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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 103 131
Rank change year-on-year -104 +28 -42
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 772 1,254 1,881
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.86% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.85% 12.81% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 646 801 1,518
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £97,500
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 7,834 9,786 18,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 22.28% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,728 6,714 15,131
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -98 678 £77,500 +10.71% 590
UK excluding London -128 376 £67,500 +12.50% 457
London -51 325 £95,000 +8.57% 134
Work from Home -84 321 £75,000 +3.45% 365
North of England -38 154 £70,000 +3.70% 105
Yorkshire -23 75 £62,500 -7.41% 42
Midlands -27 75 £64,000 +2.40% 76
North West -33 71 £75,000 +3.45% 52
South East -136 61 £70,000 +27.27% 133
East Midlands -9 47 £65,000 - 35
South West -71 40 £62,500 +4.17% 57
West Midlands -33 28 £60,000 - 40
Northern Ireland -13 21 £82,500 +37.50% 6
Wales -17 12 £71,894 +62.13% 15
East of England -58 11 £46,250 -19.57% 60
North East -28 8 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Scotland -49 7 £74,830 +36.05% 12

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 13 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 12 (1.55%) CMS
3 11 (1.42%) Confluence
4 9 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.91%) IIS
6 7 (0.91%) nginx
7 6 (0.78%) Apache
7 6 (0.78%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.52%) Appian
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.26%) JBoss
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Moodle
12 1 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.13%) Strapi
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.39%) InVision
3 3 (0.39%) Sketch
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.52%) Shopify
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 440 (56.99%) AWS
2 182 (23.58%) Azure
3 169 (21.89%) Serverless
4 130 (16.84%) AWS Lambda
5 129 (16.71%) GCP
6 105 (13.60%) GitHub
7 103 (13.34%) Amazon S3
8 91 (11.79%) SaaS
9 63 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
11 46 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (3.11%) Figma
16 22 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (2.46%) Datadog
19 17 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
20 15 (1.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) AMQP
2 11 (1.42%) SSH
3 4 (0.52%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) DSL
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) CTI
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) MQTT
5 1 (0.13%) Multicast
5 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (8.68%) MongoDB
3 58 (7.51%) NoSQL
4 45 (5.83%) DynamoDB
5 41 (5.31%) MySQL
6 34 (4.40%) Relational Database
7 30 (3.89%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.46%) Redis
10 15 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.30%) DB2
14 8 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.65%) Big Data
15 5 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.65%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.52%) Pinecone
16 4 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 112 (14.51%) Git
2 78 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.63%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.37%) JIRA
5 18 (2.33%) GitLab
6 15 (1.94%) Selenium
7 14 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.68%) Storybook
9 10 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.52%) Babel
12 4 (0.52%) Maven
12 4 (0.52%) Mocha
12 4 (0.52%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.52%) Vite
13 3 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 187 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.28%) Finance
3 53 (6.87%) Front Office
4 42 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 20 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (2.20%) Law
7 16 (2.07%) Marketing
8 12 (1.55%) Banking
9 11 (1.42%) Retail
10 10 (1.30%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.04%) Legal
13 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.78%) Electronics
15 4 (0.52%) Advertising
15 4 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.52%) Back Office
16 2 (0.26%) Games
16 2 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 398 (51.55%) Developer
2 175 (22.67%) Senior
3 165 (21.37%) Software Engineer
4 155 (20.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 136 (17.62%) Lead
6 90 (11.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 75 (9.72%) Senior Developer
8 67 (8.68%) Java Developer
9 63 (8.16%) Lead Developer
10 58 (7.51%) Node.js Developer
11 56 (7.25%) React Developer
12 50 (6.48%) Architect
13 48 (6.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 43 (5.57%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (5.18%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (5.18%) Software Developer
16 33 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
17 32 (4.15%) AWS Developer
17 32 (4.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 26 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (61.79%) React
2 124 (16.06%) CSS
3 121 (15.67%) HTML
4 98 (12.69%) AngularJS
4 98 (12.69%) REST
5 91 (11.79%) Vue
6 86 (11.14%) .NET
7 81 (10.49%) RESTful
8 74 (9.59%) GraphQL
9 64 (8.29%) Kafka
10 59 (7.64%) Redux
11 57 (7.38%) Spring
12 49 (6.35%) Spring Boot
13 48 (6.22%) Next.js
14 41 (5.31%) NestJS
15 37 (4.79%) Jest
16 31 (4.02%) Django
16 31 (4.02%) React Native
17 24 (3.11%) .NET Core
17 24 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.48%) Fixed Income
3 37 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.63%) Mobile App
4 28 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.59%) IoT
8 18 (2.33%) Equities
9 17 (2.20%) Derivative
10 15 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.52%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.52%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.92%) Linux
2 16 (2.07%) Windows
3 8 (1.04%) Android
3 8 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.91%) Unix
5 6 (0.78%) CentOS
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.65%) Debian
6 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (46.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 299 (38.73%) Software Engineering
3 286 (37.05%) CI/CD
4 269 (34.84%) Agile
5 178 (23.06%) Microservices
6 174 (22.54%) DevOps
7 169 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
8 151 (19.56%) Mentoring
9 118 (15.28%) AI
10 97 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (11.66%) Computer Science
13 83 (10.75%) User Experience
14 79 (10.23%) Containerisation
15 74 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (9.46%) Test Automation
17 68 (8.81%) Scrum
18 65 (8.42%) Front End Development
19 56 (7.25%) Clean Code
20 55 (7.12%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 417 (54.02%) JavaScript
2 375 (48.58%) TypeScript
3 227 (29.40%) Python
4 205 (26.55%) Java
5 115 (14.90%) SQL
6 60 (7.77%) Go
7 55 (7.12%) C#
8 29 (3.76%) PHP
8 29 (3.76%) Ruby
9 25 (3.24%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.46%) Bash
11 14 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.78%) C
14 4 (0.52%) C++
15 3 (0.39%) ABAP
15 3 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.39%) RPG
16 2 (0.26%) Groovy
16 2 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (11.66%) Degree
2 59 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.57%) SC Cleared
5 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.39%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.40%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.98%) QA
3 8 (1.04%) GDPR
4 7 (0.91%) WCAG
5 5 (0.65%) PERC
6 4 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 136 (17.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (16.06%) Terraform
2 100 (12.95%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.02%) Ansible
4 14 (1.81%) Argo
5 10 (1.30%) Grafana
5 10 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.65%) Puppet
7 4 (0.52%) Nagios
8 3 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (3.76%) Google
2 21 (2.72%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.42%) SAP
6 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.04%) Oracle
8 7 (0.91%) Adobe
8 7 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.65%) Pega
9 5 (0.65%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.52%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.52%) WSO2
11 3 (0.39%) iManage
11 3 (0.39%) Mavenir
11 3 (0.39%) New Relic
11 3 (0.39%) Splunk