Next.js Job Trends

Next.js
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Next.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 478 536
Rank change year-on-year +4 +58 +113
Permanent jobs citing Next.js 170 236 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% 2.03% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 121 150 155
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,313 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Next.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 7,052 11,638 13,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.44% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,256 6,862 10,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £41,039
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Next.js
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Next.js job vacancy trend in the UK

Next.js
Salary Trend

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

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

Next.js
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Next.js over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Next.js in the UK

Next.js
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Next.js within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +22 147 £70,000 -3.45% 338
Work from Home +33 83 £67,500 -3.57% 136
UK excluding London +15 82 £60,000 -7.69% 312
London +27 77 £77,500 -11.43% 72
North of England +3 30 £70,000 +33.33% 61
South East +21 23 £60,000 -7.69% 97
Yorkshire -9 16 £80,000 +60.00% 25
North West +14 14 £58,750 - 28
Scotland -7 9 £54,797 +4.38% 16
Northern Ireland - 9 £80,000 - 10
Midlands +6 7 £32,500 -43.23% 36
West Midlands +15 6 £30,000 -60.00% 12
South West +5 3 £62,500 -8.79% 41
East of England +12 1 - - 44
East Midlands -3 1 £60,000 +51.90% 23

Next.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 12 (7.06%) CMS
2 7 (4.12%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) Liferay
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 2 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.18%) Sketch
3 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (35.29%) AWS
2 55 (32.35%) Azure
3 25 (14.71%) GitHub
4 23 (13.53%) Figma
5 20 (11.76%) SaaS
5 20 (11.76%) Serverless
6 18 (10.59%) GCP
7 14 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.24%) Vercel
8 12 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.71%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.94%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.94%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.35%) Firebase
11 4 (2.35%) Google Analytics
11 4 (2.35%) Sentry
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) MQTT
2 1 (0.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.65%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.29%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.53%) MySQL
8 5 (2.94%) Redis
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.35%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.18%) PostHog
11 1 (0.59%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.59%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.59%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.59%) Metabase
11 1 (0.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (15.29%) Git
1 26 (15.29%) Storybook
2 12 (7.06%) Vite
3 10 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 10 (5.88%) JIRA
4 8 (4.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.76%) GitLab
6 3 (1.76%) webpack
7 2 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.59%) Bower
8 1 (0.59%) ESLint
8 1 (0.59%) gulp
8 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.00%) Finance
3 18 (10.59%) Marketing
4 10 (5.88%) Retail
5 9 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.94%) Banking
7 4 (2.35%) Legal
7 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Billing
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.59%) Police
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.59%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 69 (40.59%) Developer
2 44 (25.88%) Senior
3 28 (16.47%) Software Engineer
4 26 (15.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (14.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 19 (11.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 18 (10.59%) Lead
8 17 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 13 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) Technical Leader
13 6 (3.53%) Mobile Developer
13 6 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 5 (2.94%) React Developer
14 5 (2.94%) Senior Manager
14 5 (2.94%) Senior Technical Manager
14 5 (2.94%) Technical Manager
15 4 (2.35%) .NET Developer
15 4 (2.35%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (67.65%) React
2 30 (17.65%) Node.js
3 29 (17.06%) .NET
4 22 (12.94%) CSS
4 22 (12.94%) GraphQL
5 20 (11.76%) RESTful
6 19 (11.18%) React Native
7 18 (10.59%) Jest
8 14 (8.24%) LangChain
9 13 (7.65%) Spring
10 12 (7.06%) HTML
10 12 (7.06%) REST
10 12 (7.06%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (6.47%) FastAPI
11 11 (6.47%) JSON
12 9 (5.29%) AngularJS
13 8 (4.71%) .NET Framework
13 8 (4.71%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.71%) Vue
14 7 (4.12%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.65%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.12%) AI Agents
4 7 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.12%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.18%) Animation
7 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) IoT
7 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.59%) Blog
8 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.59%) NHS
8 1 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Android
1 6 (3.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (50.59%) CI/CD
2 74 (43.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 62 (36.47%) Agile
4 61 (35.88%) Software Engineering
5 53 (31.18%) User Experience
6 52 (30.59%) DevOps
7 49 (28.82%) Front End Development
8 47 (27.65%) AI
9 42 (24.71%) Mentoring
10 39 (22.94%) Microservices
11 28 (16.47%) Clean Code
11 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.94%) Code Quality
13 21 (12.35%) Containerisation
13 21 (12.35%) E-Commerce
13 21 (12.35%) Test Automation
14 20 (11.76%) UX Design
15 19 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (11.18%) LLM
16 18 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (64.12%) TypeScript
2 48 (28.24%) JavaScript
3 40 (23.53%) Python
4 23 (13.53%) C#
5 19 (11.18%) Java
6 13 (7.65%) SQL
7 9 (5.29%) PHP
8 7 (4.12%) Go
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.59%) C
10 1 (0.59%) C++
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (8.82%) Degree
2 10 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 10 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.59%) Accessibility
2 16 (9.41%) QA
3 9 (5.29%) WCAG
4 4 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (17.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (16.47%) Terraform
2 23 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (9.41%) Google
2 13 (7.65%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.76%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.76%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.18%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) Apple
6 1 (0.59%) Foundry
6 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.59%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.59%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.59%) Okta
6 1 (0.59%) Pega
6 1 (0.59%) Remedy
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce