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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 248 346
Rank change year-on-year -16 +98 -116
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 109 202 145
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 1.23% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 3.99% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 50 112 122
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,374 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £104,875
UK median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +34.62% -10.34% +3.57%

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 2,667 5,068 6,704
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.84% 30.84% 30.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,055 3,235 5,751
10th Percentile £40,584 £41,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 12 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 9 (8.26%) JBoss
1 9 (8.26%) WebSphere
2 7 (6.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Shopify
2 3 (2.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (53.21%) Azure
2 34 (31.19%) Entra ID
3 31 (28.44%) Google Workspace
4 20 (18.35%) AWS
5 17 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.84%) Serverless
7 11 (10.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (10.09%) dbt
7 11 (10.09%) GitHub
7 11 (10.09%) SaaS
7 11 (10.09%) Snowflake
8 8 (7.34%) GCP
9 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (35.78%) Broadband
2 1 (0.92%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.50%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.83%) MySQL
7 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.92%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Git
2 8 (7.34%) JIRA
3 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.75%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.75%) JMeter
5 3 (2.75%) Postman
5 3 (2.75%) Selenium
5 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.83%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.83%) git-flow
6 2 (1.83%) Xcode
7 1 (0.92%) Gradle
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Vite
7 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 52 (47.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.28%) Organisational Skills
3 28 (25.69%) Finance
4 22 (20.18%) Games
5 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Legal
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Local Government
8 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (57.80%) Senior
2 37 (33.94%) Developer
3 20 (18.35%) Senior Developer
4 15 (13.76%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.84%) Architect
5 14 (12.84%) IAM Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Senior Architect
6 11 (10.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (5.50%) React Developer
9 5 (4.59%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.67%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Lead
10 4 (3.67%) Senior React Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (57.80%) REST
2 43 (39.45%) OAuth
2 43 (39.45%) SOAP
3 38 (34.86%) React
4 31 (28.44%) LDAP
4 31 (28.44%) OpenID
4 31 (28.44%) SAML
5 16 (14.68%) Node.js
6 15 (13.76%) .NET
7 14 (12.84%) OpenAPI
7 14 (12.84%) Swagger
8 13 (11.93%) CSS
8 13 (11.93%) Spring
9 12 (11.01%) Middleware
10 10 (9.17%) Hibernate
10 10 (9.17%) HTML
10 10 (9.17%) React Native
11 9 (8.26%) gRPC
11 9 (8.26%) Kafka
11 9 (8.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (30.28%) Cyber Threat
1 33 (30.28%) Cyberattack
2 20 (18.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.26%) DataPower
4 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.50%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.92%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.92%) IoT
9 1 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Android
2 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.64%) Mentoring
2 45 (41.28%) Agile
3 44 (40.37%) CI/CD
4 43 (39.45%) Roadmaps
5 33 (30.28%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (30.28%) Programme Delivery
6 32 (29.36%) Software Engineering
7 31 (28.44%) Identity Access Management
7 31 (28.44%) Regulatory Compliance
8 26 (23.85%) Microservices
8 26 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (22.02%) AI
10 22 (20.18%) DevOps
11 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (18.35%) Event-Driven
13 17 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (14.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 16 (14.68%) Front End Development
15 15 (13.76%) User Experience
16 14 (12.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.20%) PowerShell
2 43 (39.45%) SQL
3 35 (32.11%) TypeScript
4 34 (31.19%) Bash
5 31 (28.44%) T-SQL
6 19 (17.43%) JavaScript
7 16 (14.68%) C#
8 13 (11.93%) Java
9 9 (8.26%) Python
9 9 (8.26%) Ruby
10 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.83%) PHP
11 2 (1.83%) Swift
12 1 (0.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.28%) NCSC
1 33 (30.28%) NIST
2 14 (12.84%) Accessibility
3 12 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (9.17%) QA
5 8 (7.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (28.44%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.76%) Terraform
2 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.75%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.92%) Apple
4 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.92%) SnapLogic