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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 132 127
Rank change year-on-year -65 -5 -40
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 966 1,089 2,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.48% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.74% 12.50% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 778 726 1,574
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,733 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.92%
75th Percentile £95,938 £93,778 £81,250
90th Percentile £108,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% +4.17% -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 8,997 8,711 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.84% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 6,304 15,761
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -66 859 £75,000 +7.14% 391
UK excluding London -70 550 £69,310 +10.90% 269
Work from Home -42 429 £70,000 -3.45% 266
London -28 325 £90,000 - 154
North of England -68 200 £70,000 - 80
South East -14 133 £75,000 +36.36% 78
North West -75 105 £75,000 - 41
Midlands +2 100 £62,500 - 39
Yorkshire -23 76 £70,000 +3.70% 26
East Midlands +16 65 £67,000 +3.08% 25
South West -74 53 £56,250 -6.25% 36
West Midlands -29 35 £60,000 -2.04% 14
East of England -24 29 £47,500 -15.56% 28
North East -35 19 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Northern Ireland - 17 £90,000 - 1
Wales -30 13 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -20 10 £60,000 +9.09% 7

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 16 (1.66%) CMS
2 14 (1.45%) Confluence
3 13 (1.35%) IIS
4 12 (1.24%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.62%) Apache
7 6 (0.62%) JBoss
8 5 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
9 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.21%) InVision
4 2 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 550 (56.94%) AWS
2 256 (26.50%) Azure
3 190 (19.67%) Serverless
4 148 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (14.08%) GCP
6 128 (13.25%) GitHub
7 127 (13.15%) Amazon S3
8 109 (11.28%) SaaS
9 80 (8.28%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
11 65 (6.73%) Amazon SQS
12 56 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 28 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
16 27 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (2.69%) Datadog
17 26 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.66%) Broadband
2 9 (0.93%) AMQP
3 8 (0.83%) Firewall
4 5 (0.52%) SSH
5 4 (0.41%) HTTP
6 3 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.31%) Internet
6 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.21%) DNS
7 2 (0.21%) DSL
7 2 (0.21%) Multicast
7 2 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) CTI
8 1 (0.10%) DMARC
8 1 (0.10%) MQTT
8 1 (0.10%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (14.70%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (13.87%) MongoDB
3 84 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 62 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 59 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (4.45%) MySQL
7 38 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
8 26 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.38%) Redis
10 17 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.83%) Neo4j
14 7 (0.72%) DB2
15 5 (0.52%) GIS
15 5 (0.52%) Power BI
16 4 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 123 (12.73%) Git
2 78 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.73%) GitLab
5 23 (2.38%) JIRA
6 18 (1.86%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.35%) Selenium
8 11 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.04%) Storybook
10 8 (0.83%) Vite
11 5 (0.52%) Maven
11 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.31%) Babel
12 3 (0.31%) ESLint
12 3 (0.31%) JUnit
12 3 (0.31%) rollup.js
13 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 183 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 126 (13.04%) Finance
3 53 (5.49%) Front Office
4 52 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.38%) Law
7 21 (2.17%) Retail
8 15 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.35%) Banking
10 11 (1.14%) Marketing
10 11 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.72%) Legal
11 7 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.62%) Advertising
12 6 (0.62%) Games
13 5 (0.52%) Electronics
14 4 (0.41%) Automotive
14 4 (0.41%) Local Government
14 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 513 (53.11%) Developer
2 244 (25.26%) Senior
3 226 (23.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 190 (19.67%) Software Engineer
5 159 (16.46%) Lead
6 114 (11.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 98 (10.14%) Senior Developer
8 90 (9.32%) Lead Developer
9 77 (7.97%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.52%) Java Developer
11 60 (6.21%) React Developer
12 59 (6.11%) Software Developer
13 58 (6.00%) Lead Software Developer
14 53 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 47 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
16 46 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 44 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 44 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 43 (4.45%) .NET Developer
19 42 (4.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 557 (57.66%) React
2 149 (15.42%) .NET
3 122 (12.63%) CSS
4 114 (11.80%) HTML
5 113 (11.70%) AngularJS
6 105 (10.87%) Vue
7 100 (10.35%) REST
8 84 (8.70%) RESTful
9 72 (7.45%) Redux
10 71 (7.35%) GraphQL
11 64 (6.63%) Kafka
12 61 (6.31%) .NET Core
13 58 (6.00%) ASP.NET
14 53 (5.49%) Next.js
15 50 (5.18%) Spring
16 48 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 48 (4.97%) NestJS
17 47 (4.87%) Spring Boot
18 43 (4.45%) Jest
19 42 (4.35%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.97%) Fixed Income
3 41 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.86%) IoT
10 17 (1.76%) Derivative
11 16 (1.66%) Equities
12 14 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.14%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
16 6 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
16 6 (0.62%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.62%) PropTech
17 5 (0.52%) Data Centre
17 5 (0.52%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.97%) Linux
2 30 (3.11%) Windows
3 21 (2.17%) Unix
4 8 (0.83%) Android
4 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.62%) CentOS
6 4 (0.41%) Debian
6 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.21%) Rocky
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (52.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 352 (36.44%) CI/CD
3 338 (34.99%) Software Engineering
4 315 (32.61%) Agile
5 260 (26.92%) Microservices
6 247 (25.57%) DevOps
7 191 (19.77%) Mentoring
8 149 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
9 148 (15.32%) AI
10 121 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (11.49%) Test Automation
13 101 (10.46%) Containerisation
14 98 (10.14%) Scrum
15 89 (9.21%) Computer Science
16 73 (7.56%) Technical Leadership
17 70 (7.25%) Observability
18 69 (7.14%) TDD
19 62 (6.42%) User Experience
20 59 (6.11%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 476 (49.28%) JavaScript
2 474 (49.07%) TypeScript
3 238 (24.64%) Python
4 220 (22.77%) Java
5 174 (18.01%) SQL
6 123 (12.73%) C#
7 63 (6.52%) Go
8 37 (3.83%) Ruby
9 36 (3.73%) Kotlin
10 32 (3.31%) PHP
11 25 (2.59%) Bash
12 16 (1.66%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.72%) Scala
14 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.52%) Rust
16 4 (0.41%) C
16 4 (0.41%) C++
17 3 (0.31%) Groovy
17 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
18 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 91 (9.42%) Degree
2 65 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.59%) Accessibility
1 25 (2.59%) QA
2 6 (0.62%) WCAG
3 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.41%) SLA
5 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 195 (20.19%) Docker
2 5 (0.52%) Firmware
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (15.53%) Terraform
2 134 (13.87%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.11%) Ansible
4 27 (2.80%) Argo
5 15 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.35%) Grafana
7 12 (1.24%) Podman
8 5 (0.52%) Nagios
8 5 (0.52%) Puppet
9 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.21%) Packer
11 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (7.35%) Microsoft
2 36 (3.73%) Google
3 13 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 12 (1.24%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 8 (0.83%) Adobe
8 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 6 (0.62%) Oracle
9 4 (0.41%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.41%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) Aderant
10 3 (0.31%) iManage
10 3 (0.31%) Intapp
10 3 (0.31%) Pega
10 3 (0.31%) SendGrid
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.31%) Splunk