Node.js Job Trends in the South West

Node
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -54 +34 +24
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 64 65 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.83% 2.31% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.08% 13.60% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 48 54 139
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,425 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,563 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,394 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 635 478 1,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.21% 17.00% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 485 361 1,502
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the South West

Node.js
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Node.js
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the South West

Node.js
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Gloucestershire -11 18 £52,500 +0.96% 7
Bristol -47 17 £67,500 +8.00% 7
Devon -22 8 £40,000 -27.27% 1
Wiltshire -12 7 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Somerset -30 5 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Cornwall - 3 - -
Dorset -10 1 £62,500 +47.06%
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (10.94%) CMS
2 6 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Headless CMS
3 2 (3.13%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) AWS
2 17 (26.56%) Azure
3 11 (17.19%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (17.19%) Serverless
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 9 (14.06%) GCP
5 9 (14.06%) GitHub
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (7.81%) npm
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (6.25%) DigitalOcean
8 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.69%) Cloud Run
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) Broadband
3 2 (3.13%) AMQP
3 2 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (1.56%) DHCP
4 1 (1.56%) MQTT
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) VoIP
4 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.69%) MongoDB
2 14 (21.88%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (14.06%) MySQL
3 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.13%) Big Data
6 2 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.56%) Power Query
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) GitLab
3 4 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.56%) git-flow
6 1 (1.56%) JIRA
6 1 (1.56%) Postman
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Games
3 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Social Housing
4 3 (4.69%) Tech for Good
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Developer
2 20 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 17 (26.56%) Senior
4 12 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (14.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) .NET Developer
8 5 (7.81%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (42.19%) React
2 19 (29.69%) Vue
3 12 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 11 (17.19%) REST
5 9 (14.06%) .NET
5 9 (14.06%) .NET Core
6 8 (12.50%) CSS
7 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET
7 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (10.94%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (7.81%) Blazor
8 5 (7.81%) Jest
8 5 (7.81%) RESTful
8 5 (7.81%) Sass
9 4 (6.25%) Laravel
9 4 (6.25%) Next.js
9 4 (6.25%) OAuth
9 4 (6.25%) OpenID
9 4 (6.25%) Spring
10 3 (4.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.25%) IoT
4 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.69%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) PropTech
6 1 (1.56%) Robotics
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) CentOS
2 2 (3.13%) Debian
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) CI/CD
2 28 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 27 (42.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.56%) Agile
6 14 (21.88%) DevOps
6 14 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 14 (21.88%) Test Automation
7 12 (18.75%) Microservices
8 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (14.06%) Front End Development
10 8 (12.50%) API Development
10 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.50%) CRM
10 8 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (12.50%) Scrum
11 7 (10.94%) AI
11 7 (10.94%) Web Development
12 6 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) TypeScript
2 29 (45.31%) JavaScript
3 24 (37.50%) Python
4 17 (26.56%) PHP
5 11 (17.19%) SQL
6 10 (15.63%) C#
7 9 (14.06%) Java
8 6 (9.38%) Bash
9 4 (6.25%) Scala
10 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (18.75%) Terraform
3 6 (9.38%) Ansible
4 4 (6.25%) Grafana
4 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.69%) Podman
6 2 (3.13%) Puppet
7 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Google
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.13%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) SAP