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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 325 313
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 -31
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 115 109 219
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.66% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.79% 2.64% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 88 88 153
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,125 £46,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £58,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% +29.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £111,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +42.31% -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 4,126 4,122 6,832
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.63% 25.01% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,122 2,780 5,630
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +4.80% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 31 July 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 (5.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.74%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 14 (12.17%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.43%) Google Workspace
5 11 (9.57%) GitHub
6 9 (7.83%) SaaS
7 8 (6.96%) GCP
8 6 (5.22%) Serverless
9 5 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.74%) Datadog
11 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.74%) Sentry
12 1 (0.87%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) HTTP
2 1 (0.87%) MQTT
2 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.61%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (13.04%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.74%) Appium
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.87%) CMake
5 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) Storybook
5 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 41 (35.65%) Finance
3 32 (27.83%) Front Office
4 12 (10.43%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Games
6 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 83 (72.17%) Developer
2 53 (46.09%) Lead
3 48 (41.74%) Lead Developer
4 37 (32.17%) Software Engineer
5 32 (27.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 31 (26.96%) React Developer
7 23 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (17.39%) Lead Software Developer
8 20 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (15.65%) Senior
10 10 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Software Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (6.96%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.96%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (52.17%) React
2 55 (47.83%) Node.js
3 40 (34.78%) RESTful
4 34 (29.57%) Redux
5 33 (28.70%) Kafka
5 33 (28.70%) React Native
6 31 (26.96%) REST
7 17 (14.78%) Vue
8 14 (12.17%) Next.js
8 14 (12.17%) SOAP
9 13 (11.30%) OAuth
10 12 (10.43%) LDAP
10 12 (10.43%) OpenID
10 12 (10.43%) SAML
11 9 (7.83%) AngularJS
12 6 (5.22%) .NET
12 6 (5.22%) Jest
12 6 (5.22%) JSON
12 6 (5.22%) XML
13 5 (4.35%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Fixed Income
2 12 (10.43%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (10.43%) Cyberattack
3 9 (7.83%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) Blog
5 2 (1.74%) Clustering
5 2 (1.74%) PMI
5 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.96%) Android
1 31 (26.96%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.09%) Software Engineering
2 48 (41.74%) Agile
3 47 (40.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (27.83%) Investment Management
4 32 (27.83%) Order Management
4 32 (27.83%) Portfolio Management
5 30 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
6 28 (24.35%) Mobile Development
7 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
8 22 (19.13%) Mentoring
9 18 (15.65%) AI
10 14 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
11 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.43%) Identity Access Management
12 12 (10.43%) Programme Delivery
12 12 (10.43%) Regulatory Compliance
13 11 (9.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 57 (49.57%) TypeScript
2 45 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 36 (31.30%) Java
4 33 (28.70%) Python
5 32 (27.83%) Go
6 22 (19.13%) SQL
7 14 (12.17%) Bash
7 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
8 12 (10.43%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.35%) C#
10 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.74%) PHP
10 2 (1.74%) Swift
11 1 (0.87%) C++
11 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (7.83%) Degree
2 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) NCSC
1 14 (12.17%) NIST
2 8 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) QA
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (12.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Kibana
4 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (5.22%) Databricks
2 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.87%) OpenAI