Node.js Job Trends in Manchester

Node
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 78 62
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 +44
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 43 81 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.29% 3.20% 4.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.23% 13.68% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 24 56 103
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +19.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,819 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £93,500
North West median annual salary £74,830 £75,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -0.23% +23.97% -3.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Node.js 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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 383 592 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.46% 23.35% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 324 366 827
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £92,875 £84,419
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Node.js job vacancy trend in Manchester

Node.js
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in Manchester

Node.js
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford -2 1 £74,830 +30.25% 1
Node.js
North West

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (9.30%) Apache
1 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.33%) CMS
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 13 (30.23%) Serverless
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.95%) GCP
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.33%) Datadog
8 1 (2.33%) Firebase
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.33%) Google App Engine
8 1 (2.33%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) AMQP
2 3 (6.98%) SSH
3 2 (4.65%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Big Data
3 4 (9.30%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (9.30%) Hadoop
3 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.33%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.98%) Electronics
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Lead
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineering Manager
7 3 (6.98%) Software Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Electronics Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (46.51%) React
2 13 (30.23%) AngularJS
2 13 (30.23%) REST
3 9 (20.93%) Spring
3 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
4 7 (16.28%) CSS
5 6 (13.95%) .NET
6 5 (11.63%) HTML
7 4 (9.30%) gRPC
7 4 (9.30%) Material-UI
7 4 (9.30%) NestJS
7 4 (9.30%) OpenAPI
7 4 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (9.30%) Swagger
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.65%) CSS3
8 2 (4.65%) hapi
8 2 (4.65%) Next.js
8 2 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (4.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) CentOS
2 4 (9.30%) Debian
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) Agile
2 20 (46.51%) Software Engineering
3 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.23%) Scrum
6 11 (25.58%) Kanban
6 11 (25.58%) Microservices
7 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) TDD
9 7 (16.28%) DevOps
10 6 (13.95%) Open Source
10 6 (13.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (13.95%) User Experience
11 5 (11.63%) API Development
11 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (11.63%) Front End Development
11 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) JavaScript
2 21 (48.84%) TypeScript
3 18 (41.86%) Python
4 15 (34.88%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) C
6 2 (4.65%) Go
6 2 (4.65%) PHP
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Terraform
2 10 (23.26%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.30%) Puppet
5 2 (4.65%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.30%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.65%) Freshdesk
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) WSO2