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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 114 134
Rank change year-on-year -98 +20 -62
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 660 1,459 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.30% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 10.83% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 552 841 1,021
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,594 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £107,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £111,250
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 7,134 13,468 13,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.99% 21.24% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,229 8,177 10,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,140 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,028
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.56% +1.58%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -82 590 £80,000 +14.29% 300
London -34 343 £100,000 +17.65% 137
Work from Home -62 332 £80,000 +6.67% 214
UK excluding London -125 262 £62,500 +4.17% 219
North of England -24 102 £60,000 -9.09% 48
South East -96 59 £57,500 +6.48% 87
Yorkshire -6 48 £60,000 +9.09% 14
North West +5 46 £65,000 -7.14% 27
Midlands -16 41 £65,000 - 34
West Midlands -4 24 £71,165 +1.66% 22
South West -26 18 £62,500 +8.70% 22
East Midlands -6 17 £65,000 +10.64% 12
Northern Ireland -8 15 £90,000 +12.50% 4
Wales -15 13 £68,958 +55.51% 6
East of England -56 9 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North East -9 8 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Scotland -35 7 £77,415 +19.10% 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 52 (7.88%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.03%) Confluence
3 11 (1.67%) CMS
4 8 (1.21%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.21%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.76%) nginx
7 4 (0.61%) Appian
8 3 (0.45%) Apache
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.30%) Drupal
9 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.76%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.76%) InVision
3 5 (0.76%) Sketch
4 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.82%) Shopify
2 9 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (58.79%) AWS
2 187 (28.33%) Azure
3 137 (20.76%) GCP
4 94 (14.24%) Serverless
5 71 (10.76%) GitHub
6 64 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (8.94%) SaaS
8 49 (7.42%) dbt
9 41 (6.21%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (4.39%) Figma
13 26 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.73%) Power Platform
16 17 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (2.12%) Vercel
18 13 (1.97%) npm
19 12 (1.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.06%) SSH
2 5 (0.76%) AMQP
2 5 (0.76%) Broadband
3 4 (0.61%) Internet
4 3 (0.45%) DHCP
4 3 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.45%) Firewall
4 3 (0.45%) HTTP
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%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.30%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (12.42%) MongoDB
3 54 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
4 45 (6.82%) Apache Arrow
4 45 (6.82%) Apache Iceberg
4 45 (6.82%) Dremio
5 36 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
6 33 (5.00%) MySQL
7 32 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 30 (4.55%) Relational Database
9 27 (4.09%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (3.64%) Redis
11 10 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.36%) DB2
13 7 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.61%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.61%) Weaviate
15 3 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 101 (15.30%) Git
2 54 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 38 (5.76%) JIRA
4 27 (4.09%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.18%) GitLab
6 17 (2.58%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.27%) Selenium
8 11 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.67%) webpack
9 9 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.36%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.21%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.76%) Maven
11 5 (0.76%) Mocha
11 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.61%) Postman
12 4 (0.61%) rollup.js
General
1 199 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 161 (24.39%) Finance
3 73 (11.06%) Front Office
4 41 (6.21%) Law
5 34 (5.15%) Marketing
6 28 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 26 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.33%) Retail
9 19 (2.88%) Banking
10 14 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.97%) Legal
12 8 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.91%) Back Office
13 6 (0.91%) Electronics
14 4 (0.61%) Advertising
14 4 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.61%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 360 (54.55%) Developer
2 144 (21.82%) Senior
3 140 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 123 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 98 (14.85%) Lead
6 80 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 74 (11.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 62 (9.39%) Architect
9 58 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
10 55 (8.33%) AWS Developer
11 52 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 52 (7.88%) Python Developer
12 48 (7.27%) AWS Software Engineer
13 45 (6.82%) Python Engineer
13 45 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
15 40 (6.06%) Java Developer
16 36 (5.45%) Lead Developer
17 33 (5.00%) React Developer
18 32 (4.85%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (67.12%) React
2 144 (21.82%) AngularJS
3 135 (20.45%) CSS
4 132 (20.00%) HTML
5 126 (19.09%) Vue
6 89 (13.48%) .NET
7 85 (12.88%) RESTful
8 81 (12.27%) GraphQL
9 79 (11.97%) REST
10 54 (8.18%) Kafka
11 51 (7.73%) Redux
12 45 (6.82%) NumPy
12 45 (6.82%) Pandas
12 45 (6.82%) SciPy
13 41 (6.21%) ASP.NET
13 41 (6.21%) Next.js
14 39 (5.91%) .NET Core
14 39 (5.91%) React Native
14 39 (5.91%) Spring
15 32 (4.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.76%) Fixed Income
3 48 (7.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 47 (7.12%) Equities
5 39 (5.91%) Mobile App
6 37 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.12%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.52%) IoT
12 10 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.06%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.76%) Linux
2 20 (3.03%) Windows
3 10 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.06%) Unix
5 6 (0.91%) Android
5 6 (0.91%) 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
1 332 (50.30%) Agile
2 273 (41.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 242 (36.67%) Software Engineering
4 226 (34.24%) CI/CD
5 160 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (21.82%) DevOps
7 134 (20.30%) Microservices
8 120 (18.18%) User Experience
9 108 (16.36%) AI
10 105 (15.91%) Mentoring
11 82 (12.42%) Test Automation
12 77 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (11.67%) Fintech
13 76 (11.52%) Investment Management
13 76 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
14 75 (11.36%) Scrum
15 74 (11.21%) Containerisation
16 72 (10.91%) Front End Development
17 69 (10.45%) Computer Science
17 69 (10.45%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 387 (58.64%) JavaScript
2 357 (54.09%) TypeScript
3 220 (33.33%) Python
4 161 (24.39%) Java
5 124 (18.79%) SQL
6 69 (10.45%) C#
7 51 (7.73%) Go
8 25 (3.79%) PHP
9 22 (3.33%) Ruby
10 15 (2.27%) Bash
11 13 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.76%) C
12 5 (0.76%) C++
12 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.45%) ABAP
13 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.45%) Groovy
13 3 (0.45%) R
13 3 (0.45%) RPG
14 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 65 (9.85%) Degree
2 58 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 41 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.45%) CCNP
9 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.30%) MCP
10 2 (0.30%) PhD
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.33%) QA
2 41 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.91%) SLA
6 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.76%) PERC
6 5 (0.76%) WCAG
7 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 90 (13.64%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) Firmware
2 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 72 (10.91%) Terraform
3 30 (4.55%) Ansible
4 13 (1.97%) Grafana
5 12 (1.82%) Argo
6 11 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.30%) Nagios
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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.48%) Google
3 17 (2.58%) OpenAI
4 14 (2.12%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.67%) SAP
6 10 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.36%) Apple
8 8 (1.21%) Adobe
8 8 (1.21%) Oracle
9 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.91%) iManage
11 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.76%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.76%) VMware
12 4 (0.61%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.61%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.61%) Pega
12 4 (0.61%) WSO2
13 3 (0.45%) Mavenir
13 3 (0.45%) PayPal