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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 107 131
Rank change year-on-year -95 +24 -42
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 791 1,243 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.84% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.89% 12.81% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 656 790 1,515
10th Percentile £50,000 £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 £90,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £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 7,999 9,703 18,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 22.21% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 6,683 15,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 12 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 12 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 -103 696 £77,070 +10.10% 413
UK excluding London -124 391 £67,500 +12.50% 285
Work from Home -87 329 £74,830 +3.21% 280
London -47 327 £95,000 +8.57% 175
North of England -37 160 £70,000 +3.70% 85
Midlands -27 77 £62,500 -3.85% 49
Yorkshire -21 76 £62,500 -7.41% 27
North West -27 75 £75,000 +3.45% 47
South East -135 62 £70,000 +27.27% 83
East Midlands -15 49 £65,000 - 17
South West -64 43 £62,500 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -27 28 £60,000 - 32
Northern Ireland -9 21 £82,500 +37.50% 2
East of England -63 13 £47,500 -17.39% 21
Wales -19 12 £71,894 +56.89% 7
North East -22 9 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Scotland -43 8 £71,165 +29.39% 11

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 (1.77%) CMS
1 14 (1.77%) OpenStack
2 11 (1.39%) Confluence
3 9 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.88%) IIS
5 7 (0.88%) nginx
6 6 (0.76%) Apache
6 6 (0.76%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Appian
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) Strapi
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.38%) InVision
3 3 (0.38%) Sketch
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 454 (57.40%) AWS
2 195 (24.65%) Azure
3 174 (22.00%) Serverless
4 133 (16.81%) AWS Lambda
5 130 (16.43%) GCP
6 106 (13.40%) GitHub
7 105 (13.27%) Amazon S3
8 92 (11.63%) SaaS
9 64 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
11 47 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 43 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.91%) Figma
16 22 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (2.40%) Datadog
19 17 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
20 15 (1.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.52%) AMQP
2 11 (1.39%) SSH
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 2 (0.25%) Broadband
4 2 (0.25%) DSL
4 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.25%) Internet
4 2 (0.25%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.13%) CTI
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) MQTT
5 1 (0.13%) Multicast
5 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (9.23%) MongoDB
3 61 (7.71%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.94%) DynamoDB
5 42 (5.31%) MySQL
6 35 (4.42%) Relational Database
7 29 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.40%) Redis
9 16 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.77%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.26%) DB2
15 5 (0.63%) Big Data
15 5 (0.63%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.63%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.51%) Power BI
16 4 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 117 (14.79%) Git
2 78 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.67%) Cypress.io
4 28 (3.54%) JIRA
5 18 (2.28%) GitLab
6 15 (1.90%) Selenium
7 14 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.64%) Storybook
9 10 (1.26%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.51%) Babel
12 4 (0.51%) Maven
12 4 (0.51%) Mocha
12 4 (0.51%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.51%) Vite
13 3 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 189 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 123 (15.55%) Finance
3 53 (6.70%) Front Office
4 42 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 21 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.40%) Law
7 16 (2.02%) Marketing
8 12 (1.52%) Banking
9 10 (1.26%) Retail
9 10 (1.26%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.01%) Legal
12 7 (0.88%) Electronics
12 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.51%) Advertising
13 4 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.51%) Back Office
14 3 (0.38%) Games
15 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 408 (51.58%) Developer
2 176 (22.25%) Senior
3 168 (21.24%) Software Engineer
4 159 (20.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 138 (17.45%) Lead
6 93 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 75 (9.48%) Senior Developer
8 68 (8.60%) Java Developer
9 64 (8.09%) Lead Developer
10 59 (7.46%) Node.js Developer
11 57 (7.21%) React Developer
12 49 (6.19%) Architect
13 48 (6.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 43 (5.44%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (5.06%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (5.06%) Software Developer
16 33 (4.17%) AWS Developer
16 33 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 33 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (3.29%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (61.57%) React
2 125 (15.80%) CSS
3 122 (15.42%) HTML
4 101 (12.77%) AngularJS
4 101 (12.77%) REST
5 93 (11.76%) Vue
6 92 (11.63%) .NET
7 84 (10.62%) RESTful
8 74 (9.36%) GraphQL
9 64 (8.09%) Kafka
10 61 (7.71%) Redux
11 59 (7.46%) Spring
12 51 (6.45%) Spring Boot
13 49 (6.19%) Next.js
14 41 (5.18%) NestJS
15 37 (4.68%) Jest
16 33 (4.17%) React Native
17 31 (3.92%) Django
18 29 (3.67%) .NET Core
19 26 (3.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.32%) Fixed Income
3 40 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.67%) Mobile App
4 29 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.65%) IoT
8 18 (2.28%) Equities
9 17 (2.15%) Derivative
10 15 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.63%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.51%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.51%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.80%) Linux
2 16 (2.02%) Windows
3 8 (1.01%) Android
3 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) CentOS
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.63%) Debian
6 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (47.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 305 (38.56%) Software Engineering
3 295 (37.29%) CI/CD
4 281 (35.52%) Agile
5 186 (23.51%) Microservices
6 183 (23.14%) DevOps
7 172 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (19.60%) Mentoring
9 123 (15.55%) AI
10 105 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (11.38%) Computer Science
13 83 (10.49%) User Experience
14 81 (10.24%) Containerisation
15 77 (9.73%) Test Automation
16 73 (9.23%) Scrum
16 73 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
17 65 (8.22%) Front End Development
18 59 (7.46%) Clean Code
19 55 (6.95%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 427 (53.98%) JavaScript
2 389 (49.18%) TypeScript
3 232 (29.33%) Python
4 209 (26.42%) Java
5 121 (15.30%) SQL
6 62 (7.84%) Go
7 61 (7.71%) C#
8 30 (3.79%) PHP
9 28 (3.54%) Ruby
10 25 (3.16%) Kotlin
11 19 (2.40%) Bash
12 14 (1.77%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.76%) C
15 4 (0.51%) C++
16 3 (0.38%) ABAP
16 3 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.38%) RPG
17 2 (0.25%) Groovy
17 2 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (11.38%) Degree
2 59 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.03%) QA
3 8 (1.01%) GDPR
4 7 (0.88%) WCAG
5 5 (0.63%) PERC
6 4 (0.51%) SLA
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 141 (17.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Firmware
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 127 (16.06%) Terraform
2 103 (13.02%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.05%) Ansible
4 14 (1.77%) Argo
5 11 (1.39%) Grafana
5 11 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.63%) Puppet
7 4 (0.51%) Nagios
8 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Podman
10 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (3.92%) Google
2 28 (3.54%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.28%) Atlassian
4 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.39%) SAP
6 10 (1.26%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.01%) Oracle
8 7 (0.88%) Adobe
8 7 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.76%) Pega
10 5 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.63%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.63%) WSO2
11 4 (0.51%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.51%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.38%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.38%) New Relic
12 3 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud