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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 187 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 -54 -22
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,201 869 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.75% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.07% 10.07% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 953 522 908
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,125 £40,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £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 11,926 8,633 16,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.64% 17.42% 21.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,647 5,544 11,283
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,778
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year - +6.16% -5.81%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -19 1,054 £72,500 -12.12% 752
UK excluding London +26 794 £67,500 +12.50% 365
Work from Home -6 621 £67,500 -25.00% 364
London -86 293 £85,000 -19.05% 454
North of England -27 265 £69,310 +2.68% 104
South East +64 235 £75,000 +30.43% 89
North West -59 126 £75,000 +7.14% 72
Midlands +44 105 £60,000 -4.00% 42
Yorkshire -6 79 £70,000 +3.70% 20
South West -26 74 £60,000 +4.35% 48
North East -14 60 £55,000 -12.00% 12
West Midlands +6 55 £60,000 -12.73% 33
Wales -20 53 £72,500 +20.94% 11
East of England -6 52 £60,000 +17.07% 35
East Midlands +14 50 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Scotland +13 10 £60,000 -50.00% 24

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 34 (2.83%) Confluence
2 22 (1.83%) CMS
3 18 (1.50%) Apache
4 15 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (1.08%) IIS
7 9 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.67%) WordPress
9 7 (0.58%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.50%) JBoss
11 4 (0.33%) nginx
11 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) DNN
12 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) SAS
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.58%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 660 (54.95%) AWS
2 438 (36.47%) Azure
3 228 (18.98%) GitHub
4 213 (17.74%) Serverless
5 168 (13.99%) SaaS
6 163 (13.57%) AWS Lambda
7 149 (12.41%) GCP
8 122 (10.16%) Amazon S3
9 110 (9.16%) Amazon ECS
10 106 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
11 91 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 75 (6.24%) GitHub Copilot
14 65 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 35 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
18 33 (2.75%) Datadog
19 30 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 29 (2.41%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.25%) Broadband
2 16 (1.33%) Firewall
3 13 (1.08%) DMARC
3 13 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.83%) DNS
4 10 (0.83%) VPN
5 8 (0.67%) Internet
6 7 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
6 7 (0.58%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.50%) BGP
7 6 (0.50%) IPsec
7 6 (0.50%) VoIP
8 5 (0.42%) AMQP
9 4 (0.33%) HTTP
9 4 (0.33%) LAN
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.17%) MQTT
10 2 (0.17%) Network Security
10 2 (0.17%) VLAN
11 1 (0.083%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (21.73%) MongoDB
2 176 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 112 (9.33%) NoSQL
6 87 (7.24%) DynamoDB
7 61 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 60 (5.00%) Redis
9 55 (4.58%) MySQL
10 36 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (1.00%) DTS
15 11 (0.92%) Big Data
15 11 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.92%) Db2
15 11 (0.92%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 140 (11.66%) Git
2 90 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.08%) GitLab
4 58 (4.83%) Cypress.io
5 39 (3.25%) JIRA
6 16 (1.33%) Selenium
7 15 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.00%) JUnit
9 11 (0.92%) Vite
10 10 (0.83%) Storybook
11 9 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.75%) Postman
11 9 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.58%) Maven
12 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.50%) Mocha
14 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 141 (11.74%) Finance
3 121 (10.07%) Public Sector
4 60 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (4.83%) Retail
6 35 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (2.08%) Marketing
8 21 (1.75%) Law
9 20 (1.67%) Games
10 18 (1.50%) Banking
11 12 (1.00%) Legal
12 11 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.83%) Advertising
14 9 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.75%) Military
14 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.58%) Automotive
15 7 (0.58%) Publishing
16 6 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 571 (47.54%) Developer
2 301 (25.06%) Senior
3 224 (18.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 211 (17.57%) Lead
5 186 (15.49%) Software Engineer
6 147 (12.24%) .NET Developer
