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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 161 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 -30 -19
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,215 984 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.99% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.68% 11.17% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 984 629 1,147
10th Percentile £45,137 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £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 10,402 8,812 17,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 17.83% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,708 5,809 12,650
10th Percentile £40,175 £38,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,796 £105,000
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 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 27 July 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 -10 1,084 £72,500 -3.33% 298
UK excluding London +18 772 £67,500 +12.50% 186
Work from Home -15 614 £67,500 -15.63% 153
London -41 346 £87,500 -14.63% 136
North of England -24 273 £69,310 -0.99% 57
South East +51 224 £73,750 +34.09% 62
North West -54 136 £70,000 -6.67% 34
Midlands +25 97 £60,000 -4.00% 28
Yorkshire +10 88 £70,000 +3.70% 13
South West -38 68 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East of England +3 51 £55,000 +57.14% 16
West Midlands -6 50 £60,000 - 19
North East -9 49 £53,565 -6.84% 10
Wales -15 49 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Midlands +11 47 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Scotland +13 10 £60,000 +6.67% 9

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 36 (2.96%) Confluence
2 23 (1.89%) CMS
3 16 (1.32%) Apache
3 16 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.15%) IIS
5 13 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.66%) JBoss
9 7 (0.58%) WordPress
10 6 (0.49%) nginx
11 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.33%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.25%) DNN
12 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.082%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 696 (57.28%) AWS
2 429 (35.31%) Azure
3 219 (18.02%) Serverless
4 202 (16.63%) GitHub
5 166 (13.66%) AWS Lambda
6 157 (12.92%) GCP
7 145 (11.93%) SaaS
8 127 (10.45%) Amazon S3
9 101 (8.31%) Amazon ECS
10 91 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
11 84 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
12 76 (6.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
14 65 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
17 33 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
18 32 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
19 28 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 27 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.22%) Broadband
2 16 (1.32%) Firewall
3 13 (1.07%) DMARC
3 13 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.82%) DNS
4 10 (0.82%) VPN
5 7 (0.58%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.58%) Internet
5 7 (0.58%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.49%) BGP
6 6 (0.49%) IPsec
6 6 (0.49%) VoIP
7 5 (0.41%) AMQP
8 4 (0.33%) LAN
8 4 (0.33%) WAN
9 3 (0.25%) HTTP
9 3 (0.25%) VLAN
10 2 (0.16%) MQTT
10 2 (0.16%) Multicast
10 2 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (20.91%) MongoDB
2 179 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
3 158 (13.00%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (8.64%) NoSQL
6 81 (6.67%) DynamoDB
7 68 (5.60%) MySQL
8 56 (4.61%) SQL Server
9 50 (4.12%) Redis
10 33 (2.72%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (1.07%) DTS
15 11 (0.91%) Db2
16 10 (0.82%) Big Data
16 10 (0.82%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 140 (11.52%) Git
2 87 (7.16%) Jenkins
3 54 (4.44%) GitLab
4 52 (4.28%) Cypress.io
5 45 (3.70%) JIRA
6 16 (1.32%) Selenium
7 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.82%) JUnit
10 9 (0.74%) Maven
10 9 (0.74%) Storybook
11 8 (0.66%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.58%) Postman
12 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.58%) Vite
13 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 243 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 172 (14.16%) Finance
3 115 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.44%) Front Office
5 51 (4.20%) Retail
6 50 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (2.30%) Law
9 23 (1.89%) Marketing
10 17 (1.40%) Legal
11 13 (1.07%) Games
12 12 (0.99%) Advertising
13 11 (0.91%) Banking
14 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.58%) Automotive
16 7 (0.58%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.58%) Military
17 6 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 623 (51.28%) Developer
2 285 (23.46%) Senior
3 230 (18.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 226 (18.60%) Lead
5 220 (18.11%) Software Engineer
6 147 (12.10%) .NET Developer
