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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 288 336
Rank change year-on-year +50 +48 -125
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 161 115 266
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 0.85% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.06% 2.88% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 84 108 206
10th Percentile £62,547 - £41,250
25th Percentile £73,438 £52,500 £50,313
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 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +9.62% -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 3,182 3,997 8,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.62% 29.62% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 3,204 7,499
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
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 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 26 April 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 9 (5.59%) JBoss
1 9 (5.59%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.24%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 72 (44.72%) Azure
2 59 (36.65%) Entra ID
3 56 (34.78%) Google Workspace
4 41 (25.47%) AWS
5 19 (11.80%) SaaS
6 11 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.83%) GCP
7 9 (5.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (5.59%) dbt
7 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.11%) Serverless
9 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.86%) GitHub
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.62%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (37.27%) Broadband
2 1 (0.62%) AMQP
2 1 (0.62%) DNS
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.73%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.62%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.62%) MySQL
4 1 (0.62%) Redis
4 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Git
2 4 (2.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.24%) Android Studio
3 2 (1.24%) Maven
3 2 (1.24%) Xcode
4 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.62%) git-flow
4 1 (0.62%) Gradle
4 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 58 (36.02%) Organisational Skills
3 54 (33.54%) Finance
4 34 (21.12%) Games
5 32 (19.88%) Front Office
6 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.24%) Legal
7 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (55.28%) Developer
2 61 (37.89%) Senior
3 43 (26.71%) Software Engineer
4 37 (22.98%) Lead
5 34 (21.12%) Lead Developer
6 32 (19.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 21 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (13.04%) IAM Developer
7 21 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 21 (13.04%) React Developer
8 20 (12.42%) Lead Software Developer
9 17 (10.56%) Architect
9 17 (10.56%) Senior Architect
10 16 (9.94%) Senior Developer
10 16 (9.94%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.97%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (49.69%) REST
2 67 (41.61%) OAuth
2 67 (41.61%) SOAP
3 58 (36.02%) React
4 56 (34.78%) LDAP
4 56 (34.78%) OpenID
4 56 (34.78%) SAML
5 46 (28.57%) Node.js
6 35 (21.74%) Redux
7 34 (21.12%) Kafka
8 27 (16.77%) React Native
9 23 (14.29%) RESTful
10 17 (10.56%) Vue
11 12 (7.45%) .NET
11 12 (7.45%) Spring
12 11 (6.83%) Next.js
13 10 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 10 (6.21%) Hibernate
14 9 (5.59%) Middleware
14 9 (5.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (36.02%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (36.02%) Cyberattack
2 32 (19.88%) Fixed Income
3 12 (7.45%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.59%) DataPower
5 5 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.62%) IoT
9 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.18%) Android
2 16 (9.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (50.93%) Mentoring
2 67 (41.61%) Roadmaps
3 64 (39.75%) Software Engineering
4 58 (36.02%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (36.02%) Programme Delivery
5 56 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
5 56 (34.78%) Regulatory Compliance
6 55 (34.16%) Agile
7 49 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (21.74%) CI/CD
9 34 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (19.88%) Investment Management
10 32 (19.88%) Order Management
10 32 (19.88%) Portfolio Management
11 25 (15.53%) Change Control
12 24 (14.91%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (14.29%) AI
14 20 (12.42%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.56%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 68 (42.24%) PowerShell
2 58 (36.02%) Bash
3 56 (34.78%) SQL
3 56 (34.78%) T-SQL
4 53 (32.92%) TypeScript
5 44 (27.33%) Java
6 41 (25.47%) JavaScript
7 32 (19.88%) Go
8 29 (18.01%) Python
9 12 (7.45%) C#
10 7 (4.35%) Ruby
11 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.24%) Swift
13 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.97%) Degree
2 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (36.02%) NCSC
1 58 (36.02%) NIST
2 25 (15.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 56 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (9.32%) Terraform
2 3 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Grafana
3 1 (0.62%) Kibana
3 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.48%) Databricks
3 2 (1.24%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.24%) Google
4 1 (0.62%) Apple