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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 740 638 736
Rank change year-on-year -102 +98 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 58 41 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.082% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.091% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 54 27 67
10th Percentile £53,250 £56,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £74,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £80,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% -

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -102 50 £72,500 -19.44% 11
UK excluding London -86 30 £67,500 +22.73% 6
Work from Home -11 23 £70,000 +3.70% 6
London -52 19 £100,000 +11.11% 6
North of England -45 14 £70,000 +86.67% 1
North West -13 11 £70,000 -
Midlands -37 7 £80,000 +33.33% 3
South East -37 6 £65,000 +4.00% 2
West Midlands -19 5 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North East -59 2 £67,500 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £50,000 - 2
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
Yorkshire -43 1 - -
South West - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 58 (100.00%) Node.js
2 42 (72.41%) TypeScript
3 30 (51.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (32.76%) React
5 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 18 (31.03%) Microservices
6 17 (29.31%) AWS
7 15 (25.86%) Git
8 13 (22.41%) Event-Driven
8 13 (22.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (20.69%) Agile
9 12 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
10 11 (18.97%) SaaS
11 10 (17.24%) DevOps
11 10 (17.24%) Docker
11 10 (17.24%) RESTful
12 8 (13.79%) Observability
12 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
12 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
13 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
13 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (12.07%) Degree
13 7 (12.07%) Next.js
13 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (12.07%) Product Vision
13 7 (12.07%) Serverless
13 7 (12.07%) Terraform
14 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3

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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) SaaS
3 7 (12.07%) Serverless
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.90%) Kong
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.45%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.45%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.72%) Datadog
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.62%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) Mocha
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Retail
3 3 (5.17%) Games
3 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) Node.js
2 19 (32.76%) React
3 10 (17.24%) RESTful
4 7 (12.07%) Next.js
4 7 (12.07%) Terraform
5 6 (10.34%) Express.js
5 6 (10.34%) Redux
6 5 (8.62%) GraphQL
6 5 (8.62%) Kafka
6 5 (8.62%) NestJS
6 5 (8.62%) REST
6 5 (8.62%) Vue
7 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.90%) Jest
8 3 (5.17%) JWT
8 3 (5.17%) OAuth
8 3 (5.17%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.45%) Material-UI
9 2 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
1 11 (18.97%) PropTech
2 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 18 (31.03%) Microservices
3 13 (22.41%) Event-Driven
3 13 (22.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 12 (20.69%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) DevOps
6 8 (13.79%) Observability
6 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
7 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (12.07%) Product Vision
8 6 (10.34%) Analytics
8 6 (10.34%) B2B
8 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.62%) AI
9 5 (8.62%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 5 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (6.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (72.41%) TypeScript
2 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.45%) Confluent
1 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.72%) Google