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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 271 354
Rank change year-on-year +38 +83 -124
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 165 138 209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 1.03% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.43% 3.14% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 83 123 179
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £63,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -11.89% -4.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,625 £89,375
90th Percentile - £90,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -12.50%

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 3,038 4,398 8,539
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.77% 32.78% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,202 3,316 7,424
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +10.38% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 22 March 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 (6.67%) JBoss
1 11 (6.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.21%) CMS
2 2 (1.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Shopify
2 2 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (46.06%) Azure
2 60 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 57 (34.55%) Google Workspace
4 41 (24.85%) AWS
5 18 (10.91%) SaaS
6 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (6.67%) dbt
7 11 (6.67%) GCP
7 11 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.64%) GitHub
8 6 (3.64%) Serverless
9 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.21%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.21%) Figma
11 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.61%) Redis
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (2.42%) JIRA
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.21%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.21%) git-flow
4 2 (1.21%) Maven
4 2 (1.21%) Xcode
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.61%) Vite
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 76 (46.06%) Social Skills
2 59 (35.76%) Finance
2 59 (35.76%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (21.21%) Games
4 32 (19.39%) Front Office
5 2 (1.21%) Legal
6 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 88 (53.33%) Developer
2 67 (40.61%) Senior
3 43 (26.06%) Software Engineer
4 33 (20.00%) Lead
5 32 (19.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 31 (18.79%) Lead Developer
7 22 (13.33%) IAM Developer
8 21 (12.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (12.12%) Lead Software Developer
10 19 (11.52%) Architect
10 19 (11.52%) React Developer
10 19 (11.52%) Senior Architect
11 18 (10.91%) Senior Developer
12 17 (10.30%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (9.70%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (5.45%) Java Developer
15 9 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 8 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
16 8 (4.85%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (52.12%) REST
2 70 (42.42%) SOAP
3 69 (41.82%) OAuth
4 59 (35.76%) React
5 57 (34.55%) LDAP
5 57 (34.55%) OpenID
5 57 (34.55%) SAML
6 45 (27.27%) Node.js
7 36 (21.82%) Redux
8 35 (21.21%) Kafka
9 22 (13.33%) React Native
10 16 (9.70%) RESTful
11 15 (9.09%) .NET
11 15 (9.09%) Vue
12 14 (8.48%) Spring
13 12 (7.27%) Hibernate
14 11 (6.67%) Middleware
14 11 (6.67%) OpenAPI
14 11 (6.67%) Swagger
15 10 (6.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (35.76%) Cyber Threat
1 59 (35.76%) Cyberattack
2 32 (19.39%) Fixed Income
3 13 (7.88%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.67%) DataPower
5 4 (2.42%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.88%) Android
2 11 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (53.33%) Mentoring
2 70 (42.42%) Roadmaps
3 62 (37.58%) Software Engineering
4 61 (36.97%) Agile
5 59 (35.76%) Cybersecurity
5 59 (35.76%) Programme Delivery
6 57 (34.55%) Identity Access Management
6 57 (34.55%) Regulatory Compliance
7 45 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (21.21%) CI/CD
10 32 (19.39%) Investment Management
10 32 (19.39%) Order Management
10 32 (19.39%) Portfolio Management
11 25 (15.15%) Change Control
12 22 (13.33%) AI
12 22 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (12.12%) DevOps
13 20 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.03%) PowerShell
2 59 (35.76%) Bash
2 59 (35.76%) SQL
3 57 (34.55%) T-SQL
4 54 (32.73%) TypeScript
5 46 (27.88%) Java
6 45 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 32 (19.39%) Go
8 29 (17.58%) Python
9 14 (8.48%) C#
10 9 (5.45%) Ruby
11 3 (1.82%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.21%) Swift
13 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (3.03%) Degree
2 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (35.76%) NCSC
1 59 (35.76%) NIST
2 25 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.82%) QA
5 2 (1.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (34.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.70%) Terraform
2 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Kibana
3 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.42%) Databricks
3 2 (1.21%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.21%) Google
4 1 (0.61%) Apple
4 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.61%) SnapLogic