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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 165 129
Rank change year-on-year +1 -36 -19
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,218 992 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.23% 2.01% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.97% 11.04% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 997 639 1,450
10th Percentile £45,456 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -12.16%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £96,250
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 10,174 8,984 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.25% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,613 5,946 15,166
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 13 July 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 13 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 0 1,092 £75,000 - 309
UK excluding London +14 775 £67,500 +12.50% 185
Work from Home -8 599 £67,500 -15.63% 181
London -34 349 £90,000 -12.20% 173
North of England -29 273 £70,000 - 49
South East +49 215 £72,500 +31.82% 55
North West -49 136 £70,000 -6.67% 33
Midlands +30 106 £60,000 -4.00% 25
Yorkshire +11 91 £70,000 +3.70% 7
South West -43 73 £52,500 -12.50% 27
East Midlands +13 55 £64,500 -7.86% 10
West Midlands -2 51 £60,000 - 15
East of England -2 51 £55,000 +57.14% 10
North East -14 46 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Wales -16 43 £72,500 +5.84% 7
Scotland +5 10 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £68,750 - 6

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 35 (2.87%) Confluence
2 21 (1.72%) CMS
3 18 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.31%) Apache
5 13 (1.07%) IIS
6 12 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.66%) JBoss
9 6 (0.49%) nginx
9 6 (0.49%) WordPress
10 5 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.33%) SAS
12 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.25%) DNN
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.90%) 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 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 694 (56.98%) AWS
2 417 (34.24%) Azure
3 224 (18.39%) Serverless
4 198 (16.26%) GitHub
5 171 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
6 156 (12.81%) GCP
7 142 (11.66%) SaaS
8 134 (11.00%) Amazon S3
9 96 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
10 87 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 80 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 79 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
13 62 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
14 61 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 33 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
18 30 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 27 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.22%) Broadband
2 16 (1.31%) Firewall
3 13 (1.07%) DMARC
4 12 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.82%) DNS
6 8 (0.66%) AMQP
6 8 (0.66%) VPN
7 7 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.57%) Internet
8 6 (0.49%) BGP
8 6 (0.49%) IPsec
8 6 (0.49%) VoIP
8 6 (0.49%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) LAN
9 4 (0.33%) SSH
9 4 (0.33%) WAN
10 3 (0.25%) DSL
10 3 (0.25%) VLAN
11 2 (0.16%) MQTT
11 2 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (20.85%) MongoDB
2 171 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
3 160 (13.14%) Elasticsearch
4 148 (12.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 103 (8.46%) NoSQL
6 80 (6.57%) DynamoDB
7 72 (5.91%) MySQL
8 53 (4.35%) SQL Server
9 48 (3.94%) Redis
10 32 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 27 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (1.07%) DTS
16 12 (0.99%) Big Data
16 12 (0.99%) Hadoop
17 11 (0.90%) Db2
18 7 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 128 (10.51%) Git
2 86 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 50 (4.11%) Cypress.io
4 48 (3.94%) GitLab
5 44 (3.61%) JIRA
6 17 (1.40%) Selenium
7 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.66%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.66%) JUnit
10 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.49%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.49%) Postman
11 6 (0.49%) Vite
12 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.41%) Maven
12 5 (0.41%) Mocha
12 5 (0.41%) Storybook
13 4 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 233 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 171 (14.04%) Finance
3 110 (9.03%) Public Sector
4 54 (4.43%) Front Office
5 49 (4.02%) Retail
6 42 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (2.05%) Law
8 20 (1.64%) Marketing
9 16 (1.31%) Legal
10 13 (1.07%) Games
11 12 (0.99%) Advertising
12 10 (0.82%) Banking
13 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 8 (0.66%) Automotive
