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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 177 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 -42 -27
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,242 925 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.84% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.63% 10.93% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 990 573 976
10th Percentile £45,456 £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £93,750
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 10,680 8,463 15,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 16.87% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 5,490 11,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 17 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 17 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 -7 1,103 £75,000 - 446
UK excluding London +28 811 £67,500 +12.50% 262
Work from Home -9 626 £69,310 -15.99% 252
London -66 328 £85,000 -19.05% 228
North of England -19 280 £69,310 +2.68% 78
South East +62 240 £75,000 +36.36% 73
North West -51 139 £70,000 - 46
Midlands +36 103 £60,000 -2.04% 33
Yorkshire +15 86 £70,000 +3.70% 17
South West -30 75 £52,500 -10.64% 38
West Midlands +10 56 £60,000 - 22
North East -13 55 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Wales -21 52 £72,500 +4.69% 6
East of England +2 51 £55,000 +15.79% 21
East Midlands +17 47 £67,000 -4.29% 11
Scotland +7 10 £60,000 -30.43% 14

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 35 (2.82%) Confluence
2 20 (1.61%) CMS
3 18 (1.45%) Apache
4 17 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (1.13%) IIS
6 10 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.64%) JBoss
8 8 (0.64%) WordPress
9 4 (0.32%) nginx
9 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.24%) DNN
10 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.24%) Kentico
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.24%) Sitefinity
10 3 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (1.37%) 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 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 693 (55.80%) AWS
2 444 (35.75%) Azure
3 222 (17.87%) Serverless
4 219 (17.63%) GitHub
5 169 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
6 165 (13.29%) SaaS
7 158 (12.72%) GCP
8 128 (10.31%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.78%) Amazon ECS
10 99 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
11 93 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
12 88 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 72 (5.80%) GitHub Copilot
14 67 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.58%) Datadog
19 31 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
19 31 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.17%) Broadband
2 16 (1.29%) Firewall
3 13 (1.05%) DMARC
3 13 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.89%) DNS
5 10 (0.81%) VPN
6 8 (0.64%) Internet
7 7 (0.56%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.56%) Wireshark
8 6 (0.48%) BGP
8 6 (0.48%) IPsec
8 6 (0.48%) VoIP
9 5 (0.40%) 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
1 258 (20.77%) MongoDB
2 181 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (12.64%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (11.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 109 (8.78%) NoSQL
6 88 (7.09%) DynamoDB
7 65 (5.23%) MySQL
8 63 (5.07%) SQL Server
9 58 (4.67%) Redis
10 34 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.21%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.21%) 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 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 145 (11.67%) Git
2 89 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.83%) GitLab
4 59 (4.75%) Cypress.io
5 42 (3.38%) JIRA
6 18 (1.45%) Selenium
7 15 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.05%) JUnit
9 12 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.89%) Storybook
11 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.72%) Maven
12 9 (0.72%) Postman
13 8 (0.64%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.64%) Vite
14 7 (0.56%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.40%) Mocha
15 5 (0.40%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 268 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 158 (12.72%) Finance
3 117 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 60 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (4.59%) Retail
6 40 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (2.42%) Front Office
8 28 (2.25%) Law
9 24 (1.93%) Marketing
10 18 (1.45%) Banking
11 16 (1.29%) Legal
12 15 (1.21%) Games
13 10 (0.81%) Advertising
13 10 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.72%) Military
14 9 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.56%) Automotive
15 7 (0.56%) Publishing
16 6 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 613 (49.36%) Developer
2 294 (23.67%) Senior
