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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 326 311
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 -22
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 115 108 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.65% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 2.61% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 87 87 148
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £75,000 £59,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +29.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +42.31% -18.75%

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 4,139 4,136 6,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.56% 24.91% 25.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,119 2,793 5,290
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 3 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 (5.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.48%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 13 (11.30%) Entra ID
3 13 (11.30%) GitHub
4 11 (9.57%) Google Workspace
5 9 (7.83%) GCP
5 9 (7.83%) SaaS
6 7 (6.09%) Serverless
7 5 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.74%) Datadog
9 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.74%) Sentry
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) HTTP
2 1 (0.87%) MQTT
2 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.83%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.61%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.74%) Appium
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.87%) CMake
5 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) Mocha
5 1 (0.87%) Storybook
5 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 42 (36.52%) Finance
3 32 (27.83%) Front Office
4 11 (9.57%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Games
6 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 82 (71.30%) Developer
2 52 (45.22%) Lead
3 47 (40.87%) Lead Developer
4 38 (33.04%) Software Engineer
5 32 (27.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 30 (26.09%) React Developer
7 23 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (17.39%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (14.78%) Senior
10 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Software Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Node.js Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (53.91%) React
2 57 (49.57%) Node.js
3 41 (35.65%) RESTful
4 34 (29.57%) Kafka
4 34 (29.57%) Redux
5 33 (28.70%) React Native
6 30 (26.09%) REST
7 18 (15.65%) Vue
8 14 (12.17%) Next.js
9 13 (11.30%) OAuth
9 13 (11.30%) SOAP
10 11 (9.57%) LDAP
10 11 (9.57%) OpenID
10 11 (9.57%) SAML
11 10 (8.70%) AngularJS
12 7 (6.09%) .NET
12 7 (6.09%) Jest
13 6 (5.22%) JSON
13 6 (5.22%) XML
14 5 (4.35%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Fixed Income
2 11 (9.57%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (9.57%) Cyberattack
3 10 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.48%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) Blog
5 2 (1.74%) Clustering
5 2 (1.74%) PMI
5 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Robotics
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.96%) Android
1 31 (26.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.96%) Software Engineering
2 50 (43.48%) Agile
3 48 (41.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (27.83%) Investment Management
4 32 (27.83%) Order Management
4 32 (27.83%) Portfolio Management
5 29 (25.22%) CI/CD
5 29 (25.22%) Technical Leadership
6 27 (23.48%) Mobile Development
7 21 (18.26%) Mentoring
8 19 (16.52%) AI
9 14 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.43%) Code Quality
11 12 (10.43%) Roadmaps
12 11 (9.57%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (9.57%) Programme Delivery
12 11 (9.57%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 59 (51.30%) TypeScript
2 47 (40.87%) JavaScript
3 37 (32.17%) Java
4 33 (28.70%) Python
5 32 (27.83%) Go
6 22 (19.13%) SQL
7 13 (11.30%) Bash
7 13 (11.30%) PowerShell
8 11 (9.57%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.35%) C#
10 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.74%) PHP
10 2 (1.74%) Swift
11 1 (0.87%) C++
11 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (7.83%) Degree
2 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) NCSC
1 13 (11.30%) NIST
2 7 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) QA
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Kibana
4 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (5.22%) Databricks
2 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
3 1 (0.87%) Google
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.87%) OpenAI