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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 252 331
Rank change year-on-year 0 +79 -102
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 116 206 137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.21% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.27% 3.96% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59 116 114
10th Percentile £55,555 £49,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +42.31% -13.33% +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 2,717 5,199 6,224
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.97% 30.52% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,115 3,351 5,291
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,250 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 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 8 (6.90%) JBoss
1 8 (6.90%) WebSphere
2 7 (6.03%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Shopify
2 3 (2.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.97%) Azure
2 35 (30.17%) AWS
3 25 (21.55%) Entra ID
4 22 (18.97%) Google Workspace
5 20 (17.24%) Serverless
6 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
8 11 (9.48%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (9.48%) dbt
8 11 (9.48%) GCP
8 11 (9.48%) GitHub
8 11 (9.48%) Snowflake
9 10 (8.62%) SaaS
10 9 (7.76%) Figma
11 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.17%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.86%) Broadband
2 1 (0.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.66%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.72%) MySQL
7 2 (1.72%) Redis
7 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.79%) Git
2 10 (8.62%) Cypress.io
3 8 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.90%) JIRA
4 3 (2.59%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.59%) JMeter
4 3 (2.59%) Postman
4 3 (2.59%) Selenium
4 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.72%) git-flow
6 1 (0.86%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.86%) Gradle
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.86%) Vite
6 1 (0.86%) webpack
6 1 (0.86%) Xcode
General
1 54 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.17%) Finance
3 24 (20.69%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (15.52%) Games
5 8 (6.90%) Front Office
6 4 (3.45%) Retail
7 3 (2.59%) Legal
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Local Government
9 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (56.03%) Senior
2 49 (42.24%) Developer
3 25 (21.55%) Senior Developer
4 22 (18.97%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.07%) Architect
5 14 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) IAM Developer
7 10 (8.62%) Lead
7 10 (8.62%) Senior Architect
7 10 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 8 (6.90%) React Developer
8 8 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.31%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (45.69%) React
2 52 (44.83%) REST
3 34 (29.31%) OAuth
4 33 (28.45%) SOAP
5 30 (25.86%) Node.js
6 22 (18.97%) LDAP
6 22 (18.97%) OpenID
6 22 (18.97%) SAML
7 20 (17.24%) CSS
8 18 (15.52%) Kafka
9 17 (14.66%) HTML
9 17 (14.66%) Next.js
9 17 (14.66%) RESTful
10 15 (12.93%) .NET
11 14 (12.07%) OpenAPI
11 14 (12.07%) Swagger
12 13 (11.21%) Redux
13 12 (10.34%) gRPC
13 12 (10.34%) Jest
13 12 (10.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.69%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (20.69%) Cyberattack
2 19 (16.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.90%) DataPower
3 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Mentoring
2 63 (54.31%) Agile
3 47 (40.52%) CI/CD
4 39 (33.62%) Software Engineering
5 34 (29.31%) Roadmaps
6 33 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (24.14%) Microservices
9 25 (21.55%) AI
10 24 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (20.69%) Programme Delivery
11 23 (19.83%) DevOps
11 23 (19.83%) User Experience
12 22 (18.97%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (18.97%) Regulatory Compliance
13 19 (16.38%) Event-Driven
14 17 (14.66%) Front End Development
15 16 (13.79%) Clean Code
15 16 (13.79%) Test Automation
16 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) TypeScript
2 43 (37.07%) SQL
3 37 (31.90%) PowerShell
4 34 (29.31%) JavaScript
5 25 (21.55%) Bash
6 22 (18.97%) T-SQL
7 20 (17.24%) Java
8 17 (14.66%) C#
9 16 (13.79%) Python
10 9 (7.76%) Go
10 9 (7.76%) Ruby
11 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.72%) PHP
12 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.69%) NCSC
1 24 (20.69%) NIST
2 22 (18.97%) Accessibility
3 12 (10.34%) QA
4 9 (7.76%) WCAG
5 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (18.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (12.93%) Terraform
2 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) Apple
3 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.59%) Google
4 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.86%) SnapLogic