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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 122 96
Rank change year-on-year -44 -26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 134 160 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 2.07% 2.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.97% 11.37% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 99 112 257
10th Percentile £47,000 £42,625 £38,077
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,906 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,000
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 1,221 1,407 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.44% 18.18% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 890 2,294
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,956 £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 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,025 £88,278 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 21 February 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 21 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
Yorkshire -15 70 £62,500 -7.41% 27
North West -36 55 £75,000 - 46
North East -22 9 £50,000 -8.88% 15
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 (8.21%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
2 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (72.39%) AWS
2 53 (39.55%) Serverless
3 38 (28.36%) Azure
4 36 (26.87%) Amazon S3
5 32 (23.88%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (23.13%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (22.39%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (16.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (14.18%) GitHub
10 15 (11.19%) GCP
11 14 (10.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (9.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (8.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (5.22%) Datadog
15 7 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
17 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
18 4 (2.99%) Apigee
19 3 (2.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.99%) AMQP
2 3 (2.24%) SSH
3 2 (1.49%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.39%) DynamoDB
2 18 (13.43%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.99%) Big Data
7 4 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.75%) GIS
9 1 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.75%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 31 (23.13%) Git
2 29 (21.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.22%) GitLab
4 4 (2.99%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.99%) Maven
4 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.24%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.75%) git-flow
6 1 (0.75%) JIRA
6 1 (0.75%) JUnit
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (17.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.19%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.96%) Finance
4 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.24%) Electronics
6 3 (2.24%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (41.04%) Developer
2 37 (27.61%) Software Engineer
3 31 (23.13%) Senior
4 29 (21.64%) Java Developer
5 26 (19.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Engineering Manager
7 10 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Lead
7 10 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 6 (4.48%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Node.js Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (45.52%) React
2 40 (29.85%) REST
3 36 (26.87%) AngularJS
4 28 (20.90%) Spring
5 27 (20.15%) Spring Boot
6 19 (14.18%) .NET
7 16 (11.94%) CSS
8 15 (11.19%) HTML
9 13 (9.70%) Vue
10 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (8.21%) Web Services
11 10 (7.46%) RESTful
12 9 (6.72%) GraphQL
12 9 (6.72%) NestJS
13 8 (5.97%) CSS3
13 8 (5.97%) HTML5
14 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
14 7 (5.22%) ASP.NET
14 7 (5.22%) Kafka
14 7 (5.22%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.24%) Robotics
5 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) CentOS
2 4 (2.99%) Debian
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
2 4 (2.99%) Windows
3 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 64 (47.76%) Agile
3 61 (45.52%) Software Engineering
4 53 (39.55%) DevOps
5 48 (35.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (32.09%) Mentoring
6 43 (32.09%) Microservices
7 34 (25.37%) Scrum
8 28 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (17.91%) Kanban
10 23 (17.16%) TDD
11 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (12.69%) Containerisation
13 16 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (11.19%) Coaching
14 15 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (10.45%) DevSecOps
15 14 (10.45%) Observability
16 13 (9.70%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.96%) JavaScript
2 62 (46.27%) TypeScript
3 49 (36.57%) Java
4 21 (15.67%) SQL
5 20 (14.93%) Python
6 13 (9.70%) Kotlin
7 9 (6.72%) C#
8 5 (3.73%) Bash
9 3 (2.24%) PHP
9 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.49%) C
10 2 (1.49%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.99%) QA
2 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (24.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (32.84%) Terraform
2 21 (15.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.45%) Ansible
4 4 (2.99%) Grafana
4 4 (2.99%) Puppet
5 3 (2.24%) HP Fortify
5 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.49%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.75%) Argo
7 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.97%) Google
2 4 (2.99%) Pega
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
2 4 (2.99%) SaltStack
2 4 (2.99%) WSO2
3 3 (2.24%) Oracle
4 2 (1.49%) Freshdesk
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) SAP