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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 134 125
Rank change year-on-year -72 -9 -38
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 919 962 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.28% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.51% 11.42% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 742 733 1,565
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,836 £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 £115,000 £111,250 £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 8,745 8,422 20,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 19.99% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 6,440 15,720
10th Percentile £39,675 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 27 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 27 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 -68 810 £75,000 +7.14% 358
UK excluding London -76 504 £70,000 +12.00% 242
Work from Home -47 379 £72,500 - 333
London -30 330 £91,250 +4.29% 149
North of England -32 190 £70,000 - 77
Midlands -9 101 £64,000 +2.40% 41
South East -65 101 £75,000 +36.36% 65
North West -24 100 £75,000 - 49
Yorkshire -29 76 £70,000 +3.70% 15
East Midlands -8 63 £67,000 +3.08% 23
South West -82 51 £56,250 -6.25% 29
West Midlands -23 38 £60,000 -2.04% 17
East of England -60 20 £45,000 -20.00% 13
Northern Ireland -24 19 £90,000 - 6
Wales -26 16 £68,958 +2.16% 4
North East -39 14 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland -38 11 £60,000 +9.09% 9

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 (1.52%) CMS
2 12 (1.31%) Confluence
2 12 (1.31%) IIS
2 12 (1.31%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.65%) Apache
5 6 (0.65%) JBoss
6 5 (0.54%) nginx
7 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.44%) Appian
7 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.33%) WordPress
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) InVision
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 524 (57.02%) AWS
2 216 (23.50%) Azure
3 194 (21.11%) Serverless
4 152 (16.54%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (14.58%) GCP
6 125 (13.60%) Amazon S3
7 112 (12.19%) GitHub
8 102 (11.10%) SaaS
9 78 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
10 65 (7.07%) Amazon SQS
11 58 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
13 47 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (2.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 25 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (2.61%) Datadog
18 22 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.31%) Broadband
2 11 (1.20%) AMQP
3 7 (0.76%) SSH
4 4 (0.44%) HTTP
5 3 (0.33%) Firewall
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) DSL
6 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.22%) Internet
6 2 (0.22%) Multicast
6 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.11%) CTI
7 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (10.77%) MongoDB
3 83 (9.03%) NoSQL
4 63 (6.86%) DynamoDB
5 39 (4.24%) MySQL
6 34 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 23 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 20 (2.18%) Redis
10 17 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.87%) DB2
14 6 (0.65%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.54%) Big Data
15 5 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.54%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (13.17%) Git
2 71 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.68%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.94%) GitLab
5 22 (2.39%) JIRA
6 18 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.63%) Selenium
8 13 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.09%) Storybook
10 7 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.65%) Maven
12 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.44%) Babel
13 4 (0.44%) rollup.js
13 4 (0.44%) Vite
14 3 (0.33%) ESLint
14 3 (0.33%) JUnit
15 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
15 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 185 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 132 (14.36%) Finance
3 53 (5.77%) Front Office
4 47 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.01%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.39%) Law
7 17 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.52%) Banking
9 11 (1.20%) Marketing
10 10 (1.09%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.98%) Retail
12 8 (0.87%) Advertising
12 8 (0.87%) Legal
12 8 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.76%) Electronics
14 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.44%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.44%) Local Government
16 3 (0.33%) Back Office
16 3 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 467 (50.82%) Developer
2 233 (25.35%) Senior
3 208 (22.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 190 (20.67%) Software Engineer
5 152 (16.54%) Lead
6 114 (12.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 96 (10.45%) Senior Developer
8 79 (8.60%) Lead Developer
9 76 (8.27%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.86%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.64%) React Developer
12 53 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 53 (5.77%) Software Developer
13 49 (5.33%) Lead Software Developer
14 47 (5.11%) Architect
15 46 (5.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 46 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
16 43 (4.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 39 (4.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (3.92%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (58.98%) React
2 117 (12.73%) CSS
3 111 (12.08%) HTML
4 107 (11.64%) .NET
5 97 (10.55%) REST
6 92 (10.01%) AngularJS
7 91 (9.90%) Vue
8 89 (9.68%) RESTful
9 73 (7.94%) GraphQL
10 69 (7.51%) Kafka
10 69 (7.51%) Redux
11 51 (5.55%) Spring
12 48 (5.22%) NestJS
13 46 (5.01%) Next.js
14 44 (4.79%) Spring Boot
15 42 (4.57%) Jest
16 37 (4.03%) React Native
17 32 (3.48%) Ruby on Rails
18 29 (3.16%) Django
19 28 (3.05%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 104 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.22%) Fixed Income
4 36 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 31 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.96%) IoT
9 17 (1.85%) Derivative
10 16 (1.74%) Equities
11 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.65%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.65%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.54%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.54%) Mobile Payment
15 4 (0.44%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.01%) Linux
2 25 (2.72%) Windows
3 18 (1.96%) Unix
4 8 (0.87%) Android
4 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.76%) CentOS
6 5 (0.54%) Debian
6 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) Rocky
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (49.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 340 (37.00%) Software Engineering
3 331 (36.02%) CI/CD
4 287 (31.23%) Agile
5 231 (25.14%) DevOps
6 224 (24.37%) Microservices
7 181 (19.70%) Mentoring
8 163 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (14.69%) AI
10 125 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 102 (11.10%) Test Automation
13 97 (10.55%) Containerisation
14 90 (9.79%) Computer Science
15 89 (9.68%) Scrum
16 69 (7.51%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (7.40%) User Experience
18 66 (7.18%) Observability
19 59 (6.42%) Clean Code
20 57 (6.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 456 (49.62%) JavaScript
2 451 (49.08%) TypeScript
3 235 (25.57%) Python
4 221 (24.05%) Java
5 133 (14.47%) SQL
6 83 (9.03%) C#
7 65 (7.07%) Go
8 37 (4.03%) Ruby
9 34 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 31 (3.37%) PHP
11 21 (2.29%) Bash
12 16 (1.74%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.76%) Scala
13 7 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.65%) C
15 3 (0.33%) C++
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
15 3 (0.33%) Rust
15 3 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
Qualifications
1 91 (9.90%) Degree
2 63 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.22%) PhD
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.72%) QA
3 6 (0.65%) WCAG
4 5 (0.54%) GDPR
5 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.22%) PERC
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 177 (19.26%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 156 (16.97%) Terraform
2 121 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.16%) Ansible
4 27 (2.94%) Argo
5 12 (1.31%) Podman
6 11 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.09%) Grafana
8 6 (0.65%) Puppet
9 5 (0.54%) Nagios
10 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) Packer
12 2 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (4.13%) Google
2 36 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.98%) Adobe
6 9 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.98%) SAP
7 6 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.54%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.54%) Oracle
8 5 (0.54%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.44%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.33%) iManage
10 3 (0.33%) Mavenir
10 3 (0.33%) Pega
10 3 (0.33%) Splunk