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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 161 123
Rank change year-on-year -3 -38 -27
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,189 983 2,175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.05% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.87% 11.03% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 980 640 1,555
10th Percentile £45,743 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £94,063 £105,000 £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 10,017 8,910 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 18.57% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,505 5,893 15,908
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,933 £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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -10 1,067 £72,500 -3.33% 408
UK excluding London +7 756 £67,500 +12.50% 235
Work from Home -7 588 £67,500 -15.63% 260
London -36 337 £90,000 -12.20% 218
North of England -27 269 £70,000 - 71
South East +41 204 £72,500 +31.82% 77
North West -57 134 £70,000 -6.67% 42
Midlands +35 107 £60,000 -5.88% 26
Yorkshire +21 93 £70,000 +3.70% 14
South West -44 74 £52,500 -12.50% 21
East Midlands +23 59 £64,500 -7.86% 12
East of England +6 51 £55,000 +57.14% 16
West Midlands -7 48 £60,000 - 14
North East -13 42 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Wales -26 37 £72,500 +20.94% 5
Scotland +11 9 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 14

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 32 (2.69%) Confluence
2 20 (1.68%) CMS
3 16 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.26%) Apache
5 13 (1.09%) IIS
6 12 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.67%) JBoss
9 6 (0.50%) nginx
10 5 (0.42%) WordPress
11 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.25%) DNN
12 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
4 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 685 (57.61%) AWS
2 408 (34.31%) Azure
3 220 (18.50%) Serverless
4 188 (15.81%) GitHub
5 171 (14.38%) AWS Lambda
6 152 (12.78%) GCP
7 137 (11.52%) Amazon S3
8 133 (11.19%) SaaS
9 95 (7.99%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
13 63 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
14 59 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 40 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 33 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
17 30 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
19 27 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.27%) Broadband
2 16 (1.35%) Firewall
3 13 (1.09%) DMARC
4 11 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.67%) AMQP
5 8 (0.67%) DNS
5 8 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
5 8 (0.67%) Internet
6 6 (0.50%) VoIP
6 6 (0.50%) VPN
7 5 (0.42%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.34%) BGP
8 4 (0.34%) IPsec
8 4 (0.34%) LAN
8 4 (0.34%) SSH
8 4 (0.34%) WAN
9 3 (0.25%) DSL
9 3 (0.25%) VLAN
10 2 (0.17%) HTTP
10 2 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (20.94%) MongoDB
2 168 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (13.20%) Elasticsearch
4 145 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 97 (8.16%) NoSQL
6 79 (6.64%) DynamoDB
7 71 (5.97%) MySQL
8 50 (4.21%) SQL Server
9 43 (3.62%) Redis
10 28 (2.35%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.51%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (1.01%) DTS
16 10 (0.84%) Big Data
16 10 (0.84%) Db2
16 10 (0.84%) Hadoop
17 8 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 7 (0.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 123 (10.34%) Git
2 86 (7.23%) Jenkins
3 50 (4.21%) Cypress.io
4 46 (3.87%) GitLab
5 41 (3.45%) JIRA
6 16 (1.35%) Selenium
7 14 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.18%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.59%) JUnit
8 7 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.50%) Vite
10 5 (0.42%) Maven
10 5 (0.42%) Mocha
10 5 (0.42%) Postman
11 4 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.34%) Storybook
11 4 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 223 (18.76%) Social Skills
2 166 (13.96%) Finance
3 103 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 53 (4.46%) Front Office
5 47 (3.95%) Retail
6 44 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (2.27%) Law
9 16 (1.35%) Legal
9 16 (1.35%) Marketing
10 12 (1.01%) Advertising
11 11 (0.93%) Games
12 10 (0.84%) Banking
12 10 (0.84%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.67%) Automotive
15 7 (0.59%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 608 (51.14%) Developer
2 277 (23.30%) Senior
3 232 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 224 (18.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 218 (18.33%) Lead
