Node.js Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Node
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 269 131 129
Rank change year-on-year -138 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 262 752 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 2.09% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 10.73% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 221 381 629
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,886 7,008 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.51% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 3,898 6,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Node.js job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -19 113 £60,000 -11.11% 127
Yorkshire -3 55 £60,000 +9.09% 50
Midlands -28 52 £65,000 - 68
North West -2 50 £65,000 -13.33% 60
South East -118 40 £63,750 +15.91% 177
East Midlands -12 30 £65,000 +1.96% 42
West Midlands -26 22 £63,750 -8.93% 25
Northern Ireland -8 17 £90,000 +12.50% 16
South West -53 17 £65,000 +13.04% 75
Wales -10 12 £71,894 +62.13% 35
East of England -49 10 £55,000 +15.79% 90
North East -4 8 £50,000 -25.41% 17
Scotland -42 6 £77,415 +40.75% 23
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (4.58%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.91%) Apache Solr
2 5 (1.91%) CMS
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.76%) Drupal
4 2 (0.76%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.76%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (56.87%) AWS
2 71 (27.10%) Azure
3 68 (25.95%) Serverless
4 48 (18.32%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (17.56%) Amazon S3
6 39 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (11.07%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (9.54%) GitHub
9 21 (8.02%) GCP
10 20 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (7.25%) SaaS
12 15 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 6 (2.29%) Figma
17 6 (2.29%) npm
18 5 (1.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) AMQP
1 3 (1.15%) HTTP
1 3 (1.15%) SSH
2 2 (0.76%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.54%) DynamoDB
3 24 (9.16%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.49%) MySQL
5 14 (5.34%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.29%) Redis
9 5 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.15%) Big Data
10 3 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.76%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.76%) Metadata
11 2 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.38%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 51 (19.47%) Git
2 27 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.91%) GitLab
3 5 (1.91%) JIRA
4 4 (1.53%) Babel
4 4 (1.53%) rollup.js
4 4 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.76%) Grunt
5 2 (0.76%) gulp
5 2 (0.76%) JUnit
5 2 (0.76%) Maven
5 2 (0.76%) webpack
6 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.38%) git-flow
6 1 (0.38%) Mockito
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.16%) Finance
3 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.82%) Marketing
7 7 (2.67%) Law
8 5 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.15%) Electronics
9 3 (1.15%) Games
10 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 126 (48.09%) Developer
2 52 (19.85%) Software Engineer
3 51 (19.47%) Senior
4 49 (18.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (12.60%) Lead
6 27 (10.31%) Software Developer
7 25 (9.54%) Architect
7 25 (9.54%) Senior Developer
8 23 (8.78%) Java Developer
9 22 (8.40%) Node.js Developer
10 21 (8.02%) Technical Architect
11 18 (6.87%) React Developer
12 12 (4.58%) AWS Developer
13 11 (4.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.82%) Engineering Manager
14 10 (3.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.82%) JavaScript Developer
15 9 (3.44%) Lead Developer
16 8 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (62.60%) React
2 55 (20.99%) HTML
3 50 (19.08%) CSS
4 48 (18.32%) AngularJS
5 42 (16.03%) REST
6 30 (11.45%) Vue
7 29 (11.07%) Spring
8 28 (10.69%) .NET
9 23 (8.78%) Spring Boot
10 22 (8.40%) Django
11 21 (8.02%) RESTful
12 18 (6.87%) Next.js
13 17 (6.49%) Web Services
14 14 (5.34%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.96%) Kafka
16 12 (4.58%) ASP.NET
16 12 (4.58%) CSS3
16 12 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (4.58%) GraphQL
16 12 (4.58%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.44%) IoT
4 7 (2.67%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.15%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.11%) Linux
2 10 (3.82%) Windows
3 6 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.15%) CentOS
4 3 (1.15%) Debian
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.27%) Software Engineering
2 106 (40.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 99 (37.79%) CI/CD
4 85 (32.44%) Agile
5 81 (30.92%) DevOps
6 68 (25.95%) Mentoring
7 54 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (19.47%) Microservices
9 38 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (12.98%) AI
12 32 (12.21%) Scrum
13 24 (9.16%) User Experience
14 22 (8.40%) Kanban
14 22 (8.40%) Machine Learning
15 20 (7.63%) Containerisation
15 20 (7.63%) SDLC
15 20 (7.63%) TDD
15 20 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (7.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 138 (52.67%) JavaScript
2 95 (36.26%) TypeScript
3 77 (29.39%) Python
4 56 (21.37%) Java
5 50 (19.08%) SQL
6 31 (11.83%) C#
7 17 (6.49%) PHP
8 7 (2.67%) Bash
9 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.15%) C
12 2 (0.76%) ABAP
12 2 (0.76%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (7.25%) Degree
2 18 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.05%) QA
2 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (15.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (20.23%) Terraform
2 34 (12.98%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.11%) Ansible
4 6 (2.29%) Grafana
5 5 (1.91%) Argo
6 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.76%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (3.05%) Google
1 8 (3.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.29%) SAP
3 4 (1.53%) PagerDuty
3 4 (1.53%) Pega
3 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.53%) WSO2
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe
4 3 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.15%) Guidewire
4 3 (1.15%) Informatica
4 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.15%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.76%) Freshdesk
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle
5 2 (0.76%) Workday
6 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.38%) HubSpot