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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 253 328
Rank change year-on-year +10 +75 -111
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 119 207 131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.20% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.34% 3.91% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 67 117 107
10th Percentile £57,152 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £69,375 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £140,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £92,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +42.31% -16.13% +10.71%

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 2,742 5,297 6,028
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.91% 30.65% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,166 3,457 5,096
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,367 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +2.10% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 25 December 2025.

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 (7.56%) Headless CMS
2 8 (6.72%) JBoss
2 8 (6.72%) WebSphere
3 7 (5.88%) Confluence
4 3 (2.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Shopify
2 3 (2.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.66%) AWS
2 45 (37.82%) Azure
3 22 (18.49%) Serverless
4 19 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 15 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.76%) GCP
7 14 (11.76%) Google Workspace
8 13 (10.92%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.08%) GitHub
10 11 (9.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (9.24%) dbt
10 11 (9.24%) Figma
10 11 (9.24%) Snowflake
11 10 (8.40%) SaaS
12 8 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (6.72%) Google Analytics
12 8 (6.72%) Vercel
13 7 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.49%) Broadband
2 1 (0.84%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.56%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.68%) MySQL
7 2 (1.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Git
2 12 (10.08%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.72%) JIRA
5 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.52%) JMeter
5 3 (2.52%) Postman
5 3 (2.52%) Selenium
5 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.68%) git-flow
6 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.84%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.84%) Gradle
7 1 (0.84%) Maven
7 1 (0.84%) Vite
7 1 (0.84%) webpack
7 1 (0.84%) Xcode
General
1 53 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 44 (36.97%) Finance
3 16 (13.45%) Front Office
3 16 (13.45%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Games
5 4 (3.36%) Retail
6 3 (2.52%) Legal
7 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Local Government
8 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 61 (51.26%) Senior
2 57 (47.90%) Developer
3 29 (24.37%) Software Engineer
4 25 (21.01%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (13.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 15 (12.61%) Lead
8 13 (10.92%) Architect
9 11 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (9.24%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (8.40%) Lead Developer
10 10 (8.40%) Lead Software Developer
10 10 (8.40%) React Developer
10 10 (8.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (6.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (6.72%) IAM Developer
12 8 (6.72%) Senior Architect
13 6 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (4.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (52.94%) React
2 43 (36.13%) REST
3 40 (33.61%) Node.js
4 27 (22.69%) Kafka
5 26 (21.85%) OAuth
6 25 (21.01%) SOAP
7 24 (20.17%) CSS
8 22 (18.49%) RESTful
9 21 (17.65%) Redux
10 20 (16.81%) HTML
11 19 (15.97%) Next.js
12 15 (12.61%) .NET
13 14 (11.76%) Jest
13 14 (11.76%) LDAP
13 14 (11.76%) OpenAPI
13 14 (11.76%) OpenID
13 14 (11.76%) SAML
13 14 (11.76%) Swagger
14 13 (10.92%) gRPC
15 12 (10.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.45%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (13.45%) Cyberattack
2 16 (13.45%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.72%) DataPower
4 7 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.84%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.84%) IoT
10 1 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (62.18%) Agile
2 62 (52.10%) Mentoring
3 48 (40.34%) CI/CD
4 46 (38.66%) Software Engineering
5 38 (31.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (25.21%) Microservices
8 26 (21.85%) AI
8 26 (21.85%) Roadmaps
9 25 (21.01%) User Experience
10 23 (19.33%) DevOps
11 19 (15.97%) Event-Driven
12 18 (15.13%) Front End Development
13 17 (14.29%) Clean Code
13 17 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 16 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (13.45%) Investment Management
14 16 (13.45%) Order Management
14 16 (13.45%) Portfolio Management
14 16 (13.45%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.42%) TypeScript
2 45 (37.82%) JavaScript
3 38 (31.93%) SQL
4 29 (24.37%) PowerShell
5 28 (23.53%) Java
6 23 (19.33%) Python
7 17 (14.29%) Bash
7 17 (14.29%) C#
7 17 (14.29%) Go
8 14 (11.76%) T-SQL
9 8 (6.72%) Ruby
10 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.01%) Accessibility
2 16 (13.45%) NCSC
2 16 (13.45%) NIST
3 13 (10.92%) QA
4 9 (7.56%) WCAG
5 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (12.61%) Terraform
2 10 (8.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) Apple
3 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.52%) Google
4 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) SnapLogic