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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 180 134
Rank change year-on-year +1 -46 -19
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,214 925 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.85% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.21% 10.26% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 961 572 940
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,653 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.42% - -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 11,885 9,018 17,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 18.00% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,635 5,877 11,651
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,932 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 August 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 31 August 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 -18 1,073 £72,500 -6.45% 458
UK excluding London +21 814 £68,653 +14.42% 265
Work from Home -10 623 £69,305 -15.99% 237
London -83 294 £85,000 -19.05% 248
North of England -33 279 £69,310 +2.68% 73
South East +71 237 £75,000 +30.43% 75
North West -53 136 £73,500 +5.00% 49
Midlands +39 107 £60,000 -4.00% 43
Yorkshire +4 84 £70,000 +3.70% 15
South West -20 76 £57,500 - 37
North East -7 59 £55,000 -18.52% 9
West Midlands +9 58 £60,000 -2.04% 29
East of England +8 53 £55,000 - 12
Wales -25 52 £72,500 +4.69% 10
East Midlands +14 49 £66,500 +0.38% 14
Scotland +5 10 £60,000 -30.43% 17

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 (2.80%) Confluence
2 21 (1.73%) CMS
3 18 (1.48%) Apache
4 16 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (1.15%) IIS
6 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.66%) WordPress
8 7 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.49%) JBoss
10 4 (0.33%) nginx
10 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) DNN
11 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.25%) Kentico
11 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 665 (54.78%) AWS
2 436 (35.91%) Azure
3 226 (18.62%) GitHub
4 217 (17.87%) Serverless
5 170 (14.00%) SaaS
6 167 (13.76%) AWS Lambda
7 148 (12.19%) GCP
8 125 (10.30%) Amazon S3
9 110 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
10 105 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
11 92 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 74 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 65 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
15 46 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (2.80%) Datadog
18 32 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (2.47%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.22%) Broadband
2 16 (1.32%) Firewall
3 13 (1.07%) DMARC
3 13 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.91%) DNS
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
6 8 (0.66%) Internet
7 7 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.58%) Wireshark
8 6 (0.49%) BGP
8 6 (0.49%) IPsec
8 6 (0.49%) VoIP
9 5 (0.41%) AMQP
10 4 (0.33%) HTTP
10 4 (0.33%) LAN
10 4 (0.33%) WAN
11 3 (0.25%) VLAN
12 2 (0.16%) MQTT
12 2 (0.16%) Multicast
12 2 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (21.42%) MongoDB
2 174 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 114 (9.39%) NoSQL
6 90 (7.41%) DynamoDB
7 62 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 58 (4.78%) MySQL
9 57 (4.70%) Redis
10 35 (2.88%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
12 27 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.24%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.99%) DTS
15 11 (0.91%) Big Data
15 11 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.91%) Db2
15 11 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 141 (11.61%) Git
2 89 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 58 (4.78%) GitLab
4 57 (4.70%) Cypress.io
5 41 (3.38%) JIRA
6 16 (1.32%) Selenium
7 15 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.99%) JUnit
9 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.82%) Storybook
10 9 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.74%) Postman
11 8 (0.66%) Vite
12 7 (0.58%) Maven
12 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.49%) Mocha
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 260 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 139 (11.45%) Finance
3 121 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 60 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (4.78%) Retail
6 37 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (1.98%) Marketing
8 22 (1.81%) Law
9 20 (1.65%) Banking
9 20 (1.65%) Games
10 11 (0.91%) Legal
10 11 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.82%) Advertising
12 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.74%) Military
12 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.58%) Automotive
13 7 (0.58%) Publishing
14 6 (0.49%) Front Office
14 6 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 579 (47.69%) Developer
2 304 (25.04%) Senior
3 230 (18.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 212 (17.46%) Lead
5 189 (15.57%) Software Engineer
6 147 (12.11%) .NET Developer
7 107 (8.81%) Senior Developer
8 104 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 98 (8.07%) Software Developer
10 82 (6.75%) Lead Developer
11 79 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 65 (5.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 59 (4.86%) Lead Software Developer
14 58 (4.78%) Node.js Developer
15 57 (4.70%) Architect
16 53 (4.37%) Software Manager
17 49 (4.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 47 (3.87%) Development Manager
18 47 (3.87%) Software Development Manager
19 44 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (45.55%) React
2 278 (22.90%) .NET
3 179 (14.74%) AngularJS
4 174 (14.33%) Terraform
5 167 (13.76%) ASP.NET
6 163 (13.43%) .NET Core
7 154 (12.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 147 (12.11%) CSS
8 147 (12.11%) Vue
9 133 (10.96%) HTML
10 122 (10.05%) REST
11 103 (8.48%) RESTful
12 102 (8.40%) Spring Boot
13 98 (8.07%) Spring
14 83 (6.84%) Next.js
15 79 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
16 73 (6.01%) NestJS
17 70 (5.77%) Jest
18 64 (5.27%) Blazor
19 63 (5.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 186 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.57%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.99%) PropTech
14 10 (0.82%) EPoS
14 10 (0.82%) IoT
14 10 (0.82%) iSeries
15 9 (0.74%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
17 7 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.94%) Linux
2 29 (2.39%) Windows
3 18 (1.48%) Unix
4 12 (0.99%) Debian
4 12 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.58%) CentOS
6 5 (0.41%) 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
9 2 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (50.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 532 (43.82%) CI/CD
3 514 (42.34%) Agile
4 431 (35.50%) Microservices
5 358 (29.49%) Software Engineering
6 336 (27.68%) DevOps
7 267 (21.99%) AI
8 252 (20.76%) Mentoring
9 192 (15.82%) Test Automation
10 173 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 165 (13.59%) Scrum
12 158 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
13 155 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 153 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
15 150 (12.36%) Containerisation
16 149 (12.27%) Event-Driven
17 145 (11.94%) TDD
18 134 (11.04%) Observability
19 106 (8.73%) Code Quality
20 105 (8.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 562 (46.29%) TypeScript
2 523 (43.08%) JavaScript
3 335 (27.59%) SQL
4 268 (22.08%) C#
5 259 (21.33%) Python
6 245 (20.18%) Java
7 65 (5.35%) Ruby
8 45 (3.71%) PHP
9 36 (2.97%) Kotlin
10 32 (2.64%) Go
11 29 (2.39%) Bash
12 12 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.82%) ABAP
13 10 (0.82%) C++
13 10 (0.82%) RPG
14 6 (0.49%) C
14 6 (0.49%) COBOL
14 6 (0.49%) Scala
15 4 (0.33%) Rust
15 4 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (7.91%) Degree
2 94 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 65 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 62 (5.11%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.082%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.60%) Accessibility
1 68 (5.60%) QA
2 43 (3.54%) WCAG
3 21 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.99%) GDPR
5 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.49%) NCSC
6 6 (0.49%) NIST
7 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.25%) GRC
8 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.16%) SLA
10 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 278 (22.90%) Docker
2 5 (0.41%) Firmware
3 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.97%) Ansible
3 24 (1.98%) Grafana
4 20 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.48%) Argo
6 12 (0.99%) Podman
7 9 (0.74%) Puppet
8 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 4 (0.33%) linkerd
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.16%) Nagios
11 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 210 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.12%) Google
3 35 (2.88%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.48%) SAP
5 16 (1.32%) IBM
5 16 (1.32%) Oracle
6 14 (1.15%) Adobe
7 13 (1.07%) SendGrid
8 12 (0.99%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.82%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.74%) iManage
10 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.58%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.49%) HP
13 6 (0.49%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.49%) Splunk
14 5 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) SaltStack