14 8 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.57%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 617 (50.66%) Developer
2 284 (23.32%) Senior
3 231 (18.97%) Software Engineer
4 227 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 225 (18.47%) Lead
6 147 (12.07%) .NET Developer
7 119 (9.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 99 (8.13%) Lead Developer
9 96 (7.88%) Senior Developer
10 79 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 75 (6.16%) Software Developer
12 73 (5.99%) Lead Software Developer
13 68 (5.58%) Lead Software Engineer
14 65 (5.34%) Node.js Developer
15 56 (4.60%) Architect
16 52 (4.27%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 51 (4.19%) Java Developer
18 49 (4.02%) React Developer
19 47 (3.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
20 46 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 611 (50.16%) React
2 261 (21.43%) .NET
3 173 (14.20%) AngularJS
4 164 (13.46%) ASP.NET
5 160 (13.14%) .NET Core
6 154 (12.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 147 (12.07%) Vue
8 136 (11.17%) CSS
9 134 (11.00%) REST
10 121 (9.93%) HTML
11 95 (7.80%) Spring Boot
12 92 (7.55%) RESTful
13 90 (7.39%) Spring
14 80 (6.57%) GraphQL
14 80 (6.57%) Kafka
15 76 (6.24%) ASP.NET Web API
16 69 (5.67%) Redux
17 67 (5.50%) Next.js
18 65 (5.34%) .NET Framework
19 62 (5.09%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 177 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
3 50 (4.11%) Fixed Income
4 46 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.48%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.40%) Derivative
10 17 (1.40%) Equities
11 15 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.23%) IoT
11 15 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.99%) PropTech
13 10 (0.82%) EPoS
13 10 (0.82%) iSeries
14 9 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.42%) Linux
2 33 (2.71%) Windows
3 20 (1.64%) Unix
4 11 (0.90%) Debian
4 11 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.66%) CentOS
6 6 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.33%) AIX
7 4 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.16%) Rocky
9 1 (0.082%) Android
9 1 (0.082%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (51.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 515 (42.28%) Agile
3 471 (38.67%) CI/CD
4 418 (34.32%) Microservices
5 390 (32.02%) Software Engineering
6 304 (24.96%) DevOps
7 255 (20.94%) Mentoring
8 204 (16.75%) AI
9 166 (13.63%) Scrum
9 166 (13.63%) Test Automation
10 157 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 146 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 144 (11.82%) Containerisation
13 138 (11.33%) TDD
14 132 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
15 124 (10.18%) Event-Driven
16 108 (8.87%) Observability
17 104 (8.54%) Kanban
18 89 (7.31%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 577 (47.37%) TypeScript
2 551 (45.24%) JavaScript
3 314 (25.78%) SQL
4 272 (22.33%) Python
5 271 (22.25%) Java
6 256 (21.02%) C#
7 59 (4.84%) Ruby
8 57 (4.68%) Go
9 53 (4.35%) PHP
10 33 (2.71%) Kotlin
11 31 (2.55%) Bash
12 15 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.82%) ABAP
13 10 (0.82%) RPG
14 9 (0.74%) C++
15 8 (0.66%) C
16 7 (0.57%) Scala
17 6 (0.49%) COBOL
18 5 (0.41%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 95 (7.80%) Degree
2 79 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 66 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 22 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.082%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.082%) HNC
13 1 (0.082%) HND
13 1 (0.082%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.27%) QA
2 47 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.30%) WCAG
4 20 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.66%) GDPR
6 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.49%) NCSC
7 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.082%) NIST
8 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 238 (19.54%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.33%) Firmware
3 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 171 (14.04%) Terraform
3 34 (2.79%) Ansible
4 19 (1.56%) Grafana
4 19 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.48%) Argo
6 12 (0.99%) Podman
7 8 (0.66%) Puppet
8 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.33%) Istio
9 4 (0.33%) linkerd
9 4 (0.33%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 194 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.02%) Google
3 18 (1.48%) OpenAI
3 18 (1.48%) SAP
4 17 (1.40%) Oracle
5 16 (1.31%) IBM
6 13 (1.07%) SendGrid
7 11 (0.90%) iManage
8 10 (0.82%) Adobe
8 10 (0.82%) OneLogin
9 9 (0.74%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.66%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.66%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.57%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.57%) Splunk
12 6 (0.49%) HP
12 6 (0.49%) SaltStack
13 5 (0.41%) Databricks
13 5 (0.41%) Salesforce