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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 170 134
Rank change year-on-year -5 -36 -24
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,230 972 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.95% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 11.13% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 991 616 1,019
10th Percentile £45,456 £37,617 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £95,000
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 10,599 8,737 16,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 17.57% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,816 5,740 11,669
10th Percentile £40,375 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £107,500
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 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 3 August 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 -12 1,095 £75,000 - 359
UK excluding London +12 784 £67,500 +12.50% 218
Work from Home -13 625 £69,310 -13.36% 189
London -57 349 £87,500 -16.67% 176
North of England -24 278 £69,310 -0.99% 71
South East +64 232 £75,000 +36.36% 53
North West -48 136 £70,000 -6.67% 44
Midlands +26 95 £60,000 -2.04% 27
Yorkshire +7 90 £70,000 +3.70% 19
South West -44 66 £52,500 -12.50% 27
North East -9 52 £55,000 -4.35% 8
West Midlands -9 52 £60,000 - 18
Wales -17 52 £72,500 +4.69% 5
East of England -6 51 £55,000 +33.33% 12
East Midlands +14 43 £66,250 -5.36% 9
Scotland +10 10 £60,000 +4.35% 19

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 35 (2.85%) Confluence
2 20 (1.63%) CMS
3 16 (1.30%) Apache
3 16 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (1.06%) IIS
6 11 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.65%) JBoss
8 8 (0.65%) WordPress
9 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.33%) nginx
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.24%) DNN
10 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Kentico
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Blender
3 3 (0.24%) Maya
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 701 (56.99%) AWS
2 436 (35.45%) Azure
3 219 (17.80%) Serverless
4 209 (16.99%) GitHub
5 165 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
6 162 (13.17%) GCP
7 155 (12.60%) SaaS
8 126 (10.24%) Amazon S3
9 103 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
10 91 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
12 80 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (5.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 67 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
19 29 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 28 (2.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.20%) Broadband
2 16 (1.30%) Firewall
3 13 (1.06%) DMARC
3 13 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.89%) DNS
5 10 (0.81%) VPN
6 7 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.57%) Internet
6 7 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.49%) BGP
7 6 (0.49%) IPsec
7 6 (0.49%) VoIP
8 4 (0.33%) AMQP
8 4 (0.33%) HTTP
8 4 (0.33%) LAN
8 4 (0.33%) WAN
9 3 (0.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.16%) MQTT
10 2 (0.16%) Multicast
11 1 (0.081%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (20.73%) MongoDB
2 182 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (12.76%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (8.54%) NoSQL
6 83 (6.75%) DynamoDB
7 65 (5.28%) MySQL
8 57 (4.63%) SQL Server
9 53 (4.31%) Redis
10 32 (2.60%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
11 27 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.22%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (1.06%) DTS
14 11 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.89%) Db2
15 10 (0.81%) Big Data
15 10 (0.81%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 141 (11.46%) Git
2 91 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.80%) GitLab
4 55 (4.47%) Cypress.io
5 44 (3.58%) JIRA
6 18 (1.46%) Selenium
7 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.06%) JUnit
9 12 (0.98%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.73%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.73%) Maven
11 9 (0.73%) Postman
11 9 (0.73%) Storybook
12 8 (0.65%) Vite
13 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.41%) Mocha
14 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 255 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 174 (14.15%) Finance
3 118 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.39%) Front Office
4 54 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (4.31%) Retail
6 39 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.44%) Law
8 22 (1.79%) Marketing
9 17 (1.38%) Legal
10 13 (1.06%) Games
11 12 (0.98%) Advertising
11 12 (0.98%) Banking
12 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.73%) Military
12 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.57%) Automotive
13 7 (0.57%) Legal Technology
13 7 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 625 (50.81%) Developer
2 287 (23.33%) Senior
