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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 150 126
Rank change year-on-year -41 -24 -29
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,002 973 2,226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.20% 2.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.74% 11.26% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 803 635 1,606
10th Percentile £47,174 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.52% - -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 9,328 8,641 21,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.07% 19.53% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,910 5,741 16,120
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -41 902 £75,000 +3.45% 457
UK excluding London -34 601 £69,310 +15.52% 253
Work from Home -19 469 £70,000 -6.67% 279
London -20 312 £90,000 -5.26% 234
North of England -48 238 £70,000 -3.45% 78
South East -2 144 £75,000 +36.36% 75
North West -69 118 £75,000 - 55
Yorkshire +2 92 £70,000 +3.70% 16
Midlands +4 90 £60,000 -2.04% 29
South West -62 60 £52,500 -12.50% 27
East Midlands +16 56 £67,500 -1.82% 14
East of England -16 37 £46,250 +32.14% 24
West Midlands -22 34 £60,000 - 15
North East -24 28 £52,065 -9.45% 7
Wales -29 22 £72,500 +41.06% 12
Scotland -2 7 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 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 19 (1.90%) Confluence
2 15 (1.50%) CMS
3 13 (1.30%) Apache
4 12 (1.20%) IIS
4 12 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.70%) JBoss
9 5 (0.50%) nginx
9 5 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.40%) WordPress
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.100%) Moodle
12 1 (0.100%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.30%) Blender
3 3 (0.30%) Maya
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.100%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 585 (58.38%) AWS
2 273 (27.25%) Azure
3 212 (21.16%) Serverless
4 168 (16.77%) AWS Lambda
5 140 (13.97%) Amazon S3
6 138 (13.77%) GitHub
7 131 (13.07%) GCP
8 112 (11.18%) SaaS
9 92 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
10 69 (6.89%) Amazon SQS
10 69 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 61 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 31 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
16 29 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.30%) Broadband
2 15 (1.50%) Firewall
3 8 (0.80%) AMQP
3 8 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.70%) DMARC
5 4 (0.40%) SSH
5 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.30%) DSL
6 3 (0.30%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.30%) Internet
6 3 (0.30%) VoIP
7 2 (0.20%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) HTTP
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) Multicast
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
7 2 (0.20%) WAN
8 1 (0.100%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.100%) MQTT
8 1 (0.100%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (15.67%) MongoDB
3 99 (9.88%) NoSQL
4 74 (7.39%) DynamoDB
5 69 (6.89%) Elasticsearch
6 57 (5.69%) MySQL
7 53 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (2.69%) Redis
10 27 (2.69%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.80%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
14 8 (0.80%) Neo4j
15 7 (0.70%) Db2
16 6 (0.60%) GIS
17 5 (0.50%) Big Data
17 5 (0.50%) DTS
Development Applications
1 125 (12.48%) Git
2 81 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 48 (4.79%) Cypress.io
4 39 (3.89%) GitLab
5 30 (2.99%) JIRA
6 16 (1.60%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.50%) Selenium
8 11 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.90%) Storybook
10 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.80%) Vite
11 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.50%) Maven
13 4 (0.40%) JUnit
13 4 (0.40%) Mocha
14 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.30%) ESLint
14 3 (0.30%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 192 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.78%) Finance
3 77 (7.68%) Public Sector
4 51 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (5.09%) Front Office
5 29 (2.89%) Retail
6 24 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.30%) Law
8 12 (1.20%) Marketing
9 10 (1.00%) Banking
9 10 (1.00%) Legal
9 10 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.90%) Advertising
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.70%) Automotive
11 7 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.50%) Games
14 4 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 507 (50.60%) Developer
2 253 (25.25%) Senior
3 216 (21.56%) Software Engineer
4 210 (20.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 178 (17.76%) Lead
6 111 (11.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 99 (9.88%) Senior Developer
8 91 (9.08%) Lead Developer
9 70 (6.99%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.29%) Lead Software Engineer
11 62 (6.19%) Java Developer
12 61 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (5.99%) Lead Software Developer
13 60 (5.99%) Software Developer
14 55 (5.49%) React Developer
15 54 (5.39%) .NET Developer
16 46 (4.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 45 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 43 (4.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
19 42 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 539 (53.79%) React
2 153 (15.27%) .NET
3 120 (11.98%) AngularJS
4 116 (11.58%) CSS
5 112 (11.18%) REST
6 105 (10.48%) HTML
7 95 (9.48%) Vue
8 94 (9.38%) RESTful
9 70 (6.99%) GraphQL
10 69 (6.89%) .NET Core
10 69 (6.89%) Redux
11 68 (6.79%) Kafka
12 66 (6.59%) ASP.NET
12 66 (6.59%) Spring
13 65 (6.49%) Spring Boot
14 58 (5.79%) ASP.NET Core
15 52 (5.19%) Next.js
16 50 (4.99%) Jest
17 48 (4.79%) NestJS
18 44 (4.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 133 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.79%) Fixed Income
3 39 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.49%) Mobile App
7 31 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.70%) Derivative
8 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.60%) Equities
10 15 (1.50%) IoT
11 14 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.80%) PropTech
15 6 (0.60%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.60%) Robotics
16 5 (0.50%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.49%) Linux
2 32 (3.19%) Windows
3 20 (2.00%) Unix
4 8 (0.80%) Debian
4 8 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.70%) CentOS
6 5 (0.50%) Android
6 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (49.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 390 (38.92%) CI/CD
3 368 (36.73%) Agile
4 348 (34.73%) Software Engineering
5 285 (28.44%) Microservices
6 270 (26.95%) DevOps
7 223 (22.26%) Mentoring
8 163 (16.27%) AI
9 149 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (13.37%) Test Automation
11 129 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 118 (11.78%) Containerisation
13 117 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 110 (10.98%) Scrum
15 92 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
16 91 (9.08%) TDD
17 83 (8.28%) Observability
18 80 (7.98%) Computer Science
18 80 (7.98%) Event-Driven
19 63 (6.29%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 477 (47.60%) TypeScript
2 475 (47.41%) JavaScript
3 239 (23.85%) Python
4 234 (23.35%) Java
5 206 (20.56%) SQL
6 133 (13.27%) C#
7 53 (5.29%) Go
8 41 (4.09%) Ruby
9 40 (3.99%) PHP
10 39 (3.89%) Kotlin
11 30 (2.99%) Bash
12 13 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.70%) C++
13 7 (0.70%) Scala
14 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.50%) Rust
16 4 (0.40%) Groovy
16 4 (0.40%) RPG
16 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.30%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 84 (8.38%) Degree
2 68 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.100%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.100%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.100%) HNC
11 1 (0.100%) HND
11 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.100%) PhD
11 1 (0.100%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 31 (3.09%) QA
3 12 (1.20%) WCAG
4 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.50%) GDPR
6 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.100%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.100%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.100%) NCSC
7 1 (0.100%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 196 (19.56%) Docker
2 4 (0.40%) Firmware
3 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (15.37%) Terraform
2 128 (12.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.39%) Ansible
4 22 (2.20%) Argo
5 20 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.90%) Grafana
7 12 (1.20%) Podman
8 6 (0.60%) Puppet
9 4 (0.40%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.40%) Nagios
10 3 (0.30%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) linkerd
11 2 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.100%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 85 (8.48%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.79%) Google
3 13 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 9 (0.90%) Adobe
4 9 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
4 9 (0.90%) Oracle
4 9 (0.90%) SendGrid
5 8 (0.80%) Atlassian
5 8 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.70%) Dynatrace
6 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
6 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.50%) iManage
7 5 (0.50%) SaltStack
7 5 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.40%) IBM
8 4 (0.40%) Splunk
9 3 (0.30%) Intapp
9 3 (0.30%) Pega
9 3 (0.30%) SAP