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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 115 136
Rank change year-on-year -98 +21 -64
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 644 1,379 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.48% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.14% 11.52% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 526 781 974
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £44,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -2.77%

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 7,047 11,971 13,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 21.55% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,264 7,150 10,689
10th Percentile £35,150 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 28 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 28 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 -96 567 £75,000 +3.45% 2,057
London -44 317 £100,000 +14.29% 433
Work from Home -74 300 £75,000 -0.53% 1,469
UK excluding London -156 264 £62,500 +4.17% 1,744
North of England -23 104 £60,000 -10.81% 435
South East -102 58 £60,000 +9.09% 413
Yorkshire -5 54 £60,000 +9.09% 167
Midlands -36 44 £65,000 - 332
North West -13 42 £60,000 -17.24% 245
East Midlands -15 22 £65,000 +4.00% 147
West Midlands -16 22 £63,750 -8.93% 163
South West -51 17 £62,500 +8.70% 196
Northern Ireland -9 16 £90,000 +12.50% 23
Wales -16 13 £68,958 +55.51% 50
East of England -51 10 £55,000 +10.00% 253
North East -1 8 £50,000 -24.26% 23
Scotland -48 6 £77,415 +40.75% 65

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 36 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.80%) Confluence
3 13 (2.02%) OpenStack
4 11 (1.71%) CMS
5 8 (1.24%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.09%) Headless CMS
6 7 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.78%) nginx
8 4 (0.62%) Apache
8 4 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.62%) Appian
9 3 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.47%) IIS
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Chatbot
1 9 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.78%) InVision
2 5 (0.78%) Sketch
3 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Shopify
2 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 371 (57.61%) AWS
2 178 (27.64%) Azure
3 126 (19.57%) GCP
4 118 (18.32%) Serverless
5 85 (13.20%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (13.20%) GitHub
6 63 (9.78%) SaaS
7 57 (8.85%) Amazon S3
8 48 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (5.90%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (5.28%) Figma
11 34 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (5.12%) dbt
13 27 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (2.80%) Power Platform
16 14 (2.17%) Datadog
17 13 (2.02%) npm
18 12 (1.86%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.09%) AMQP
1 7 (1.09%) SSH
2 5 (0.78%) Broadband
3 3 (0.47%) DHCP
3 3 (0.47%) DNS
3 3 (0.47%) Firewall
3 3 (0.47%) HTTP
3 3 (0.47%) Internet
3 3 (0.47%) STUN
3 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.47%) VLAN
3 3 (0.47%) VoIP
3 3 (0.47%) VoLTE
3 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.55%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (11.18%) MongoDB
3 58 (9.01%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (4.97%) MySQL
5 32 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 31 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
7 30 (4.66%) SQL Server
8 29 (4.50%) Apache Arrow
8 29 (4.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 29 (4.50%) Dremio
8 29 (4.50%) DynamoDB
9 21 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (2.80%) Redis
11 12 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.71%) DB2
13 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
13 4 (0.62%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 111 (17.24%) Git
2 67 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.75%) JIRA
4 27 (4.19%) Cypress.io
5 20 (3.11%) GitLab
6 18 (2.80%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.33%) Selenium
8 12 (1.86%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.71%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.55%) Storybook
11 9 (1.40%) webpack
12 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
12 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.78%) Mocha
14 4 (0.62%) Babel
14 4 (0.62%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.47%) Postman
15 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 207 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 117 (18.17%) Finance
3 39 (6.06%) Front Office
4 35 (5.43%) Law
5 34 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.66%) Marketing
8 22 (3.42%) Retail
9 20 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.33%) Banking
11 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.71%) Legal
13 9 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.93%) Back Office
14 6 (0.93%) Electronics
15 5 (0.78%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.47%) Advertising
16 3 (0.47%) Games
16 3 (0.47%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 336 (52.17%) Developer
2 147 (22.83%) Senior
3 126 (19.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 111 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 87 (13.51%) Lead
6 76 (11.80%) Senior Developer
7 61 (9.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 58 (9.01%) Architect
9 48 (7.45%) AWS Developer
10 42 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 42 (6.52%) Python Developer
11 39 (6.06%) Java Developer
12 37 (5.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 37 (5.75%) Node.js Developer
12 37 (5.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 33 (5.12%) Python Engineer
14 32 (4.97%) AWS Software Engineer
14 32 (4.97%) Python Software Engineer
15 30 (4.66%) Software Developer
16 29 (4.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (65.06%) React
2 134 (20.81%) CSS
3 133 (20.65%) HTML
4 126 (19.57%) AngularJS
5 112 (17.39%) Vue
6 91 (14.13%) RESTful
7 81 (12.58%) REST
8 80 (12.42%) .NET
9 57 (8.85%) GraphQL
10 44 (6.83%) Spring
11 39 (6.06%) Kafka
12 37 (5.75%) Next.js
12 37 (5.75%) React Native
13 35 (5.43%) .NET Core
13 35 (5.43%) Spring Boot
14 32 (4.97%) ASP.NET
15 31 (4.81%) Django
15 31 (4.81%) Jest
16 30 (4.66%) Express.js
17 29 (4.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.68%) Mobile App
3 42 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (5.75%) Fixed Income
5 30 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (4.50%) Equities
7 22 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.17%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.86%) IoT
10 9 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.62%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.62%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.06%) Linux
2 20 (3.11%) Windows
3 10 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) Android
5 6 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) CentOS
6 3 (0.47%) Debian
6 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (46.12%) Agile
2 281 (43.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 246 (38.20%) CI/CD
4 211 (32.76%) Software Engineering
5 173 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (23.76%) DevOps
7 144 (22.36%) Microservices
8 116 (18.01%) AI
8 116 (18.01%) User Experience
9 113 (17.55%) Mentoring
10 88 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 85 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (12.58%) Containerisation
13 78 (12.11%) Computer Science
13 78 (12.11%) Scrum
13 78 (12.11%) Technical Leadership
14 72 (11.18%) Front End Development
15 66 (10.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (9.47%) Clean Code
16 61 (9.47%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 372 (57.76%) JavaScript
2 319 (49.53%) TypeScript
3 203 (31.52%) Python
4 149 (23.14%) Java
5 123 (19.10%) SQL
6 61 (9.47%) C#
7 34 (5.28%) Go
8 26 (4.04%) PHP
9 23 (3.57%) Ruby
10 16 (2.48%) Bash
11 13 (2.02%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.78%) C
15 4 (0.62%) C++
16 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.47%) R
16 3 (0.47%) RPG
17 2 (0.31%) ABAP
17 2 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 74 (11.49%) Degree
2 63 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 41 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CCNP
9 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.31%) MCP
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.30%) Accessibility
2 46 (7.14%) QA
3 11 (1.71%) GDPR
4 8 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.09%) WCAG
6 5 (0.78%) PERC
6 5 (0.78%) SLA
7 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 109 (16.93%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Firmware
2 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 89 (13.82%) Terraform
3 32 (4.97%) Ansible
4 13 (2.02%) Argo
4 13 (2.02%) Grafana
5 10 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.04%) Google
3 22 (3.42%) Atlassian
4 16 (2.48%) OpenAI
5 14 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.55%) SAP
7 9 (1.40%) Oracle
8 8 (1.24%) Adobe
8 8 (1.24%) Apple
8 8 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.93%) iManage
10 5 (0.78%) VMware
11 4 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.62%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.62%) Pega
11 4 (0.62%) WSO2
12 3 (0.47%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.47%) SaltStack