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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 119 127
Rank change year-on-year -100 +8 -65
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 635 1,439 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.12% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 10.46% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 531 822 1,153
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £59,625 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 7,361 13,754 14,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 20.24% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,196 8,280 11,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,214 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 18 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 14 November 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 -92 579 £80,000 +14.29% 773
Work from Home -68 348 £80,000 +6.67% 471
London -29 344 £100,000 +17.65% 449
UK excluding London -152 243 £60,000 - 393
North of England -34 101 £60,000 -7.69% 99
South East -99 63 £57,500 +15.00% 118
Yorkshire -4 49 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North West -6 47 £65,000 -7.14% 73
Midlands -25 24 £68,665 +5.64% 54
South West -11 19 £60,000 -4.00% 43
West Midlands -8 18 £77,500 +6.90% 36
Wales -22 13 £68,958 +55.51% 16
East of England -48 12 £55,000 - 36
East Midlands -15 6 £57,500 +4.55% 18
Northern Ireland -19 6 £80,000 - 12
North East -21 5 £65,000 -13.33% 8
Scotland -62 4 £77,415 +10.59% 23
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 62 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.99%) Confluence
3 9 (1.42%) CMS
4 8 (1.26%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.10%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.63%) nginx
8 3 (0.47%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.47%) InVision
3 3 (0.47%) Sketch
4 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.89%) Shopify
2 10 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (61.26%) AWS
2 181 (28.50%) Azure
3 143 (22.52%) GCP
4 88 (13.86%) Serverless
5 62 (9.76%) dbt
6 60 (9.45%) GitHub
7 59 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (8.50%) SaaS
9 35 (5.51%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (4.09%) Figma
13 25 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.83%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.36%) Vercel
18 12 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
19 11 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
19 11 (1.73%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.94%) SSH
2 5 (0.79%) Broadband
3 4 (0.63%) AMQP
3 4 (0.63%) Internet
4 3 (0.47%) DHCP
4 3 (0.47%) DNS
4 3 (0.47%) Firewall
4 3 (0.47%) MQTT
4 3 (0.47%) STUN
4 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.47%) VLAN
4 3 (0.47%) VoIP
4 3 (0.47%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.31%) SMS
5 2 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) HTTP
6 1 (0.16%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (14.49%) MongoDB
3 60 (9.45%) Amazon Athena
3 60 (9.45%) Apache Arrow
3 60 (9.45%) Apache Iceberg
3 60 (9.45%) Dremio
4 55 (8.66%) NoSQL
5 40 (6.30%) MySQL
6 37 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (5.83%) SQL Server
7 29 (4.57%) Redis
8 26 (4.09%) DynamoDB
9 24 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.10%) DB2
13 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.47%) Hazelcast
13 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (15.12%) Git
2 45 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.83%) JIRA
4 24 (3.78%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.31%) GitLab
6 17 (2.68%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.20%) Selenium
8 10 (1.57%) webpack
9 9 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.26%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.10%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.94%) Mocha
13 5 (0.79%) Postman
13 5 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.63%) Maven
14 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.47%) JMeter
General
1 188 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 177 (27.87%) Finance
3 89 (14.02%) Front Office
4 46 (7.24%) Law
5 39 (6.14%) Marketing
6 33 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (4.72%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.62%) Retail
10 22 (3.46%) Banking
11 16 (2.52%) Legal
11 16 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.26%) Back Office
13 8 (1.26%) Electronics
14 5 (0.79%) Advertising
14 5 (0.79%) Games
15 4 (0.63%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.63%) Publishing
16 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 360 (56.69%) Developer
2 161 (25.35%) Software Engineer
3 137 (21.57%) Senior
4 105 (16.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 96 (15.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 90 (14.17%) Lead
7 84 (13.23%) Senior Developer
8 68 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
9 65 (10.24%) AWS Developer
10 60 (9.45%) AWS Software Engineer
11 59 (9.29%) Python Developer
12 58 (9.13%) Architect
13 55 (8.66%) Python Engineer
14 54 (8.50%) Python Software Engineer
15 46 (7.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (6.61%) Java Developer
17 40 (6.30%) Lead Developer
18 39 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 36 (5.67%) React Developer
20 34 (5.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (65.67%) React
2 154 (24.25%) AngularJS
3 131 (20.63%) Vue
4 124 (19.53%) CSS
5 118 (18.58%) HTML
6 86 (13.54%) RESTful
7 83 (13.07%) .NET
8 81 (12.76%) GraphQL
9 73 (11.50%) REST
10 60 (9.45%) NumPy
10 60 (9.45%) Pandas
10 60 (9.45%) SciPy
11 53 (8.35%) Kafka
12 50 (7.87%) Redux
13 43 (6.77%) React Native
14 42 (6.61%) Next.js
14 42 (6.61%) Spring
15 41 (6.46%) ASP.NET
16 37 (5.83%) .NET Core
17 32 (5.04%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.02%) Fixed Income
2 88 (13.86%) Cloud Native
3 65 (10.24%) Equities
3 65 (10.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (6.30%) Mobile App
5 28 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.62%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.73%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.10%) IoT
13 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.63%) Market Risk
14 4 (0.63%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.63%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.14%) Linux
2 19 (2.99%) Windows
3 10 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.10%) Unix
5 3 (0.47%) Android
5 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.31%) CentOS
6 2 (0.31%) Debian
6 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (55.43%) Agile
2 238 (37.48%) Software Engineering
3 226 (35.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 210 (33.07%) CI/CD
5 159 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (20.94%) DevOps
7 122 (19.21%) User Experience
8 119 (18.74%) Microservices
9 105 (16.54%) Mentoring
10 100 (15.75%) AI
11 93 (14.65%) Fintech
12 90 (14.17%) Investment Management
13 84 (13.23%) Order Management
14 78 (12.28%) Test Automation
15 75 (11.81%) Front End Development
15 75 (11.81%) Scrum
16 72 (11.34%) Asset Management
17 70 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
18 69 (10.87%) Containerisation
19 67 (10.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 386 (60.79%) JavaScript
2 354 (55.75%) TypeScript
3 208 (32.76%) Python
4 159 (25.04%) Java
5 127 (20.00%) SQL
6 62 (9.76%) C#
7 45 (7.09%) Go
8 23 (3.62%) PHP
9 16 (2.52%) Ruby
10 13 (2.05%) Bash
11 12 (1.89%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.63%) C++
13 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.63%) R
14 3 (0.47%) ABAP
14 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) Groovy
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 66 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 57 (8.98%) Degree
3 45 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 33 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.47%) CCNP
8 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) MCP
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.13%) QA
2 40 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.52%) GDPR
4 11 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.79%) PERC
5 5 (0.79%) WCAG
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (13.07%) Docker
2 8 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.10%) vSphere
4 4 (0.63%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) KVM
5 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 62 (9.76%) Terraform
3 25 (3.94%) Ansible
4 15 (2.36%) Grafana
5 12 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.73%) Argo
7 3 (0.47%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.16%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) logstash
9 1 (0.16%) Nagios
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.09%) Google
3 14 (2.20%) OpenAI
3 14 (2.20%) Oracle
4 13 (2.05%) SAP
5 12 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.26%) Apple
7 8 (1.26%) VMware
8 6 (0.94%) iManage
9 5 (0.79%) Adobe
9 5 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.79%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.79%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.79%) Sage
10 4 (0.63%) Gigya
10 4 (0.63%) PayPal
10 4 (0.63%) Pega
10 4 (0.63%) WSO2