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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 127 94
Rank change year-on-year -25 -33 +15
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 119 152 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.02% 1.75% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.70% 9.88% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 85 100 237
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £37,850
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%

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 1,112 1,539 2,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.50% 17.77% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 905 899 2,137
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,072
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,662 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,015 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,019 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.01% +7.23% -9.19%

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 January 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 January 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
Yorkshire -1 58 £61,250 -9.26% 36
North West -7 53 £74,000 +2.07% 50
North East -16 8 £50,000 -9.09% 10
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 11 (9.24%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.36%) Apache
2 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) Drupal
5 1 (0.84%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.84%) nginx
5 1 (0.84%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (69.75%) AWS
2 43 (36.13%) Serverless
3 33 (27.73%) Azure
4 31 (26.05%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (25.21%) Amazon S3
6 26 (21.85%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (20.17%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (14.29%) GitHub
9 16 (13.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.40%) GCP
11 9 (7.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (7.56%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (5.88%) Datadog
13 7 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (4.20%) OpenShift
16 3 (2.52%) SaaS
17 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) AMQP
2 3 (2.52%) SSH
3 2 (1.68%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.17%) DynamoDB
2 19 (15.97%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.36%) Big Data
7 4 (3.36%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (3.36%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.68%) MySQL
9 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.84%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.84%) Metadata
10 1 (0.84%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 34 (28.57%) Git
2 23 (19.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.36%) GitLab
4 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.84%) git-flow
6 1 (0.84%) Grunt
6 1 (0.84%) gulp
6 1 (0.84%) JUnit
6 1 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.08%) Finance
4 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.52%) Electronics
5 3 (2.52%) Marketing
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Law
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (42.02%) Developer
2 34 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 28 (23.53%) Senior
4 24 (20.17%) Java Developer
5 21 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Engineering Manager
6 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Lead
10 6 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.20%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (47.90%) React
2 38 (31.93%) REST
3 31 (26.05%) AngularJS
4 25 (21.01%) Spring
5 22 (18.49%) Spring Boot
6 19 (15.97%) CSS
7 17 (14.29%) .NET
7 17 (14.29%) HTML
8 12 (10.08%) Vue
9 11 (9.24%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (9.24%) RESTful
9 11 (9.24%) Web Services
10 10 (8.40%) CSS3
10 10 (8.40%) GraphQL
10 10 (8.40%) HTML5
11 7 (5.88%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.88%) ASP.NET
11 7 (5.88%) Kafka
11 7 (5.88%) Mustache
12 6 (5.04%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Cloud Native
1 12 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.52%) Robotics
5 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.24%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) CentOS
3 4 (3.36%) Debian
3 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.36%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.84%) Android
4 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 59 (49.58%) Agile
2 59 (49.58%) Software Engineering
3 48 (40.34%) DevOps
4 37 (31.09%) Mentoring
5 36 (30.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (30.25%) Microservices
6 30 (25.21%) Scrum
7 26 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (18.49%) Kanban
9 20 (16.81%) TDD
10 18 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (10.92%) Containerisation
13 13 (10.92%) Observability
14 12 (10.08%) Coaching
14 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (9.24%) SDLC
15 11 (9.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 68 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 54 (45.38%) TypeScript
3 41 (34.45%) Java
4 20 (16.81%) Python
5 18 (15.13%) SQL
6 9 (7.56%) C#
7 8 (6.72%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.36%) PHP
9 3 (2.52%) Bash
9 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.68%) C
10 2 (1.68%) Go
11 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (33.61%) Terraform
2 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.61%) Ansible
4 4 (3.36%) Grafana
4 4 (3.36%) Puppet
5 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.68%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.84%) Argo
7 1 (0.84%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Google
2 4 (3.36%) Pega
2 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.36%) SaltStack
2 4 (3.36%) WSO2
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.68%) Freshdesk
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) SAP