Node.js Developer Job Trends

Node.js Developer
UK

The median Node.js Developer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 714 703
Rank change year-on-year +70 -11 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 30 77 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.099% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22 63 70
10th Percentile £55,425 £45,000 £48,625
25th Percentile £59,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £74,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £78,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.88% +6.67% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,309 74,419 56,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.24% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,050 44,613 44,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Node.js Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Node.js Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js Developer 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 9 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 19 September 2025. 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 +64 26 £90,000 +35.85% 11
London +69 17 £91,250 +17.74% 4
UK excluding London +63 10 £50,000 -21.88% 7
Work from Home +58 9 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North of England +10 8 £37,500 -46.43% 2
North West +4 6 - - 2
Yorkshire 0 2 £37,500 -42.31%
South East +38 1 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Wales +21 1 £50,000 +42.86%

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Node.js Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Node.js Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Node.js
2 28 (93.33%) TypeScript
3 20 (66.67%) AWS
3 20 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
5 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
6 15 (50.00%) Azure
7 13 (43.33%) Microservices
8 12 (40.00%) Front End Development
8 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (36.67%) User Experience
9 11 (36.67%) RESTful
9 11 (36.67%) Docker
10 10 (33.33%) MongoDB
10 10 (33.33%) MySQL
10 10 (33.33%) Agile
10 10 (33.33%) React
10 10 (33.33%) GCP
11 9 (30.00%) GraphQL
12 8 (26.67%) Serverless
13 7 (23.33%) Code Quality
13 7 (23.33%) Firebase
13 7 (23.33%) CMS
13 7 (23.33%) SQL
13 7 (23.33%) Web Services
13 7 (23.33%) Back Office
13 7 (23.33%) Finance
13 7 (23.33%) DevOps
13 7 (23.33%) Mentoring

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (33.33%) GCP
4 8 (26.67%) Serverless
5 7 (23.33%) Firebase
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub
6 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (13.33%) Twilio
8 4 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (6.67%) SaaS
11 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) MQTT
1 4 (13.33%) SMS
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 10 (33.33%) MySQL
3 7 (23.33%) Redis
4 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.33%) Power BI
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Mocha
3 1 (3.33%) Sinon.JS
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (23.33%) Back Office
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) Node.js
2 11 (36.67%) RESTful
3 10 (33.33%) React
4 9 (30.00%) GraphQL
5 7 (23.33%) Web Services
6 6 (20.00%) Express.js
7 5 (16.67%) WebSockets
8 4 (13.33%) gRPC
8 4 (13.33%) Middleware
8 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (13.33%) React Native
8 4 (13.33%) Sequelize
8 4 (13.33%) Svelte
9 1 (3.33%) .NET
9 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
9 1 (3.33%) koa
9 1 (3.33%) Redux
9 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 13 (43.33%) Microservices
4 12 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (36.67%) User Experience
6 10 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (23.33%) Code Quality
7 7 (23.33%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Secure Coding
8 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.67%) Product Management
10 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
10 4 (13.33%) Data Science
10 4 (13.33%) TDD
10 4 (13.33%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) TypeScript
2 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Qualys