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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 175 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 -40 -20
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,233 934 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.87% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.34% 10.33% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 981 579 964
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £94,625
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 11,928 9,041 17,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 18.06% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,678 5,900 12,128
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £107,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 1,094 £75,000 - 224
UK excluding London +23 818 £67,500 +12.50% 176
Work from Home -8 626 £69,310 -13.36% 153
London -69 311 £85,000 -19.05% 81
North of England -15 284 £69,310 +2.68% 38
South East +71 240 £75,000 +30.43% 55
North West -49 142 £75,000 +7.14% 26
Midlands +26 105 £60,000 - 32
Yorkshire +14 84 £70,000 +3.70% 7
South West -24 74 £57,500 -4.17% 33
North East -3 58 £55,000 -4.35% 5
West Midlands +10 56 £60,000 - 16
East of England -5 53 £55,000 +7.32% 10
Wales -16 52 £72,500 +4.69% 3
East Midlands +16 49 £67,500 +1.89% 16
Scotland +13 10 £60,000 -30.43% 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 34 (2.76%) Confluence
2 21 (1.70%) CMS
3 18 (1.46%) Apache
4 17 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (1.14%) IIS
6 9 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.65%) WordPress
8 6 (0.49%) JBoss
9 4 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.24%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Kentico
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.24%) Sitefinity
10 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Blender
3 3 (0.24%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 682 (55.31%) AWS
2 439 (35.60%) Azure
3 225 (18.25%) GitHub
4 220 (17.84%) Serverless
5 174 (14.11%) SaaS
6 167 (13.54%) AWS Lambda
7 152 (12.33%) GCP
8 127 (10.30%) Amazon S3
9 110 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
10 105 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
11 92 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 73 (5.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 65 (5.27%) Amazon SQS
15 46 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (2.76%) Datadog
18 33 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (2.43%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.19%) Broadband
2 16 (1.30%) Firewall
3 13 (1.05%) DMARC
3 13 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.89%) DNS
5 10 (0.81%) VPN
6 8 (0.65%) Internet
7 7 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.57%) Wireshark
8 6 (0.49%) BGP
8 6 (0.49%) IPsec
8 6 (0.49%) VoIP
9 5 (0.41%) AMQP
10 4 (0.32%) HTTP
10 4 (0.32%) LAN
10 4 (0.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.24%) VLAN
12 2 (0.16%) MQTT
12 2 (0.16%) Multicast
12 2 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (21.17%) MongoDB
2 179 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (12.73%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 114 (9.25%) NoSQL
6 90 (7.30%) DynamoDB
7 63 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 61 (4.95%) MySQL
9 58 (4.70%) Redis
10 35 (2.84%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
12 27 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.22%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.97%) DTS
15 11 (0.89%) Big Data
15 11 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.89%) Db2
15 11 (0.89%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 144 (11.68%) Git
2 89 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.79%) GitLab
4 57 (4.62%) Cypress.io
5 41 (3.33%) JIRA
6 16 (1.30%) Selenium
7 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.97%) CircleCI
8 12 (0.97%) JUnit
9 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.81%) Storybook
10 9 (0.73%) Postman
11 8 (0.65%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.65%) Vite
12 7 (0.57%) Maven
12 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.49%) Mocha
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 265 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 151 (12.25%) Finance
3 116 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 60 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (4.70%) Retail
6 37 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (2.03%) Law
8 24 (1.95%) Marketing
9 20 (1.62%) Banking
10 18 (1.46%) Front Office
11 17 (1.38%) Games
12 13 (1.05%) Legal
13 11 (0.89%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.81%) Advertising
15 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.73%) Military
15 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.57%) Automotive
16 7 (0.57%) Publishing
17 6 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 593 (48.09%) Developer
