Node.js Developer Job Trends

Node.js Developer
UK

The median Node.js Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 590 780
Rank change year-on-year -53 +190 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 75 53 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.13% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 63 42 87
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,688 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -18.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,775 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +15.45% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 81,705 37,434 89,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,263 23,569 66,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Node.js Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Node.js Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Node.js Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Node.js Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Node.js Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Node.js Developer job vacancies in the UK

Node.js Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js Developer over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 -39 63 £70,000 +6.06% 11
Work from Home +48 51 £70,000 +16.67% 23
UK excluding London -49 43 £65,000 +2.36% 9
London -10 23 £85,000 -5.56% 5
North of England -57 17 £70,000 +33.33% 1
North West -17 15 £70,000 +33.33%
Midlands -26 13 £60,000 -2.04%
East Midlands - 12 £60,000 -
South East -42 5 £65,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 - 1
Yorkshire -55 2 £80,000 -
South West - 2 £43,750 - 2
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
West Midlands -27 1 £85,000 +38.78%

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, Node.js Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Node.js Developer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Node.js
2 59 (78.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (46.67%) React
4 33 (44.00%) TypeScript
5 30 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 27 (36.00%) AWS
7 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
8 22 (29.33%) AI
8 22 (29.33%) JavaScript
9 20 (26.67%) Python
10 19 (25.33%) Amazon S3
10 19 (25.33%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (25.33%) SaaS
10 19 (25.33%) Serverless
11 18 (24.00%) Computer Science
12 17 (22.67%) Degree
13 16 (21.33%) Git
13 16 (21.33%) SQL
14 13 (17.33%) HTML
14 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (16.00%) Product Vision
16 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
16 11 (14.67%) RESTful
17 10 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (13.33%) NestJS
17 10 (13.33%) Next.js
17 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
18 9 (12.00%) DevOps
18 9 (12.00%) Microservices
18 9 (12.00%) Observability

Node.js Developer Skill Set
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 1 (1.33%) CMS
1 1 (1.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Amazon S3
2 19 (25.33%) AWS Lambda
2 19 (25.33%) SaaS
2 19 (25.33%) Serverless
3 8 (10.67%) GitHub
4 4 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.00%) Azure
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.33%) Apigee
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.33%) Firebase
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) Redis
2 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.33%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) ESLint
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) Maven
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.67%) Finance
3 4 (5.33%) Retail
4 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Back Office
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (100.00%) Node.js
2 35 (46.67%) React
3 13 (17.33%) HTML
4 11 (14.67%) RESTful
5 10 (13.33%) NestJS
5 10 (13.33%) Next.js
6 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
6 8 (10.67%) Vue
7 6 (8.00%) CSS
8 4 (5.33%) Redux
9 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.00%) WebAssembly
10 1 (1.33%) Express.js
10 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
10 1 (1.33%) Jest
10 1 (1.33%) Middleware
10 1 (1.33%) REST
10 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.33%) Web Services
10 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (78.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
4 22 (29.33%) AI
5 18 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.00%) Product Vision
8 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (12.00%) DevOps
10 9 (12.00%) Microservices
10 9 (12.00%) Observability
11 8 (10.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
11 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (9.33%) Code Coverage
12 7 (9.33%) Mathematics
12 7 (9.33%) Physics
13 6 (8.00%) Agile
14 5 (6.67%) Change Management
14 5 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) TypeScript
2 22 (29.33%) JavaScript
3 20 (26.67%) Python
4 16 (21.33%) SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Degree
2 10 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus