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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 87 84
Rank change year-on-year -62 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 212 325 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.12% 4.12% 2.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.02% 19.65% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 163 127 339
10th Percentile £47,100 £39,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £73,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £84,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -10.34%

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 1,628 1,654 3,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.57% 20.97% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 917 2,767
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,493 £33,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -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 18 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 18 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 -65 105 £75,000 - 47
Yorkshire -7 84 £70,000 +3.70% 23
North East -24 23 £52,000 -9.57% 12
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 9 (4.25%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.89%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.89%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (72.64%) AWS
2 75 (35.38%) Serverless
3 73 (34.43%) Azure
4 49 (23.11%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (21.70%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (20.28%) Amazon S3
7 40 (18.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (16.04%) GitHub
9 31 (14.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (12.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 25 (11.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (10.38%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (7.55%) Datadog
14 16 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (7.08%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (6.13%) Azure AKS
16 13 (6.13%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (6.13%) GCP
17 11 (5.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.28%) DynamoDB
2 38 (17.92%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (16.98%) NoSQL
4 29 (13.68%) MongoDB
5 22 (10.38%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.60%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.30%) MySQL
8 5 (2.36%) GIS
9 4 (1.89%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.89%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.89%) QGIS
10 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.42%) Big Data
10 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.42%) Power BI
11 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (17.92%) Git
2 30 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.43%) GitLab
4 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.89%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.89%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.89%) Maven
4 4 (1.89%) Selenium
4 4 (1.89%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.94%) Vite
6 1 (0.47%) JIRA
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 37 (17.45%) Public Sector
2 31 (14.62%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.13%) Finance
4 11 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.30%) Law
6 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.89%) Marketing
7 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Electronics
8 1 (0.47%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 97 (45.75%) Developer
2 63 (29.72%) Senior
3 56 (26.42%) Software Engineer
4 51 (24.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 38 (17.92%) Java Developer
6 37 (17.45%) Lead
7 29 (13.68%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Node.js Developer
9 14 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (6.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (5.66%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (5.19%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.19%) Lead Developer
13 10 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (4.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (40.09%) React
2 43 (20.28%) REST
3 38 (17.92%) AngularJS
4 29 (13.68%) .NET
5 27 (12.74%) Spring Boot
6 26 (12.26%) Spring
7 17 (8.02%) CSS
7 17 (8.02%) RESTful
8 13 (6.13%) Kafka
8 13 (6.13%) Vue
9 12 (5.66%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.19%) HTML
11 10 (4.72%) .NET Core
11 10 (4.72%) Web Services
12 9 (4.25%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.30%) ASP.NET
13 7 (3.30%) Mustache
13 7 (3.30%) NestJS
14 6 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (2.83%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.42%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Robotics
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.47%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.55%) Linux
2 13 (6.13%) Unix
2 13 (6.13%) Windows
3 3 (1.42%) CentOS
3 3 (1.42%) Debian
3 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (49.06%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.40%) Full-Stack Development
3 81 (38.21%) Software Engineering
4 77 (36.32%) DevOps
5 75 (35.38%) Agile
6 73 (34.43%) Microservices
7 70 (33.02%) Mentoring
8 47 (22.17%) Scrum
9 39 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (17.92%) TDD
11 32 (15.09%) Coaching
11 32 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (12.74%) Observability
13 26 (12.26%) Containerisation
14 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
15 23 (10.85%) AI
15 23 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (10.38%) Kanban
17 20 (9.43%) DevSecOps
18 19 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.47%) TypeScript
2 97 (45.75%) JavaScript
3 83 (39.15%) Java
4 50 (23.58%) SQL
5 32 (15.09%) Python
6 27 (12.74%) Kotlin
7 14 (6.60%) C#
8 3 (1.42%) Bash
8 3 (1.42%) Groovy
8 3 (1.42%) PHP
9 1 (0.47%) Go
9 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (24.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (25.47%) Terraform
2 25 (11.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.13%) Argo
4 8 (3.77%) Ansible
5 4 (1.89%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (2.83%) HubSpot
1 6 (2.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.42%) Adobe
2 3 (1.42%) Google
2 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
2 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
3 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.94%) Pega
3 2 (0.94%) WSO2
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle