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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 111 122
Rank change year-on-year -92 +11 -30
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 836 1,122 2,047
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.74% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.23% 12.64% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 687 754 1,527
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.92% - -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 8,169 8,878 19,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.56% 21.67% 22.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,986 6,576 15,338
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 26 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 26 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 -87 735 £75,000 +7.14% 326
UK excluding London -112 429 £67,750 +12.92% 217
Work from Home -74 347 £72,500 - 214
London -47 328 £95,000 +8.57% 141
North of England -36 168 £70,000 +3.70% 71
North West -33 84 £74,915 -0.11% 47
Midlands -18 83 £63,250 +1.20% 38
Yorkshire -17 77 £70,000 +3.70% 16
South East -127 77 £75,000 +36.36% 58
East Midlands -12 52 £65,000 - 12
South West -63 48 £61,250 +2.08% 20
West Midlands -15 31 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -17 21 £82,500 +37.50% 1
East of England -73 14 £47,500 -17.39% 15
Wales -24 12 £71,894 +43.35% 8
Scotland -48 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -27 7 £52,500 -4.55% 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 14 (1.67%) CMS
1 14 (1.67%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.08%) Confluence
3 9 (1.08%) IIS
4 8 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.84%) nginx
6 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 6 (0.72%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.48%) Appian
7 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.36%) InVision
3 3 (0.36%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 481 (57.54%) AWS
2 206 (24.64%) Azure
3 181 (21.65%) Serverless
4 140 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (16.27%) GCP
6 112 (13.40%) Amazon S3
7 104 (12.44%) GitHub
8 95 (11.36%) SaaS
9 70 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (6.22%) Amazon SQS
11 50 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.39%) Datadog
17 20 (2.39%) Figma
18 19 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.44%) AMQP
2 11 (1.32%) SSH
3 7 (0.84%) Broadband
4 4 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) DSL
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 72 (8.61%) NoSQL
4 51 (6.10%) DynamoDB
5 44 (5.26%) MySQL
6 34 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 33 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.27%) Redis
10 17 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.67%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.08%) DB2
15 5 (0.60%) Big Data
15 5 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.60%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.48%) Power BI
16 4 (0.48%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 119 (14.23%) Git
2 79 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.31%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.11%) JIRA
5 19 (2.27%) GitLab
6 15 (1.79%) Selenium
7 14 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.32%) Storybook
9 9 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.60%) Maven
11 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.48%) Babel
12 4 (0.48%) Mocha
12 4 (0.48%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.48%) Vite
13 3 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 195 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 123 (14.71%) Finance
3 52 (6.22%) Front Office
4 47 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.27%) Law
7 16 (1.91%) Marketing
8 13 (1.56%) Banking
9 10 (1.20%) Retail
9 10 (1.20%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.96%) Electronics
11 8 (0.96%) Legal
12 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.60%) Advertising
14 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.48%) Back Office
15 3 (0.36%) Games
15 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 432 (51.67%) Developer
2 184 (22.01%) Senior
3 178 (21.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 172 (20.57%) Software Engineer
5 143 (17.11%) Lead
6 100 (11.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 81 (9.69%) Senior Developer
8 70 (8.37%) Java Developer
9 68 (8.13%) Lead Developer
10 66 (7.89%) Node.js Developer
11 59 (7.06%) React Developer
12 49 (5.86%) Architect
13 46 (5.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 45 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
15 41 (4.90%) Lead Software Developer
15 41 (4.90%) Software Developer
16 37 (4.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 35 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (3.83%) AWS Developer
19 28 (3.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (59.69%) React
2 123 (14.71%) CSS
3 119 (14.23%) HTML
4 104 (12.44%) REST
5 100 (11.96%) .NET
6 96 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 92 (11.00%) Vue
8 85 (10.17%) RESTful
9 71 (8.49%) GraphQL
10 64 (7.66%) Kafka
10 64 (7.66%) Redux
11 59 (7.06%) Spring
12 51 (6.10%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.50%) Next.js
14 41 (4.90%) Jest
14 41 (4.90%) NestJS
15 38 (4.55%) React Native
16 34 (4.07%) Django
17 31 (3.71%) .NET Core
18 26 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 101 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.74%) Fixed Income
3 41 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.63%) IoT
9 18 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.03%) Derivative
11 16 (1.91%) Equities
12 6 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.60%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.60%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.60%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.48%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.90%) Linux
2 18 (2.15%) Windows
3 8 (0.96%) Android
3 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.84%) CentOS
4 7 (0.84%) Unix
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (48.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 310 (37.08%) Software Engineering
3 309 (36.96%) CI/CD
4 287 (34.33%) Agile
5 193 (23.09%) Microservices
6 192 (22.97%) DevOps
7 181 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (18.66%) Mentoring
9 129 (15.43%) AI
10 115 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (11.36%) Computer Science
13 88 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 83 (9.93%) Test Automation
15 80 (9.57%) Scrum
16 79 (9.45%) User Experience
17 70 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (7.54%) Front End Development
19 60 (7.18%) Clean Code
20 59 (7.06%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 449 (53.71%) JavaScript
2 404 (48.33%) TypeScript
3 242 (28.95%) Python
4 216 (25.84%) Java
5 125 (14.95%) SQL
6 66 (7.89%) C#
7 62 (7.42%) Go
8 34 (4.07%) PHP
9 32 (3.83%) Ruby
10 30 (3.59%) Kotlin
11 22 (2.63%) Bash
12 16 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.72%) C
15 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) ABAP
16 3 (0.36%) C++
16 3 (0.36%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 94 (11.24%) Degree
2 63 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (6.22%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.87%) QA
3 9 (1.08%) GDPR
4 7 (0.84%) WCAG
5 5 (0.60%) PERC
6 4 (0.48%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (18.42%) Docker
2 4 (0.48%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 133 (15.91%) Terraform
2 105 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.95%) Ansible
4 14 (1.67%) Argo
5 11 (1.32%) Grafana
6 10 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.72%) Podman
8 5 (0.60%) Nagios
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 34 (4.07%) Google
2 32 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.03%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.32%) SAP
6 9 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle
8 7 (0.84%) Adobe
9 6 (0.72%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.72%) Pega
10 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.60%) WSO2
11 4 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.48%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.36%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.36%) iManage
12 3 (0.36%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud