Express.js Job Trends

Express.js
UK

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 645 541
Rank change year-on-year +19 -104 +148
Permanent jobs citing Express.js 23 66 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.12% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 0.57% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 106
10th Percentile £48,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £23,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £78,625 £73,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £112,500 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £27,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +136.36% -54.17% +10.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Express.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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Express.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Express.js relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Express.js job vacancy trend in the UK

Express.js
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Express.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Express.js

Express.js
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Express.js over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Express.js in the UK

Express.js
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Express.js within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +40 22 £75,000 +5.26% 56
London +68 15 £75,000 -15.73% 8
Work from Home +47 8 £55,000 -38.20% 11
UK excluding London -11 8 £65,000 +136.36% 57
North of England +8 5 £70,000 -3.45% 12
North West +23 2 £70,000 - 4
North East +9 2 £70,500 - 3
South East +26 1 £62,500 - 16
Wales -6 1 £50,000 +81.82% 6
South West -6 1 £42,500 -37.98% 8
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 5

Express.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (8.70%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) Figma
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.04%) npm
5 3 (13.04%) Sentry
6 2 (8.70%) Algolia
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Firebase
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (8.70%) Stripe
6 2 (8.70%) Yarn
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) DB2
3 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Storybook
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Git
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 3 (13.04%) TeamCity
5 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 2 (8.70%) Mocha
5 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.70%) webpack
6 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 13 (56.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Agile Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) Node.js
2 18 (78.26%) React
3 15 (65.22%) CSS
4 14 (60.87%) HTML
5 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
5 8 (34.78%) CSS3
5 8 (34.78%) HTML5
5 8 (34.78%) RESTful
6 7 (30.43%) NestJS
6 7 (30.43%) OpenAPI
7 5 (21.74%) GraphQL
7 5 (21.74%) React Native
7 5 (21.74%) Swagger
8 4 (17.39%) hapi
8 4 (17.39%) Jest
8 4 (17.39%) OAuth
8 4 (17.39%) REST
8 4 (17.39%) Vue
9 3 (13.04%) Bootstrap
9 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
2 7 (30.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Software Engineering
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (52.17%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) AI
5 7 (30.43%) Code Quality
5 7 (30.43%) DevOps
5 7 (30.43%) Front End Development
5 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
5 7 (30.43%) Microservices
5 7 (30.43%) SDLC
6 6 (26.09%) API Development
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (21.74%) Design Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (21.74%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) JavaScript
2 12 (52.17%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) RPG
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Google
2 6 (26.09%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) SendGrid
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce