Node.js Job Trends

Node
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Node.js skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 132 115
Rank change year-on-year -54 -17 -70
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 854 1,473 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 1.90% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.90% 9.68% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 511 883 1,534
10th Percentile £46,411 £41,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £60,625 £50,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £95,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.27% -8.85% +8.33%

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 7,837 15,210 16,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 19.61% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,961 9,829 13,754
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 -13 812 £85,000 +30.77% 399
Work from Home +30 608 £90,000 +33.33% 277
UK excluding London -98 431 £60,000 +1.27% 275
London +66 372 £105,000 +31.25% 188
North of England -3 266 £67,500 +3.85% 73
North West +16 223 £70,000 +7.69% 48
South East -74 87 £57,500 +27.78% 102
Yorkshire -22 38 £67,500 +22.73% 15
East of England -32 26 £51,250 +5.67% 26
South West +6 21 £57,500 - 27
Midlands -26 21 £62,500 +4.17% 32
West Midlands +12 15 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Wales -16 8 £59,949 +37.33% 5
East Midlands -10 6 £52,500 +5.00% 14
North East -14 5 £67,500 -10.00% 11
Scotland -78 2 £120,000 +71.43% 12
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 95 (11.12%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (3.04%) Confluence
3 24 (2.81%) CMS
4 22 (2.58%) Headless CMS
5 8 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.47%) nginx
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.23%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.23%) Solana
8 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.23%) InVision
2 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.23%) Sketch
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) Shopify
2 10 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 651 (76.23%) AWS
2 404 (47.31%) Azure
3 365 (42.74%) GCP
4 95 (11.12%) dbt
5 82 (9.60%) Serverless
6 58 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (4.80%) GitHub
9 39 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (3.63%) SaaS
11 25 (2.93%) Figma
12 23 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.99%) Power Platform
15 14 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (1.64%) npm
16 12 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (1.17%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Broadband
2 5 (0.59%) MQTT
3 4 (0.47%) Internet
3 4 (0.47%) SMS
3 4 (0.47%) VPN
3 4 (0.47%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.35%) DHCP
4 3 (0.35%) DNS
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) STUN
4 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.35%) VLAN
4 3 (0.35%) VoIP
4 3 (0.35%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (13.11%) MongoDB
3 95 (11.12%) Amazon Athena
3 95 (11.12%) Apache Arrow
3 95 (11.12%) Apache Iceberg
3 95 (11.12%) Dremio
4 83 (9.72%) Elasticsearch
5 77 (9.02%) NoSQL
6 52 (6.09%) MySQL
7 39 (4.57%) Redis
8 38 (4.45%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.41%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.59%) Metadata
15 4 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
15 4 (0.47%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.47%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 98 (11.48%) Git
2 42 (4.92%) JIRA
3 31 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.46%) GitLab
5 16 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.76%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.64%) webpack
8 9 (1.05%) Selenium
9 7 (0.82%) Postman
10 6 (0.70%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.70%) gulp
11 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.59%) Storybook
12 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.47%) Mocha
12 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.35%) Grunt
13 3 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 241 (28.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 216 (25.29%) Finance
3 157 (18.38%) Social Skills
4 132 (15.46%) Front Office
5 91 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (6.67%) Law
7 42 (4.92%) Marketing
8 29 (3.40%) Banking
8 29 (3.40%) Retail
9 16 (1.87%) Public Sector
10 15 (1.76%) Legal
11 12 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.29%) Games
13 8 (0.94%) Advertising
13 8 (0.94%) iGaming
14 7 (0.82%) Back Office
14 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 454 (53.16%) Developer
2 383 (44.85%) Software Engineer
3 310 (36.30%) Senior
4 202 (23.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 139 (16.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 113 (13.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 112 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (12.65%) AWS Software Engineer
9 105 (12.30%) AWS Developer
10 87 (10.19%) Senior Developer
11 82 (9.60%) Python Developer
12 77 (9.02%) Software Developer
13 76 (8.90%) Lead
14 75 (8.78%) Python Engineer
14 75 (8.78%) Python Software Engineer
15 50 (5.85%) React Developer
16 49 (5.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 44 (5.15%) Lead Developer
18 37 (4.33%) Java Developer
18 37 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (50.47%) React
2 311 (36.42%) .NET
3 181 (21.19%) AngularJS
4 166 (19.44%) Vue
5 144 (16.86%) Pandas
6 112 (13.11%) CSS
6 112 (13.11%) HTML
7 95 (11.12%) NumPy
7 95 (11.12%) SciPy
8 93 (10.89%) GraphQL
9 76 (8.90%) RESTful
10 70 (8.20%) Redux
11 69 (8.08%) REST
12 52 (6.09%) React Native
13 49 (5.74%) Kafka
14 48 (5.62%) Express.js
15 41 (4.80%) ASP.NET
16 40 (4.68%) Next.js
17 38 (4.45%) .NET Core
18 35 (4.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 227 (26.58%) Cyberattack
2 186 (21.78%) Self-Motivation
3 179 (20.96%) Linux Command Line
4 132 (15.46%) Fixed Income
5 104 (12.18%) Equities
5 104 (12.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 65 (7.61%) Cloud Native
7 46 (5.39%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.82%) Mobile Games
15 6 (0.70%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.47%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 260 (30.44%) Linux
2 52 (6.09%) Android
3 13 (1.52%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.47%) Unix
4 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (70.84%) Agile
2 513 (60.07%) Software Engineering
3 294 (34.43%) User Experience
4 279 (32.67%) Microservices
5 251 (29.39%) Mentoring
6 234 (27.40%) Scrum
7 221 (25.88%) Machine Learning
8 219 (25.64%) CI/CD
9 213 (24.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 195 (22.83%) Cloud Security
11 190 (22.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 181 (21.19%) Data Engineering
13 143 (16.74%) Investment Management
14 142 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
15 136 (15.93%) Fintech
16 128 (14.99%) DevOps
17 122 (14.29%) Order Management
18 115 (13.47%) Asset Management
19 102 (11.94%) Containerisation
20 99 (11.59%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 652 (76.35%) JavaScript
2 438 (51.29%) Python
3 408 (47.78%) TypeScript
4 360 (42.15%) Java
5 263 (30.80%) Go
6 232 (27.17%) C++
7 227 (26.58%) Rust
8 133 (15.57%) SQL
9 71 (8.31%) C#
10 13 (1.52%) PHP
11 10 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.17%) R
12 8 (0.94%) Bash
13 7 (0.82%) Ruby
14 5 (0.59%) Groovy
15 4 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.12%) ABAP
16 1 (0.12%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 276 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 239 (27.99%) DV Cleared
3 185 (21.66%) AWS Certification
4 180 (21.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 178 (20.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 57 (6.67%) Degree
7 36 (4.22%) SC Cleared
8 32 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.35%) CCNP
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.12%) MCP
12 1 (0.12%) PhD
12 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.03%) QA
2 34 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 8 (0.94%) WCAG
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 135 (15.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.82%) vSphere
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) KVM
5 2 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 126 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 92 (10.77%) Terraform
3 58 (6.79%) Ansible
4 13 (1.52%) Grafana
4 13 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.70%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) CFEngine
6 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.12%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
7 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.75%) Google
3 13 (1.52%) Oracle
4 12 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.29%) Ping Identity
6 9 (1.05%) VMware
7 8 (0.94%) Apple
8 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.70%) iManage
9 6 (0.70%) Sage
10 5 (0.59%) SAP
11 4 (0.47%) Gigya
11 4 (0.47%) PayPal
11 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.35%) Adobe
12 3 (0.35%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.35%) Sonatype
13 2 (0.23%) Databricks
13 2 (0.23%) Guidewire