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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 113 125
Rank change year-on-year -93 +12 -34
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 827 1,134 2,027
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.74% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.16% 12.64% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 681 761 1,527
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 £120,000 £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 8,143 8,975 19,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.61% 21.69% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 6,589 15,344
10th Percentile £36,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -86 727 £75,000 +7.14% 339
UK excluding London -118 423 £67,500 +12.50% 227
Work from Home -81 344 £72,500 - 215
London -48 325 £95,000 +8.57% 142
North of England -29 164 £70,000 +3.70% 75
Midlands -10 83 £63,250 +1.20% 41
North West -28 81 £74,830 -0.23% 44
South East -129 76 £75,000 +36.36% 57
Yorkshire -14 75 £70,000 +3.70% 23
East Midlands -10 52 £65,000 - 12
South West -62 48 £61,250 +2.08% 24
West Midlands -15 31 £60,000 - 29
Northern Ireland -18 21 £82,500 +37.50% 1
East of England -72 14 £47,500 -17.39% 16
Wales -19 12 £71,894 +51.97% 8
Scotland -44 10 £63,750 +15.91% 6
North East -23 8 £50,000 -9.09% 8

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 (1.69%) CMS
1 14 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.09%) Confluence
3 9 (1.09%) IIS
4 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.85%) nginx
6 6 (0.73%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.48%) Appian
7 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (1.45%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.36%) InVision
3 3 (0.36%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 474 (57.32%) AWS
2 206 (24.91%) Azure
3 177 (21.40%) Serverless
4 136 (16.44%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (16.32%) GCP
6 110 (13.30%) Amazon S3
7 102 (12.33%) GitHub
8 95 (11.49%) SaaS
9 66 (7.98%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
11 46 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (2.42%) Figma
16 18 (2.18%) Datadog
17 17 (2.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 16 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.45%) AMQP
2 11 (1.33%) SSH
3 7 (0.85%) Broadband
4 4 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) DSL
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (9.07%) MongoDB
3 70 (8.46%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.80%) DynamoDB
5 44 (5.32%) MySQL
6 34 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 33 (3.99%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.30%) Redis
10 15 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.69%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.09%) DB2
14 5 (0.60%) Big Data
14 5 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.60%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.48%) GIS
Development Applications
1 118 (14.27%) Git
2 77 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.23%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.14%) JIRA
5 18 (2.18%) GitLab
6 14 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 14 (1.69%) Selenium
7 13 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.33%) Storybook
9 9 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.48%) Babel
12 4 (0.48%) Maven
12 4 (0.48%) Mocha
12 4 (0.48%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.48%) Vite
13 3 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 193 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.99%) Finance
3 52 (6.29%) Front Office
4 46 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.30%) Law
7 16 (1.93%) Marketing
8 13 (1.57%) Banking
9 10 (1.21%) Retail
9 10 (1.21%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.97%) Electronics
11 8 (0.97%) Legal
12 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.48%) Advertising
13 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.48%) Back Office
14 3 (0.36%) Games
15 2 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 427 (51.63%) Developer
2 182 (22.01%) Senior
3 175 (21.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 171 (20.68%) Software Engineer
5 139 (16.81%) Lead
6 99 (11.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 79 (9.55%) Senior Developer
8 68 (8.22%) Java Developer
9 67 (8.10%) Lead Developer
10 64 (7.74%) Node.js Developer
11 59 (7.13%) React Developer
12 49 (5.93%) Architect
13 46 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 44 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
15 41 (4.96%) Lead Software Developer
15 41 (4.96%) Software Developer
16 36 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 35 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
18 32 (3.87%) AWS Developer
19 26 (3.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (60.10%) React
2 124 (14.99%) CSS
3 120 (14.51%) HTML
4 105 (12.70%) REST
5 101 (12.21%) .NET
6 93 (11.25%) AngularJS
7 92 (11.12%) Vue
8 85 (10.28%) RESTful
9 71 (8.59%) GraphQL
10 63 (7.62%) Kafka
10 63 (7.62%) Redux
11 58 (7.01%) Spring
12 49 (5.93%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.56%) Next.js
14 41 (4.96%) NestJS
15 40 (4.84%) Jest
16 36 (4.35%) React Native
17 33 (3.99%) Django
18 32 (3.87%) .NET Core
19 26 (3.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.80%) Fixed Income
3 40 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.66%) IoT
7 18 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.06%) Derivative
9 16 (1.93%) Equities
10 6 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.73%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.60%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.60%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.48%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.48%) Hackathon
12 4 (0.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.96%) Linux
2 18 (2.18%) Windows
3 8 (0.97%) Android
3 8 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.85%) CentOS
4 7 (0.85%) Unix
5 6 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (48.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 310 (37.48%) Software Engineering
3 305 (36.88%) CI/CD
4 284 (34.34%) Agile
5 191 (23.10%) Microservices
6 190 (22.97%) DevOps
7 179 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (18.62%) Mentoring
9 129 (15.60%) AI
10 114 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (11.25%) Computer Science
13 86 (10.40%) Containerisation
14 82 (9.92%) Test Automation
15 80 (9.67%) User Experience
16 79 (9.55%) Scrum
17 69 (8.34%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (7.62%) Front End Development
19 60 (7.26%) Clean Code
20 59 (7.13%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 444 (53.69%) JavaScript
2 398 (48.13%) TypeScript
3 240 (29.02%) Python
4 212 (25.63%) Java
5 123 (14.87%) SQL
6 67 (8.10%) C#
7 62 (7.50%) Go
8 33 (3.99%) PHP
9 31 (3.75%) Ruby
10 27 (3.26%) Kotlin
11 21 (2.54%) Bash
12 16 (1.93%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.73%) C
15 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) ABAP
16 3 (0.36%) C++
16 3 (0.36%) RPG
17 2 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 93 (11.25%) Degree
2 62 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (6.17%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.99%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.78%) QA
3 9 (1.09%) GDPR
4 7 (0.85%) WCAG
5 5 (0.60%) PERC
6 4 (0.48%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (18.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.48%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (15.84%) Terraform
2 104 (12.58%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.99%) Ansible
4 14 (1.69%) Argo
5 11 (1.33%) Grafana
6 10 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.73%) Podman
8 5 (0.60%) Nagios
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.24%) Packer
10 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (3.99%) Google
2 32 (3.87%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.06%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.33%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.33%) SAP
6 9 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.97%) Oracle
8 7 (0.85%) Adobe
9 6 (0.73%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.73%) Pega
10 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.60%) WSO2
11 4 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.48%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.36%) iManage
12 3 (0.36%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.36%) New Relic
12 3 (0.36%) Splunk