6 144 (12.11%) .NET Developer
7 118 (9.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 99 (8.33%) Lead Developer
9 95 (7.99%) Senior Developer
10 79 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 73 (6.14%) Software Developer
12 71 (5.97%) Lead Software Developer
13 68 (5.72%) Lead Software Engineer
14 65 (5.47%) Node.js Developer
15 51 (4.29%) Architect
15 51 (4.29%) Java Developer
16 50 (4.21%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (4.21%) React Developer
17 49 (4.12%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 46 (3.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 613 (51.56%) React
2 255 (21.45%) .NET
3 169 (14.21%) AngularJS
4 161 (13.54%) ASP.NET
5 158 (13.29%) .NET Core
6 151 (12.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 146 (12.28%) Vue
8 134 (11.27%) CSS
9 130 (10.93%) REST
10 121 (10.18%) HTML
11 93 (7.82%) RESTful
12 89 (7.49%) Spring Boot
13 85 (7.15%) Spring
14 78 (6.56%) GraphQL
15 77 (6.48%) Kafka
16 74 (6.22%) ASP.NET Web API
17 71 (5.97%) Redux
18 63 (5.30%) Next.js
19 62 (5.21%) .NET Framework
20 61 (5.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 171 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 52 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
3 49 (4.12%) Fixed Income
4 44 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 36 (3.03%) Mobile App
8 22 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.43%) Derivative
10 16 (1.35%) Equities
10 16 (1.35%) IoT
11 15 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.26%) Mainframe
11 15 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.01%) PropTech
13 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.76%) EPoS
13 9 (0.76%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.30%) Linux
2 32 (2.69%) Windows
3 20 (1.68%) Unix
4 11 (0.93%) Debian
4 11 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.67%) CentOS
6 6 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.34%) AIX
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.25%) Android
8 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (51.98%) Full-Stack Development
2 501 (42.14%) Agile
3 454 (38.18%) CI/CD
4 410 (34.48%) Microservices
5 386 (32.46%) Software Engineering
6 305 (25.65%) DevOps
7 252 (21.19%) Mentoring
8 190 (15.98%) AI
9 160 (13.46%) Scrum
10 159 (13.37%) Test Automation
11 158 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 142 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 140 (11.77%) Containerisation
14 133 (11.19%) TDD
15 126 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
16 119 (10.01%) Event-Driven
17 104 (8.75%) Observability
18 102 (8.58%) Kanban
19 87 (7.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 563 (47.35%) TypeScript
2 544 (45.75%) JavaScript
3 305 (25.65%) SQL
4 264 (22.20%) Java
5 263 (22.12%) Python
6 246 (20.69%) C#
7 56 (4.71%) Go
8 55 (4.63%) Ruby
9 50 (4.21%) PHP
10 34 (2.86%) Kotlin
11 31 (2.61%) Bash
12 15 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.84%) ABAP
14 9 (0.76%) RPG
15 8 (0.67%) C++
16 7 (0.59%) Scala
17 6 (0.50%) C
18 5 (0.42%) COBOL
18 5 (0.42%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 92 (7.74%) Degree
2 76 (6.39%) Security Cleared
3 66 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.25%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.084%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.084%) HNC
14 1 (0.084%) HND
14 1 (0.084%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.95%) QA
2 40 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.10%) WCAG
4 18 (1.51%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.67%) GDPR
6 5 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.084%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.084%) NIST
7 1 (0.084%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 230 (19.34%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.34%) Firmware
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 170 (14.30%) Kubernetes
2 168 (14.13%) Terraform
3 34 (2.86%) Ansible
4 20 (1.68%) Argo
5 19 (1.60%) Grafana
5 19 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.01%) Podman
7 8 (0.67%) Puppet
8 6 (0.50%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
9 4 (0.34%) linkerd
9 4 (0.34%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.78%) Google
3 16 (1.35%) OpenAI
3 16 (1.35%) SAP
4 15 (1.26%) Oracle
5 13 (1.09%) IBM
5 13 (1.09%) SendGrid
6 11 (0.93%) iManage
7 10 (0.84%) Adobe
7 10 (0.84%) OneLogin
8 9 (0.76%) Sitecore
9 8 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.67%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.59%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.50%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.50%) Splunk
12 5 (0.42%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.34%) HP
14 3 (0.25%) Alterian