7 117 (9.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 101 (8.31%) Lead Developer
8 101 (8.31%) Senior Developer
9 79 (6.50%) Software Developer
10 76 (6.26%) Lead Software Developer
11 71 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 70 (5.76%) Lead Software Engineer
13 62 (5.10%) Node.js Developer
14 56 (4.61%) Architect
15 54 (4.44%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 48 (3.95%) React Developer
17 47 (3.87%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 46 (3.79%) Java Developer
19 45 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (49.30%) React
2 266 (21.89%) .NET
3 175 (14.40%) AngularJS
4 166 (13.66%) ASP.NET
5 162 (13.33%) .NET Core
6 154 (12.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 146 (12.02%) Vue
8 140 (11.52%) CSS
9 133 (10.95%) REST
10 126 (10.37%) HTML
11 97 (7.98%) RESTful
12 95 (7.82%) Spring Boot
13 89 (7.33%) Spring
14 85 (7.00%) Kafka
15 83 (6.83%) GraphQL
16 77 (6.34%) ASP.NET Web API
17 76 (6.26%) Next.js
18 70 (5.76%) Redux
19 64 (5.27%) .NET Framework
20 63 (5.19%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 180 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
4 50 (4.12%) Fixed Income
5 48 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 27 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.56%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.40%) Derivative
11 17 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.40%) Equities
12 16 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 12 (0.99%) PropTech
13 12 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.82%) EPoS
14 10 (0.82%) iSeries
15 9 (0.74%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.10%) Linux
2 31 (2.55%) Windows
3 18 (1.48%) Unix
4 9 (0.74%) Debian
4 9 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.49%) CentOS
6 4 (0.33%) AIX
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.16%) Rocky
8 1 (0.082%) Android
8 1 (0.082%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (51.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 527 (43.37%) Agile
3 486 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 417 (34.32%) Microservices
5 387 (31.85%) Software Engineering
6 307 (25.27%) DevOps
7 263 (21.65%) Mentoring
8 237 (19.51%) AI
9 175 (14.40%) Test Automation
10 169 (13.91%) Scrum
11 159 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 144 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 142 (11.69%) Containerisation
14 142 (11.69%) TDD
14 142 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (11.11%) Event-Driven
16 123 (10.12%) Observability
17 102 (8.40%) Kanban
18 94 (7.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 571 (47.00%) TypeScript
2 561 (46.17%) JavaScript
3 327 (26.91%) SQL
4 281 (23.13%) Python
5 267 (21.98%) Java
6 258 (21.23%) C#
7 60 (4.94%) Ruby
8 58 (4.77%) Go
9 51 (4.20%) PHP
10 31 (2.55%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.30%) Bash
12 12 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.82%) ABAP
13 10 (0.82%) C++
13 10 (0.82%) RPG
14 7 (0.58%) C
14 7 (0.58%) Scala
15 6 (0.49%) COBOL
16 5 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (7.74%) Degree
2 78 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 64 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 50 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.082%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.082%) HNC
12 1 (0.082%) HND
12 1 (0.082%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.61%) Accessibility
1 56 (4.61%) QA
2 35 (2.88%) WCAG
3 21 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.74%) GDPR
5 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.49%) NCSC
7 4 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 248 (20.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.33%) Firmware
3 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 180 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 164 (13.50%) Terraform
3 31 (2.55%) Ansible
4 20 (1.65%) Grafana
4 20 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.48%) Argo
6 12 (0.99%) Podman
7 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.49%) HP Fortify
7 6 (0.49%) Puppet
8 4 (0.33%) Istio
8 4 (0.33%) linkerd
9 3 (0.25%) Nagios
9 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.16%) Packer
10 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.082%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 199 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.79%) Google
3 24 (1.98%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.48%) SAP
5 17 (1.40%) Oracle
6 16 (1.32%) IBM
7 13 (1.07%) Adobe
7 13 (1.07%) SendGrid
8 12 (0.99%) iManage
9 11 (0.91%) OneLogin
10 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
11 8 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.58%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.58%) Splunk
13 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.49%) Databricks
13 6 (0.49%) HP
14 5 (0.41%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.33%) Genesys