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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 329 306
Rank change year-on-year -36 -23 -10
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 88 104 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.63% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 2.67% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 73 81 140
10th Percentile £55,530 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +39.13% -28.13%
75th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £142,500 - £101,125
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +46.15% -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 4,123 3,893 6,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.01% 23.54% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 2,594 5,132
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% -2.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 18 August 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 6 (6.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) AWS
2 15 (17.05%) GitHub
3 10 (11.36%) SaaS
4 7 (7.95%) Azure
4 7 (7.95%) Serverless
5 6 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.68%) GCP
7 4 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.41%) Datadog
8 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.41%) Sentry
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Broadband
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) MQTT
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.41%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.27%) Power BI
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.14%) MySQL
7 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (3.41%) Appium
3 3 (3.41%) Claude Code
3 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.27%) Storybook
5 1 (1.14%) CMake
5 1 (1.14%) GitLab
5 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.14%) Mocha
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.82%) Finance
3 16 (18.18%) Front Office
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Banking
5 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 62 (70.45%) Developer
2 43 (48.86%) Lead
3 38 (43.18%) Lead Developer
4 28 (31.82%) React Developer
5 23 (26.14%) Software Engineer
6 18 (20.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 13 (14.77%) Senior
9 10 (11.36%) Lead Software Developer
9 10 (11.36%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (5.68%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
13 3 (3.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (53.41%) React
2 44 (50.00%) RESTful
3 42 (47.73%) Node.js
4 37 (42.05%) React Native
5 18 (20.45%) Kafka
5 18 (20.45%) Redux
5 18 (20.45%) REST
6 15 (17.05%) Vue
7 14 (15.91%) Next.js
8 9 (10.23%) Jest
9 8 (9.09%) .NET
10 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.68%) Flutter
11 4 (4.55%) CSS
11 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
12 3 (3.41%) HTML
12 3 (3.41%) JSON
12 3 (3.41%) Symfony
12 3 (3.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 12 (13.64%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.41%) Blog
5 3 (3.41%) Clustering
6 2 (2.27%) PMI
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Robotics
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (39.77%) Android
1 35 (39.77%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 33 (37.50%) Agile
2 33 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 31 (35.23%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (32.95%) Mobile Development
6 21 (23.86%) AI
7 16 (18.18%) Investment Management
7 16 (18.18%) Order Management
7 16 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
8 15 (17.05%) Test Automation
9 14 (15.91%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.50%) Code Quality
11 11 (12.50%) Observability
12 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
13 9 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (10.23%) Decision-Making
13 9 (10.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 31 (35.23%) JavaScript
3 20 (22.73%) Java
3 20 (22.73%) Python
4 16 (18.18%) Go
5 14 (15.91%) SQL
6 5 (5.68%) C#
7 3 (3.41%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.41%) PHP
7 3 (3.41%) Swift
8 2 (2.27%) Bash
8 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.14%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) WCAG
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) NCSC
4 2 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Grafana
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.41%) Databricks
2 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe
3 1 (1.14%) Google
3 1 (1.14%) OpenAI