Node.js Job Trends in the South East

Node
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 144 123
Rank change year-on-year -20 -21 -27
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 135 138 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.94% 1.79% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.93% 11.64% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 114 95 205
10th Percentile £50,000 £27,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £31,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £83,750
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,359 1,186 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.46% 15.36% 18.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 841 2,462
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £83,750 £84,875
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% +10.40% -11.11%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the South East

Node.js
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the South East

Node.js
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley +22 52 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Hampshire -12 42 £75,000 +33.33% 9
Berkshire +15 34 £75,000 +27.12% 7
Surrey -25 25 £100,000 +53.85% 13
Oxfordshire -2 12 £78,750 +43.18% 2
West Sussex -13 7 £100,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire -4 6 £72,500 - 2
Kent -30 6 £53,750 -23.21% 3
East Sussex -36 1 £80,000 +166.67%
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (5.93%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.89%) AWS
2 51 (37.78%) SaaS
3 23 (17.04%) Azure
4 12 (8.89%) GitHub
5 8 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.93%) Serverless
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (2.96%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.22%) Figma
8 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.48%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.48%) GCP
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.48%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (1.48%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (12.59%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (8.89%) MySQL
5 10 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.44%) Redis
8 3 (2.22%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Git
2 9 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.96%) JIRA
4 3 (2.22%) JUnit
4 3 (2.22%) Yeoman
5 2 (1.48%) Babel
5 2 (1.48%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) NUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (6.67%) Retail
2 8 (5.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (2.96%) Automotive
4 3 (2.22%) Finance
5 2 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.48%) Games
5 2 (1.48%) Marketing
6 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 95 (70.37%) Developer
2 52 (38.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (21.48%) Software Developer
4 27 (20.00%) Lead
5 26 (19.26%) Lead Developer
6 25 (18.52%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (15.56%) Lead Software Developer
8 19 (14.07%) Senior
9 17 (12.59%) .NET Developer
10 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.67%) Architect
11 9 (6.67%) Development Manager
11 9 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.67%) Software Architect
11 9 (6.67%) Software Development Manager
11 9 (6.67%) Software Manager
12 8 (5.93%) Chief Technology Officer
12 8 (5.93%) Java Developer
13 7 (5.19%) Node.js Developer
14 6 (4.44%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (38.52%) React
2 37 (27.41%) .NET
3 20 (14.81%) ASP.NET
4 19 (14.07%) NestJS
5 18 (13.33%) REST
6 17 (12.59%) .NET Core
6 17 (12.59%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (11.11%) Vue
8 14 (10.37%) AngularJS
9 9 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (5.93%) Blazor
10 8 (5.93%) CSS
10 8 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.93%) HTML
10 8 (5.93%) Mustache
10 8 (5.93%) Spring
10 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.19%) Redux
11 7 (5.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.48%) Robotics
3 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (25.19%) Agile
3 30 (22.22%) Microservices
4 19 (14.07%) Scrum
5 18 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.59%) Software Engineering
7 16 (11.85%) B2B
7 16 (11.85%) TDD
8 12 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.15%) DevOps
10 10 (7.41%) AI
11 9 (6.67%) BDD
11 9 (6.67%) Clean Code
11 9 (6.67%) Kanban
11 9 (6.67%) SDLC
12 8 (5.93%) Mentoring
13 7 (5.19%) Analytics
13 7 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (5.19%) Computer Science
13 7 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 68 (50.37%) JavaScript
2 60 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 35 (25.93%) C#
4 24 (17.78%) SQL
5 10 (7.41%) Java
6 9 (6.67%) Ruby
7 5 (3.70%) Python
8 1 (0.74%) ABAP
8 1 (0.74%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (7.41%) Degree
2 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.48%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.48%) Google
3 1 (0.74%) SAP
3 1 (0.74%) Workday