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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -90 +13 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 817 1,174 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.77% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.11% 12.69% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 671 765 1,507
10th Percentile £49,250 £38,450 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
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 8,083 9,252 19,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 21.87% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,912 6,609 15,181
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 March 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 March 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 -94 718 £75,000 +7.14% 366
UK excluding London -107 412 £67,500 +12.50% 253
Work from Home -76 344 £72,500 - 255
London -51 327 £95,000 +8.57% 148
North of England -30 163 £70,000 +3.70% 86
Midlands -14 82 £64,000 +2.40% 35
North West -31 79 £74,830 -0.23% 50
Yorkshire -15 76 £63,750 -5.56% 27
South East -130 69 £72,500 +31.82% 61
East Midlands -22 52 £65,000 - 10
South West -66 46 £62,500 +4.17% 28
West Midlands -10 30 £60,000 - 25
Northern Ireland -15 21 £82,500 +37.50% 2
East of England -70 14 £47,500 -17.39% 25
Wales -25 12 £71,894 +56.89% 8
Scotland -44 10 £63,750 +15.91% 9
North East -27 8 £50,000 -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 (1.71%) CMS
1 14 (1.71%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.22%) Confluence
3 9 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.10%) IIS
4 8 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.86%) nginx
6 6 (0.73%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.49%) Appian
7 4 (0.49%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.37%) InVision
3 3 (0.37%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 467 (57.16%) AWS
2 206 (25.21%) Azure
3 175 (21.42%) Serverless
4 135 (16.52%) GCP
5 134 (16.40%) AWS Lambda
6 106 (12.97%) Amazon S3
7 104 (12.73%) GitHub
8 93 (11.38%) SaaS
9 64 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
11 46 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 43 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (2.57%) Figma
17 19 (2.33%) Datadog
18 16 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (1.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.47%) AMQP
2 11 (1.35%) SSH
3 7 (0.86%) Broadband
4 4 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) DSL
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (9.18%) MongoDB
3 69 (8.45%) NoSQL
4 46 (5.63%) DynamoDB
5 43 (5.26%) MySQL
6 35 (4.28%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 29 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.33%) Redis
9 15 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.22%) DB2
14 5 (0.61%) Big Data
14 5 (0.61%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.61%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.49%) GIS
Development Applications
1 119 (14.57%) Git
2 79 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.16%) Cypress.io
4 27 (3.30%) JIRA
5 18 (2.20%) GitLab
6 15 (1.84%) CircleCI
6 15 (1.84%) Selenium
7 14 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.35%) Storybook
9 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.49%) Babel
12 4 (0.49%) Maven
12 4 (0.49%) Mocha
12 4 (0.49%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.49%) Vite
13 3 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 196 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 125 (15.30%) Finance
3 52 (6.36%) Front Office
4 46 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.45%) Law
7 19 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.96%) Marketing
9 14 (1.71%) Banking
10 10 (1.22%) Retail
10 10 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.98%) Electronics
12 8 (0.98%) Legal
13 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.49%) Advertising
14 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.49%) Back Office
15 3 (0.37%) Games
16 2 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 417 (51.04%) Developer
2 177 (21.66%) Senior
3 172 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 168 (20.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 138 (16.89%) Lead
6 97 (11.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 75 (9.18%) Senior Developer
8 67 (8.20%) Java Developer
9 65 (7.96%) Lead Developer
10 64 (7.83%) Node.js Developer
11 59 (7.22%) React Developer
12 49 (6.00%) Architect
13 46 (5.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 44 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (4.90%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (4.90%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 35 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (3.92%) AWS Developer
18 25 (3.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (60.47%) React
2 125 (15.30%) CSS
3 122 (14.93%) HTML
4 104 (12.73%) REST
5 100 (12.24%) .NET
6 94 (11.51%) AngularJS
7 91 (11.14%) Vue
8 84 (10.28%) RESTful
9 72 (8.81%) GraphQL
10 63 (7.71%) Kafka
10 63 (7.71%) Redux
11 57 (6.98%) Spring
12 49 (6.00%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.63%) Next.js
14 40 (4.90%) NestJS
15 38 (4.65%) Jest
16 35 (4.28%) React Native
17 33 (4.04%) Django
18 32 (3.92%) .NET Core
19 26 (3.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 40 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (3.18%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.69%) IoT
9 18 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.08%) Derivative
11 16 (1.96%) Equities
12 6 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.73%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.61%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.61%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.61%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.49%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.49%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.02%) Linux
2 18 (2.20%) Windows
3 8 (0.98%) Android
3 8 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.86%) CentOS
4 7 (0.86%) Unix
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.61%) Debian
6 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (48.23%) Full-Stack Development
2 312 (38.19%) Software Engineering
3 305 (37.33%) CI/CD
4 286 (35.01%) Agile
5 191 (23.38%) Microservices
6 190 (23.26%) DevOps
7 179 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (19.09%) Mentoring
9 128 (15.67%) AI
10 114 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (11.38%) Computer Science
13 86 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 83 (10.16%) Test Automation
15 82 (10.04%) User Experience
16 80 (9.79%) Scrum
17 70 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (7.96%) Front End Development
19 61 (7.47%) Clean Code
20 60 (7.34%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 442 (54.10%) JavaScript
2 392 (47.98%) TypeScript
3 238 (29.13%) Python
4 209 (25.58%) Java
5 123 (15.06%) SQL
6 66 (8.08%) C#
7 62 (7.59%) Go
8 32 (3.92%) PHP
9 29 (3.55%) Ruby
10 25 (3.06%) Kotlin
11 21 (2.57%) Bash
12 16 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.73%) C
15 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.37%) ABAP
16 3 (0.37%) C++
16 3 (0.37%) RPG
16 3 (0.37%) Scala
17 2 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 93 (11.38%) Degree
2 62 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (6.24%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.77%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.37%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.94%) QA
3 9 (1.10%) GDPR
4 7 (0.86%) WCAG
5 5 (0.61%) PERC
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 148 (18.12%) Docker
2 4 (0.49%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (16.03%) Terraform
2 103 (12.61%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.04%) Ansible
4 14 (1.71%) Argo
5 12 (1.47%) Grafana
6 11 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.73%) Podman
8 5 (0.61%) Nagios
8 5 (0.61%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.24%) Packer
10 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (4.04%) Google
2 32 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.20%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.35%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.35%) SAP
6 9 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.98%) Oracle
8 7 (0.86%) Adobe
9 6 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.73%) Pega
10 5 (0.61%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.61%) WSO2
11 4 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.49%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.37%) iManage
12 3 (0.37%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.37%) New Relic
12 3 (0.37%) Splunk