2 299 (24.25%) Senior
3 239 (19.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 222 (18.00%) Lead
5 201 (16.30%) Software Engineer
6 147 (11.92%) .NET Developer
7 107 (8.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 102 (8.27%) Senior Developer
9 97 (7.87%) Software Developer
10 91 (7.38%) Lead Developer
11 79 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 66 (5.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 66 (5.35%) Lead Software Developer
13 59 (4.79%) Node.js Developer
14 58 (4.70%) Architect
15 54 (4.38%) Software Manager
16 49 (3.97%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 47 (3.81%) Development Manager
17 47 (3.81%) Software Development Manager
18 46 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 574 (46.55%) React
2 279 (22.63%) .NET
3 181 (14.68%) AngularJS
4 175 (14.19%) Terraform
5 167 (13.54%) ASP.NET
6 163 (13.22%) .NET Core
7 154 (12.49%) ASP.NET Core
8 150 (12.17%) Vue
9 144 (11.68%) CSS
10 129 (10.46%) HTML
11 127 (10.30%) REST
12 107 (8.68%) RESTful
13 102 (8.27%) Spring Boot
14 98 (7.95%) Spring
15 85 (6.89%) Next.js
16 79 (6.41%) ASP.NET Web API
17 76 (6.16%) NestJS
18 70 (5.68%) Jest
19 64 (5.19%) Blazor
19 64 (5.19%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 187 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.76%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.54%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.97%) PropTech
14 10 (0.81%) EPoS
14 10 (0.81%) IoT
14 10 (0.81%) iSeries
15 9 (0.73%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.95%) Linux
2 29 (2.35%) Windows
3 18 (1.46%) Unix
4 12 (0.97%) Debian
4 12 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.57%) CentOS
6 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.32%) AIX
7 4 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.24%) Android
8 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (50.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 534 (43.31%) CI/CD
3 519 (42.09%) Agile
4 432 (35.04%) Microservices
5 376 (30.49%) Software Engineering
6 337 (27.33%) DevOps
7 266 (21.57%) AI
8 254 (20.60%) Mentoring
9 192 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 169 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 165 (13.38%) Scrum
12 156 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 156 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
13 154 (12.49%) Technical Leadership
14 150 (12.17%) Containerisation
15 147 (11.92%) Event-Driven
16 140 (11.35%) TDD
17 136 (11.03%) Observability
18 105 (8.52%) Code Quality
19 104 (8.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 572 (46.39%) TypeScript
2 537 (43.55%) JavaScript
3 334 (27.09%) SQL
4 270 (21.90%) Python
5 269 (21.82%) C#
6 255 (20.68%) Java
7 65 (5.27%) Ruby
8 46 (3.73%) PHP
9 40 (3.24%) Go
10 37 (3.00%) Kotlin
11 29 (2.35%) Bash
12 12 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.89%) C++
14 10 (0.81%) ABAP
14 10 (0.81%) RPG
15 7 (0.57%) C
15 7 (0.57%) Scala
16 6 (0.49%) COBOL
17 4 (0.32%) Rust
17 4 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 98 (7.95%) Degree
2 91 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.24%) OCP
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.081%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.52%) QA
2 63 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.08%) WCAG
4 21 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.97%) GDPR
6 10 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
7 6 (0.49%) NIST
8 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.16%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.081%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 276 (22.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.41%) Firmware
3 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 205 (16.63%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.92%) Ansible
3 24 (1.95%) Grafana
4 21 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.46%) Argo
6 12 (0.97%) Podman
7 9 (0.73%) Puppet
8 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.32%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.32%) Istio
9 4 (0.32%) linkerd
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 209 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.06%) Google
3 34 (2.76%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.46%) SAP
5 16 (1.30%) IBM
5 16 (1.30%) Oracle
6 14 (1.14%) Adobe
7 13 (1.05%) SendGrid
8 12 (0.97%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.81%) iManage
9 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.73%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.65%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.57%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.49%) HP
13 6 (0.49%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.49%) Splunk
14 5 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.41%) Databricks
14 5 (0.41%) SaltStack