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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 118 128
Rank change year-on-year -87 +10 -64
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 643 1,431 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.14% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.81% 10.56% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 536 808 1,140
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 7,301 13,553 14,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 20.24% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,204 8,120 11,562
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,956 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,289
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 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 18 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 18 November 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 -88 580 £80,000 +14.29% 787
Work from Home -59 344 £80,000 +6.45% 548
London -30 342 £100,000 +17.65% 469
UK excluding London -142 252 £60,000 - 374
North of England -21 102 £60,000 -7.69% 88
South East -88 60 £57,500 +15.00% 110
Yorkshire +5 49 £60,000 +9.09% 15
North West -8 48 £65,000 -7.14% 69
Midlands -29 29 £70,000 +7.69% 54
West Midlands +4 20 £77,500 +6.90% 33
South West -10 19 £60,000 - 41
Wales -18 14 £68,958 +55.51% 20
East of England -54 12 £55,000 +4.76% 38
Northern Ireland -14 10 £81,250 +1.56% 10
East Midlands -11 9 £62,500 +13.64% 20
North East -22 5 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Scotland -57 5 £80,000 +14.29% 22
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 58 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.95%) Confluence
3 9 (1.40%) CMS
4 8 (1.24%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.24%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
8 3 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (1.24%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.47%) InVision
3 3 (0.47%) Sketch
4 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.87%) Shopify
2 10 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (60.34%) AWS
2 185 (28.77%) Azure
3 141 (21.93%) GCP
4 88 (13.69%) Serverless
5 62 (9.64%) GitHub
6 59 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (9.02%) dbt
8 56 (8.71%) SaaS
9 36 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (4.04%) Figma
13 25 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.95%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.33%) Vercel
18 12 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
19 11 (1.71%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.09%) SSH
2 5 (0.78%) Broadband
3 4 (0.62%) AMQP
3 4 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.47%) DHCP
4 3 (0.47%) DNS
4 3 (0.47%) Firewall
4 3 (0.47%) STUN
4 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.47%) VLAN
4 3 (0.47%) VoIP
4 3 (0.47%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.31%) MQTT
5 2 (0.31%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.16%) HTTP
6 1 (0.16%) SMS
6 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (14.62%) MongoDB
3 55 (8.55%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (8.55%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (8.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 55 (8.55%) Dremio
4 54 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 38 (5.91%) MySQL
6 37 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (5.44%) SQL Server
8 29 (4.51%) Redis
9 25 (3.89%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (3.73%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.09%) DB2
13 5 (0.78%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.47%) Hazelcast
14 3 (0.47%) Power BI
14 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (14.93%) Git
2 45 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 37 (5.75%) JIRA
4 24 (3.73%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.27%) GitLab
6 17 (2.64%) TeamCity
7 14 (2.18%) Selenium
8 10 (1.56%) webpack
9 9 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.93%) Mocha
12 5 (0.78%) Postman
12 5 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.62%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.62%) Maven
13 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.47%) JMeter
General
1 189 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 171 (26.59%) Finance
3 83 (12.91%) Front Office
4 48 (7.47%) Law
5 39 (6.07%) Marketing
6 33 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.58%) Retail
10 21 (3.27%) Banking
11 17 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.49%) Legal
13 10 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.40%) Electronics
15 8 (1.24%) Back Office
16 4 (0.62%) Advertising
16 4 (0.62%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.62%) Publishing
17 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 358 (55.68%) Developer
2 158 (24.57%) Software Engineer
3 140 (21.77%) Senior
4 106 (16.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 95 (14.77%) Lead
6 90 (14.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 85 (13.22%) Senior Developer
8 64 (9.95%) AWS Engineer
9 63 (9.80%) Architect
10 61 (9.49%) AWS Developer
11 57 (8.86%) Python Developer
12 56 (8.71%) AWS Software Engineer
13 53 (8.24%) Python Engineer
14 52 (8.09%) Python Software Engineer
15 45 (7.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 40 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 40 (6.22%) Java Developer
16 40 (6.22%) Lead Developer
17 35 (5.44%) React Developer
18 34 (5.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (65.32%) React
2 150 (23.33%) AngularJS
3 128 (19.91%) Vue
4 123 (19.13%) CSS
5 119 (18.51%) HTML
6 85 (13.22%) RESTful
7 81 (12.60%) .NET
8 79 (12.29%) GraphQL
9 74 (11.51%) REST
10 55 (8.55%) Kafka
10 55 (8.55%) NumPy
10 55 (8.55%) Pandas
10 55 (8.55%) SciPy
11 49 (7.62%) Redux
12 42 (6.53%) Spring
13 41 (6.38%) React Native
14 40 (6.22%) ASP.NET
15 39 (6.07%) Next.js
16 37 (5.75%) .NET Core
17 32 (4.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 90 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 83 (12.91%) Fixed Income
3 59 (9.18%) Equities
3 59 (9.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (6.07%) Mobile App
5 29 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.58%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.71%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.24%) IoT
12 8 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.62%) Market Risk
14 4 (0.62%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.62%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.91%) Linux
2 18 (2.80%) Windows
3 10 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Unix
5 5 (0.78%) Android
5 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.31%) CentOS
7 2 (0.31%) Debian
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (54.12%) Agile
2 236 (36.70%) Software Engineering
3 233 (36.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 208 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 160 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (20.84%) DevOps
7 123 (19.13%) Microservices
8 120 (18.66%) User Experience
9 106 (16.49%) Mentoring
10 104 (16.17%) AI
11 86 (13.37%) Fintech
12 84 (13.06%) Investment Management
13 80 (12.44%) Test Automation
14 79 (12.29%) Order Management
15 75 (11.66%) Front End Development
15 75 (11.66%) Scrum
16 74 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
17 71 (11.04%) Computer Science
17 71 (11.04%) Containerisation
18 66 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 385 (59.88%) JavaScript
2 350 (54.43%) TypeScript
3 212 (32.97%) Python
4 159 (24.73%) Java
5 126 (19.60%) SQL
6 61 (9.49%) C#
7 47 (7.31%) Go
8 24 (3.73%) PHP
9 18 (2.80%) Ruby
10 12 (1.87%) Bash
11 11 (1.71%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.62%) C
13 4 (0.62%) C++
13 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.62%) R
14 3 (0.47%) ABAP
14 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.47%) Groovy
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
Qualifications
1 67 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 61 (9.49%) Degree
3 46 (7.15%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.47%) CCNP
8 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) MCP
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.18%) QA
2 40 (6.22%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.49%) GDPR
4 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.78%) PERC
5 5 (0.78%) WCAG
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (13.22%) Docker
2 7 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.09%) vSphere
3 4 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.95%) Terraform
3 25 (3.89%) Ansible
4 15 (2.33%) Grafana
5 14 (2.18%) Argo
6 12 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) logstash
8 1 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.89%) Google
3 14 (2.18%) OpenAI
3 14 (2.18%) SAP
4 13 (2.02%) Oracle
5 12 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.24%) Apple
8 7 (1.09%) VMware
9 6 (0.93%) Adobe
9 6 (0.93%) iManage
9 6 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.78%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.78%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.78%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.62%) PayPal
11 4 (0.62%) Pega
11 4 (0.62%) Sage
11 4 (0.62%) WSO2