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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 110 129
Rank change year-on-year -97 +19 -41
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 705 1,331 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.72% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.19% 12.28% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 591 783 1,452
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,594 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 7,670 10,839 17,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.18% 22.16% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,639 6,631 14,278
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -102 612 £75,000 - 700
UK excluding London -132 325 £65,000 +8.33% 562
London -58 305 £95,000 +8.57% 223
Work from Home -88 298 £74,830 -0.23% 444
North of England -27 134 £65,000 -3.70% 133
Yorkshire -17 69 £62,500 -7.41% 49
Midlands -25 67 £62,500 -3.85% 79
North West -31 56 £74,915 -0.11% 62
East Midlands -6 44 £63,250 -2.69% 36
South East -151 44 £65,000 +18.18% 168
South West -64 35 £62,500 +2.04% 63
West Midlands -26 23 £60,000 -9.43% 41
Northern Ireland -14 21 £82,500 +17.86% 9
Wales -12 12 £71,894 +62.13% 23
East of England -59 10 £55,000 -2.22% 71
North East -18 9 £50,000 -8.88% 22
Scotland -53 7 £74,830 +36.05% 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 18 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.99%) CMS
3 13 (1.84%) OpenStack
4 12 (1.70%) Confluence
5 8 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.99%) nginx
7 6 (0.85%) Apache
7 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.85%) IIS
8 5 (0.71%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.57%) Appian
10 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.71%) InVision
2 5 (0.71%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.57%) Shopify
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 409 (58.01%) AWS
2 174 (24.68%) Azure
3 162 (22.98%) Serverless
4 124 (17.59%) AWS Lambda
5 123 (17.45%) GCP
6 107 (15.18%) GitHub
7 94 (13.33%) Amazon S3
8 72 (10.21%) SaaS
9 58 (8.23%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (6.24%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (3.55%) Figma
16 19 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (2.55%) Datadog
18 16 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
19 15 (2.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.70%) AMQP
2 11 (1.56%) SSH
3 4 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) Broadband
4 2 (0.28%) DSL
4 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.14%) CTI
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.14%) Internet
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (9.79%) MongoDB
3 60 (8.51%) NoSQL
4 43 (6.10%) DynamoDB
5 37 (5.25%) MySQL
6 35 (4.96%) Relational Database
7 31 (4.40%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (2.70%) Redis
11 16 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.56%) Apache Arrow
15 11 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (1.56%) DB2
15 11 (1.56%) Dremio
16 5 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (14.33%) Git
2 73 (10.35%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.97%) JIRA
4 25 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.55%) GitLab
6 16 (2.27%) Selenium
7 14 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.70%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.56%) Storybook
11 10 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.71%) Mocha
14 4 (0.57%) Babel
14 4 (0.57%) Maven
14 4 (0.57%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.57%) Vite
14 4 (0.57%) webpack
15 3 (0.43%) ESLint
General
1 183 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 112 (15.89%) Finance
3 40 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.25%) Front Office
6 20 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.13%) Marketing
7 15 (2.13%) Retail
8 12 (1.70%) Law
8 12 (1.70%) Tech for Good
9 11 (1.56%) Banking
10 9 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.13%) Legal
12 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.85%) Back Office
13 6 (0.85%) Electronics
14 4 (0.57%) Advertising
14 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.28%) Games
15 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 356 (50.50%) Developer
2 163 (23.12%) Senior
3 140 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 132 (18.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 114 (16.17%) Lead
6 78 (11.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 63 (8.94%) Senior Developer
8 58 (8.23%) Java Developer
9 50 (7.09%) Node.js Developer
10 48 (6.81%) Architect
11 43 (6.10%) Lead Developer
11 43 (6.10%) React Developer
12 39 (5.53%) AWS Developer
13 37 (5.25%) Software Developer
14 35 (4.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 34 (4.82%) Python Developer
16 32 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
17 29 (4.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 24 (3.40%) Backend Developer
18 24 (3.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (62.70%) React
2 124 (17.59%) CSS
3 123 (17.45%) HTML
4 109 (15.46%) AngularJS
5 99 (14.04%) Vue
6 98 (13.90%) REST
7 77 (10.92%) RESTful
8 73 (10.35%) .NET
9 56 (7.94%) GraphQL
10 55 (7.80%) Spring
11 50 (7.09%) Kafka
12 46 (6.52%) Spring Boot
13 40 (5.67%) Next.js
14 36 (5.11%) Redux
15 34 (4.82%) Jest
16 33 (4.68%) React Native
17 30 (4.26%) Django
18 28 (3.97%) .NET Core
18 28 (3.97%) NestJS
19 27 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.96%) Fixed Income
4 34 (4.82%) Mobile App
5 27 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.84%) IoT
9 19 (2.70%) Equities
10 14 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.13%) Derivative
14 6 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
16 4 (0.57%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.57%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.25%) Linux
2 15 (2.13%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Android
3 9 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.13%) Unix
5 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.71%) CentOS
6 5 (0.71%) Debian
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (45.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 272 (38.58%) CI/CD
3 265 (37.59%) Agile
4 258 (36.60%) Software Engineering
5 183 (25.96%) Microservices
6 169 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (23.26%) DevOps
8 141 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 108 (15.32%) AI
10 94 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (12.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 85 (12.06%) User Experience
13 82 (11.63%) Computer Science
13 82 (11.63%) Containerisation
14 76 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (10.35%) Scrum
16 71 (10.07%) Test Automation
17 70 (9.93%) Front End Development
18 55 (7.80%) Clean Code
19 54 (7.66%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (54.33%) JavaScript
2 339 (48.09%) TypeScript
3 213 (30.21%) Python
4 179 (25.39%) Java
5 117 (16.60%) SQL
6 50 (7.09%) C#
7 41 (5.82%) Go
8 27 (3.83%) PHP
9 26 (3.69%) Ruby
10 19 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.41%) Bash
12 15 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.85%) C
15 3 (0.43%) ABAP
15 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.43%) C++
15 3 (0.43%) RPG
16 2 (0.28%) R
17 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (11.77%) Degree
2 59 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 51 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.43%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.25%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.83%) QA
3 12 (1.70%) GDPR
4 9 (1.28%) WCAG
5 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.71%) PERC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 126 (17.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Firmware
2 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (16.88%) Terraform
2 101 (14.33%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.40%) Ansible
4 15 (2.13%) Argo
5 10 (1.42%) Grafana
6 8 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.28%) Nagios
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (4.68%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.97%) Google
3 19 (2.70%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.84%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.56%) SAP
7 9 (1.28%) Adobe
7 9 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.13%) Oracle
9 6 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.71%) iManage
10 5 (0.71%) Pega
10 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.57%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.57%) WSO2
12 3 (0.43%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.43%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.43%) ServiceNow