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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 185 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 -51 -22
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,179 856 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.74% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.88% 10.06% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 937 516 893
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,653 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.84% +6.84% -10.00%

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 11,936 8,510 16,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.32% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 5,452 10,637
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,438 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,222
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 21 September 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 -18 1,034 £72,500 -14.71% 1,096
UK excluding London +28 780 £68,653 +9.84% 490
Work from Home -18 600 £69,305 -25.08% 530
London -95 289 £85,000 -19.05% 663
North of England -38 263 £69,305 +2.67% 156
South East +64 233 £75,000 +30.43% 95
North West -74 120 £75,000 +7.14% 100
Midlands +27 98 £60,000 -12.73% 59
Yorkshire +8 80 £70,000 +3.70% 30
South West -19 71 £63,000 +9.57% 59
North East -4 63 £55,000 -18.52% 26
East of England -8 54 £60,000 +17.07% 55
Wales -26 54 £72,500 +20.94% 10
West Midlands -8 53 £60,000 -20.00% 40
East Midlands +8 45 £65,000 +13.04% 19
Scotland +19 7 £60,000 -50.00% 35

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 35 (2.97%) Confluence
2 23 (1.95%) CMS
3 21 (1.78%) Apache
4 15 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.93%) IIS
6 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.68%) WordPress
8 6 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.51%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.25%) DNN
10 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Kentico
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
10 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 641 (54.37%) AWS
2 428 (36.30%) Azure
3 235 (19.93%) GitHub
4 217 (18.41%) Serverless
5 170 (14.42%) SaaS
6 166 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
7 143 (12.13%) GCP
8 122 (10.35%) Amazon S3
9 115 (9.75%) Amazon ECS
10 111 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
11 97 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
13 77 (6.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 68 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
15 50 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
16 39 (3.31%) Datadog
17 35 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 29 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.78%) Broadband
2 16 (1.36%) Firewall
3 15 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.19%) DMARC
5 10 (0.85%) VPN
6 9 (0.76%) DNS
6 9 (0.76%) Internet
7 8 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.59%) AMQP
9 6 (0.51%) BGP
9 6 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.51%) IPsec
9 6 (0.51%) VoIP
10 4 (0.34%) HTTP
10 4 (0.34%) LAN
10 4 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.17%) MQTT
11 2 (0.17%) Network Security
12 1 (0.085%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.085%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (21.71%) MongoDB
2 174 (14.76%) PostgreSQL
3 149 (12.64%) Elasticsearch
4 144 (12.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 104 (8.82%) NoSQL
6 87 (7.38%) DynamoDB
7 65 (5.51%) Redis
8 58 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 54 (4.58%) MySQL
10 39 (3.31%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
11 27 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (1.10%) Big Data
13 13 (1.10%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.02%) DTS
15 11 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.93%) Db2
16 8 (0.68%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 146 (12.38%) Git
2 91 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 63 (5.34%) GitLab
4 53 (4.50%) Cypress.io
5 39 (3.31%) JIRA
6 16 (1.36%) Selenium
7 15 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.19%) Vite
9 12 (1.02%) JUnit
10 11 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.93%) Storybook
11 9 (0.76%) Postman
11 9 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.59%) Maven
12 7 (0.59%) Mocha
12 7 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 263 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 140 (11.87%) Finance
3 122 (10.35%) Public Sector
4 62 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (4.83%) Retail
6 36 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (2.29%) Marketing
8 19 (1.61%) Banking
8 19 (1.61%) Games
9 18 (1.53%) Law
10 11 (0.93%) Legal
10 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.85%) Advertising
11 10 (0.85%) Military
12 9 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.59%) Automotive
13 7 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 566 (48.01%) Developer
2 294 (24.94%) Senior
3 220 (18.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 217 (18.41%) Lead
5 187 (15.86%) Software Engineer
6 143 (12.13%) .NET Developer
7 106 (8.99%) Software Developer
8 103 (8.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 95 (8.06%) Senior Developer
10 86 (7.29%) Lead Developer
11 81 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
12 69 (5.85%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 67 (5.68%) Lead Software Developer
14 51 (4.33%) Node.js Developer
15 49 (4.16%) Architect
15 49 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 49 (4.16%) Software Manager
16 45 (3.82%) Development Manager
16 45 (3.82%) Software Development Manager
17 44 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (45.21%) React
2 257 (21.80%) .NET
3 184 (15.61%) AngularJS
4 175 (14.84%) Terraform
5 161 (13.66%) ASP.NET
6 154 (13.06%) .NET Core
7 150 (12.72%) CSS
8 149 (12.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 140 (11.87%) Vue
10 135 (11.45%) HTML
11 128 (10.86%) REST
12 104 (8.82%) Spring Boot
13 103 (8.74%) RESTful
14 100 (8.48%) Spring
15 83 (7.04%) Next.js
16 78 (6.62%) ASP.NET Web API
17 73 (6.19%) Jest
18 71 (6.02%) NestJS
19 65 (5.51%) Kafka
20 63 (5.34%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 197 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 69 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
4 42 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.61%) Mainframe
10 16 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.02%) PropTech
13 10 (0.85%) EPoS
13 10 (0.85%) IoT
13 10 (0.85%) iSeries
14 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.17%) Linux
2 28 (2.37%) Windows
3 19 (1.61%) Unix
4 15 (1.27%) Debian
4 15 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.59%) CentOS
5 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) AIX
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.25%) Android
7 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (49.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 536 (45.46%) CI/CD
3 506 (42.92%) Agile
4 427 (36.22%) Microservices
5 351 (29.77%) Software Engineering
6 332 (28.16%) DevOps
7 274 (23.24%) AI
8 245 (20.78%) Mentoring
9 200 (16.96%) Test Automation
10 169 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 159 (13.49%) Technical Leadership
13 155 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
14 154 (13.06%) Event-Driven
15 153 (12.98%) Scrum
16 151 (12.81%) Containerisation
17 134 (11.37%) Observability
18 130 (11.03%) TDD
19 112 (9.50%) Code Quality
20 109 (9.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 556 (47.16%) TypeScript
2 514 (43.60%) JavaScript
3 333 (28.24%) SQL
4 263 (22.31%) Python
5 260 (22.05%) C#
6 243 (20.61%) Java
7 66 (5.60%) Ruby
8 44 (3.73%) PHP
9 38 (3.22%) Kotlin
10 36 (3.05%) Go
11 27 (2.29%) Bash
12 12 (1.02%) C++
13 10 (0.85%) ABAP
13 10 (0.85%) RPG
14 9 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.51%) C
15 6 (0.51%) COBOL
16 4 (0.34%) Bicep
16 4 (0.34%) Rust
16 4 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 96 (8.14%) Degree
3 75 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.25%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.25%) OCP
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.085%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.45%) QA
2 67 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 43 (3.65%) WCAG
4 22 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.10%) GDPR
5 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.59%) GRC
7 6 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.51%) NCSC
7 6 (0.51%) NIST
8 5 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 285 (24.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 213 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.05%) Ansible
3 23 (1.95%) Grafana
4 20 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.53%) Argo
6 11 (0.93%) Puppet
7 7 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.51%) Podman
9 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
9 4 (0.34%) linkerd
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 213 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.90%) Google
3 37 (3.14%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.53%) SAP
5 16 (1.36%) IBM
5 16 (1.36%) Oracle
6 15 (1.27%) Adobe
7 14 (1.19%) SendGrid
8 12 (1.02%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.76%) iManage
10 9 (0.76%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.59%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 7 (0.59%) Splunk
12 6 (0.51%) HP
12 6 (0.51%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.42%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.42%) Databricks