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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 116 132
Rank change year-on-year -94 +16 -60
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 665 1,473 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.22% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.16% 10.68% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 555 847 1,069
10th Percentile £48,000 £41,456 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £56,250
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 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 7,260 13,795 13,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 20.82% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,363 11,212
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £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 29 November 2025.

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 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 -79 595 £80,000 +12.68% 281
London -18 346 £100,000 +17.65% 128
Work from Home -58 344 £80,000 +6.45% 164
UK excluding London -140 265 £62,500 +4.17% 232
North of England -21 105 £60,000 -10.45% 35
South East -85 62 £57,500 +12.20% 108
North West +10 49 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Yorkshire -10 49 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands -20 36 £65,000 - 33
West Midlands +4 21 £77,500 +6.90% 21
South West -19 19 £62,500 +8.70% 24
East Midlands -5 15 £62,500 +8.70% 12
Northern Ireland -7 15 £90,000 +12.50% 4
Wales -21 13 £68,958 +45.77% 8
East of England -45 10 £55,000 +4.76% 16
North East -13 7 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Scotland -56 7 £77,415 +15.98% 10

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 56 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.86%) Confluence
3 11 (1.65%) CMS
4 8 (1.20%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.75%) nginx
7 3 (0.45%) Apache
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.45%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) Drupal
8 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.60%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.60%) InVision
3 4 (0.60%) Sketch
4 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) Shopify
2 9 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 397 (59.70%) AWS
2 187 (28.12%) Azure
3 145 (21.80%) GCP
4 91 (13.68%) Serverless
5 69 (10.38%) GitHub
6 62 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (8.87%) SaaS
8 54 (8.12%) dbt
9 41 (6.17%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.36%) Figma
13 28 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.71%) Power Platform
17 16 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (2.26%) Vercel
19 11 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
19 11 (1.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.05%) SSH
2 5 (0.75%) AMQP
2 5 (0.75%) Broadband
3 4 (0.60%) Internet
4 3 (0.45%) DHCP
4 3 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.45%) Firewall
4 3 (0.45%) STUN
4 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.45%) VLAN
4 3 (0.45%) VoIP
4 3 (0.45%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.30%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (19.70%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (12.78%) MongoDB
3 55 (8.27%) NoSQL
4 50 (7.52%) Amazon Athena
4 50 (7.52%) Apache Arrow
4 50 (7.52%) Apache Iceberg
4 50 (7.52%) Dremio
5 37 (5.56%) MySQL
6 36 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (4.66%) SQL Server
8 30 (4.51%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.21%) DynamoDB
10 25 (3.76%) Redis
11 24 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.20%) DB2
14 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.45%) Power BI
15 3 (0.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 101 (15.19%) Git
2 51 (7.67%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.56%) JIRA
4 26 (3.91%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.16%) GitLab
6 17 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.11%) Selenium
8 11 (1.65%) webpack
9 10 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.35%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.20%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (1.05%) Mocha
13 5 (0.75%) Maven
13 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.60%) Postman
14 4 (0.60%) rollup.js
General
1 199 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 168 (25.26%) Finance
3 79 (11.88%) Front Office
4 44 (6.62%) Law
5 36 (5.41%) Marketing
6 29 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (4.21%) Public Sector
8 23 (3.46%) Retail
9 20 (3.01%) Banking
10 14 (2.11%) Legal
10 14 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.90%) Back Office
12 6 (0.90%) Electronics
13 4 (0.60%) Advertising
13 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.60%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.45%) Games
14 3 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 369 (55.49%) Developer
2 148 (22.26%) Software Engineer
3 143 (21.50%) Senior
4 119 (17.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 102 (15.34%) Lead
6 82 (12.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 82 (12.33%) Senior Developer
7 63 (9.47%) Architect
8 62 (9.32%) AWS Engineer
9 58 (8.72%) AWS Developer
10 55 (8.27%) Python Developer
11 53 (7.97%) AWS Software Engineer
12 50 (7.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (7.22%) Python Engineer
14 47 (7.07%) Python Software Engineer
15 45 (6.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 41 (6.17%) Java Developer
17 40 (6.02%) Lead Developer
18 33 (4.96%) React Developer
19 32 (4.81%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (67.37%) React
2 152 (22.86%) AngularJS
3 135 (20.30%) CSS
4 134 (20.15%) Vue
5 132 (19.85%) HTML
6 87 (13.08%) .NET
7 84 (12.63%) RESTful
8 79 (11.88%) GraphQL
8 79 (11.88%) REST
9 54 (8.12%) Kafka
10 51 (7.67%) Redux
11 50 (7.52%) NumPy
11 50 (7.52%) Pandas
11 50 (7.52%) SciPy
12 42 (6.32%) Next.js
13 41 (6.17%) React Native
13 41 (6.17%) Spring
14 40 (6.02%) ASP.NET
15 38 (5.71%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.66%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.58%) Fixed Income
3 53 (7.97%) Equities
3 53 (7.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (6.02%) Mobile App
5 35 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.11%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.35%) IoT
13 8 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
17 4 (0.60%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.41%) Linux
2 18 (2.71%) Windows
3 10 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.05%) Unix
5 6 (0.90%) Android
5 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
6 2 (0.30%) Debian
6 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (51.73%) Agile
2 267 (40.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 240 (36.09%) Software Engineering
4 225 (33.83%) CI/CD
5 163 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (21.05%) DevOps
7 131 (19.70%) Microservices
8 123 (18.50%) User Experience
9 108 (16.24%) AI
10 106 (15.94%) Mentoring
11 83 (12.48%) Fintech
12 82 (12.33%) Investment Management
12 82 (12.33%) Test Automation
13 77 (11.58%) Scrum
13 77 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
14 76 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 74 (11.13%) Computer Science
15 74 (11.13%) Front End Development
15 74 (11.13%) Order Management
16 72 (10.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 396 (59.55%) JavaScript
2 360 (54.14%) TypeScript
3 223 (33.53%) Python
4 164 (24.66%) Java
5 128 (19.25%) SQL
6 64 (9.62%) C#
7 51 (7.67%) Go
8 25 (3.76%) PHP
9 21 (3.16%) Ruby
10 13 (1.95%) Bash
11 11 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.60%) C
13 4 (0.60%) C++
14 3 (0.45%) ABAP
14 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.45%) Groovy
14 3 (0.45%) R
14 3 (0.45%) RPG
15 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 68 (10.23%) Degree
2 60 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.45%) CCNP
8 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.57%) QA
2 43 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.11%) GDPR
4 9 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.75%) PERC
5 5 (0.75%) SLA
5 5 (0.75%) WCAG
6 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 91 (13.68%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.90%) vSphere
3 4 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 89 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 70 (10.53%) Terraform
3 29 (4.36%) Ansible
4 14 (2.11%) Grafana
5 13 (1.95%) Argo
6 11 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (8.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.76%) Google
3 16 (2.41%) OpenAI
4 13 (1.95%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.65%) SAP
6 9 (1.35%) Apple
6 9 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.20%) Oracle
8 7 (1.05%) Adobe
8 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.90%) iManage
9 6 (0.90%) VMware
10 5 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.60%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.60%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) WSO2
12 3 (0.45%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.45%) PayPal