Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

graphql

295 live US technical postings name graphql in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 295 postings naming graphql that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer65.4%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer15.6%
  3. 3Frontend Engineer7.5%
  4. 4Backend Engineer5.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2%
  6. 6Security Engineer2%
  7. 7AI Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where graphql is named
n = 72
10th
$139k
25th
$163k
Median
$196k
75th
$216k
90th
$247k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote23.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.6%
  3. 3New York, NY13.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.1%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.1%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.4%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.4%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.