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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 126 123
Rank change year-on-year -78 -3 -35
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 904 1,012 2,176
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.41% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.37% 11.77% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 732 742 1,565
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,733 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,125 £111,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +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 8,719 8,599 20,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 20.50% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,379 6,520 15,649
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -82 795 £75,000 +7.14% 298
UK excluding London -91 491 £70,000 +12.00% 207
Work from Home -61 373 £72,500 - 194
London -34 328 £92,500 +5.71% 122
North of England -38 185 £70,000 - 55
Midlands -10 99 £64,000 +0.39% 41
North West -29 96 £75,000 - 35
South East -95 96 £75,000 +36.36% 53
Yorkshire -31 79 £70,000 +3.70% 11
East Midlands -5 62 £67,000 +3.08% 25
South West -85 50 £60,000 - 27
West Midlands -27 37 £60,000 -2.04% 16
East of England -62 20 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland -23 19 £90,000 - 8
Wales -17 16 £68,958 +2.16% 3
Scotland -36 11 £60,000 +9.09% 9
North East -43 10 £52,500 -8.70% 9

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 14 (1.55%) CMS
2 12 (1.33%) Confluence
2 12 (1.33%) IIS
2 12 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.66%) Apache
5 6 (0.66%) JBoss
5 6 (0.66%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.44%) Appian
6 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.33%) WordPress
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) InVision
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 519 (57.41%) AWS
2 213 (23.56%) Azure
3 196 (21.68%) Serverless
4 155 (17.15%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (14.82%) GCP
6 125 (13.83%) Amazon S3
7 110 (12.17%) GitHub
8 101 (11.17%) SaaS
9 81 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
11 59 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (2.88%) Datadog
17 25 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 25 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (2.32%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) AMQP
1 12 (1.33%) Broadband
2 7 (0.77%) SSH
3 4 (0.44%) HTTP
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) DSL
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
4 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.22%) Internet
4 2 (0.22%) Multicast
4 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.11%) CTI
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (10.62%) MongoDB
3 83 (9.18%) NoSQL
4 64 (7.08%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.54%) MySQL
6 34 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.21%) Redis
11 18 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.88%) DB2
15 6 (0.66%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.55%) Big Data
16 5 (0.55%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.55%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 120 (13.27%) Git
2 71 (7.85%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.98%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.65%) JIRA
5 23 (2.54%) GitLab
6 18 (1.99%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.66%) Selenium
8 13 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.11%) Storybook
11 7 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.66%) Maven
13 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.44%) Babel
14 4 (0.44%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.44%) Vite
15 3 (0.33%) ESLint
15 3 (0.33%) JUnit
15 3 (0.33%) Mocha
15 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 180 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 131 (14.49%) Finance
3 52 (5.75%) Front Office
4 47 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.43%) Law
7 19 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.55%) Banking
9 11 (1.22%) Marketing
10 10 (1.11%) Retail
10 10 (1.11%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.88%) Advertising
11 8 (0.88%) Legal
11 8 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.77%) Electronics
13 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.44%) Local Government
15 3 (0.33%) Back Office
15 3 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 455 (50.33%) Developer
2 223 (24.67%) Senior
3 200 (22.12%) Full-Stack Developer
4 194 (21.46%) Software Engineer
5 151 (16.70%) Lead
6 112 (12.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 92 (10.18%) Senior Developer
8 77 (8.52%) Lead Developer
9 75 (8.30%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.97%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.75%) React Developer
12 53 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (5.42%) Software Developer
14 47 (5.20%) Lead Software Developer
15 46 (5.09%) Architect
15 46 (5.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 46 (5.09%) Lead Software Engineer
16 42 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 36 (3.98%) AWS Developer
17 36 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (58.85%) React
2 118 (13.05%) CSS
3 113 (12.50%) HTML
4 107 (11.84%) .NET
5 95 (10.51%) REST
6 91 (10.07%) AngularJS
6 91 (10.07%) Vue
7 90 (9.96%) RESTful
8 72 (7.96%) GraphQL
9 70 (7.74%) Kafka
10 69 (7.63%) Redux
11 52 (5.75%) Spring
12 47 (5.20%) NestJS
13 46 (5.09%) Next.js
14 44 (4.87%) Jest
14 44 (4.87%) Spring Boot
15 38 (4.20%) React Native
16 31 (3.43%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (3.21%) Django
18 28 (3.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (5.31%) Fixed Income
3 36 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.32%) Mobile App
6 27 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.99%) IoT
9 17 (1.88%) Derivative
10 16 (1.77%) Equities
11 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.77%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.66%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.55%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.55%) Mobile Payment
16 4 (0.44%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.76%) Linux
2 22 (2.43%) Windows
3 15 (1.66%) Unix
4 8 (0.88%) Android
4 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) CentOS
6 5 (0.55%) Debian
6 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) Rocky
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (49.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 341 (37.72%) Software Engineering
3 330 (36.50%) CI/CD
4 286 (31.64%) Agile
5 227 (25.11%) DevOps
6 219 (24.23%) Microservices
7 176 (19.47%) Mentoring
8 161 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (14.93%) AI
10 125 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 101 (11.17%) Test Automation
13 97 (10.73%) Containerisation
14 93 (10.29%) Computer Science
15 85 (9.40%) Scrum
16 71 (7.85%) User Experience
17 68 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
18 67 (7.41%) Observability
19 60 (6.64%) Clean Code
20 54 (5.97%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 459 (50.77%) JavaScript
2 442 (48.89%) TypeScript
3 235 (26.00%) Python
4 219 (24.23%) Java
5 130 (14.38%) SQL
6 81 (8.96%) C#
7 65 (7.19%) Go
8 36 (3.98%) Ruby
9 34 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 32 (3.54%) PHP
11 21 (2.32%) Bash
12 16 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.77%) Scala
13 7 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.66%) C
15 3 (0.33%) C++
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
15 3 (0.33%) Rust
15 3 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.22%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 94 (10.40%) Degree
2 65 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (4.98%) Security Cleared
4 37 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.22%) PhD
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.10%) Accessibility
2 26 (2.88%) QA
3 6 (0.66%) GDPR
3 6 (0.66%) WCAG
4 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.44%) SLA
5 3 (0.33%) PERC
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 176 (19.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (17.04%) Terraform
2 121 (13.38%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.21%) Ansible
4 23 (2.54%) Argo
5 12 (1.33%) Podman
5 12 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.22%) Grafana
7 6 (0.66%) Puppet
8 5 (0.55%) Nagios
9 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (4.20%) Google
2 36 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.44%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.22%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.00%) Adobe
6 9 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.00%) SAP
7 6 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.55%) Oracle
8 5 (0.55%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.44%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.33%) iManage
10 3 (0.33%) Mavenir
10 3 (0.33%) Pega
10 3 (0.33%) Splunk