7 106 (8.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 101 (8.41%) Senior Developer
9 97 (8.08%) Software Developer
10 82 (6.83%) Lead Developer
11 81 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 65 (5.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 60 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
14 55 (4.58%) Architect
14 55 (4.58%) Node.js Developer
15 52 (4.33%) Software Manager
16 50 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 46 (3.83%) Development Manager
17 46 (3.83%) Software Development Manager
18 45 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (45.71%) React
2 271 (22.56%) .NET
3 179 (14.90%) AngularJS
4 174 (14.49%) Terraform
5 167 (13.91%) ASP.NET
6 162 (13.49%) .NET Core
7 154 (12.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 150 (12.49%) CSS
9 147 (12.24%) Vue
10 135 (11.24%) HTML
11 122 (10.16%) REST
12 103 (8.58%) RESTful
13 100 (8.33%) Spring Boot
14 96 (7.99%) Spring
15 80 (6.66%) Next.js
16 79 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
17 70 (5.83%) Jest
17 70 (5.83%) NestJS
18 64 (5.33%) Blazor
19 62 (5.16%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 190 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
4 45 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.83%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.33%) AI Agents
8 27 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.58%) Mainframe
10 15 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.00%) PropTech
13 10 (0.83%) EPoS
13 10 (0.83%) IoT
13 10 (0.83%) iSeries
14 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.91%) Linux
2 28 (2.33%) Windows
3 18 (1.50%) Unix
4 13 (1.08%) Debian
4 13 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.50%) CentOS
6 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.33%) AIX
7 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.25%) Android
8 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (50.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (44.38%) CI/CD
3 518 (43.13%) Agile
4 434 (36.14%) Microservices
5 350 (29.14%) Software Engineering
6 330 (27.48%) DevOps
7 269 (22.40%) AI
8 252 (20.98%) Mentoring
9 195 (16.24%) Test Automation
10 180 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (13.41%) Scrum
12 158 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
13 157 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 155 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
15 152 (12.66%) Containerisation
16 150 (12.49%) Event-Driven
17 136 (11.32%) TDD
18 133 (11.07%) Observability
19 108 (8.99%) Code Quality
20 106 (8.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 557 (46.38%) TypeScript
2 526 (43.80%) JavaScript
3 333 (27.73%) SQL
4 265 (22.06%) C#
5 258 (21.48%) Python
6 239 (19.90%) Java
7 66 (5.50%) Ruby
8 44 (3.66%) PHP
9 34 (2.83%) Kotlin
10 32 (2.66%) Go
11 28 (2.33%) Bash
12 11 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.83%) ABAP
13 10 (0.83%) C++
13 10 (0.83%) RPG
14 6 (0.50%) C
14 6 (0.50%) COBOL
15 5 (0.42%) Scala
16 4 (0.33%) Rust
16 4 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 94 (7.83%) Degree
3 68 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.25%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.25%) OCP
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.083%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.00%) QA
2 68 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 43 (3.58%) WCAG
4 21 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.00%) GDPR
5 12 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.50%) NCSC
6 6 (0.50%) NIST
7 5 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.33%) GRC
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.17%) SLA
11 1 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.083%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 284 (23.65%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Firmware
3 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.00%) Ansible
3 23 (1.92%) Grafana
4 19 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.50%) Argo
6 12 (1.00%) Podman
7 9 (0.75%) Puppet
8 7 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.33%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.33%) Istio
10 4 (0.33%) linkerd
11 3 (0.25%) Packer
12 2 (0.17%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.083%) Nagios
13 1 (0.083%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 214 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.25%) Google
3 36 (3.00%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.50%) SAP
5 16 (1.33%) IBM
5 16 (1.33%) Oracle
6 14 (1.17%) Adobe
7 13 (1.08%) SendGrid
8 12 (1.00%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.75%) iManage
9 9 (0.75%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.75%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.58%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.50%) HP
12 6 (0.50%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.50%) Splunk
13 5 (0.42%) Databricks
13 5 (0.42%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.33%) New Relic