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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 160 123
Rank change year-on-year -5 -37 -24
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,158 965 2,216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.09% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.72% 11.02% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 954 628 1,592
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £95,000
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 9,883 8,760 21,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.95% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,409 5,766 16,159
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -6 1,040 £75,000 - 281
UK excluding London +4 736 £67,500 +12.50% 198
Work from Home -4 571 £67,500 -12.90% 169
London -25 329 £90,000 -10.00% 125
North of England -30 268 £70,000 -1.75% 59
South East +34 193 £72,500 +31.82% 67
North West -46 134 £75,000 - 36
Midlands +25 106 £60,000 -5.88% 26
Yorkshire +17 94 £70,000 +1.82% 9
South West -57 72 £52,500 -12.50% 13
East Midlands +30 60 £64,000 -8.57% 10
East of England +2 50 £55,000 +57.14% 15
West Midlands -6 46 £60,000 - 16
North East -18 40 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Wales -17 34 £72,500 +41.06% 7
Scotland +15 9 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 11

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 28 (2.42%) Confluence
2 20 (1.73%) CMS
3 15 (1.30%) Apache
4 14 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.12%) IIS
6 12 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.69%) JBoss
9 6 (0.52%) nginx
10 5 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.43%) WordPress
11 4 (0.35%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.35%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.26%) DNN
12 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.26%) Kentico
12 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.26%) Blender
3 3 (0.26%) Maya
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 1 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.086%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 665 (57.43%) AWS
2 384 (33.16%) Azure
3 215 (18.57%) Serverless
4 182 (15.72%) GitHub
5 172 (14.85%) AWS Lambda
6 143 (12.35%) GCP
7 141 (12.18%) Amazon S3
8 131 (11.31%) SaaS
9 96 (8.29%) Amazon ECS
10 84 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
11 74 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
12 73 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
14 54 (4.66%) GitHub Copilot
15 41 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
17 33 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 29 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
20 28 (2.42%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.33%) Broadband
2 16 (1.38%) Firewall
3 13 (1.12%) DMARC
4 11 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.78%) AMQP
6 8 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
6 8 (0.69%) Internet
7 6 (0.52%) DNS
7 6 (0.52%) VoIP
8 5 (0.43%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.35%) LAN
9 4 (0.35%) SSH
9 4 (0.35%) VPN
9 4 (0.35%) WAN
10 3 (0.26%) DSL
10 3 (0.26%) VLAN
11 2 (0.17%) BGP
11 2 (0.17%) IPsec
11 2 (0.17%) MQTT
11 2 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (20.55%) MongoDB
2 167 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
3 146 (12.61%) Elasticsearch
4 133 (11.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 96 (8.29%) NoSQL
6 79 (6.82%) DynamoDB
7 71 (6.13%) MySQL
8 49 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 42 (3.63%) Redis
10 29 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
11 28 (2.42%) Relational Database
12 23 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
15 10 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.86%) DTS
16 8 (0.69%) Big Data
16 8 (0.69%) Db2
16 8 (0.69%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 125 (10.79%) Git
2 85 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 51 (4.40%) Cypress.io
4 44 (3.80%) GitLab
5 39 (3.37%) JIRA
6 15 (1.30%) Selenium
7 14 (1.21%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.60%) Vite
10 6 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.52%) JUnit
10 6 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.43%) Maven
11 5 (0.43%) Mocha
11 5 (0.43%) Postman
12 4 (0.35%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.35%) Storybook
12 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 212 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 157 (13.56%) Finance
3 96 (8.29%) Public Sector
4 53 (4.58%) Front Office
5 47 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (3.80%) Retail
7 37 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (2.25%) Law
9 15 (1.30%) Legal
9 15 (1.30%) Marketing
10 12 (1.04%) Advertising
11 11 (0.95%) Games
12 10 (0.86%) Banking
12 10 (0.86%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.69%) Automotive
15 7 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.60%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 595 (51.38%) Developer
2 272 (23.49%) Senior
3 230 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 221 (19.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 210 (18.13%) Lead
6 132 (11.40%) .NET Developer
7 114 (9.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 100 (8.64%) Lead Developer
9 95 (8.20%) Senior Developer
10 77 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 71 (6.13%) Software Developer
12 70 (6.04%) Lead Software Developer
13 68 (5.87%) Node.js Developer
14 67 (5.79%) Lead Software Engineer
15 55 (4.75%) Java Developer
16 53 (4.58%) React Developer
17 50 (4.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 47 (4.06%) Architect
18 47 (4.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 47 (4.06%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (51.73%) React
2 237 (20.47%) .NET
3 162 (13.99%) AngularJS
4 148 (12.78%) ASP.NET
5 146 (12.61%) .NET Core
6 141 (12.18%) Vue
7 139 (12.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 131 (11.31%) CSS
9 127 (10.97%) REST
10 119 (10.28%) HTML
11 95 (8.20%) RESTful
12 85 (7.34%) Spring Boot
13 82 (7.08%) Spring
14 76 (6.56%) GraphQL
15 73 (6.30%) Kafka
16 71 (6.13%) Redux
17 67 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
18 61 (5.27%) Next.js
19 56 (4.84%) .NET Framework
19 56 (4.84%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 165 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.23%) Fixed Income
2 49 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
3 44 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.47%) Derivative
9 16 (1.38%) Equities
9 16 (1.38%) IoT
10 15 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.04%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.95%) PropTech
14 9 (0.78%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.60%) EPoS
15 7 (0.60%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.27%) Linux
2 32 (2.76%) Windows
3 20 (1.73%) Unix
4 11 (0.95%) Debian
4 11 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.69%) CentOS
6 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (51.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 477 (41.19%) Agile
3 444 (38.34%) CI/CD
4 392 (33.85%) Microservices
5 376 (32.47%) Software Engineering
6 301 (25.99%) DevOps
7 251 (21.68%) Mentoring
8 182 (15.72%) AI
9 158 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (13.21%) Test Automation
11 149 (12.87%) Scrum
12 135 (11.66%) Containerisation
13 134 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 133 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 126 (10.88%) TDD
16 116 (10.02%) Technical Leadership
17 113 (9.76%) Event-Driven
18 99 (8.55%) Observability
19 93 (8.03%) Kanban
20 86 (7.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 547 (47.24%) TypeScript
2 530 (45.77%) JavaScript
3 293 (25.30%) SQL
4 257 (22.19%) Java
5 256 (22.11%) Python
6 227 (19.60%) C#
7 56 (4.84%) Go
8 51 (4.40%) Ruby
9 48 (4.15%) PHP
10 37 (3.20%) Kotlin
11 30 (2.59%) Bash
12 14 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.78%) ABAP
14 8 (0.69%) C++
15 7 (0.60%) RPG
15 7 (0.60%) Scala
16 5 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.35%) COBOL
17 4 (0.35%) Groovy
17 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (7.86%) Degree
2 72 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 66 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.17%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.086%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.086%) HNC
13 1 (0.086%) HND
13 1 (0.086%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.80%) QA
2 38 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.81%) WCAG
4 17 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.60%) GDPR
6 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.086%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.086%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 221 (19.08%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 159 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 157 (13.56%) Terraform
3 33 (2.85%) Ansible
4 20 (1.73%) Argo
5 19 (1.64%) Grafana
5 19 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.04%) Podman
7 7 (0.60%) Puppet
8 6 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.35%) Istio
9 4 (0.35%) linkerd
9 4 (0.35%) Nagios
10 3 (0.26%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.086%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.71%) Google
3 15 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 13 (1.12%) SAP
4 13 (1.12%) SendGrid
5 12 (1.04%) Oracle
6 10 (0.86%) Adobe
6 10 (0.86%) iManage
7 9 (0.78%) IBM
7 9 (0.78%) Sitecore
8 8 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.69%) OneLogin
8 8 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.60%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.52%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.43%) Splunk
12 3 (0.26%) Alterian
12 3 (0.26%) Pega