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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 253 343
Rank change year-on-year +20 +90 -101
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 158 187 193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 1.24% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 3.85% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74 127 161
10th Percentile £56,364 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £65,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -9.09% +2.14%
75th Percentile £142,500 £75,000 £88,750
90th Percentile - £90,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £95,000 £67,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +41.79% -4.29% -3.45%

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 2,937 4,858 8,094
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.86% 32.16% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,151 3,256 7,047
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +10.57% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%

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 February 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 11 (6.96%) JBoss
1 11 (6.96%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Shopify
2 3 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.37%) Azure
2 61 (38.61%) Entra ID
3 58 (36.71%) Google Workspace
4 36 (22.78%) AWS
5 14 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.86%) SaaS
6 11 (6.96%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (6.96%) dbt
6 11 (6.96%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.33%) GCP
8 8 (5.06%) GitHub
9 6 (3.80%) Serverless
10 5 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.90%) Figma
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.27%) Azure API Management
13 1 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
13 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (39.24%) Broadband
2 1 (0.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Git
2 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.53%) JIRA
3 3 (1.90%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.27%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.27%) git-flow
4 2 (1.27%) Maven
4 2 (1.27%) Xcode
5 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) Gradle
5 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.63%) Vite
5 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 74 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 60 (37.97%) Organisational Skills
3 53 (33.54%) Finance
4 36 (22.78%) Games
5 24 (15.19%) Front Office
6 2 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Local Government
7 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (46.84%) Developer
2 71 (44.94%) Senior
3 36 (22.78%) Software Engineer
4 24 (15.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 24 (15.19%) Lead
5 23 (14.56%) IAM Developer
6 21 (13.29%) Lead Developer
7 19 (12.03%) Architect
7 19 (12.03%) Senior Architect
8 18 (11.39%) Senior Developer
9 16 (10.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 16 (10.13%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (9.49%) Lead Software Developer
11 13 (8.23%) React Developer
12 11 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (5.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 8 (5.06%) Systems Developer
15 7 (4.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (58.23%) REST
2 72 (45.57%) SOAP
3 70 (44.30%) OAuth
4 58 (36.71%) LDAP
4 58 (36.71%) OpenID
4 58 (36.71%) SAML
5 52 (32.91%) React
6 35 (22.15%) Node.js
7 29 (18.35%) Kafka
7 29 (18.35%) Redux
8 17 (10.76%) React Native
9 16 (10.13%) Spring
10 15 (9.49%) .NET
11 13 (8.23%) Middleware
12 12 (7.59%) Hibernate
13 11 (6.96%) OpenAPI
13 11 (6.96%) Swagger
14 10 (6.33%) Vue
15 9 (5.70%) CSS
15 9 (5.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (37.97%) Cyber Threat
1 60 (37.97%) Cyberattack
2 24 (15.19%) Fixed Income
3 16 (10.13%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.96%) DataPower
5 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.63%) IoT
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.70%) Android
2 7 (4.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.23%) Mentoring
2 71 (44.94%) Roadmaps
3 60 (37.97%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (37.97%) Programme Delivery
4 58 (36.71%) Identity Access Management
4 58 (36.71%) Regulatory Compliance
5 57 (36.08%) Agile
6 52 (32.91%) Software Engineering
7 37 (23.42%) CI/CD
8 36 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (15.82%) Change Control
10 24 (15.19%) Investment Management
10 24 (15.19%) Order Management
10 24 (15.19%) Portfolio Management
11 23 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (12.66%) AI
12 20 (12.66%) DevOps
13 19 (12.03%) Microservices
14 18 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (46.20%) PowerShell
2 61 (38.61%) Bash
3 60 (37.97%) SQL
4 58 (36.71%) T-SQL
5 47 (29.75%) TypeScript
6 40 (25.32%) Java
7 38 (24.05%) JavaScript
8 24 (15.19%) Go
8 24 (15.19%) Python
9 14 (8.86%) C#
10 10 (6.33%) Ruby
11 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.27%) PHP
12 2 (1.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.63%) Degree
2 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (37.97%) NCSC
1 60 (37.97%) NIST
2 25 (15.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.70%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.16%) QA
5 4 (2.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (36.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.76%) Terraform
2 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.53%) Databricks
3 2 (1.27%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (0.63%) Apple
4 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic