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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 118 124
Rank change year-on-year -90 +6 -35
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 857 1,066 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 2.60% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.07% 12.20% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 705 747 1,559
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 £92,245 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -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 8,514 8,737 19,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.29% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,240 6,604 15,522
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 7 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 7 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 -88 754 £75,820 +8.31% 326
UK excluding London -116 458 £70,000 +16.67% 217
Work from Home -77 352 £73,665 +1.61% 214
London -37 322 £92,500 +5.71% 141
North of England -46 175 £70,000 +3.70% 71
Midlands -10 92 £64,500 +3.20% 38
North West -34 90 £75,000 - 47
South East -113 87 £77,500 +40.91% 58
Yorkshire -28 78 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East Midlands -11 58 £66,000 +1.54% 12
South West -83 47 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -17 34 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -17 21 £82,500 - 1
East of England -68 16 £46,250 -19.57% 15
Wales -23 14 £68,958 +22.05% 8
Scotland -45 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -30 7 £52,500 -6.67% 8

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 15 (1.75%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.63%) CMS
3 10 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.17%) Confluence
3 10 (1.17%) IIS
3 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.82%) nginx
6 6 (0.70%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) Appian
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.35%) InVision
3 3 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 491 (57.29%) AWS
2 213 (24.85%) Azure
3 188 (21.94%) Serverless
4 144 (16.80%) AWS Lambda
5 133 (15.52%) GCP
6 117 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 103 (12.02%) GitHub
8 101 (11.79%) SaaS
9 79 (9.22%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (6.53%) Amazon SQS
11 55 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 23 (2.68%) Datadog
18 21 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
19 19 (2.22%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.40%) AMQP
2 10 (1.17%) SSH
3 6 (0.70%) Broadband
4 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) DSL
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) Multicast
5 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 73 (8.52%) NoSQL
4 55 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 42 (4.90%) MySQL
6 35 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 27 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.33%) Redis
10 16 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.63%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.17%) DB2
14 5 (0.58%) Big Data
14 5 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.47%) Power BI
15 4 (0.47%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 115 (13.42%) Git
2 75 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 37 (4.32%) Cypress.io
4 25 (2.92%) JIRA
5 17 (1.98%) Selenium
6 15 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 15 (1.75%) GitLab
7 12 (1.40%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.28%) Storybook
9 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.05%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.58%) Maven
11 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.47%) Babel
12 4 (0.47%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.47%) Vite
13 3 (0.35%) ESLint
13 3 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 183 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 126 (14.70%) Finance
3 52 (6.07%) Front Office
4 47 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.02%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.45%) Law
7 20 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.87%) Banking
9 12 (1.40%) Marketing
10 10 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.17%) Retail
10 10 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.93%) Electronics
11 8 (0.93%) Legal
12 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.70%) Advertising
14 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.47%) Back Office
14 4 (0.47%) Local Government
15 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 438 (51.11%) Developer
2 196 (22.87%) Senior
3 189 (22.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 183 (21.35%) Software Engineer
5 149 (17.39%) Lead
6 101 (11.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 86 (10.04%) Senior Developer
8 73 (8.52%) Lead Developer
9 72 (8.40%) Java Developer
10 69 (8.05%) Node.js Developer
11 61 (7.12%) React Developer
12 48 (5.60%) Architect
13 46 (5.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 46 (5.37%) Lead Software Engineer
14 45 (5.25%) Lead Software Developer
15 43 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (5.02%) Software Developer
16 39 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 34 (3.97%) AWS Developer
18 33 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (59.86%) React
2 123 (14.35%) CSS
3 118 (13.77%) HTML
4 103 (12.02%) .NET
5 99 (11.55%) REST
6 94 (10.97%) AngularJS
7 91 (10.62%) Vue
8 87 (10.15%) RESTful
9 67 (7.82%) GraphQL
9 67 (7.82%) Kafka
10 66 (7.70%) Redux
11 57 (6.65%) Spring
12 49 (5.72%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.37%) Next.js
14 45 (5.25%) NestJS
15 43 (5.02%) Jest
16 40 (4.67%) React Native
17 36 (4.20%) Django
18 31 (3.62%) .NET Core
19 28 (3.27%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 96 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.60%) Fixed Income
3 43 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.62%) Mobile App
4 31 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.33%) IoT
7 19 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.98%) Derivative
9 16 (1.87%) Equities
10 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.58%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.58%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.08%) Linux
2 14 (1.63%) Windows
3 8 (0.93%) Android
3 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.82%) CentOS
5 6 (0.70%) Unix
6 5 (0.58%) Debian
6 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Rocky
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (49.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 321 (37.46%) Software Engineering
3 302 (35.24%) CI/CD
4 283 (33.02%) Agile
5 206 (24.04%) DevOps
6 203 (23.69%) Microservices
7 168 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (18.32%) Mentoring
9 129 (15.05%) AI
10 116 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (11.09%) Computer Science
13 86 (10.04%) Test Automation
14 82 (9.57%) Containerisation
15 80 (9.33%) Scrum
16 73 (8.52%) User Experience
17 67 (7.82%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (7.00%) Clean Code
19 59 (6.88%) Front End Development
20 57 (6.65%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 456 (53.21%) JavaScript
2 419 (48.89%) TypeScript
3 229 (26.72%) Python
4 212 (24.74%) Java
5 128 (14.94%) SQL
6 69 (8.05%) C#
7 61 (7.12%) Go
8 33 (3.85%) Kotlin
8 33 (3.85%) Ruby
9 28 (3.27%) PHP
10 23 (2.68%) Bash
11 17 (1.98%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.47%) Scala
15 3 (0.35%) ABAP
15 3 (0.35%) C++
15 3 (0.35%) Groovy
15 3 (0.35%) RPG
16 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (11.09%) Degree
2 63 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.35%) PhD
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.92%) QA
3 8 (0.93%) GDPR
4 7 (0.82%) WCAG
5 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.47%) PERC
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (18.44%) Docker
2 4 (0.47%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 138 (16.10%) Terraform
2 112 (13.07%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.50%) Ansible
4 13 (1.52%) Argo
5 11 (1.28%) Grafana
5 11 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.70%) Podman
7 5 (0.58%) Nagios
7 5 (0.58%) Puppet
8 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.23%) Packer
10 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.73%) Google
3 14 (1.63%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.28%) SAP
5 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.82%) Adobe
6 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.82%) Pega
7 6 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.70%) WSO2
8 5 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle
9 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.35%) Ericsson
10 3 (0.35%) IBM
10 3 (0.35%) Informatica
10 3 (0.35%) Nokia