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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 115 130
Rank change year-on-year -93 +15 -49
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 659 1,350 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.58% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.06% 11.89% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 554 753 1,353
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,594 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 7,274 11,356 16,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 21.72% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,348 6,639 13,497
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,026
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,584 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +8.33% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -104 568 £75,000 - 570
London -56 296 £92,500 +5.71% 143
UK excluding London -134 289 £65,000 +8.33% 495
Work from Home -86 276 £73,665 -2.30% 382
North of England -8 121 £62,500 -7.41% 112
Midlands -33 62 £64,500 -0.77% 52
Yorkshire -2 60 £60,000 -10.78% 46
North West +1 53 £74,415 -0.78% 52
East Midlands -11 38 £64,500 -0.77% 29
South East -130 37 £65,000 +18.18% 151
South West -59 25 £65,000 +8.33% 71
West Midlands -18 24 £63,750 -8.93% 21
Northern Ireland -7 21 £82,500 +3.13% 8
Wales -14 12 £71,894 +62.13% 26
East of England -51 10 £55,000 +2.33% 65
North East -15 8 £50,000 -9.09% 14
Scotland -56 6 £77,415 +40.75% 18

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 24 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.97%) Confluence
2 13 (1.97%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.82%) CMS
4 8 (1.21%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.91%) Apache
6 6 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.76%) IIS
7 5 (0.76%) nginx
8 4 (0.61%) Appian
9 3 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Strapi
10 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.76%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.76%) InVision
3 5 (0.76%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.61%) Shopify
2 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 364 (55.24%) AWS
2 160 (24.28%) Azure
3 144 (21.85%) Serverless
4 111 (16.84%) AWS Lambda
5 106 (16.08%) GCP
6 102 (15.48%) GitHub
7 80 (12.14%) Amazon S3
8 69 (10.47%) SaaS
9 51 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (6.22%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.95%) Figma
15 21 (3.19%) dbt
16 17 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (2.58%) Datadog
17 16 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.67%) AMQP
2 9 (1.37%) SSH
3 3 (0.46%) HTTP
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) DSL
4 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.30%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (11.08%) MongoDB
3 58 (8.80%) NoSQL
4 36 (5.46%) DynamoDB
4 36 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.16%) MySQL
6 31 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 28 (4.25%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (3.03%) Redis
10 19 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (2.58%) Apache Arrow
11 17 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (2.58%) Dremio
12 16 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.67%) DB2
15 10 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.76%) Big Data
16 5 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 97 (14.72%) Git
2 67 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.25%) JIRA
4 22 (3.34%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.58%) GitLab
6 16 (2.43%) Selenium
7 15 (2.28%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.82%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.52%) Storybook
11 7 (1.06%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.91%) webpack
13 5 (0.76%) Mocha
14 4 (0.61%) Babel
14 4 (0.61%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.61%) Vite
15 3 (0.46%) ESLint
General
1 186 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 99 (15.02%) Finance
3 35 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.16%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.88%) Front Office
7 18 (2.73%) Retail
8 17 (2.58%) Marketing
9 14 (2.12%) Law
10 13 (1.97%) Banking
11 12 (1.82%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.52%) Legal
13 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.91%) Back Office
15 6 (0.91%) Electronics
16 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.46%) Advertising
18 2 (0.30%) Games
18 2 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 316 (47.95%) Developer
2 150 (22.76%) Senior
3 116 (17.60%) Software Engineer
4 110 (16.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 91 (13.81%) Lead
6 71 (10.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 58 (8.80%) Senior Developer
8 54 (8.19%) Architect
9 48 (7.28%) Java Developer
10 46 (6.98%) Node.js Developer
11 44 (6.68%) AWS Developer
12 37 (5.61%) Python Developer
13 33 (5.01%) React Developer
14 31 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 29 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
15 29 (4.40%) Backend Developer
16 28 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 23 (3.49%) Technical Architect
19 21 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (63.73%) React
2 124 (18.82%) CSS
2 124 (18.82%) HTML
3 115 (17.45%) AngularJS
4 105 (15.93%) Vue
5 90 (13.66%) REST
6 78 (11.84%) RESTful
7 71 (10.77%) .NET
8 51 (7.74%) Spring
9 41 (6.22%) GraphQL
9 41 (6.22%) Spring Boot
10 37 (5.61%) Next.js
11 35 (5.31%) React Native
12 32 (4.86%) .NET Core
12 32 (4.86%) Kafka
13 31 (4.70%) Django
14 30 (4.55%) Jest
15 27 (4.10%) ASP.NET
15 27 (4.10%) Web Services
16 25 (3.79%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (13.96%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 25 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (2.88%) IoT
8 17 (2.58%) Equities
8 17 (2.58%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.97%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.61%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.61%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.61%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.61%) Linux
2 17 (2.58%) Windows
3 10 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.37%) Android
4 9 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.21%) Unix
6 5 (0.76%) CentOS
6 5 (0.76%) Debian
6 5 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 268 (40.67%) CI/CD
3 257 (39.00%) Agile
4 231 (35.05%) Software Engineering
5 173 (26.25%) Microservices
6 164 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (23.98%) DevOps
8 122 (18.51%) Mentoring
9 116 (17.60%) AI
10 93 (14.11%) User Experience
11 91 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 78 (11.84%) Computer Science
13 78 (11.84%) Scrum
14 76 (11.53%) Containerisation
14 76 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (11.08%) Test Automation
16 72 (10.93%) Front End Development
17 58 (8.80%) Clean Code
17 58 (8.80%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 348 (52.81%) JavaScript
2 318 (48.25%) TypeScript
3 203 (30.80%) Python
4 158 (23.98%) Java
5 122 (18.51%) SQL
6 56 (8.50%) C#
7 28 (4.25%) Go
8 26 (3.95%) PHP
9 25 (3.79%) Ruby
10 16 (2.43%) Bash
11 14 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 14 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.91%) C
14 3 (0.46%) ABAP
14 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) RPG
15 2 (0.30%) R
16 1 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (11.38%) Degree
2 64 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 46 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 43 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.46%) PhD
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.30%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.10%) QA
3 10 (1.52%) GDPR
4 7 (1.06%) WCAG
5 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.76%) PERC
7 4 (0.61%) SLA
8 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 118 (17.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.46%) vSphere
3 2 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 113 (17.15%) Terraform
2 95 (14.42%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.16%) Ansible
4 15 (2.28%) Argo
5 11 (1.67%) Grafana
6 8 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.76%) Puppet
8 2 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.30%) Nagios
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 44 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.10%) Google
3 21 (3.19%) Atlassian
4 16 (2.43%) OpenAI
5 14 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.67%) SAP
7 10 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.37%) Adobe
9 8 (1.21%) Oracle
10 6 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.91%) iManage
11 5 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.76%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.61%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.61%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.61%) Pega
12 4 (0.61%) WSO2
13 3 (0.46%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.46%) Mavenir
13 3 (0.46%) ServiceNow