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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 256 341
Rank change year-on-year +6 +85 -129
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 116 207 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 1.20% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.22% 3.90% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 68 117 107
10th Percentile £57,239 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £69,688 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -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 2,750 5,314 5,991
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.97% 30.71% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 3,474 5,076
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,563 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.41%

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 24 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 (7.76%) Headless CMS
2 8 (6.90%) JBoss
2 8 (6.90%) WebSphere
3 7 (6.03%) Confluence
4 4 (3.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Shopify
2 3 (2.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (39.66%) AWS
2 42 (36.21%) Azure
3 22 (18.97%) Serverless
4 20 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.07%) GCP
7 13 (11.21%) Amazon S3
7 13 (11.21%) Entra ID
8 12 (10.34%) GitHub
9 11 (9.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (9.48%) dbt
9 11 (9.48%) Figma
9 11 (9.48%) Snowflake
10 10 (8.62%) Google Workspace
10 10 (8.62%) SaaS
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (6.90%) Google Analytics
11 8 (6.90%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.52%) Broadband
2 1 (0.86%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.72%) MySQL
7 2 (1.72%) Redis
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) Git
2 12 (10.34%) Cypress.io
3 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.90%) JIRA
5 3 (2.59%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.59%) JMeter
5 3 (2.59%) Postman
5 3 (2.59%) Selenium
5 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.72%) git-flow
7 1 (0.86%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.86%) Gradle
7 1 (0.86%) Maven
7 1 (0.86%) Vite
7 1 (0.86%) webpack
7 1 (0.86%) Xcode
General
1 49 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (38.79%) Finance
3 16 (13.79%) Front Office
4 12 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (9.48%) Games
6 4 (3.45%) Retail
7 3 (2.59%) Legal
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Local Government
9 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (51.72%) Senior
2 57 (49.14%) Developer
3 29 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 25 (21.55%) Senior Developer
5 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (13.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 15 (12.93%) Lead
8 13 (11.21%) Architect
9 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (9.48%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (8.62%) Lead Developer
10 10 (8.62%) Lead Software Developer
10 10 (8.62%) React Developer
10 10 (8.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (6.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 8 (6.90%) Senior Architect
13 7 (6.03%) IAM Developer
14 6 (5.17%) .NET Developer
14 6 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (54.31%) React
2 40 (34.48%) Node.js
3 39 (33.62%) REST
4 27 (23.28%) Kafka
5 25 (21.55%) CSS
6 23 (19.83%) RESTful
7 22 (18.97%) OAuth
8 21 (18.10%) HTML
8 21 (18.10%) Redux
8 21 (18.10%) SOAP
9 19 (16.38%) Next.js
10 16 (13.79%) .NET
11 14 (12.07%) Jest
11 14 (12.07%) OpenAPI
11 14 (12.07%) Swagger
12 13 (11.21%) gRPC
13 12 (10.34%) Spring
13 12 (10.34%) Tailwind CSS
14 11 (9.48%) Middleware
15 10 (8.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.79%) Fixed Income
3 12 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (10.34%) Cyberattack
4 8 (6.90%) DataPower
5 7 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.31%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.59%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.86%) IoT
11 1 (0.86%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (64.66%) Agile
2 58 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 49 (42.24%) CI/CD
4 46 (39.66%) Software Engineering
5 39 (33.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (26.72%) Microservices
8 26 (22.41%) AI
9 25 (21.55%) User Experience
10 24 (20.69%) DevOps
11 22 (18.97%) Roadmaps
12 19 (16.38%) Event-Driven
13 18 (15.52%) Clean Code
13 18 (15.52%) Front End Development
14 17 (14.66%) Test Automation
15 16 (13.79%) Investment Management
15 16 (13.79%) Order Management
15 16 (13.79%) Portfolio Management
16 15 (12.93%) Coaching
16 15 (12.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (51.72%) TypeScript
2 46 (39.66%) JavaScript
3 38 (32.76%) SQL
4 28 (24.14%) Java
5 25 (21.55%) PowerShell
6 23 (19.83%) Python
7 18 (15.52%) C#
8 17 (14.66%) Go
9 13 (11.21%) Bash
10 10 (8.62%) T-SQL
11 8 (6.90%) Ruby
12 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.55%) Accessibility
2 14 (12.07%) QA
3 12 (10.34%) NCSC
3 12 (10.34%) NIST
4 9 (7.76%) WCAG
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (9.48%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (12.93%) Terraform
2 10 (8.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) Apple
3 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.59%) Google
4 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.86%) SnapLogic