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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -89 +11 -63
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 657 1,483 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.16% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.02% 10.56% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 547 854 1,117
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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 7,283 14,043 13,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.66% 20.50% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,541 11,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £85,700 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 18 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 22 November 2025. 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 -86 590 £80,000 +14.29% 765
Work from Home -56 346 £80,000 +6.67% 494
London -29 343 £100,000 +17.65% 462
UK excluding London -140 262 £62,500 +4.17% 359
North of England -27 105 £60,000 -7.69% 88
South East -89 62 £57,500 +15.00% 118
North West -3 50 £66,250 -1.85% 65
Yorkshire -3 49 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Midlands -16 31 £70,000 +7.69% 51
West Midlands +6 20 £77,500 +6.90% 34
South West -15 18 £60,000 - 39
Wales -19 14 £68,958 +45.77% 16
Northern Ireland -7 13 £82,500 +3.13% 5
East Midlands -8 11 £62,500 +13.64% 17
East of England -52 11 £55,000 +4.76% 32
Scotland -51 7 £77,415 +15.98% 17
North East -11 6 £57,500 -23.33% 8
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 60 (9.13%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.04%) Confluence
3 8 (1.22%) CMS
3 8 (1.22%) Headless CMS
3 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.07%) Apache Solr
5 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.61%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) Drupal
8 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.61%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.61%) InVision
3 4 (0.61%) Sketch
4 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Shopify
2 10 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 394 (59.97%) AWS
2 186 (28.31%) Azure
3 144 (21.92%) GCP
4 88 (13.39%) Serverless
5 68 (10.35%) GitHub
6 61 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (8.98%) dbt
7 59 (8.98%) SaaS
8 37 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 34 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.26%) Figma
12 25 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.89%) Power Platform
15 15 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.28%) Vercel
16 11 (1.67%) Firebase
16 11 (1.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.07%) SSH
2 5 (0.76%) Broadband
3 4 (0.61%) AMQP
3 4 (0.61%) Internet
4 3 (0.46%) DHCP
4 3 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.46%) Firewall
4 3 (0.46%) STUN
4 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.46%) VLAN
4 3 (0.46%) VoIP
4 3 (0.46%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
5 2 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.15%) HTTP
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (21.00%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (14.00%) MongoDB
3 55 (8.37%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (8.37%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (8.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 55 (8.37%) Dremio
3 55 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 39 (5.94%) MySQL
5 36 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (5.18%) SQL Server
7 28 (4.26%) Redis
8 27 (4.11%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.81%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.22%) DB2
13 6 (0.91%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.46%) Hazelcast
14 3 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 99 (15.07%) Git
2 46 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 38 (5.78%) JIRA
4 24 (3.65%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.20%) GitLab
6 17 (2.59%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.28%) Selenium
8 10 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.52%) webpack
9 9 (1.37%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.22%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.91%) Mocha
13 5 (0.76%) Postman
13 5 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.61%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.61%) Maven
14 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 194 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 175 (26.64%) Finance
3 83 (12.63%) Front Office
4 45 (6.85%) Law
5 39 (5.94%) Marketing
6 31 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (3.50%) Retail
10 21 (3.20%) Banking
11 18 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.13%) Legal
13 11 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.52%) Electronics
15 7 (1.07%) Back Office
16 4 (0.61%) Advertising
16 4 (0.61%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.61%) Publishing
17 3 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 364 (55.40%) Developer
2 157 (23.90%) Software Engineer
3 136 (20.70%) Senior
4 110 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 97 (14.76%) Lead
6 88 (13.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 82 (12.48%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.05%) AWS Engineer
9 64 (9.74%) Architect
10 62 (9.44%) AWS Developer
11 57 (8.68%) AWS Software Engineer
11 57 (8.68%) Python Developer
12 54 (8.22%) Python Engineer
13 53 (8.07%) Python Software Engineer
14 45 (6.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 41 (6.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 41 (6.24%) Java Developer
16 39 (5.94%) Lead Developer
17 34 (5.18%) React Developer
18 33 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (65.60%) React
2 151 (22.98%) AngularJS
3 133 (20.24%) Vue
4 128 (19.48%) CSS
5 124 (18.87%) HTML
6 88 (13.39%) RESTful
7 84 (12.79%) .NET
8 78 (11.87%) GraphQL
9 74 (11.26%) REST
10 55 (8.37%) NumPy
10 55 (8.37%) Pandas
10 55 (8.37%) SciPy
11 53 (8.07%) Kafka
12 51 (7.76%) Redux
13 41 (6.24%) React Native
13 41 (6.24%) Spring
14 40 (6.09%) ASP.NET
14 40 (6.09%) Next.js
15 38 (5.78%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.72%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 83 (12.63%) Fixed Income
3 59 (8.98%) Equities
3 59 (8.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (5.94%) Mobile App
5 33 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.22%) IoT
13 8 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.61%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.63%) Linux
2 18 (2.74%) Windows
3 10 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.07%) Unix
5 5 (0.76%) Android
5 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
6 2 (0.30%) Debian
6 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (52.97%) Agile
2 243 (36.99%) Software Engineering
3 242 (36.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 215 (32.72%) CI/CD
5 159 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (20.85%) DevOps
7 127 (19.33%) Microservices
8 121 (18.42%) User Experience
9 106 (16.13%) Mentoring
10 105 (15.98%) AI
11 88 (13.39%) Fintech
12 85 (12.94%) Investment Management
13 81 (12.33%) Test Automation
14 79 (12.02%) Order Management
15 76 (11.57%) Scrum
15 76 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
16 75 (11.42%) Containerisation
17 74 (11.26%) Front End Development
18 69 (10.50%) Computer Science
18 69 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 393 (59.82%) JavaScript
2 355 (54.03%) TypeScript
3 221 (33.64%) Python
4 162 (24.66%) Java
5 126 (19.18%) SQL
6 63 (9.59%) C#
7 50 (7.61%) Go
8 25 (3.81%) PHP
9 19 (2.89%) Ruby
10 12 (1.83%) Bash
11 11 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.61%) C
13 4 (0.61%) C++
14 3 (0.46%) ABAP
14 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.46%) Groovy
14 3 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.46%) R
14 3 (0.46%) RPG
Qualifications
1 67 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 62 (9.44%) Degree
3 45 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.46%) CCNP
8 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.83%) QA
2 40 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.28%) GDPR
4 10 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.76%) PERC
5 5 (0.76%) WCAG
6 4 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 89 (13.55%) Docker
2 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.91%) vSphere
3 4 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (10.50%) Terraform
3 26 (3.96%) Ansible
4 15 (2.28%) Grafana
5 14 (2.13%) Argo
6 12 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.30%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.81%) Google
3 15 (2.28%) OpenAI
3 15 (2.28%) SAP
4 13 (1.98%) Atlassian
4 13 (1.98%) Oracle
5 10 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.22%) Apple
7 7 (1.07%) Adobe
7 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.91%) iManage
8 6 (0.91%) VMware
9 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.76%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.76%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.61%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.61%) PayPal
10 4 (0.61%) Pega
10 4 (0.61%) Sage
10 4 (0.61%) WSO2