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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 106 130
Rank change year-on-year -98 +24 -41
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 807 1,235 1,893
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.82% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.94% 12.74% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 666 790 1,510
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £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 8,117 9,692 18,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 22.10% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,947 6,717 15,107
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,280
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -96 711 £76,640 +9.49% 347
UK excluding London -118 401 £67,500 +12.50% 242
Work from Home -78 340 £74,830 +3.21% 229
London -52 332 £95,000 +8.57% 153
North of England -42 163 £70,000 +3.70% 71
North West -20 78 £74,915 -0.11% 40
Midlands -21 78 £62,500 -3.85% 32
Yorkshire -14 76 £62,500 -7.41% 23
South East -124 64 £70,000 +27.27% 73
East Midlands -16 49 £65,000 - 10
South West -58 46 £62,500 +4.17% 25
West Midlands -22 29 £60,000 - 22
Northern Ireland -14 21 £82,500 +37.50% 3
East of England -62 13 £47,500 -17.39% 22
Wales -16 12 £71,894 +62.13% 8
North East -16 9 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Scotland -45 9 £67,500 +22.73% 11

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 (1.73%) CMS
1 14 (1.73%) OpenStack
2 11 (1.36%) Confluence
3 9 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.87%) IIS
4 7 (0.87%) nginx
4 7 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.74%) Apache
5 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.50%) Appian
7 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.37%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Strapi
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.24%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.99%) 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
1 461 (57.13%) AWS
2 197 (24.41%) Azure
3 175 (21.69%) Serverless
4 135 (16.73%) GCP
5 133 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (13.26%) GitHub
7 106 (13.14%) Amazon S3
8 94 (11.65%) SaaS
9 64 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (6.07%) Amazon SQS
11 47 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.85%) Figma
16 22 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (2.35%) Datadog
19 17 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
20 15 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.49%) AMQP
2 11 (1.36%) SSH
3 6 (0.74%) Broadband
4 4 (0.50%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) DSL
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) Multicast
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.54%) MongoDB
3 66 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 47 (5.82%) DynamoDB
5 43 (5.33%) MySQL
6 35 (4.34%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.48%) Redis
10 16 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.73%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.24%) DB2
16 5 (0.62%) Big Data
16 5 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.50%) Power BI
17 4 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 118 (14.62%) Git
2 78 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.09%) Cypress.io
4 28 (3.47%) JIRA
5 19 (2.35%) GitLab
6 15 (1.86%) Selenium
7 14 (1.73%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.61%) Storybook
9 10 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.50%) Babel
12 4 (0.50%) Maven
12 4 (0.50%) Mocha
12 4 (0.50%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.50%) Vite
13 3 (0.37%) ESLint
General
1 194 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 124 (15.37%) Finance
3 53 (6.57%) Front Office
4 44 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.35%) Law
8 16 (1.98%) Marketing
9 12 (1.49%) Banking
10 10 (1.24%) Retail
10 10 (1.24%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.99%) Electronics
12 8 (0.99%) Legal
13 7 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.50%) Advertising
14 4 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.50%) Back Office
15 3 (0.37%) Games
16 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 415 (51.43%) Developer
2 178 (22.06%) Senior
3 171 (21.19%) Software Engineer
4 165 (20.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 138 (17.10%) Lead
6 94 (11.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 76 (9.42%) Senior Developer
8 68 (8.43%) Java Developer
9 64 (7.93%) Lead Developer
10 60 (7.43%) Node.js Developer
11 57 (7.06%) React Developer
12 50 (6.20%) Architect
13 48 (5.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 43 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (4.96%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (4.96%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
17 33 (4.09%) AWS Developer
17 33 (4.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.35%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (61.21%) React
2 127 (15.74%) CSS
3 123 (15.24%) HTML
4 104 (12.89%) REST
5 101 (12.52%) AngularJS
6 96 (11.90%) Vue
7 94 (11.65%) .NET
8 85 (10.53%) RESTful
9 74 (9.17%) GraphQL
10 64 (7.93%) Kafka
11 61 (7.56%) Redux
12 59 (7.31%) Spring
13 51 (6.32%) Spring Boot
14 49 (6.07%) Next.js
15 43 (5.33%) NestJS
16 38 (4.71%) Jest
17 34 (4.21%) React Native
18 31 (3.84%) Django
19 30 (3.72%) .NET Core
20 26 (3.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.20%) Fixed Income
3 41 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.84%) Mobile App
5 29 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.73%) IoT
9 18 (2.23%) Equities
10 17 (2.11%) Derivative
11 15 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.62%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.62%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.50%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.50%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.50%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.71%) Linux
2 16 (1.98%) Windows
3 8 (0.99%) Android
3 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.87%) Unix
5 6 (0.74%) CentOS
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.62%) Debian
6 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (47.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 310 (38.41%) Software Engineering
3 304 (37.67%) CI/CD
4 285 (35.32%) Agile
5 187 (23.17%) Microservices
6 185 (22.92%) DevOps
7 175 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (19.33%) Mentoring
9 124 (15.37%) AI
10 110 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 91 (11.28%) Computer Science
13 86 (10.66%) Containerisation
14 83 (10.29%) User Experience
15 79 (9.79%) Test Automation
16 77 (9.54%) Scrum
17 73 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (8.05%) Front End Development
19 60 (7.43%) Clean Code
20 57 (7.06%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 435 (53.90%) JavaScript
2 394 (48.82%) TypeScript
3 236 (29.24%) Python
4 209 (25.90%) Java
5 122 (15.12%) SQL
6 63 (7.81%) C#
6 63 (7.81%) Go
7 32 (3.97%) PHP
8 28 (3.47%) Ruby
9 25 (3.10%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.35%) Bash
11 15 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.74%) C
14 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.50%) C++
15 3 (0.37%) ABAP
15 3 (0.37%) RPG
15 3 (0.37%) Scala
16 2 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (11.28%) Degree
2 60 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.37%) PhD
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.34%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.97%) QA
3 9 (1.12%) GDPR
4 7 (0.87%) WCAG
5 5 (0.62%) PERC
6 4 (0.50%) 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
1 146 (18.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 128 (15.86%) Terraform
2 104 (12.89%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.97%) Ansible
4 14 (1.73%) Argo
5 11 (1.36%) Grafana
5 11 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.62%) Podman
6 5 (0.62%) Puppet
7 4 (0.50%) Nagios
8 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 35 (4.34%) Google
2 30 (3.72%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.23%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.73%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.36%) SAP
6 10 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle
8 7 (0.87%) Adobe
8 7 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.74%) Pega
10 5 (0.62%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.62%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.62%) WSO2
11 4 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.50%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.37%) iManage
12 3 (0.37%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.37%) New Relic
12 3 (0.37%) Splunk