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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 144 79
Rank change year-on-year -19 -65 +25
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 113 142 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 1.56% 3.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.30% 9.07% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 82 92 201
10th Percentile £37,600 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,700 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
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 1,097 1,566 2,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.18% 17.22% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 900 929 1,684
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

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 14 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 14 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 -3 55 £60,000 +9.09% 53
North West -2 50 £65,000 -13.33% 57
North East -4 8 £50,000 -25.41% 16
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 (9.73%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.65%) Apache
2 3 (2.65%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.65%) CMS
3 2 (1.77%) Drupal
3 2 (1.77%) EPiServer
3 2 (1.77%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.77%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (64.60%) AWS
2 37 (32.74%) Serverless
3 33 (29.20%) Azure
4 28 (24.78%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (23.01%) Amazon S3
6 23 (20.35%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (16.81%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (12.39%) GitHub
9 10 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.85%) GCP
10 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (6.19%) SaaS
12 6 (5.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.31%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (4.42%) Datadog
13 5 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
15 3 (2.65%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) AMQP
1 3 (2.65%) SSH
2 2 (1.77%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.70%) DynamoDB
2 19 (16.81%) Relational Database
3 16 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.65%) Big Data
6 3 (2.65%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.77%) Metadata
7 2 (1.77%) MySQL
7 2 (1.77%) Redis
7 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.88%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (29.20%) Git
2 22 (19.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.54%) GitLab
4 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.77%) Grunt
5 2 (1.77%) gulp
5 2 (1.77%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Maven
5 2 (1.77%) webpack
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.88%) git-flow
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.85%) Finance
4 6 (5.31%) Law
5 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.65%) Electronics
6 3 (2.65%) Marketing
7 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (46.90%) Developer
2 27 (23.89%) Software Engineer
3 25 (22.12%) Senior
4 22 (19.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (18.58%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Engineering Manager
6 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (6.19%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (5.31%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.42%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (3.54%) Backend Developer
12 4 (3.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Lead
12 4 (3.54%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (51.33%) React
2 34 (30.09%) REST
3 27 (23.89%) AngularJS
4 24 (21.24%) Spring
5 21 (18.58%) CSS
5 21 (18.58%) Spring Boot
6 19 (16.81%) HTML
7 16 (14.16%) .NET
8 12 (10.62%) Vue
9 11 (9.73%) CSS3
9 11 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (9.73%) HTML5
9 11 (9.73%) Web Services
10 10 (8.85%) RESTful
11 9 (7.96%) Redux
12 8 (7.08%) GraphQL
13 7 (6.19%) ASP.NET
13 7 (6.19%) Kafka
13 7 (6.19%) Mustache
13 7 (6.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.96%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.77%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Robotics
6 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Windows
3 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.65%) CentOS
4 3 (2.65%) Debian
4 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (51.33%) Agile
1 58 (51.33%) CI/CD
2 55 (48.67%) Software Engineering
3 43 (38.05%) DevOps
4 35 (30.97%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (30.97%) Mentoring
5 30 (26.55%) Microservices
6 26 (23.01%) Scrum
7 20 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (16.81%) Kanban
8 19 (16.81%) TDD
9 13 (11.50%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (10.62%) User Experience
11 11 (9.73%) Coaching
11 11 (9.73%) Observability
11 11 (9.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.64%) JavaScript
2 51 (45.13%) TypeScript
3 36 (31.86%) Java
4 18 (15.93%) Python
4 18 (15.93%) SQL
5 9 (7.96%) C#
6 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.42%) PHP
7 3 (2.65%) Bash
7 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.77%) C
8 2 (1.77%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (30.09%) Terraform
2 19 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.39%) Ansible
4 4 (3.54%) Grafana
5 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.65%) Puppet
6 2 (1.77%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.88%) Argo
7 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.08%) Google
2 4 (3.54%) Pega
2 4 (3.54%) WSO2
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.65%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.77%) Freshdesk
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.88%) SAP