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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 250 345
Rank change year-on-year -5 +95 -112
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 116 206 175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 1.26% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.19% 4.06% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 49 116 149
10th Percentile £54,250 £50,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £88,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -

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 2,766 5,078 7,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.73% 31.12% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,102 3,230 6,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,425 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,406 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 January 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 (9.48%) JBoss
1 11 (9.48%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Shopify
2 3 (2.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (56.03%) Azure
2 46 (39.66%) Entra ID
3 43 (37.07%) Google Workspace
4 16 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.21%) AWS
5 13 (11.21%) SaaS
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (9.48%) dbt
6 11 (9.48%) Snowflake
7 10 (8.62%) GitHub
7 10 (8.62%) Serverless
8 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (4.31%) GCP
8 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.59%) Figma
10 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (42.24%) Broadband
2 1 (0.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.72%) MySQL
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.86%) Redis
6 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 5 (4.31%) JIRA
3 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.59%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.72%) Android Studio
5 2 (1.72%) git-flow
5 2 (1.72%) JMeter
5 2 (1.72%) Postman
5 2 (1.72%) Selenium
5 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.72%) Xcode
6 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.86%) Gradle
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.86%) Vite
6 1 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 63 (54.31%) Social Skills
2 45 (38.79%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (25.00%) Finance
4 28 (24.14%) Games
5 3 (2.59%) Legal
5 3 (2.59%) Retail
6 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Local Government
7 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (57.76%) Senior
2 39 (33.62%) Developer
3 19 (16.38%) Senior Developer
4 18 (15.52%) IAM Developer
5 16 (13.79%) Architect
6 15 (12.93%) Senior Architect
7 13 (11.21%) Software Engineer
8 12 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (5.17%) Lead
10 6 (5.17%) React Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Systems Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 4 (3.45%) AWS Developer
13 3 (2.59%) .NET Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 2 (1.72%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (65.52%) REST
2 57 (49.14%) SOAP
3 55 (47.41%) OAuth
4 43 (37.07%) LDAP
4 43 (37.07%) OpenID
4 43 (37.07%) SAML
5 31 (26.72%) React
6 17 (14.66%) .NET
7 15 (12.93%) Spring
8 14 (12.07%) React Native
9 13 (11.21%) Middleware
9 13 (11.21%) OpenAPI
9 13 (11.21%) Swagger
10 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
10 12 (10.34%) Node.js
11 10 (8.62%) CSS
12 8 (6.90%) HTML
13 7 (6.03%) gRPC
13 7 (6.03%) Next.js
13 7 (6.03%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 45 (38.79%) Cyber Threat
1 45 (38.79%) Cyberattack
2 18 (15.52%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.48%) DataPower
4 6 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.31%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Android
2 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (70.69%) Mentoring
2 58 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 45 (38.79%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (38.79%) Programme Delivery
4 43 (37.07%) Identity Access Management
4 43 (37.07%) Regulatory Compliance
5 40 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 39 (33.62%) Agile
7 29 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 29 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (18.97%) DevOps
9 22 (18.97%) Microservices
10 21 (18.10%) AI
11 20 (17.24%) Event-Driven
12 18 (15.52%) Change Control
13 16 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (12.93%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (12.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 50 (43.10%) SQL
3 46 (39.66%) Bash
4 43 (37.07%) T-SQL
5 27 (23.28%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.93%) C#
6 15 (12.93%) Java
6 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.62%) Ruby
8 7 (6.03%) Python
9 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.72%) Swift
11 1 (0.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (38.79%) NCSC
1 45 (38.79%) NIST
2 18 (15.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (11.21%) Accessibility
4 8 (6.90%) QA
5 7 (6.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (37.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.79%) Terraform
2 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.59%) Google
3 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.86%) Apple
4 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.86%) SnapLogic