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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 106 130
Rank change year-on-year -103 +24 -41
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 770 1,263 1,880
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.87% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.86% 12.85% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 645 807 1,516
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £124,000 £110,000 £97,500
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 7,811 9,832 18,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 22.31% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 6,754 15,121
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -96 677 £77,500 +10.71% 547
UK excluding London -120 376 £67,500 +12.50% 419
London -52 324 £100,000 +14.29% 195
Work from Home -89 321 £75,000 +3.45% 364
North of England -30 155 £70,000 +3.70% 91
Yorkshire -16 75 £62,500 -7.41% 31
Midlands -26 75 £64,000 +2.40% 71
North West -32 72 £75,000 +3.45% 50
South East -139 60 £70,000 +27.27% 131
East Midlands -6 47 £65,000 - 27
South West -64 40 £62,500 +4.17% 51
West Midlands -28 28 £60,000 - 42
Northern Ireland -15 21 £82,500 +37.50% 6
Wales -15 12 £71,894 +62.13% 12
East of England -62 11 £46,250 -19.57% 50
North East -24 8 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Scotland -42 7 £74,830 +36.05% 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 13 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 12 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.56%) CMS
3 11 (1.43%) Confluence
4 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.04%) nginx
5 7 (0.91%) IIS
6 6 (0.78%) Apache
6 6 (0.78%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.52%) Appian
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.26%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) Strapi
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.39%) InVision
3 3 (0.39%) Sketch
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.52%) Shopify
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 441 (57.27%) AWS
2 182 (23.64%) Azure
3 168 (21.82%) Serverless
4 131 (17.01%) GCP
5 129 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
6 105 (13.64%) GitHub
7 102 (13.25%) Amazon S3
8 89 (11.56%) SaaS
9 62 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
10 46 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
11 45 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (3.12%) Figma
15 21 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (2.47%) Datadog
18 17 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (1.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.56%) AMQP
2 11 (1.43%) SSH
3 4 (0.52%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) DSL
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) CTI
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) MQTT
5 1 (0.13%) Multicast
5 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 58 (7.53%) NoSQL
4 45 (5.84%) DynamoDB
5 41 (5.32%) MySQL
6 34 (4.42%) Relational Database
7 30 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.47%) Redis
10 18 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.82%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.30%) DB2
15 8 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.65%) Apache Arrow
16 5 (0.65%) Big Data
16 5 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.65%) Dremio
16 5 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 112 (14.55%) Git
2 77 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.38%) JIRA
5 18 (2.34%) GitLab
6 15 (1.95%) Selenium
7 14 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.69%) Storybook
9 10 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.52%) Babel
12 4 (0.52%) Maven
12 4 (0.52%) Mocha
12 4 (0.52%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.52%) Vite
13 3 (0.39%) ESLint
General
1 185 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 121 (15.71%) Finance
3 56 (7.27%) Front Office
4 42 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 20 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.08%) Law
6 16 (2.08%) Marketing
7 12 (1.56%) Banking
8 11 (1.43%) Retail
9 10 (1.30%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.91%) Legal
11 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.78%) Electronics
13 4 (0.52%) Advertising
13 4 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.52%) Back Office
14 2 (0.26%) Games
14 2 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 397 (51.56%) Developer
2 174 (22.60%) Senior
3 167 (21.69%) Software Engineer
4 153 (19.87%) Full-Stack Developer
5 136 (17.66%) Lead
6 90 (11.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 73 (9.48%) Senior Developer
8 67 (8.70%) Java Developer
9 63 (8.18%) Lead Developer
10 57 (7.40%) Node.js Developer
11 55 (7.14%) React Developer
12 51 (6.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 49 (6.36%) Architect
14 43 (5.58%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (5.19%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (5.19%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.55%) AWS Developer
17 33 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 28 (3.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (61.95%) React
2 123 (15.97%) CSS
3 120 (15.58%) HTML
4 101 (13.12%) AngularJS
5 98 (12.73%) REST
6 93 (12.08%) Vue
7 85 (11.04%) .NET
8 80 (10.39%) RESTful
9 73 (9.48%) GraphQL
10 64 (8.31%) Kafka
11 59 (7.66%) Redux
12 57 (7.40%) Spring
13 49 (6.36%) Spring Boot
14 47 (6.10%) Next.js
15 40 (5.19%) NestJS
16 36 (4.68%) Jest
17 31 (4.03%) Django
17 31 (4.03%) React Native
18 24 (3.12%) .NET Core
18 24 (3.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.88%) Fixed Income
3 37 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 27 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.73%) Equities
9 20 (2.60%) IoT
10 17 (2.21%) Derivative
11 15 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.65%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.52%) Hackathon
15 4 (0.52%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.06%) Linux
2 16 (2.08%) Windows
3 8 (1.04%) Android
3 8 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.91%) Unix
5 6 (0.78%) CentOS
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.65%) Debian
6 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (46.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 299 (38.83%) Software Engineering
3 284 (36.88%) CI/CD
4 271 (35.19%) Agile
5 178 (23.12%) Microservices
6 175 (22.73%) DevOps
7 168 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (19.61%) Mentoring
9 117 (15.19%) AI
10 96 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 88 (11.43%) Computer Science
13 83 (10.78%) User Experience
14 80 (10.39%) Containerisation
15 73 (9.48%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (9.48%) Test Automation
16 68 (8.83%) Scrum
17 65 (8.44%) Front End Development
18 58 (7.53%) Investment Management
19 55 (7.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 416 (54.03%) JavaScript
2 376 (48.83%) TypeScript
3 230 (29.87%) Python
4 205 (26.62%) Java
5 115 (14.94%) SQL
6 60 (7.79%) Go
7 55 (7.14%) C#
8 29 (3.77%) PHP
9 28 (3.64%) Ruby
10 25 (3.25%) Kotlin
11 20 (2.60%) Bash
12 15 (1.95%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.78%) C
15 4 (0.52%) C++
16 3 (0.39%) ABAP
16 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 2 (0.26%) Groovy
17 2 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (11.43%) Degree
2 57 (7.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.58%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.39%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.99%) QA
3 8 (1.04%) GDPR
4 7 (0.91%) WCAG
5 5 (0.65%) PERC
6 4 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 137 (17.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 125 (16.23%) Terraform
2 101 (13.12%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.16%) Ansible
4 15 (1.95%) Argo
5 11 (1.43%) Grafana
5 11 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.65%) Puppet
7 4 (0.52%) Nagios
8 3 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (3.77%) Google
2 21 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.34%) Atlassian
4 12 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.43%) SAP
6 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.04%) Oracle
8 7 (0.91%) Adobe
8 7 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.65%) Pega
9 5 (0.65%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.52%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.52%) WSO2
11 3 (0.39%) iManage
11 3 (0.39%) Mavenir
11 3 (0.39%) New Relic
11 3 (0.39%) Splunk