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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 294 332
Rank change year-on-year +37 +38 -127
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 156 113 267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.81% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% 2.80% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 83 106 205
10th Percentile £62,197 - £41,250
25th Percentile £73,125 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £62,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% +0.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £74,688 £85,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% +7.69% -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 3,172 4,041 8,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.45% 29.06% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,273 3,165 7,481
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

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 4 May 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 (5.13%) JBoss
1 8 (5.13%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 67 (42.95%) Azure
2 55 (35.26%) Entra ID
3 53 (33.97%) Google Workspace
4 42 (26.92%) AWS
5 18 (11.54%) SaaS
6 11 (7.05%) GCP
7 10 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (5.13%) dbt
8 8 (5.13%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.21%) GitHub
10 3 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.92%) Serverless
11 2 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.64%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 54 (34.62%) Broadband
2 1 (0.64%) AMQP
2 1 (0.64%) DNS
2 1 (0.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.49%) NoSQL
1 7 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.28%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.64%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) Redis
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) Git
2 6 (3.85%) JIRA
3 2 (1.28%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.28%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.28%) Maven
3 2 (1.28%) Xcode
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.64%) git-flow
4 1 (0.64%) Gradle
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 74 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.62%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (33.33%) Finance
4 32 (20.51%) Front Office
5 30 (19.23%) Games
6 3 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 88 (56.41%) Developer
2 56 (35.90%) Senior
3 42 (26.92%) Software Engineer
4 41 (26.28%) Lead
5 37 (23.72%) Lead Developer
6 32 (20.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 23 (14.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (14.10%) React Developer
9 21 (13.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (12.82%) Lead Software Developer
11 19 (12.18%) IAM Developer
12 16 (10.26%) Architect
12 16 (10.26%) Senior Architect
12 16 (10.26%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (9.62%) Senior Developer
14 9 (5.77%) Java Developer
15 8 (5.13%) Java Engineer
15 8 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (5.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 8 (5.13%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (48.72%) REST
2 63 (40.38%) OAuth
3 62 (39.74%) SOAP
4 59 (37.82%) React
5 53 (33.97%) LDAP
5 53 (33.97%) OpenID
5 53 (33.97%) SAML
6 49 (31.41%) Node.js
7 35 (22.44%) Redux
8 34 (21.79%) Kafka
9 27 (17.31%) React Native
10 26 (16.67%) RESTful
11 17 (10.90%) Vue
12 13 (8.33%) .NET
12 13 (8.33%) Next.js
13 11 (7.05%) Spring
14 10 (6.41%) AngularJS
15 9 (5.77%) Hibernate
16 8 (5.13%) Middleware
16 8 (5.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.62%) Cyber Threat
1 54 (34.62%) Cyberattack
2 32 (20.51%) Fixed Income
3 11 (7.05%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.13%) DataPower
5 6 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.64%) IoT
9 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.82%) Android
2 18 (11.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (48.08%) Mentoring
2 63 (40.38%) Roadmaps
3 60 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 54 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
4 54 (34.62%) Programme Delivery
5 53 (33.97%) Agile
5 53 (33.97%) Identity Access Management
5 53 (33.97%) Regulatory Compliance
6 49 (31.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (21.15%) CI/CD
7 33 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (20.51%) Investment Management
8 32 (20.51%) Order Management
8 32 (20.51%) Portfolio Management
9 25 (16.03%) Change Control
9 25 (16.03%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (13.46%) AI
11 19 (12.18%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (11.54%) DevOps
12 18 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.38%) PowerShell
2 55 (35.26%) SQL
3 54 (34.62%) Bash
3 54 (34.62%) TypeScript
4 53 (33.97%) T-SQL
5 43 (27.56%) Java
6 41 (26.28%) JavaScript
7 32 (20.51%) Go
8 28 (17.95%) Python
9 13 (8.33%) C#
10 5 (3.21%) Ruby
11 3 (1.92%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.28%) Swift
13 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (34.62%) NCSC
1 54 (34.62%) NIST
2 25 (16.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 53 (33.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.97%) Terraform
2 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Kibana
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.56%) Databricks
3 2 (1.28%) Google
4 1 (0.64%) Apple
4 1 (0.64%) CyberArk