Node
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 133 126
Rank change year-on-year -58 -7 -40
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 965 1,078 2,168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.47% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.75% 12.48% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 779 716 1,574
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,617 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.92%
75th Percentile £95,625 £93,778 £81,250
90th Percentile £108,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Node.js falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,976 8,636 20,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 19.75% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,606 6,233 15,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Node.js job vacancy trend in the UK

Node.js
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -58 858 £75,000 +7.14% 332
UK excluding London -57 551 £69,310 +10.90% 226
Work from Home -40 430 £70,000 -3.45% 194
London -23 323 £90,000 - 122
North of England -61 201 £70,000 - 71
South East -7 134 £75,000 +36.36% 62
North West -78 105 £75,000 - 35
Midlands +7 100 £62,500 - 39
Yorkshire -24 76 £70,000 +3.70% 21
East Midlands +15 65 £67,000 +3.08% 24
South West -71 53 £56,250 -6.25% 32
West Midlands -30 35 £60,000 -2.04% 15
East of England -27 28 £47,500 -15.56% 16
North East -27 20 £51,000 -11.30% 15
Northern Ireland - 17 £90,000 - 1
Wales -26 13 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -16 10 £60,000 +9.09% 5

Node.js
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 16 (1.66%) CMS
2 14 (1.45%) Confluence
3 13 (1.35%) IIS
4 12 (1.24%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.62%) Apache
7 6 (0.62%) JBoss
8 5 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
9 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.21%) InVision
4 2 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 550 (56.99%) AWS
2 255 (26.42%) Azure
3 190 (19.69%) Serverless
4 148 (15.34%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (14.09%) GCP
6 127 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 127 (13.16%) GitHub
7 110 (11.40%) SaaS
8 80 (8.29%) Amazon ECS
9 65 (6.74%) Amazon SQS
9 65 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (2.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 28 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 27 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.69%) Datadog
16 25 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.66%) Broadband
2 9 (0.93%) AMQP
3 8 (0.83%) Firewall
4 5 (0.52%) SSH
5 3 (0.31%) HTTP
5 3 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.31%) Internet
5 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.21%) DNS
6 2 (0.21%) DSL
6 2 (0.21%) Multicast
6 2 (0.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.10%) CTI
7 1 (0.10%) DMARC
7 1 (0.10%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (14.82%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 83 (8.60%) NoSQL
4 62 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 59 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (4.35%) MySQL
8 39 (4.04%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.80%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (2.49%) Redis
12 17 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.66%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.83%) Neo4j
16 7 (0.73%) DB2
17 5 (0.52%) GIS
17 5 (0.52%) Power BI
18 4 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
18 4 (0.41%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 124 (12.85%) Git
2 78 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.73%) GitLab
5 23 (2.38%) JIRA
6 18 (1.87%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.35%) Selenium
8 11 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.04%) Storybook
10 8 (0.83%) Vite
11 5 (0.52%) Maven
11 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.31%) Babel
12 3 (0.31%) ESLint
12 3 (0.31%) JUnit
12 3 (0.31%) rollup.js
13 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 184 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 126 (13.06%) Finance
3 53 (5.49%) Front Office
4 52 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.38%) Law
7 21 (2.18%) Retail
8 15 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.35%) Banking
10 11 (1.14%) Marketing
10 11 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.73%) Legal
13 6 (0.62%) Advertising
13 6 (0.62%) Games
14 5 (0.52%) Electronics
15 4 (0.41%) Automotive
15 4 (0.41%) Local Government
15 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 513 (53.16%) Developer
2 243 (25.18%) Senior
3 226 (23.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 190 (19.69%) Software Engineer
5 159 (16.48%) Lead
6 114 (11.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 98 (10.16%) Senior Developer
8 90 (9.33%) Lead Developer
9 77 (7.98%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.53%) Java Developer
11 60 (6.22%) React Developer
11 60 (6.22%) Software Developer
12 59 (6.11%) Lead Software Developer
13 53 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 47 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
15 46 (4.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 44 (4.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (4.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 43 (4.46%) .NET Developer
18 42 (4.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (57.62%) React
2 148 (15.34%) .NET
3 123 (12.75%) CSS
4 114 (11.81%) HTML
5 112 (11.61%) AngularJS
6 105 (10.88%) Vue
7 100 (10.36%) REST
8 83 (8.60%) RESTful
9 72 (7.46%) Redux
10 71 (7.36%) GraphQL
11 64 (6.63%) Kafka
12 61 (6.32%) .NET Core
13 58 (6.01%) ASP.NET
14 52 (5.39%) Next.js
15 50 (5.18%) Spring
16 48 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 48 (4.97%) NestJS
17 47 (4.87%) Spring Boot
18 43 (4.46%) Jest
19 42 (4.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.97%) Fixed Income
3 41 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.76%) Derivative
9 17 (1.76%) IoT
10 16 (1.66%) Equities
11 13 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.62%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.62%) PropTech
16 5 (0.52%) Data Centre
16 5 (0.52%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.87%) Linux
2 30 (3.11%) Windows
3 20 (2.07%) Unix
4 8 (0.83%) Android
4 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.62%) CentOS
6 4 (0.41%) Debian
6 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.21%) Rocky
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (52.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 351 (36.37%) CI/CD
3 338 (35.03%) Software Engineering
4 315 (32.64%) Agile
5 260 (26.94%) Microservices
6 246 (25.49%) DevOps
7 191 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 149 (15.44%) AI
9 148 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (11.50%) Test Automation
13 100 (10.36%) Containerisation
14 98 (10.16%) Scrum
15 90 (9.33%) Computer Science
16 74 (7.67%) Technical Leadership
17 69 (7.15%) Observability
18 68 (7.05%) TDD
19 61 (6.32%) User Experience
20 60 (6.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 476 (49.33%) JavaScript
2 475 (49.22%) TypeScript
3 235 (24.35%) Python
4 219 (22.69%) Java
5 171 (17.72%) SQL
6 123 (12.75%) C#
7 63 (6.53%) Go
8 37 (3.83%) Ruby
9 36 (3.73%) Kotlin
10 32 (3.32%) PHP
11 24 (2.49%) Bash
12 16 (1.66%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.73%) Scala
14 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.52%) Rust
16 4 (0.41%) C
16 4 (0.41%) C++
17 3 (0.31%) Groovy
17 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 92 (9.53%) Degree
2 66 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.59%) Accessibility
1 25 (2.59%) QA
2 6 (0.62%) WCAG
3 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.41%) SLA
5 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (20.10%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Firmware
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (15.44%) Terraform
2 134 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.11%) Ansible
4 27 (2.80%) Argo
5 15 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.35%) Grafana
7 12 (1.24%) Podman
8 5 (0.52%) Nagios
8 5 (0.52%) Puppet
9 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.21%) Packer
11 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 36 (3.73%) Google
3 13 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 12 (1.24%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 8 (0.83%) Adobe
8 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.62%) Oracle
9 4 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.31%) Aderant
10 3 (0.31%) iManage
10 3 (0.31%) Intapp
10 3 (0.31%) Pega
10 3 (0.31%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) SendGrid
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.31%) Splunk