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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 162 132
Rank change year-on-year -5 -30 -20
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,212 986 1,967
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.00% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.86% 11.07% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 992 635 1,364
10th Percentile £45,000 £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% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £109,375 £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 10,220 8,907 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.06% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,645 5,894 14,339
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £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 July 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 20 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 1,088 £72,500 -3.33% 200
UK excluding London +8 774 £67,500 +12.50% 125
Work from Home -9 603 £67,500 -15.63% 101
London -35 346 £87,500 -14.63% 99
North of England -18 274 £70,000 - 42
South East +50 218 £72,500 +31.82% 47
North West -46 136 £70,000 -6.67% 23
Midlands +30 102 £60,000 - 14
Yorkshire +24 91 £70,000 +3.70% 8
South West -41 71 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England 0 52 £55,000 +57.14% 9
East Midlands +21 51 £64,500 -7.86% 7
West Midlands +1 51 £60,000 - 7
North East -6 47 £53,565 -6.84% 11
Wales -17 47 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Scotland +13 10 £60,000 +9.09% 6

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 36 (2.97%) Confluence
2 23 (1.90%) CMS
3 16 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.16%) Apache
4 14 (1.16%) IIS
5 12 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.66%) JBoss
9 6 (0.50%) nginx
9 6 (0.50%) WordPress
10 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.083%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 690 (56.93%) AWS
2 424 (34.98%) Azure
3 221 (18.23%) Serverless
4 198 (16.34%) GitHub
5 168 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
6 157 (12.95%) GCP
7 143 (11.80%) SaaS
8 131 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
10 89 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
12 76 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 64 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
15 40 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
17 33 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.64%) Amazon EventBridge
19 30 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 27 (2.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.23%) Broadband
2 16 (1.32%) Firewall
3 13 (1.07%) DMARC
4 12 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) DNS
6 9 (0.74%) VPN
7 7 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.58%) Internet
8 6 (0.50%) AMQP
8 6 (0.50%) BGP
8 6 (0.50%) IPsec
8 6 (0.50%) VoIP
8 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) LAN
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 3 (0.25%) SSH
10 3 (0.25%) VLAN
11 2 (0.17%) HTTP
11 2 (0.17%) MQTT
11 2 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (20.96%) MongoDB
2 174 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 160 (13.20%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 104 (8.58%) NoSQL
6 80 (6.60%) DynamoDB
7 70 (5.78%) MySQL
8 56 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 50 (4.13%) Redis
10 33 (2.72%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.32%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (1.07%) DTS
16 11 (0.91%) Db2
17 10 (0.83%) Big Data
17 10 (0.83%) Hadoop
18 7 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 135 (11.14%) Git
2 88 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 52 (4.29%) GitLab
4 51 (4.21%) Cypress.io
5 45 (3.71%) JIRA
6 15 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.24%) Selenium
7 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.66%) JUnit
9 7 (0.58%) Maven
9 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.58%) Storybook
9 7 (0.58%) Vite
10 6 (0.50%) Postman
11 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 242 (19.97%) Social Skills
2 168 (13.86%) Finance
3 111 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.46%) Front Office
5 49 (4.04%) Retail
6 46 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (2.15%) Law
9 21 (1.73%) Marketing
10 17 (1.40%) Legal
11 13 (1.07%) Games
12 12 (0.99%) Advertising
13 10 (0.83%) Banking
14 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.66%) Automotive
15 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.58%) Legal Technology
17 6 (0.50%) Military
17 6 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 623 (51.40%) Developer
2 285 (23.51%) Senior
3 231 (19.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 224 (18.48%) Lead
