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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 244 358
Rank change year-on-year +2 +114 -127
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 141 199 179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.27% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% 4.00% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 127 152
10th Percentile £54,625 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,122 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £65,000 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -8.13% +1.07%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £90,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -3.45%

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 2,863 4,973 8,184
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.81% 31.62% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 3,217 7,126
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,296 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +8.68% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

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 10 February 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 11 (7.80%) JBoss
1 11 (7.80%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Shopify
2 3 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (55.32%) Azure
2 59 (41.84%) Entra ID
3 56 (39.72%) Google Workspace
4 23 (16.31%) AWS
5 15 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.93%) SaaS
7 11 (7.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (7.80%) dbt
7 11 (7.80%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.38%) GitHub
8 9 (6.38%) Serverless
9 7 (4.96%) GCP
10 5 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.13%) Figma
13 2 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (43.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.42%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.84%) JIRA
3 3 (2.13%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.42%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.42%) git-flow
4 2 (1.42%) Xcode
5 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) Gradle
5 1 (0.71%) JMeter
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) Postman
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.71%) Vite
5 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 73 (51.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (41.13%) Organisational Skills
3 37 (26.24%) Finance
4 35 (24.82%) Games
5 8 (5.67%) Front Office
6 3 (2.13%) Legal
7 2 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Local Government
8 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (52.48%) Senior
2 55 (39.01%) Developer
3 23 (16.31%) IAM Developer
4 21 (14.89%) Senior Developer
4 21 (14.89%) Software Engineer
5 18 (12.77%) Architect
6 17 (12.06%) Senior Architect
7 16 (11.35%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Lead
9 11 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.38%) React Developer
11 8 (5.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Systems Developer
12 7 (4.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 6 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (64.54%) REST
2 70 (49.65%) SOAP
3 68 (48.23%) OAuth
4 56 (39.72%) LDAP
4 56 (39.72%) OpenID
4 56 (39.72%) SAML
5 41 (29.08%) React
6 20 (14.18%) Node.js
7 16 (11.35%) .NET
7 16 (11.35%) React Native
8 15 (10.64%) Spring
9 13 (9.22%) Kafka
9 13 (9.22%) Middleware
9 13 (9.22%) Redux
10 12 (8.51%) Hibernate
10 12 (8.51%) OpenAPI
10 12 (8.51%) Swagger
11 10 (7.09%) CSS
12 8 (5.67%) HTML
12 8 (5.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (41.13%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (41.13%) Cyberattack
2 17 (12.06%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.80%) DataPower
4 8 (5.67%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.84%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) IoT
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Android
2 6 (4.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (67.38%) Mentoring
2 71 (50.35%) Roadmaps
3 58 (41.13%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (41.13%) Programme Delivery
4 56 (39.72%) Identity Access Management
4 56 (39.72%) Regulatory Compliance
5 48 (34.04%) Agile
6 40 (28.37%) CI/CD
7 37 (26.24%) Software Engineering
8 35 (24.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (17.02%) Change Control
11 23 (16.31%) AI
12 22 (15.60%) DevOps
13 21 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (14.89%) Microservices
14 19 (13.48%) Event-Driven
15 18 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (11.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 71 (50.35%) PowerShell
2 59 (41.84%) Bash
3 56 (39.72%) SQL
3 56 (39.72%) T-SQL
4 36 (25.53%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.73%) JavaScript
6 23 (16.31%) Java
7 15 (10.64%) C#
8 14 (9.93%) Python
9 10 (7.09%) Ruby
10 9 (6.38%) Go
11 3 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.42%) PHP
12 2 (1.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (2.84%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (41.13%) NCSC
1 58 (41.13%) NIST
2 24 (17.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.51%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.96%) QA
5 6 (4.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (39.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.77%) Terraform
2 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.13%) Google
3 2 (1.42%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.71%) Apple
4 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic