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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 282 327
Rank change year-on-year +40 +45 -117
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 157 114 268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.85% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 2.91% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 84 107 207
10th Percentile £62,547 - £41,250
25th Percentile £73,438 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -3.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £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 3,171 3,921 8,551
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 29.14% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 3,175 7,517
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,900
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 £85,253 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £98,750
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 1 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 (5.10%) JBoss
1 8 (5.10%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 69 (43.95%) Azure
2 57 (36.31%) Entra ID
3 55 (35.03%) Google Workspace
4 40 (25.48%) AWS
5 18 (11.46%) SaaS
6 11 (7.01%) GCP
7 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (5.10%) dbt
8 8 (5.10%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.91%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.91%) GitHub
9 3 (1.91%) Serverless
10 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.64%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 56 (35.67%) 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 (4.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.64%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.64%) MySQL
3 1 (0.64%) Redis
3 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.55%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.27%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.27%) Maven
3 2 (1.27%) 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 75 (47.77%) Social Skills
2 56 (35.67%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (33.12%) Finance
4 32 (20.38%) Front Office
4 32 (20.38%) Games
5 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (55.41%) Developer
2 56 (35.67%) Senior
3 43 (27.39%) Software Engineer
4 39 (24.84%) Lead
5 35 (22.29%) Lead Developer
6 32 (20.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 22 (14.01%) React Developer
8 21 (13.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (13.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (12.74%) IAM Developer
9 20 (12.74%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (10.19%) Architect
10 16 (10.19%) Senior Architect
10 16 (10.19%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (8.92%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.73%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.10%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (5.10%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (49.68%) REST
2 65 (41.40%) OAuth
3 64 (40.76%) SOAP
4 57 (36.31%) React
5 55 (35.03%) LDAP
5 55 (35.03%) OpenID
5 55 (35.03%) SAML
6 47 (29.94%) Node.js
7 35 (22.29%) Redux
8 34 (21.66%) Kafka
9 28 (17.83%) React Native
10 24 (15.29%) RESTful
11 17 (10.83%) Vue
12 11 (7.01%) .NET
12 11 (7.01%) Next.js
12 11 (7.01%) Spring
13 10 (6.37%) AngularJS
14 9 (5.73%) Hibernate
15 8 (5.10%) Middleware
15 8 (5.10%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (35.67%) Cyber Threat
1 56 (35.67%) Cyberattack
2 32 (20.38%) Fixed Income
3 11 (7.01%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.10%) DataPower
5 6 (3.82%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) 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 (12.74%) Android
2 18 (11.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (48.41%) Mentoring
2 65 (41.40%) Roadmaps
3 61 (38.85%) Software Engineering
4 56 (35.67%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (35.67%) Programme Delivery
5 55 (35.03%) Identity Access Management
5 55 (35.03%) Regulatory Compliance
6 53 (33.76%) Agile
7 48 (30.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (21.02%) CI/CD
8 33 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (20.38%) Investment Management
9 32 (20.38%) Order Management
9 32 (20.38%) Portfolio Management
10 25 (15.92%) Change Control
10 25 (15.92%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (13.38%) AI
12 19 (12.10%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (10.83%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (41.40%) PowerShell
2 56 (35.67%) Bash
3 55 (35.03%) SQL
3 55 (35.03%) T-SQL
4 52 (33.12%) TypeScript
5 43 (27.39%) Java
6 39 (24.84%) JavaScript
7 32 (20.38%) Go
8 28 (17.83%) Python
9 11 (7.01%) C#
10 6 (3.82%) Ruby
11 3 (1.91%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) Swift
13 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.10%) Degree
2 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (35.67%) NCSC
1 56 (35.67%) NIST
2 25 (15.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 55 (35.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Terraform
2 3 (1.91%) 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 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.55%) Databricks
3 2 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (0.64%) Apple
4 1 (0.64%) CyberArk