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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 113 123
Rank change year-on-year -93 +10 -32
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 850 1,066 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 2.60% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.06% 12.21% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 698 747 1,559
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,733 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,245 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -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 8,446 8,734 19,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.31% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,187 6,602 15,515
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -94 748 £75,000 +7.14% 326
UK excluding London -106 452 £70,000 +16.67% 217
Work from Home -68 349 £74,830 +3.21% 214
London -41 322 £92,500 +5.71% 141
North of England -44 172 £70,000 +3.70% 71
Midlands -6 91 £64,000 +2.40% 38
North West -33 88 £75,000 - 47
South East -112 85 £75,000 +36.36% 58
Yorkshire -28 77 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East Midlands -11 57 £65,000 - 12
South West -80 47 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -17 34 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -18 21 £82,500 - 1
East of England -73 16 £46,250 -19.57% 15
Wales -25 14 £68,958 +22.05% 8
Scotland -45 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -31 7 £52,500 -6.67% 8

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 15 (1.76%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.65%) CMS
3 10 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.18%) Confluence
3 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.06%) IIS
5 7 (0.82%) nginx
6 6 (0.71%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) Appian
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.35%) InVision
3 3 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 487 (57.29%) AWS
2 211 (24.82%) Azure
3 187 (22.00%) Serverless
4 143 (16.82%) AWS Lambda
5 133 (15.65%) GCP
6 116 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 102 (12.00%) GitHub
8 98 (11.53%) SaaS
9 78 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
10 55 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (2.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 23 (2.71%) Datadog
17 21 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (2.24%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.41%) AMQP
2 10 (1.18%) SSH
3 6 (0.71%) Broadband
4 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) DSL
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 72 (8.47%) NoSQL
4 55 (6.47%) DynamoDB
5 42 (4.94%) MySQL
6 35 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 27 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.35%) Redis
10 16 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.65%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.18%) DB2
14 5 (0.59%) Big Data
14 5 (0.59%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.47%) Power BI
15 4 (0.47%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 113 (13.29%) Git
2 75 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.24%) Cypress.io
4 25 (2.94%) JIRA
5 17 (2.00%) Selenium
6 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
6 15 (1.76%) GitLab
7 12 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.29%) Storybook
9 9 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.59%) Maven
10 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.47%) Babel
11 4 (0.47%) rollup.js
11 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.47%) Vite
12 3 (0.35%) ESLint
12 3 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 183 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 126 (14.82%) Finance
3 52 (6.12%) Front Office
4 47 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.35%) Law
7 16 (1.88%) Banking
8 12 (1.41%) Marketing
9 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.18%) Retail
9 10 (1.18%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.94%) Electronics
10 8 (0.94%) Legal
11 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.71%) Advertising
13 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.47%) Back Office
13 4 (0.47%) Local Government
14 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 435 (51.18%) Developer
2 193 (22.71%) Senior
3 187 (22.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 182 (21.41%) Software Engineer
5 148 (17.41%) Lead
6 101 (11.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 85 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 72 (8.47%) Java Developer
8 72 (8.47%) Lead Developer
9 69 (8.12%) Node.js Developer
10 61 (7.18%) React Developer
11 48 (5.65%) Architect
12 46 (5.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 46 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
13 44 (5.18%) Lead Software Developer
14 42 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.94%) Software Developer
15 39 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 34 (4.00%) AWS Developer
17 33 (3.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (59.88%) React
2 123 (14.47%) CSS
3 118 (13.88%) HTML
4 101 (11.88%) .NET
5 99 (11.65%) REST
6 94 (11.06%) AngularJS
7 91 (10.71%) Vue
8 87 (10.24%) RESTful
9 67 (7.88%) GraphQL
9 67 (7.88%) Kafka
10 65 (7.65%) Redux
11 57 (6.71%) Spring
12 49 (5.76%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.41%) Next.js
14 44 (5.18%) NestJS
15 42 (4.94%) Jest
16 40 (4.71%) React Native
17 36 (4.24%) Django
18 31 (3.65%) .NET Core
19 28 (3.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.65%) Fixed Income
3 43 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 31 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.35%) IoT
7 19 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.00%) Derivative
9 16 (1.88%) Equities
10 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.59%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.59%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.59%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.00%) Linux
2 13 (1.53%) Windows
3 8 (0.94%) Android
3 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.82%) CentOS
5 6 (0.71%) Unix
6 5 (0.59%) Debian
6 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Rocky
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (49.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 319 (37.53%) Software Engineering
3 300 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 283 (33.29%) Agile
5 205 (24.12%) DevOps
6 201 (23.65%) Microservices
7 167 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (18.35%) Mentoring
9 128 (15.06%) AI
10 116 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 85 (10.00%) Test Automation
14 82 (9.65%) Containerisation
15 80 (9.41%) Scrum
16 73 (8.59%) User Experience
17 67 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (7.06%) Clean Code
19 59 (6.94%) Front End Development
20 57 (6.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 453 (53.29%) JavaScript
2 415 (48.82%) TypeScript
3 229 (26.94%) Python
4 212 (24.94%) Java
5 126 (14.82%) SQL
6 67 (7.88%) C#
7 61 (7.18%) Go
8 33 (3.88%) Kotlin
9 32 (3.76%) Ruby
10 28 (3.29%) PHP
11 22 (2.59%) Bash
12 16 (1.88%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.71%) C
15 4 (0.47%) Scala
16 3 (0.35%) ABAP
16 3 (0.35%) C++
16 3 (0.35%) Groovy
16 3 (0.35%) RPG
17 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (11.18%) Degree
2 63 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.35%) PhD
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.94%) QA
3 8 (0.94%) GDPR
4 7 (0.82%) WCAG
5 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.47%) PERC
5 4 (0.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (18.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.47%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 137 (16.12%) Terraform
2 111 (13.06%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.53%) Ansible
4 13 (1.53%) Argo
5 11 (1.29%) Grafana
5 11 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.71%) Podman
7 5 (0.59%) Nagios
7 5 (0.59%) Puppet
8 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.24%) Packer
10 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.76%) Google
3 14 (1.65%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.29%) Salesforce
4 11 (1.29%) SAP
5 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (0.82%) Adobe
7 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.82%) Pega
8 6 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.71%) WSO2
9 5 (0.59%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle
10 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.35%) Ericsson
11 3 (0.35%) IBM
11 3 (0.35%) Informatica
11 3 (0.35%) Nokia