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 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 618 746
Rank change year-on-year -2 +128 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 56 51 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.11% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.12% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 45 44 68
10th Percentile £48,000 £49,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +13.91% -23.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £125,000 £95,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +21.90% -12.50%

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 65,777 41,647 74,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 91.11% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,594 22,804 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £39,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,624
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%

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 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 13 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 5 March 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 -3 47 £70,000 +6.06% 23
Work from Home +51 37 £70,000 +14.29% 19
UK excluding London +4 33 £65,000 +1.56% 16
London +23 18 £92,500 -3.90% 11
Midlands +6 12 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -14 12 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North of England -22 10 £70,000 +33.33% 7
North West -7 8 £70,000 +33.33% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 - 1
South East -28 3 £70,000 +7.69% 6
South West - 2 £43,750 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £57,500 -
East of England - 2 £45,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 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 56 (100.00%) Node.js
2 38 (67.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (44.64%) React
3 25 (44.64%) Software Engineering
4 23 (41.07%) JavaScript
4 23 (41.07%) TypeScript
5 21 (37.50%) AWS
6 20 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 20 (35.71%) Python
7 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (32.14%) Serverless
8 17 (30.36%) AI
8 17 (30.36%) Amazon S3
8 17 (30.36%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (28.57%) SQL
10 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
10 13 (23.21%) HTML
10 13 (23.21%) Mentoring
11 12 (21.43%) Degree
12 11 (19.64%) SaaS
13 10 (17.86%) NestJS
14 9 (16.07%) Git
14 9 (16.07%) Microservices
14 9 (16.07%) Redis
15 8 (14.29%) Agile
16 7 (12.50%) Code Coverage
16 7 (12.50%) GitHub
16 7 (12.50%) Mathematics
16 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
16 7 (12.50%) Physics

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 2 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) JBoss
2 1 (1.79%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) AWS
2 18 (32.14%) Serverless
3 17 (30.36%) Amazon S3
3 17 (30.36%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (19.64%) SaaS
5 7 (12.50%) GitHub
6 4 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (5.36%) Azure
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.57%) Firebase
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.79%) Apigee
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.79%) GCP
9 1 (1.79%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Redis
2 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) ESLint
3 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Selenium
4 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Back Office
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (100.00%) Node.js
2 25 (44.64%) React
3 13 (23.21%) HTML
4 10 (17.86%) NestJS
5 6 (10.71%) CSS
5 6 (10.71%) RESTful
6 5 (8.93%) Next.js
7 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.36%) Vue
7 3 (5.36%) WebAssembly
8 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.57%) Web Services
9 1 (1.79%) Drools
9 1 (1.79%) Express.js
9 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.79%) Jest
9 1 (1.79%) Redux
9 1 (1.79%) REST
9 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.57%) IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (44.64%) Software Engineering
3 20 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (30.36%) AI
6 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
6 13 (23.21%) Mentoring
7 9 (16.07%) Microservices
8 8 (14.29%) Agile
9 7 (12.50%) Code Coverage
9 7 (12.50%) Mathematics
9 7 (12.50%) Physics
10 5 (8.93%) API Development
10 5 (8.93%) Change Management
10 5 (8.93%) Clean Code
10 5 (8.93%) DevOps
10 5 (8.93%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (8.93%) Product Vision
10 5 (8.93%) SDLC
11 4 (7.14%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) JavaScript
1 23 (41.07%) TypeScript
2 20 (35.71%) Python
3 16 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Java
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) Groovy
7 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Grafana
1 3 (5.36%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus