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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 135 126
Rank change year-on-year -58 -9 -40
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 967 1,064 2,158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.45% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.82% 12.22% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 778 702 1,564
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% +4.17% -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 8,935 8,710 20,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 20.06% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,566 6,131 15,719
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -59 861 £75,000 +7.14% 318
UK excluding London -61 555 £69,310 +10.90% 221
Work from Home -27 434 £70,000 -3.45% 199
London -24 320 £90,000 - 121
North of England -61 205 £70,000 - 72
South East -18 134 £75,000 +36.36% 56
North West -64 106 £75,000 - 36
Midlands +7 101 £62,500 - 40
Yorkshire -30 78 £70,000 +3.70% 22
East Midlands +22 65 £67,250 +3.46% 24
South West -74 54 £56,250 -6.25% 29
West Midlands -24 36 £60,000 - 16
East of England -24 28 £47,500 -13.64% 16
North East -28 21 £52,000 -9.57% 14
Northern Ireland - 15 £90,000 - 1
Wales -32 13 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -10 10 £60,000 +9.09% 7

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 16 (1.65%) CMS
2 14 (1.45%) Confluence
2 14 (1.45%) IIS
3 13 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 11 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.83%) Apache
6 7 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.72%) JBoss
7 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.31%) Appian
9 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.21%) InVision
4 2 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 557 (57.60%) AWS
2 257 (26.58%) Azure
3 194 (20.06%) Serverless
4 151 (15.62%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (13.86%) GCP
6 131 (13.55%) Amazon S3
7 126 (13.03%) GitHub
8 111 (11.48%) SaaS
9 82 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
10 68 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
11 66 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (5.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (3.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 28 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
18 25 (2.59%) Datadog
18 25 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.65%) Broadband
2 10 (1.03%) AMQP
3 8 (0.83%) Firewall
4 5 (0.52%) SSH
5 3 (0.31%) HTTP
5 3 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.31%) Internet
5 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.21%) DNS
6 2 (0.21%) DSL
6 2 (0.21%) Multicast
6 2 (0.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.10%) CTI
7 1 (0.10%) DMARC
7 1 (0.10%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (14.17%) MongoDB
3 86 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 65 (6.72%) DynamoDB
5 59 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (4.76%) MySQL
7 43 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (4.03%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (2.48%) Redis
12 17 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.65%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.83%) Neo4j
16 6 (0.62%) DB2
17 5 (0.52%) Big Data
17 5 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (0.52%) GIS
17 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 125 (12.93%) Git
2 77 (7.96%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.72%) GitLab
5 23 (2.38%) JIRA
6 18 (1.86%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.24%) Selenium
8 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.03%) Storybook
9 8 (0.83%) Vite
10 5 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.31%) ESLint
12 3 (0.31%) JUnit
12 3 (0.31%) Yeoman
13 2 (0.21%) Babel
13 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.21%) rollup.js
General
1 179 (18.51%) Social Skills
2 126 (13.03%) Finance
3 55 (5.69%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.48%) Front Office
5 44 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.38%) Law
7 21 (2.17%) Retail
8 15 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.24%) Banking
10 11 (1.14%) Marketing
10 11 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.72%) Legal
13 6 (0.62%) Advertising
13 6 (0.62%) Games
14 5 (0.52%) Electronics
15 4 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.41%) Automotive
15 4 (0.41%) Local Government
15 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 512 (52.95%) Developer
2 243 (25.13%) Senior
3 227 (23.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 195 (20.17%) Software Engineer
5 161 (16.65%) Lead
6 114 (11.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 98 (10.13%) Senior Developer
8 90 (9.31%) Lead Developer
9 76 (7.86%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.51%) Java Developer
11 60 (6.20%) Software Developer
12 59 (6.10%) Lead Software Developer
12 59 (6.10%) React Developer
13 54 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 50 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
15 46 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 45 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 43 (4.45%) .NET Developer
17 43 (4.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 42 (4.34%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (57.50%) React
2 150 (15.51%) .NET
3 118 (12.20%) CSS
4 112 (11.58%) AngularJS
5 110 (11.38%) HTML
6 103 (10.65%) Vue
7 101 (10.44%) REST
8 85 (8.79%) RESTful
9 72 (7.45%) Redux
10 71 (7.34%) GraphQL
11 65 (6.72%) Kafka
12 61 (6.31%) .NET Core
13 59 (6.10%) ASP.NET
14 52 (5.38%) Spring
15 51 (5.27%) Next.js
16 49 (5.07%) NestJS
16 49 (5.07%) Spring Boot
17 48 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
18 44 (4.55%) Jest
19 43 (4.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.96%) Fixed Income
3 42 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 30 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.86%) IoT
9 17 (1.76%) Derivative
10 16 (1.65%) Equities
11 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.03%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.62%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.62%) PropTech
16 5 (0.52%) Data Centre
16 5 (0.52%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.96%) Linux
2 31 (3.21%) Windows
3 20 (2.07%) Unix
4 8 (0.83%) Android
4 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.72%) CentOS
6 5 (0.52%) Debian
6 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (52.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 350 (36.19%) CI/CD
3 339 (35.06%) Software Engineering
4 323 (33.40%) Agile
5 263 (27.20%) Microservices
6 245 (25.34%) DevOps
7 193 (19.96%) Mentoring
8 149 (15.41%) AI
9 146 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 109 (11.27%) Test Automation
13 100 (10.34%) Containerisation
13 100 (10.34%) Scrum
14 88 (9.10%) Computer Science
15 76 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (7.45%) TDD
17 68 (7.03%) Observability
18 61 (6.31%) Clean Code
19 59 (6.10%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 475 (49.12%) JavaScript
2 474 (49.02%) TypeScript
3 232 (23.99%) Python
4 220 (22.75%) Java
5 172 (17.79%) SQL
6 126 (13.03%) C#
7 61 (6.31%) Go
8 37 (3.83%) Ruby
9 36 (3.72%) Kotlin
10 33 (3.41%) PHP
11 24 (2.48%) Bash
12 16 (1.65%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.72%) Scala
14 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.52%) Rust
16 4 (0.41%) C
16 4 (0.41%) C++
16 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.31%) Groovy
18 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 89 (9.20%) Degree
2 64 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (6.20%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.69%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.48%) QA
3 7 (0.72%) WCAG
4 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 3 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (20.06%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Firmware
3 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (15.51%) Terraform
2 134 (13.86%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.10%) Ansible
4 26 (2.69%) Argo
5 15 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.34%) Grafana
7 12 (1.24%) Podman
8 6 (0.62%) Puppet
9 5 (0.52%) Nagios
10 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) Packer
12 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.83%) Google
3 12 (1.24%) OpenAI
4 11 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (0.93%) Adobe
5 9 (0.93%) Red Hat
5 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.72%) Oracle
7 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.52%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.31%) Aderant
9 3 (0.31%) iManage
9 3 (0.31%) Intapp
9 3 (0.31%) Pega
9 3 (0.31%) SAP
9 3 (0.31%) SendGrid
9 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk