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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 322 270
Rank change year-on-year -84 -52 +41
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 64 102 243
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.62% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 2.66% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 48 75 116
10th Percentile £53,375 £51,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +47.83% -28.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £142,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £97,500 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,250 £92,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.05% +54.17% -25.00%

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 4,528 3,840 6,801
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.27% 23.25% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,335 2,521 4,689
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 26 September 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 (9.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) AWS
2 17 (26.56%) GitHub
3 9 (14.06%) Azure
4 8 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.38%) Serverless
6 5 (7.81%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (7.81%) Datadog
6 5 (7.81%) SaaS
7 4 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.69%) Sentry
9 2 (3.13%) GCP
9 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Broadband
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.56%) MQTT
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.69%) Spatial Data
6 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.13%) Power BI
7 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.56%) MySQL
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Git
2 7 (10.94%) JIRA
3 4 (6.25%) Claude Code
4 3 (4.69%) Appium
4 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.69%) GitLab
5 2 (3.13%) Storybook
6 1 (1.56%) CMake
6 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) Mocha
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Developer
2 28 (43.75%) Lead
3 22 (34.38%) Lead Developer
4 20 (31.25%) React Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Senior
6 9 (14.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) CyberArk Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (3.13%) Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (53.13%) RESTful
2 31 (48.44%) React Native
3 26 (40.63%) React
4 21 (32.81%) Node.js
4 21 (32.81%) REST
5 9 (14.06%) .NET
5 9 (14.06%) Jest
5 9 (14.06%) Next.js
6 6 (9.38%) Vue
7 5 (7.81%) Flutter
8 4 (6.25%) CSS
8 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.69%) HTML
9 3 (4.69%) SOAP
9 3 (4.69%) Symfony
10 2 (3.13%) CSS3
10 2 (3.13%) HTML5
10 2 (3.13%) JSON
10 2 (3.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.38%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Blog
4 3 (4.69%) Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) PMI
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Robotics
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.88%) Android
1 30 (46.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) CI/CD
2 28 (43.75%) Technical Leadership
3 24 (37.50%) Mobile Development
4 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
5 19 (29.69%) AI
6 16 (25.00%) Agile
6 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 15 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.19%) User Experience
10 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
11 8 (12.50%) DevOps
11 8 (12.50%) Observability
11 8 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (10.94%) LLM
12 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (9.38%) Containerisation
13 6 (9.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) TypeScript
2 15 (23.44%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 10 (15.63%) Python
5 6 (9.38%) C#
6 4 (6.25%) Java
7 3 (4.69%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.69%) PHP
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) Swift
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.25%) QA
1 4 (6.25%) WCAG
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) NCSC
2 3 (4.69%) NIST
3 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.81%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) CyberArk
2 2 (3.13%) Databricks
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe
3 1 (1.56%) Google
3 1 (1.56%) OpenAI