3 241 (19.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 226 (18.20%) Lead
5 208 (16.75%) Software Engineer
6 147 (11.84%) .NET Developer
7 112 (9.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 103 (8.29%) Senior Developer
9 95 (7.65%) Lead Developer
10 92 (7.41%) Software Developer
11 74 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 70 (5.64%) Lead Software Developer
13 63 (5.07%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 60 (4.83%) Node.js Developer
15 57 (4.59%) Architect
16 54 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
17 50 (4.03%) Software Manager
18 49 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 43 (3.46%) Java Developer
20 42 (3.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 595 (47.91%) React
2 277 (22.30%) .NET
3 183 (14.73%) AngularJS
4 168 (13.53%) ASP.NET
5 163 (13.12%) .NET Core
6 154 (12.40%) ASP.NET Core
7 150 (12.08%) Vue
8 145 (11.67%) CSS
9 134 (10.79%) REST
10 130 (10.47%) HTML
11 106 (8.53%) RESTful
12 103 (8.29%) Spring Boot
13 97 (7.81%) Spring
14 86 (6.92%) Next.js
15 79 (6.36%) ASP.NET Web API
16 72 (5.80%) GraphQL
17 71 (5.72%) Jest
17 71 (5.72%) Kafka
17 71 (5.72%) NestJS
18 64 (5.15%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 190 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.09%) Fixed Income
8 26 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.53%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.97%) PropTech
13 10 (0.81%) EPoS
13 10 (0.81%) IoT
13 10 (0.81%) iSeries
14 9 (0.72%) Derivative
14 9 (0.72%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.83%) Linux
2 29 (2.33%) Windows
3 18 (1.45%) Unix
4 11 (0.89%) Debian
4 11 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.56%) CentOS
6 5 (0.40%) 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%) Rocky
10 1 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (51.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 529 (42.59%) Agile
3 528 (42.51%) CI/CD
4 431 (34.70%) Microservices
5 384 (30.92%) Software Engineering
6 332 (26.73%) DevOps
7 264 (21.26%) AI
8 261 (21.01%) Mentoring
9 189 (15.22%) Test Automation
10 166 (13.37%) Scrum
11 164 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 162 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 154 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 154 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
14 147 (11.84%) Containerisation
15 145 (11.67%) Event-Driven
16 138 (11.11%) TDD
17 132 (10.63%) Observability
18 107 (8.62%) Code Quality
19 101 (8.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 576 (46.38%) TypeScript
2 561 (45.17%) JavaScript
3 333 (26.81%) SQL
4 276 (22.22%) Python
5 268 (21.58%) C#
6 262 (21.10%) Java
7 65 (5.23%) Ruby
8 49 (3.95%) Go
9 47 (3.78%) PHP
10 37 (2.98%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.25%) Bash
12 11 (0.89%) C++
13 10 (0.81%) ABAP
13 10 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.81%) RPG
14 7 (0.56%) C
14 7 (0.56%) Scala
15 6 (0.48%) COBOL
16 4 (0.32%) Groovy
16 4 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 99 (7.97%) Degree
2 92 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.83%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 22 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.24%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.24%) OCP
13 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.081%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.39%) QA
2 61 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.90%) WCAG
4 21 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.89%) GDPR
6 9 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.48%) NCSC
7 6 (0.48%) NIST
8 5 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.081%) GRC
11 1 (0.081%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 271 (21.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Firmware
3 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 176 (14.17%) Terraform
3 34 (2.74%) Ansible
4 23 (1.85%) Grafana
5 22 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.45%) Argo
7 12 (0.97%) Podman
8 7 (0.56%) Puppet
9 6 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
9 6 (0.48%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.32%) Istio
10 4 (0.32%) linkerd
10 4 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) Nagios
11 3 (0.24%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Bugsnag
12 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 209 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.11%) Google
3 33 (2.66%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.45%) SAP
5 16 (1.29%) IBM
5 16 (1.29%) Oracle
6 14 (1.13%) Adobe
7 13 (1.05%) SendGrid
8 12 (0.97%) iManage
8 12 (0.97%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.72%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.56%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.48%) HP
13 6 (0.48%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.48%) Splunk
14 5 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.40%) Databricks
14 5 (0.40%) SaltStack