3 232 (18.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 231 (18.78%) Lead
5 225 (18.29%) Software Engineer
6 147 (11.95%) .NET Developer
7 115 (9.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 104 (8.46%) Lead Developer
9 101 (8.21%) Senior Developer
10 82 (6.67%) Software Developer
11 79 (6.42%) Lead Software Developer
12 72 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 71 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
14 61 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
15 58 (4.72%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 56 (4.55%) Architect
17 49 (3.98%) Software Manager
18 47 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 46 (3.74%) Java Developer
19 46 (3.74%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 608 (49.43%) React
2 271 (22.03%) .NET
3 180 (14.63%) AngularJS
4 166 (13.50%) ASP.NET
5 162 (13.17%) .NET Core
6 154 (12.52%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (12.11%) Vue
8 142 (11.54%) CSS
9 135 (10.98%) REST
10 126 (10.24%) HTML
11 101 (8.21%) RESTful
12 96 (7.80%) Spring Boot
13 90 (7.32%) Spring
14 86 (6.99%) GraphQL
14 86 (6.99%) Kafka
15 79 (6.42%) Next.js
16 77 (6.26%) ASP.NET Web API
17 70 (5.69%) Redux
18 67 (5.45%) NestJS
19 65 (5.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 181 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 57 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
4 50 (4.07%) Fixed Income
5 49 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 27 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.03%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.54%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.38%) Derivative
11 17 (1.38%) Equities
11 17 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.98%) PropTech
14 10 (0.81%) EPoS
14 10 (0.81%) IoT
14 10 (0.81%) iSeries
15 9 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.72%) Linux
2 30 (2.44%) Windows
3 18 (1.46%) Unix
4 9 (0.73%) Debian
4 9 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.49%) CentOS
6 4 (0.33%) AIX
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (51.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 539 (43.82%) Agile
3 500 (40.65%) CI/CD
4 418 (33.98%) Microservices
5 398 (32.36%) Software Engineering
6 317 (25.77%) DevOps
7 263 (21.38%) Mentoring
8 247 (20.08%) AI
9 181 (14.72%) Test Automation
10 170 (13.82%) Scrum
11 160 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
12 155 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 150 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 144 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
15 143 (11.63%) Containerisation
16 142 (11.54%) TDD
17 140 (11.38%) Event-Driven
18 127 (10.33%) Observability
19 102 (8.29%) Code Quality
20 101 (8.21%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 580 (47.15%) TypeScript
2 572 (46.50%) JavaScript
3 328 (26.67%) SQL
4 284 (23.09%) Python
5 271 (22.03%) Java
6 262 (21.30%) C#
7 62 (5.04%) Go
7 62 (5.04%) Ruby
8 48 (3.90%) PHP
9 33 (2.68%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.20%) Bash
11 10 (0.81%) ABAP
11 10 (0.81%) C++
11 10 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.81%) RPG
12 7 (0.57%) C
12 7 (0.57%) Scala
13 6 (0.49%) COBOL
14 5 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (7.64%) Degree
2 81 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 63 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) OCP
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.16%) ICAEW
14 1 (0.081%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.20%) QA
2 58 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.93%) WCAG
4 21 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.73%) GDPR
6 8 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
8 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.081%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 255 (20.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.41%) Firmware
3 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 188 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 172 (13.98%) Terraform
3 32 (2.60%) Ansible
4 22 (1.79%) Grafana
4 22 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.46%) Argo
6 12 (0.98%) Podman
7 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.49%) HP Fortify
7 6 (0.49%) Puppet
8 4 (0.33%) Istio
8 4 (0.33%) linkerd
8 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 2 (0.16%) Packer
10 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.081%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 202 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 49 (3.98%) Google
3 25 (2.03%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.46%) SAP
5 17 (1.38%) Oracle
6 16 (1.30%) IBM
7 14 (1.14%) Adobe
8 13 (1.06%) SendGrid
9 12 (0.98%) iManage
10 11 (0.89%) OneLogin
11 9 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.73%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.73%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.57%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.57%) Splunk
13 6 (0.49%) HP
14 5 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.33%) SaltStack