Node.js Job Trends in the North of England

Node
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 89 87
Rank change year-on-year -52 -2 +30
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 235 315 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 3.98% 2.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.48% 19.87% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 185 114 338
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £73,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £82,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -12.16%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,743 1,585 3,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.71% 20.03% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 833 2,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £93,400 £79,243
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the North of England

Node.js
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the North of England

Node.js
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North West -64 116 £75,000 - 35
Yorkshire +4 91 £70,000 - 9
North East -28 28 £52,000 -9.57% 7
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (2.98%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.70%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.28%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (72.77%) AWS
2 80 (34.04%) Serverless
3 78 (33.19%) Azure
4 54 (22.98%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (19.15%) Amazon S3
6 45 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (17.45%) GitHub
8 34 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (12.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 28 (11.91%) AWS Step Functions
11 20 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (8.51%) Datadog
12 19 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (5.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (5.53%) Azure AKS
15 13 (5.53%) GCP
15 13 (5.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) AMQP
2 2 (0.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 42 (17.87%) NoSQL
3 41 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (13.62%) MongoDB
5 25 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.83%) MySQL
8 8 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.55%) GIS
10 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.70%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.70%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.70%) QGIS
11 3 (1.28%) Big Data
11 3 (1.28%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.28%) Power BI
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (17.87%) Git
2 30 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.51%) GitLab
4 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.70%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.70%) Maven
4 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.85%) MLflow
6 2 (0.85%) Vite
7 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 42 (17.87%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.60%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.11%) Finance
5 7 (2.98%) Law
5 7 (2.98%) Marketing
6 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.85%) Electronics
9 2 (0.85%) Wearables
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (44.26%) Developer
2 68 (28.94%) Senior
3 65 (27.66%) Software Engineer
4 51 (21.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 43 (18.30%) Lead
6 40 (17.02%) Java Developer
7 30 (12.77%) Senior Developer
8 18 (7.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 18 (7.66%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (6.81%) Node.js Developer
11 13 (5.53%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.53%) Engineering Manager
11 13 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.53%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (5.11%) Lead Developer
13 11 (4.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 11 (4.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (40.43%) React
2 48 (20.43%) REST
3 42 (17.87%) AngularJS
4 31 (13.19%) .NET
5 27 (11.49%) Spring Boot
6 26 (11.06%) Spring
7 21 (8.94%) CSS
7 21 (8.94%) RESTful
8 16 (6.81%) Vue
9 15 (6.38%) GraphQL
10 13 (5.53%) HTML
11 12 (5.11%) Kafka
12 11 (4.68%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.83%) Web Services
14 7 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (2.98%) Express.js
14 7 (2.98%) NestJS
14 7 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (2.55%) OpenLayers
15 6 (2.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.85%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.85%) Robotics
9 2 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.23%) Linux
2 13 (5.53%) Unix
2 13 (5.53%) Windows
3 3 (1.28%) CentOS
3 3 (1.28%) Debian
3 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 106 (45.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 93 (39.57%) Software Engineering
4 85 (36.17%) DevOps
5 82 (34.89%) Microservices
6 80 (34.04%) Agile
7 76 (32.34%) Mentoring
8 47 (20.00%) Scrum
9 43 (18.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (17.45%) TDD
11 35 (14.89%) Coaching
12 34 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (14.47%) Test Automation
13 32 (13.62%) Containerisation
14 30 (12.77%) AI
14 30 (12.77%) Observability
15 25 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (10.21%) DevSecOps
17 23 (9.79%) Kanban
17 23 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 120 (51.06%) TypeScript
2 104 (44.26%) JavaScript
3 88 (37.45%) Java
4 60 (25.53%) SQL
5 37 (15.74%) Python
6 30 (12.77%) Kotlin
7 16 (6.81%) C#
8 4 (1.70%) Bash
8 4 (1.70%) Groovy
8 4 (1.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.28%) Degree
4 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.43%) GDPR
1 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 57 (24.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (23.83%) Terraform
2 28 (11.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.53%) Argo
4 8 (3.40%) Ansible
5 4 (1.70%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.28%) Puppet
7 2 (0.85%) Istio
7 2 (0.85%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (3.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.98%) HubSpot
3 5 (2.13%) Adobe
4 3 (1.28%) Google
4 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.28%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.85%) Pega
5 2 (0.85%) WSO2
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) Salesforce