5 221 (18.23%) Software Engineer
6 147 (12.13%) .NET Developer
7 120 (9.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 99 (8.17%) Lead Developer
9 98 (8.09%) Senior Developer
10 75 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 75 (6.19%) Software Developer
11 74 (6.11%) Lead Software Developer
12 68 (5.61%) Lead Software Engineer
13 63 (5.20%) Node.js Developer
14 57 (4.70%) Architect
15 52 (4.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 50 (4.13%) Java Developer
17 49 (4.04%) React Developer
18 47 (3.88%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 46 (3.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 607 (50.08%) React
2 261 (21.53%) .NET
3 170 (14.03%) AngularJS
4 165 (13.61%) ASP.NET
5 160 (13.20%) .NET Core
6 155 (12.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 147 (12.13%) Vue
8 140 (11.55%) CSS
9 131 (10.81%) REST
10 125 (10.31%) HTML
11 95 (7.84%) RESTful
11 95 (7.84%) Spring Boot
12 89 (7.34%) Spring
13 82 (6.77%) GraphQL
13 82 (6.77%) Kafka
14 76 (6.27%) ASP.NET Web API
15 72 (5.94%) Next.js
16 70 (5.78%) Redux
17 64 (5.28%) .NET Framework
18 62 (5.12%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 175 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
3 50 (4.13%) Fixed Income
4 49 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 36 (2.97%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.82%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.57%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.40%) Derivative
11 17 (1.40%) Equities
12 15 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.99%) IoT
14 12 (0.99%) PropTech
15 10 (0.83%) EPoS
15 10 (0.83%) iSeries
16 9 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.03%) Linux
2 31 (2.56%) Windows
3 18 (1.49%) Unix
4 9 (0.74%) Debian
4 9 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.50%) CentOS
6 4 (0.33%) AIX
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (51.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 514 (42.41%) Agile
3 474 (39.11%) CI/CD
4 417 (34.41%) Microservices
5 382 (31.52%) Software Engineering
6 306 (25.25%) DevOps
7 259 (21.37%) Mentoring
8 217 (17.90%) AI
9 168 (13.86%) Scrum
10 167 (13.78%) Test Automation
11 159 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
12 149 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (11.63%) TDD
14 140 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 138 (11.39%) Containerisation
16 137 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
17 130 (10.73%) Event-Driven
18 112 (9.24%) Observability
19 102 (8.42%) Kanban
20 91 (7.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 576 (47.52%) TypeScript
2 552 (45.54%) JavaScript
3 320 (26.40%) SQL
4 271 (22.36%) Java
4 271 (22.36%) Python
5 256 (21.12%) C#
6 60 (4.95%) Ruby
7 57 (4.70%) Go
8 53 (4.37%) PHP
9 34 (2.81%) Kotlin
10 30 (2.48%) Bash
11 14 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.91%) ABAP
13 10 (0.83%) RPG
14 9 (0.74%) C++
15 8 (0.66%) C
16 7 (0.58%) Scala
17 6 (0.50%) COBOL
18 5 (0.41%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (7.76%) Degree
2 76 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 65 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.083%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.083%) HNC
14 1 (0.083%) HND
14 1 (0.083%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.29%) Accessibility
1 52 (4.29%) QA
2 33 (2.72%) WCAG
3 20 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.66%) GDPR
5 6 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.083%) NIST
7 1 (0.083%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.083%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 238 (19.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.33%) Firmware
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 175 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 163 (13.45%) Terraform
3 31 (2.56%) Ansible
4 20 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.57%) Grafana
6 18 (1.49%) Argo
7 12 (0.99%) Podman
8 6 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.50%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.50%) Puppet
9 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 4 (0.33%) linkerd
9 4 (0.33%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.083%) Packer
12 1 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.88%) Google
3 19 (1.57%) OpenAI
3 19 (1.57%) SAP
4 17 (1.40%) Oracle
5 16 (1.32%) IBM
6 13 (1.07%) SendGrid
7 12 (0.99%) Adobe
7 12 (0.99%) iManage
8 11 (0.91%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.66%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (0.58%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.58%) Splunk
12 6 (0.50%) HP
12 6 (0.50%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.41%) Databricks
13 5 (0.41%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.33%) Genesys