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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 319 279
Rank change year-on-year -70 -40 +35
Permanent jobs citing GraphQL 68 101 206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 2.68% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 47 73 99
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +52.17% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £142,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 - £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £92,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -29.73% +51.02% -23.44%

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 4,451 3,767 6,625
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.67% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,250 2,440 4,474
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -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 11 October 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 9 (13.24%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) AWS
1 24 (35.29%) GitHub
2 12 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (16.18%) Azure
4 9 (13.24%) Datadog
5 7 (10.29%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.82%) Serverless
7 4 (5.88%) GCP
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.41%) SaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Sentry
9 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) MQTT
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 6 (8.82%) Spatial Data
5 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.94%) Power BI
8 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) JIRA
2 8 (11.76%) Git
3 7 (10.29%) GitLab
4 6 (8.82%) Claude Code
5 3 (4.41%) Appium
5 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.94%) Storybook
7 1 (1.47%) CMake
7 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.47%) Mocha
7 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (69.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (52.94%) Developer
2 27 (39.71%) Lead
3 20 (29.41%) Lead Developer
3 20 (29.41%) React Developer
4 15 (22.06%) Senior
5 13 (19.12%) Software Engineer
6 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) CyberArk Specialist
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (48.53%) RESTful
2 29 (42.65%) React
3 28 (41.18%) React Native
4 24 (35.29%) Node.js
4 24 (35.29%) REST
5 14 (20.59%) .NET
6 12 (17.65%) Jest
7 10 (14.71%) Next.js
8 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.88%) CSS
9 4 (5.88%) Flutter
9 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.88%) Vue
10 3 (4.41%) HTML
10 3 (4.41%) SOAP
10 3 (4.41%) Symfony
11 2 (2.94%) HTML5
11 2 (2.94%) JSON
11 2 (2.94%) OAuth
11 2 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.76%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Blog
5 3 (4.41%) Clustering
6 2 (2.94%) PMI
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Robotics
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.71%) Android
1 27 (39.71%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 29 (42.65%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (33.82%) AI
3 23 (33.82%) Software Engineering
4 21 (30.88%) Mobile Development
5 19 (27.94%) Mentoring
5 19 (27.94%) Test Automation
6 16 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (22.06%) Agile
7 15 (22.06%) Code Quality
8 14 (20.59%) User Experience
9 11 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.18%) DevOps
9 11 (16.18%) LLM
9 11 (16.18%) Validation
10 10 (14.71%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.71%) Observability
11 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 7 (10.29%) API Design
13 6 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.24%) TypeScript
2 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 17 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.59%) Python
5 11 (16.18%) C#
6 4 (5.88%) Java
7 3 (4.41%) Bash
7 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.41%) PHP
7 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.41%) Swift
8 1 (1.47%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.94%) Degree
1 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.88%) QA
1 4 (5.88%) WCAG
2 3 (4.41%) GDPR
2 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) NCSC
2 3 (4.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Grafana
2 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
2 2 (2.94%) Databricks
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe
3 1 (1.47%) Google
3 1 (1.47%) OpenAI