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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 149 126
Rank change year-on-year -42 -23 -28
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 999 995 2,198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.27% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.71% 11.57% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 802 650 1,591
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,875 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +10.90% +6.84% -10.00%

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 9,324 8,600 20,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 19.66% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,916 5,765 15,943
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -40 904 £75,000 +3.45% 263
UK excluding London -37 591 £69,310 +10.90% 162
Work from Home -14 467 £70,000 -3.45% 138
London -27 318 £90,000 -5.26% 134
North of England -52 235 £70,000 -3.45% 51
South East -5 140 £75,000 +36.36% 46
North West -64 116 £75,000 - 35
Midlands +11 94 £61,250 - 19
Yorkshire +4 91 £70,000 - 9
South West -65 60 £52,500 -12.50% 18
East Midlands +18 58 £67,250 -3.93% 11
East of England -15 37 £46,250 +32.14% 13
West Midlands -28 36 £60,000 - 8
North East -28 28 £52,000 -9.57% 7
Wales -34 15 £71,250 +38.63% 6
Scotland -4 7 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 - 3

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 16 (1.60%) Confluence
2 15 (1.50%) CMS
3 14 (1.40%) IIS
4 13 (1.30%) Apache
5 12 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.70%) JBoss
9 5 (0.50%) nginx
9 5 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.40%) WordPress
11 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.10%) Appian
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Blender
4 2 (0.20%) Maya
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 576 (57.66%) AWS
2 277 (27.73%) Azure
3 203 (20.32%) Serverless
4 159 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (13.61%) GitHub
6 135 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 134 (13.41%) GCP
8 111 (11.11%) SaaS
9 90 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
10 71 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (6.91%) Amazon SQS
12 60 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 60 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (3.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 31 (3.10%) AWS Step Functions
16 30 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
18 27 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.30%) Broadband
2 13 (1.30%) Firewall
3 9 (0.90%) AMQP
4 8 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.70%) DMARC
6 4 (0.40%) SSH
6 4 (0.40%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.30%) HTTP
7 3 (0.30%) Hyperconnected
7 3 (0.30%) Internet
7 3 (0.30%) VoIP
8 2 (0.20%) DNS
8 2 (0.20%) DSL
8 2 (0.20%) LAN
8 2 (0.20%) Multicast
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 2 (0.20%) WAN
9 1 (0.10%) CTI
9 1 (0.10%) MQTT
9 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (15.82%) PostgreSQL
2 153 (15.32%) MongoDB
3 98 (9.81%) NoSQL
4 71 (7.11%) DynamoDB
5 69 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (5.31%) MySQL
7 40 (4.00%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 25 (2.50%) Redis
11 19 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
15 8 (0.80%) DB2
15 8 (0.80%) Neo4j
16 6 (0.60%) GIS
17 5 (0.50%) DTS
17 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 126 (12.61%) Git
2 81 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 46 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.60%) GitLab
5 25 (2.50%) JIRA
6 16 (1.60%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.00%) Selenium
8 10 (1.00%) Storybook
9 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.80%) Vite
10 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.50%) Maven
12 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 3 (0.30%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.30%) Yeoman
13 2 (0.20%) JUnit
13 2 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 192 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 120 (12.01%) Finance
3 67 (6.71%) Public Sector
4 51 (5.11%) Front Office
5 49 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.80%) Retail
7 23 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.30%) Law
8 13 (1.30%) Marketing
9 11 (1.10%) Banking
10 10 (1.00%) Legal
10 10 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.00%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.90%) Advertising
12 7 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.60%) Games
14 5 (0.50%) Automotive
14 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 512 (51.25%) Developer
2 253 (25.33%) Senior
3 217 (21.72%) Software Engineer
4 213 (21.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 174 (17.42%) Lead
6 109 (10.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 99 (9.91%) Senior Developer
8 90 (9.01%) Lead Developer
9 70 (7.01%) Node.js Developer
10 64 (6.41%) Java Developer
11 63 (6.31%) Lead Software Engineer
12 60 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (5.91%) Lead Software Developer
14 58 (5.81%) Software Developer
15 55 (5.51%) React Developer
16 54 (5.41%) .NET Developer
17 46 (4.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 45 (4.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 42 (4.20%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 41 (4.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (54.55%) React
2 156 (15.62%) .NET
3 119 (11.91%) AngularJS
4 117 (11.71%) CSS
5 110 (11.01%) REST
6 106 (10.61%) HTML
7 97 (9.71%) RESTful
7 97 (9.71%) Vue
8 71 (7.11%) .NET Core
9 70 (7.01%) GraphQL
9 70 (7.01%) Redux
10 67 (6.71%) ASP.NET
10 67 (6.71%) Kafka
11 61 (6.11%) Spring
12 58 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
12 58 (5.81%) Spring Boot
13 54 (5.41%) Next.js
14 48 (4.80%) NestJS
15 45 (4.50%) Jest
15 45 (4.50%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 125 (12.51%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.80%) Fixed Income
3 40 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (3.60%) Mobile App
6 32 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.70%) Derivative
9 17 (1.70%) IoT
10 16 (1.60%) Equities
11 14 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.80%) PropTech
15 6 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.60%) Robotics
16 5 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.61%) Linux
2 34 (3.40%) Windows
3 19 (1.90%) Unix
4 8 (0.80%) Debian
4 8 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.70%) CentOS
6 5 (0.50%) Android
6 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (49.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 385 (38.54%) CI/CD
3 356 (35.64%) Agile
4 355 (35.54%) Software Engineering
5 283 (28.33%) Microservices
6 268 (26.83%) DevOps
7 224 (22.42%) Mentoring
8 163 (16.32%) AI
9 149 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 128 (12.81%) Test Automation
12 118 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (11.61%) Containerisation
14 108 (10.81%) Scrum
15 91 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
16 89 (8.91%) TDD
17 80 (8.01%) Computer Science
17 80 (8.01%) Observability
18 77 (7.71%) Event-Driven
19 61 (6.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 479 (47.95%) JavaScript
2 478 (47.85%) TypeScript
3 235 (23.52%) Python
4 229 (22.92%) Java
5 206 (20.62%) SQL
6 137 (13.71%) C#
7 54 (5.41%) Go
8 41 (4.10%) PHP
9 39 (3.90%) Kotlin
10 34 (3.40%) Ruby
11 30 (3.00%) Bash
12 15 (1.50%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.70%) C++
13 7 (0.70%) Scala
14 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.50%) Rust
16 4 (0.40%) Groovy
16 4 (0.40%) RPG
16 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (8.21%) Degree
2 63 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 59 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.10%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.10%) HNC
11 1 (0.10%) HND
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.00%) QA
2 27 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.80%) WCAG
5 5 (0.50%) GDPR
6 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 198 (19.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Firmware
3 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (15.22%) Terraform
2 130 (13.01%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.10%) Ansible
4 22 (2.20%) Argo
5 19 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.70%) Grafana
7 12 (1.20%) Podman
8 6 (0.60%) Puppet
9 5 (0.50%) Nagios
10 4 (0.40%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) linkerd
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.80%) Google
3 13 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 11 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.00%) Adobe
5 10 (1.00%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 9 (0.90%) SendGrid
7 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
7 7 (0.70%) Oracle
7 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.50%) iManage
9 5 (0.50%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.50%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.40%) IBM
11 3 (0.30%) Intapp
11 3 (0.30%) Pega
11 3 (0.30%) SAP
11 3 (0.30%) Splunk