAML
6 47 (28.31%) Node.js
7 36 (21.69%) Kafka
7 36 (21.69%) Redux
8 20 (12.05%) React Native
9 15 (9.04%) .NET
9 15 (9.04%) Spring
9 15 (9.04%) Vue
10 14 (8.43%) RESTful
11 12 (7.23%) Hibernate
12 11 (6.63%) Middleware
12 11 (6.63%) OpenAPI
12 11 (6.63%) Swagger
13 10 (6.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (35.54%) Cyber Threat
1 59 (35.54%) Cyberattack
2 32 (19.28%) Fixed Income
3 15 (9.04%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.63%) DataPower
5 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.60%) IoT
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Android
2 9 (5.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (54.82%) Mentoring
2 71 (42.77%) Roadmaps
3 64 (38.55%) Software Engineering
4 63 (37.95%) Agile
5 59 (35.54%) Cybersecurity
5 59 (35.54%) Programme Delivery
6 57 (34.34%) Identity Access Management
6 57 (34.34%) Regulatory Compliance
7 46 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (22.29%) CI/CD
9 36 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (19.28%) Investment Management
10 32 (19.28%) Order Management
10 32 (19.28%) Portfolio Management
11 25 (15.06%) Change Control
12 24 (14.46%) AI
13 21 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.05%) DevOps
14 20 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.77%) PowerShell
2 60 (36.14%) SQL
3 59 (35.54%) Bash
4 57 (34.34%) T-SQL
5 56 (33.73%) TypeScript
6 47 (28.31%) Java
7 45 (27.11%) JavaScript
8 32 (19.28%) Go
9 29 (17.47%) Python
10 14 (8.43%) C#
11 9 (5.42%) Ruby
12 3 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.20%) Swift
14 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (3.01%) Degree
2 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (35.54%) NCSC
1 59 (35.54%) NIST
2 25 (15.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.81%) QA
4 3 (1.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (34.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.24%) Terraform
2 5 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.60%) Kibana
3 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.41%) Databricks
3 2 (1.20%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Apple
4 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic