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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 318 272
Rank change year-on-year -74 -46 +32
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 63 98 245
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.60% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 2.54% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 73 124
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,500 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £92,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £93,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +56.25% -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 4,445 3,863 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.60% 23.74% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 2,572 4,888
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,513 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 14 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 (9.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) GitHub
3 8 (12.70%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.52%) Serverless
5 5 (7.94%) Anthropic Claude
5 5 (7.94%) SaaS
6 4 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (4.76%) Datadog
7 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.76%) Sentry
8 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Broadband
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) HTTP
2 1 (1.59%) MQTT
2 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.76%) Spatial Data
6 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.17%) Power BI
7 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.59%) MySQL
7 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Git
2 7 (11.11%) JIRA
3 4 (6.35%) Claude Code
4 3 (4.76%) Appium
4 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.17%) Storybook
6 1 (1.59%) CMake
6 1 (1.59%) GitLab
6 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.59%) Mocha
6 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (55.56%) Developer
2 28 (44.44%) Lead
3 23 (36.51%) Lead Developer
4 20 (31.75%) React Developer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior
6 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) CyberArk Specialist
9 3 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (3.17%) QA Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (55.56%) RESTful
2 32 (50.79%) React Native
3 26 (41.27%) React
4 21 (33.33%) Node.js
5 19 (30.16%) REST
6 9 (14.29%) Jest
6 9 (14.29%) Next.js
7 8 (12.70%) .NET
8 6 (9.52%) Vue
9 5 (7.94%) Flutter
10 4 (6.35%) CSS
10 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET
11 3 (4.76%) HTML
11 3 (4.76%) SOAP
11 3 (4.76%) Symfony
12 2 (3.17%) HTML5
12 2 (3.17%) JSON
12 2 (3.17%) OAuth
12 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.52%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Blog
4 3 (4.76%) Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) PMI
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (49.21%) Android
1 31 (49.21%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 27 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 25 (39.68%) Mobile Development
3 20 (31.75%) Software Engineering
4 17 (26.98%) AI
5 16 (25.40%) Agile
6 15 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.87%) Code Quality
9 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
10 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 9 (14.29%) User Experience
11 8 (12.70%) DevOps
11 8 (12.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (9.52%) Fintech
13 6 (9.52%) IT Strategy
13 6 (9.52%) Observability
13 6 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) TypeScript
2 14 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 13 (20.63%) SQL
4 9 (14.29%) Python
5 5 (7.94%) C#
6 4 (6.35%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
7 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.76%) Swift
8 1 (1.59%) C++
8 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
1 4 (6.35%) QA
1 4 (6.35%) WCAG
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) NCSC
2 3 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
2 2 (3.17%) Databricks
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe
3 1 (1.59%) Google
3 1 (1.59%) OpenAI