Node.js Job Trends

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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 113 131
Rank change year-on-year -100 +18 -60
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 649 1,448 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.27% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 10.77% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 543 832 1,057
10th Percentile £50,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% +4.00%

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 7,020 13,439 13,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 21.03% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 8,149 11,052
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -80 582 £80,000 +12.68% 396
London -32 340 £100,000 +17.65% 147
Work from Home -60 331 £80,000 +6.45% 309
UK excluding London -133 258 £63,750 +6.25% 332
North of England -24 102 £60,000 -10.45% 70
South East -101 57 £57,500 +15.00% 128
Yorkshire -9 49 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North West +7 46 £65,000 -7.14% 43
Midlands -22 39 £65,000 - 51
West Midlands -1 23 £74,830 +6.90% 31
South West -26 18 £62,500 +8.70% 32
East Midlands -3 16 £63,750 +10.87% 18
Northern Ireland -9 15 £90,000 +12.50% 6
Wales -18 13 £68,958 +55.51% 9
East of England -51 9 £57,500 +4.55% 30
North East -15 7 £50,000 -33.33% 9
Scotland -48 7 £77,415 +17.52% 13

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 51 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.93%) Confluence
3 11 (1.69%) CMS
4 8 (1.23%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.23%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.08%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.77%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.46%) Appian
8 2 (0.31%) Drupal
8 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.62%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.62%) InVision
3 4 (0.62%) Sketch
4 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Shopify
2 9 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (59.01%) AWS
2 186 (28.66%) Azure
3 136 (20.96%) GCP
4 91 (14.02%) Serverless
5 68 (10.48%) GitHub
6 61 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (8.78%) SaaS
8 49 (7.55%) dbt
9 40 (6.16%) Amazon S3
10 37 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (4.31%) Figma
13 27 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.77%) Power Platform
17 17 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.16%) Vercel
19 12 (1.85%) npm
20 11 (1.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.08%) SSH
2 5 (0.77%) AMQP
2 5 (0.77%) Broadband
3 4 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.46%) DHCP
4 3 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.46%) Firewall
4 3 (0.46%) STUN
4 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.46%) VLAN
4 3 (0.46%) VoIP
4 3 (0.46%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.31%) HTTP
5 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.31%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (18.80%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (12.63%) MongoDB
3 54 (8.32%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (6.93%) Apache Arrow
4 45 (6.93%) Apache Iceberg
4 45 (6.93%) Dremio
5 36 (5.55%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (5.08%) MySQL
7 30 (4.62%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 27 (4.16%) DynamoDB
9 24 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (3.70%) Redis
10 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.23%) DB2
12 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.46%) Power BI
13 3 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 98 (15.10%) Git
2 51 (7.86%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.70%) JIRA
4 26 (4.01%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.24%) GitLab
6 16 (2.47%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.16%) Selenium
8 11 (1.69%) webpack
9 10 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.39%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.23%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.77%) Maven
12 5 (0.77%) Mocha
12 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.62%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.62%) Postman
13 4 (0.62%) rollup.js
General
1 195 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 159 (24.50%) Finance
3 73 (11.25%) Front Office
4 41 (6.32%) Law
5 33 (5.08%) Marketing
6 28 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 26 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.54%) Retail
9 18 (2.77%) Banking
10 14 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.00%) Legal
12 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.92%) Back Office
13 6 (0.92%) Electronics
14 4 (0.62%) Advertising
14 4 (0.62%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.62%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.46%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (54.55%) Developer
2 140 (21.57%) Senior
3 139 (21.42%) Software Engineer
4 119 (18.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 99 (15.25%) Lead
6 79 (12.17%) Senior Developer
7 74 (11.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 63 (9.71%) Architect
9 58 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (8.32%) AWS Developer
11 52 (8.01%) Python Developer
12 50 (7.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (7.40%) AWS Software Engineer
14 45 (6.93%) Python Engineer
14 45 (6.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (6.78%) Python Software Engineer
16 39 (6.01%) Java Developer
17 37 (5.70%) Lead Developer
18 32 (4.93%) Node.js Developer
18 32 (4.93%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (67.33%) React
2 144 (22.19%) AngularJS
3 130 (20.03%) CSS
4 127 (19.57%) HTML
5 125 (19.26%) Vue
6 86 (13.25%) .NET
7 83 (12.79%) RESTful
8 80 (12.33%) GraphQL
9 77 (11.86%) REST
10 53 (8.17%) Kafka
11 50 (7.70%) Redux
12 45 (6.93%) NumPy
12 45 (6.93%) Pandas
12 45 (6.93%) SciPy
13 41 (6.32%) Next.js
13 41 (6.32%) React Native
14 40 (6.16%) ASP.NET
15 39 (6.01%) Spring
16 37 (5.70%) .NET Core
17 31 (4.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 86 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.94%) Fixed Income
3 48 (7.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 47 (7.24%) Equities
5 40 (6.16%) Mobile App
6 35 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.16%) Low-Code
11 13 (2.00%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.54%) IoT
12 10 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.62%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.70%) Linux
2 19 (2.93%) Windows
3 10 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.08%) Unix
5 6 (0.92%) Android
5 6 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) CentOS
6 2 (0.31%) Debian
6 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (51.00%) Agile
2 266 (40.99%) Full-Stack Development
3 235 (36.21%) Software Engineering
4 221 (34.05%) CI/CD
5 156 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (21.57%) DevOps
7 130 (20.03%) Microservices
8 118 (18.18%) User Experience
9 104 (16.02%) AI
9 104 (16.02%) Mentoring
10 80 (12.33%) Test Automation
11 76 (11.71%) Fintech
11 76 (11.71%) Investment Management
11 76 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
12 74 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 74 (11.40%) Scrum
13 73 (11.25%) Containerisation
14 69 (10.63%) Front End Development
14 69 (10.63%) Order Management
15 68 (10.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 376 (57.94%) JavaScript
2 350 (53.93%) TypeScript
3 217 (33.44%) Python
4 159 (24.50%) Java
5 123 (18.95%) SQL
6 66 (10.17%) C#
7 51 (7.86%) Go
8 24 (3.70%) PHP
9 21 (3.24%) Ruby
10 14 (2.16%) Bash
11 12 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.77%) C
12 5 (0.77%) C++
12 5 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.46%) ABAP
13 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.46%) Groovy
13 3 (0.46%) R
13 3 (0.46%) RPG
14 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 64 (9.86%) Degree
2 57 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 40 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.46%) CCNP
8 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.63%) QA
2 41 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.00%) GDPR
4 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.77%) PERC
5 5 (0.77%) SLA
5 5 (0.77%) WCAG
6 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 87 (13.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) Firmware
2 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 70 (10.79%) Terraform
3 29 (4.47%) Ansible
4 14 (2.16%) Grafana
5 12 (1.85%) Argo
5 12 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.54%) Google
3 16 (2.47%) OpenAI
4 13 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.69%) SAP
6 9 (1.39%) Apple
6 9 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.23%) Oracle
8 7 (1.08%) Adobe
8 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.92%) iManage
10 5 (0.77%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.77%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.77%) VMware
11 4 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.62%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.62%) Pega
11 4 (0.62%) WSO2
12 3 (0.46%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.46%) PayPal