Node.js Developer Job Trends

Node.js Developer
UK

The median Node.js Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 770 645 695
Rank change year-on-year -125 +50 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 42 27 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.055% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.061% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 39 22 56
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £74,250
90th Percentile - £120,000 £85,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £43,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year +54.29% -31.37% +6.25%

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 109,200 44,128 68,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.77% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,173 25,691 39,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -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 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 12 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 12 October 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 -125 36 £80,000 -11.11% 17
UK excluding London -126 21 £67,500 +54.29% 10
London -66 15 £100,000 +9.59% 7
Work from Home -44 13 £70,000 - 11
Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 1
North of England -55 7 £67,500 +86.21% 6
North East - 5 £67,500 - 3
South East -45 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East Midlands - 4 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 4 £80,000 - 1
North West -30 2 £85,000 - 3
South West - 2 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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 42 (100.00%) Node.js
2 33 (78.57%) TypeScript
3 20 (47.62%) Microservices
4 15 (35.71%) Agile
4 15 (35.71%) AWS
4 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 15 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (33.33%) Docker
6 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 11 (26.19%) Git
7 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
8 10 (23.81%) Express.js
8 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
8 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (23.81%) React
9 9 (21.43%) REST
9 9 (21.43%) RESTful
9 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
9 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
9 9 (21.43%) Terraform
10 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (19.05%) Kafka
10 8 (19.05%) Serverless
10 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (16.67%) DevOps
11 7 (16.67%) Jest
11 7 (16.67%) Kong

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 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (19.05%) Serverless
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (16.67%) Kong
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (11.90%) AWS KMS
4 5 (11.90%) SaaS
5 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.76%) CloudFront
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure
8 1 (2.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (11.90%) DocumentDB
4 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (9.52%) Retail
4 3 (7.14%) Games
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) Node.js
2 10 (23.81%) Express.js
2 10 (23.81%) React
3 9 (21.43%) REST
3 9 (21.43%) RESTful
3 9 (21.43%) Terraform
4 8 (19.05%) Kafka
5 7 (16.67%) Jest
6 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 5 (11.90%) MEAN Stack
7 5 (11.90%) Nunjucks
8 4 (9.52%) Material-UI
8 4 (9.52%) NestJS
8 4 (9.52%) Redux
9 3 (7.14%) JWT
9 3 (7.14%) OAuth
9 3 (7.14%) OAuth2
10 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
10 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) PropTech
2 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Microservices
2 15 (35.71%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (11.90%) Clean Code
7 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (11.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (11.90%) Monorepo
7 5 (11.90%) SDLC
7 5 (11.90%) Service Delivery
7 5 (11.90%) Software Delivery
8 4 (9.52%) Analytics
8 4 (9.52%) E-Commerce
8 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) TypeScript
2 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) C#
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Confluent
1 5 (11.90%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.38%) Google