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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 261 350
Rank change year-on-year -6 +89 -117
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 105 201 139
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 1.21% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.90% 3.95% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 51 111 116
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £48,125
25th Percentile £60,748 £52,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £105,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -13.33% +7.14%

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 2,690 5,093 6,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.90% 30.54% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,094 3,258 5,484
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4 January 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 8 (7.62%) JBoss
1 8 (7.62%) WebSphere
2 7 (6.67%) Confluence
3 4 (3.81%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Shopify
2 3 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Azure
2 25 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 24 (22.86%) AWS
4 22 (20.95%) Google Workspace
5 18 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.19%) Serverless
7 11 (10.48%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (10.48%) dbt
7 11 (10.48%) GitHub
7 11 (10.48%) Snowflake
8 10 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.52%) SaaS
9 9 (8.57%) GCP
10 8 (7.62%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.71%) Figma
12 5 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (28.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.95%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.90%) Redis
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Git
2 8 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.62%) JIRA
3 7 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.86%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.86%) JMeter
4 3 (2.86%) Postman
4 3 (2.86%) Selenium
4 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.90%) git-flow
6 1 (0.95%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.95%) Gradle
6 1 (0.95%) Maven
6 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.95%) Vite
6 1 (0.95%) webpack
6 1 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 51 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.71%) Finance
3 24 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (17.14%) Games
5 4 (3.81%) Retail
6 3 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (59.05%) Senior
2 38 (36.19%) Developer
3 22 (20.95%) Senior Developer
4 14 (13.33%) Architect
4 14 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) IAM Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Architect
6 10 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (5.71%) React Developer
10 5 (4.76%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.76%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.76%) Lead
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Senior React Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (49.52%) REST
2 42 (40.00%) React
3 34 (32.38%) OAuth
4 33 (31.43%) SOAP
5 22 (20.95%) LDAP
5 22 (20.95%) OpenID
5 22 (20.95%) SAML
6 19 (18.10%) Node.js
7 17 (16.19%) CSS
8 15 (14.29%) .NET
9 14 (13.33%) HTML
9 14 (13.33%) Next.js
9 14 (13.33%) OpenAPI
9 14 (13.33%) RESTful
9 14 (13.33%) Swagger
10 12 (11.43%) gRPC
10 12 (11.43%) Spring
11 11 (10.48%) Middleware
12 10 (9.52%) Kafka
13 9 (8.57%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (22.86%) Cyberattack
2 19 (18.10%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.62%) DataPower
3 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.95%) IoT
8 1 (0.95%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Android
2 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 52 (49.52%) Agile
3 47 (44.76%) CI/CD
4 34 (32.38%) Roadmaps
5 31 (29.52%) Software Engineering
6 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (26.67%) Microservices
8 25 (23.81%) AI
9 24 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (22.86%) Programme Delivery
10 23 (21.90%) DevOps
11 22 (20.95%) Identity Access Management
11 22 (20.95%) Regulatory Compliance
12 21 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (19.05%) User Experience
14 19 (18.10%) Event-Driven
15 17 (16.19%) Front End Development
16 16 (15.24%) Clean Code
17 15 (14.29%) Coaching
17 15 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.10%) SQL
2 39 (37.14%) TypeScript
3 37 (35.24%) PowerShell
4 25 (23.81%) Bash
5 23 (21.90%) JavaScript
6 22 (20.95%) T-SQL
7 17 (16.19%) C#
8 12 (11.43%) Java
9 10 (9.52%) Python
10 9 (8.57%) Ruby
11 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.95%) Go
12 1 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.95%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.86%) NCSC
1 24 (22.86%) NIST
2 19 (18.10%) Accessibility
3 12 (11.43%) QA
4 9 (8.57%) WCAG
5 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.29%) Terraform
2 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.81%) Apple
3 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (1.90%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) SnapLogic