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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 179 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 -46 -23
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,229 940 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.88% 1.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.50% 10.95% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 982 588 996
10th Percentile £45,456 £37,663 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -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 10,686 8,587 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 17.20% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 5,603 11,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -11 1,090 £73,750 -1.67% 549
UK excluding London +22 791 £67,500 +12.50% 276
Work from Home -10 620 £69,310 -14.70% 266
London -59 337 £86,250 -17.86% 302
North of England -18 277 £69,310 +2.68% 85
South East +62 234 £75,000 +39.53% 74
North West -46 136 £70,000 - 55
Midlands +29 99 £60,000 -2.04% 36
Yorkshire +2 88 £70,000 +3.70% 18
South West -33 67 £52,500 -12.50% 37
West Midlands -1 53 £60,000 - 22
Wales -10 53 £72,500 +4.69% 9
North East -12 53 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East of England -9 51 £55,000 +33.33% 19
East Midlands +14 46 £66,500 -5.00% 14
Scotland +14 10 £60,000 -30.43% 12

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 (2.85%) Confluence
2 19 (1.55%) CMS
3 17 (1.38%) Apache
4 16 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (1.14%) IIS
6 11 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.65%) JBoss
8 8 (0.65%) WordPress
9 4 (0.33%) nginx
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Kentico
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.24%) Sitefinity
10 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Blender
3 3 (0.24%) Maya
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 697 (56.71%) AWS
2 441 (35.88%) Azure
3 224 (18.23%) Serverless
4 215 (17.49%) GitHub
5 169 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 162 (13.18%) GCP
7 155 (12.61%) SaaS
8 129 (10.50%) Amazon S3
9 108 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
10 95 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
11 91 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
12 84 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 70 (5.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 68 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
19 31 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 29 (2.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.20%) Broadband
2 16 (1.30%) Firewall
3 13 (1.06%) DMARC
3 13 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.90%) DNS
5 10 (0.81%) VPN
6 7 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.57%) Internet
6 7 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.49%) BGP
7 6 (0.49%) IPsec
7 6 (0.49%) VoIP
8 5 (0.41%) HTTP
9 4 (0.33%) AMQP
9 4 (0.33%) LAN
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 3 (0.24%) VLAN
11 2 (0.16%) MQTT
11 2 (0.16%) Multicast
11 2 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (20.75%) MongoDB
2 184 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 107 (8.71%) NoSQL
6 88 (7.16%) DynamoDB
7 63 (5.13%) MySQL
8 60 (4.88%) SQL Server
9 55 (4.48%) Redis
10 33 (2.69%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
11 28 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.22%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (1.06%) DTS
14 11 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.90%) Db2
15 10 (0.81%) Big Data
15 10 (0.81%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 141 (11.47%) Git
2 90 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.80%) GitLab
4 57 (4.64%) Cypress.io
5 42 (3.42%) JIRA
6 18 (1.46%) Selenium
7 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.06%) JUnit
9 12 (0.98%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.81%) Storybook
11 9 (0.73%) Maven
11 9 (0.73%) Postman
12 8 (0.65%) Claude Code
12 8 (0.65%) Vite
13 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.41%) Mocha
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 259 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 166 (13.51%) Finance
3 118 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 59 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (4.48%) Retail
6 42 (3.42%) Front Office
7 38 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (2.36%) Law
9 23 (1.87%) Marketing
10 17 (1.38%) Legal
11 14 (1.14%) Banking
12 13 (1.06%) Games
13 10 (0.81%) Advertising
13 10 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.73%) Military
14 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.57%) Automotive
15 7 (0.57%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 617 (50.20%) Developer
2 289 (23.52%) Senior
3 233 (18.96%) Full-Stack Developer
4 228 (18.55%) Lead
5 214 (17.41%) Software Engineer
6 147 (11.96%) .NET Developer
7 116 (9.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 102 (8.30%) Senior Developer
9 97 (7.89%) Lead Developer
10 84 (6.83%) Software Developer
11 72 (5.86%) Lead Software Developer
12 71 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 62 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
14 61 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
15 58 (4.72%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 56 (4.56%) Architect
17 50 (4.07%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 50 (4.07%) Software Manager
18 45 (3.66%) Java Developer
19 43 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (48.98%) React
2 274 (22.29%) .NET
3 182 (14.81%) AngularJS
4 167 (13.59%) ASP.NET
5 163 (13.26%) .NET Core
6 154 (12.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (12.12%) Vue
8 143 (11.64%) CSS
9 133 (10.82%) REST
10 128 (10.41%) HTML
11 102 (8.30%) RESTful
12 99 (8.06%) Spring Boot
13 93 (7.57%) Spring
14 81 (6.59%) Next.js
15 78 (6.35%) ASP.NET Web API
15 78 (6.35%) GraphQL
15 78 (6.35%) Kafka
16 68 (5.53%) Jest
16 68 (5.53%) NestJS
17 64 (5.21%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 188 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 58 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.09%) Fixed Income
7 36 (2.93%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.55%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.06%) Derivative
12 13 (1.06%) Equities
12 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.98%) PropTech
14 10 (0.81%) EPoS
14 10 (0.81%) iSeries
14 10 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.72%) Linux
2 30 (2.44%) Windows
3 18 (1.46%) Unix
4 9 (0.73%) Debian
4 9 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.49%) CentOS
6 4 (0.33%) AIX
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.24%) Android
7 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (51.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (43.37%) Agile
3 508 (41.33%) CI/CD
4 423 (34.42%) Microservices
5 388 (31.57%) Software Engineering
6 320 (26.04%) DevOps
7 261 (21.24%) Mentoring
8 254 (20.67%) AI
9 182 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 166 (13.51%) Scrum
11 159 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
12 157 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 151 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 150 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
15 144 (11.72%) Containerisation
16 141 (11.47%) Event-Driven
17 138 (11.23%) TDD
18 128 (10.41%) Observability
19 101 (8.22%) Code Quality
20 98 (7.97%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 574 (46.70%) TypeScript
2 561 (45.65%) JavaScript
3 331 (26.93%) SQL
4 276 (22.46%) Python
5 265 (21.56%) C#
6 263 (21.40%) Java
7 65 (5.29%) Ruby
8 55 (4.48%) Go
9 47 (3.82%) PHP
10 36 (2.93%) Kotlin
11 27 (2.20%) Bash
12 10 (0.81%) ABAP
12 10 (0.81%) C++
12 10 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 10 (0.81%) RPG
13 7 (0.57%) C
13 7 (0.57%) Scala
14 6 (0.49%) COBOL
15 5 (0.41%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 95 (7.73%) Degree
2 83 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.24%) OCP
13 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.081%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.13%) QA
2 59 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.93%) WCAG
4 21 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.73%) GDPR
6 8 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
7 6 (0.49%) NIST
8 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.081%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 261 (21.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.41%) Firmware
3 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 172 (14.00%) Terraform
3 33 (2.69%) Ansible
4 23 (1.87%) Grafana
5 22 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.98%) Podman
8 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.49%) Puppet
9 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 4 (0.33%) linkerd
9 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 207 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.07%) Google
3 28 (2.28%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.46%) SAP
5 16 (1.30%) IBM
5 16 (1.30%) Oracle
6 14 (1.14%) Adobe
7 13 (1.06%) SendGrid
8 12 (0.98%) iManage
8 12 (0.98%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.73%) Sitecore
10 7 (0.57%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.49%) HP
11 6 (0.49%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.49%) Splunk
12 5 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.41%) Databricks
13 4 (0.33%) SaltStack