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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 600 791
Rank change year-on-year -52 +191 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 75 55 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.12% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66 44 89
10th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +17.27% -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 85,613 39,653 91,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,627 23,002 67,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -52 63 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home +78 50 £70,000 +16.67% 1
UK excluding London -31 41 £65,000 +0.78% 1
London -19 25 £100,000 +11.11% 2
North of England -34 16 £70,000 +33.33% 1
North West +18 14 £70,000 +33.33%
Midlands -22 12 £60,000 -2.04%
East Midlands - 11 £60,000 -
South East -20 7 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Yorkshire -45 2 £80,000 -
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
West Midlands -23 1 £85,000 +38.78%

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 56 (74.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (50.67%) TypeScript
4 35 (46.67%) React
5 26 (34.67%) AWS
6 25 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 20 (26.67%) AI
7 20 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 20 (26.67%) JavaScript
7 20 (26.67%) SaaS
8 17 (22.67%) Amazon S3
8 17 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (22.67%) Python
8 17 (22.67%) Serverless
9 16 (21.33%) Computer Science
10 15 (20.00%) Degree
10 15 (20.00%) Git
10 15 (20.00%) SQL
11 12 (16.00%) Product Vision
12 11 (14.67%) HTML
12 11 (14.67%) Microservices
12 11 (14.67%) RESTful
13 10 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven
13 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (13.33%) Next.js
13 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (12.00%) DevOps
14 9 (12.00%) Observability
15 8 (10.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility

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%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) AWS
2 20 (26.67%) SaaS
3 17 (22.67%) Amazon S3
3 17 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (22.67%) Serverless
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.67%) Azure
8 1 (1.33%) Apigee
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.33%) Datadog
8 1 (1.33%) GCP
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.67%) Redis
3 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) 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 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Retail
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (100.00%) Node.js
2 35 (46.67%) React
3 11 (14.67%) HTML
3 11 (14.67%) RESTful
4 10 (13.33%) Next.js
5 8 (10.67%) GraphQL
5 8 (10.67%) Vue
6 7 (9.33%) NestJS
6 7 (9.33%) Redux
7 5 (6.67%) CSS
8 3 (4.00%) WebAssembly
9 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.33%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.33%) Drools
10 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
10 1 (1.33%) Jest
10 1 (1.33%) Middleware
10 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) PropTech
3 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (74.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 20 (26.67%) AI
3 20 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 16 (21.33%) Computer Science
5 12 (16.00%) Product Vision
6 11 (14.67%) Microservices
7 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 10 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (12.00%) DevOps
8 9 (12.00%) Observability
9 8 (10.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
9 8 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.33%) Analytics
10 7 (9.33%) B2B
11 5 (6.67%) Code Coverage
11 5 (6.67%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.67%) TypeScript
2 20 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.67%) Python
4 15 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
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 2 (2.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.33%) Prometheus