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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 123 122
Rank change year-on-year -82 -1 -31
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 861 1,014 2,157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.47% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.05% 11.70% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 703 745 1,574
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,733 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -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 8,564 8,670 20,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 21.14% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,264 6,582 15,628
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £80,000
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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -91 759 £77,500 +10.71% 326
UK excluding London -103 464 £70,000 +12.00% 217
Work from Home -68 351 £72,500 - 214
London -43 321 £92,500 +5.71% 141
North of England -42 177 £70,000 - 71
Midlands -9 93 £64,000 +2.40% 38
North West -39 91 £75,000 - 47
South East -105 89 £77,500 +40.91% 58
Yorkshire -29 78 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East Midlands -11 60 £66,000 +1.54% 12
South West -85 47 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -18 33 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -23 20 £86,250 - 1
East of England -62 18 £46,250 -19.57% 15
Wales -26 14 £68,958 +8.17% 8
Scotland -37 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -30 8 £55,000 -2.22% 8

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 (1.63%) CMS
2 11 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.16%) Confluence
3 10 (1.16%) IIS
3 10 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.81%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.46%) Appian
6 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.35%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.35%) InVision
3 3 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 489 (56.79%) AWS
2 202 (23.46%) Azure
3 189 (21.95%) Serverless
4 149 (17.31%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (15.56%) GCP
6 121 (14.05%) Amazon S3
7 105 (12.20%) GitHub
8 102 (11.85%) SaaS
9 76 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
10 59 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
11 57 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
14 41 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 24 (2.79%) Datadog
18 21 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
19 18 (2.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.51%) AMQP
2 9 (1.05%) SSH
3 8 (0.93%) Broadband
4 4 (0.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) DSL
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) Multicast
5 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (9.06%) MongoDB
3 76 (8.83%) NoSQL
4 59 (6.85%) DynamoDB
5 40 (4.65%) MySQL
6 33 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.32%) Redis
10 17 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.63%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.05%) DB2
15 6 (0.70%) Big Data
15 6 (0.70%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (0.70%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.46%) GIS
Development Applications
1 112 (13.01%) Git
2 69 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.79%) JIRA
5 17 (1.97%) GitLab
6 16 (1.86%) Selenium
7 14 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.16%) Storybook
10 8 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.58%) Maven
11 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.46%) Babel
12 4 (0.46%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.46%) Vite
13 3 (0.35%) ESLint
13 3 (0.35%) Mocha
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 126 (14.63%) Finance
3 52 (6.04%) Front Office
4 48 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.18%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.56%) Law
7 15 (1.74%) Banking
7 15 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.28%) Marketing
9 10 (1.16%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.93%) Legal
11 8 (0.93%) Retail
12 7 (0.81%) Electronics
13 6 (0.70%) Advertising
13 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.46%) Back Office
15 4 (0.46%) Local Government
16 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 433 (50.29%) Developer
2 204 (23.69%) Senior
3 189 (21.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 188 (21.84%) Software Engineer
5 149 (17.31%) Lead
6 108 (12.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 86 (9.99%) Senior Developer
8 74 (8.59%) Lead Developer
9 71 (8.25%) Node.js Developer
10 65 (7.55%) Java Developer
11 62 (7.20%) React Developer
12 46 (5.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 46 (5.34%) Lead Software Developer
12 46 (5.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 46 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 43 (4.99%) Architect
13 43 (4.99%) Software Developer
14 41 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 34 (3.95%) AWS Developer
15 34 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (60.05%) React
2 121 (14.05%) CSS
3 115 (13.36%) HTML
4 101 (11.73%) .NET
5 95 (11.03%) REST
6 88 (10.22%) Vue
7 87 (10.10%) AngularJS
7 87 (10.10%) RESTful
8 68 (7.90%) GraphQL
9 67 (7.78%) Kafka
10 66 (7.67%) Redux
11 52 (6.04%) Spring
12 47 (5.46%) Next.js
13 45 (5.23%) NestJS
14 44 (5.11%) Spring Boot
15 42 (4.88%) Jest
16 39 (4.53%) React Native
17 29 (3.37%) Django
17 29 (3.37%) Ruby on Rails
18 28 (3.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.57%) Fixed Income
3 42 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 30 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.21%) IoT
8 18 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.97%) Derivative
10 16 (1.86%) Equities
11 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.58%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.58%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
14 4 (0.46%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.53%) Linux
2 16 (1.86%) Windows
3 10 (1.16%) Unix
4 8 (0.93%) Android
4 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.93%) CentOS
5 6 (0.70%) Debian
5 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Rocky
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (49.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 326 (37.86%) Software Engineering
3 309 (35.89%) CI/CD
4 272 (31.59%) Agile
5 208 (24.16%) DevOps
6 200 (23.23%) Microservices
7 168 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (18.93%) Mentoring
9 132 (15.33%) AI
10 115 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (10.92%) Computer Science
13 89 (10.34%) Test Automation
14 88 (10.22%) Containerisation
15 77 (8.94%) Scrum
16 70 (8.13%) User Experience
17 65 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (6.97%) Clean Code
19 59 (6.85%) Observability
20 56 (6.50%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 449 (52.15%) JavaScript
2 424 (49.25%) TypeScript
3 226 (26.25%) Python
4 208 (24.16%) Java
5 128 (14.87%) SQL
6 68 (7.90%) C#
7 62 (7.20%) Go
8 34 (3.95%) Ruby
9 33 (3.83%) Kotlin
10 26 (3.02%) PHP
11 22 (2.56%) Bash
12 16 (1.86%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.70%) C
15 4 (0.46%) Scala
16 3 (0.35%) ABAP
16 3 (0.35%) C++
16 3 (0.35%) Groovy
17 2 (0.23%) RPG
18 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (11.03%) Degree
2 65 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 34 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.67%) QA
3 7 (0.81%) GDPR
3 7 (0.81%) WCAG
4 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.46%) SLA
5 3 (0.35%) PERC
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 161 (18.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.46%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 142 (16.49%) Terraform
2 111 (12.89%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.14%) Ansible
4 16 (1.86%) Argo
5 13 (1.51%) Grafana
5 13 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.93%) Podman
7 6 (0.70%) Puppet
8 5 (0.58%) Nagios
9 4 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.12%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 35 (4.07%) Google
2 30 (3.48%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.51%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.28%) Red Hat
4 11 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.16%) SAP
6 7 (0.81%) Adobe
6 7 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.70%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.35%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.35%) iManage
9 3 (0.35%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.35%) New Relic
9 3 (0.35%) Pega
9 3 (0.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.35%) Splunk