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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 124 125
Rank change year-on-year -81 +1 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 879 1,016 2,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.45% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.18% 11.76% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 712 740 1,569
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,710 £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 £93,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -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 8,633 8,640 20,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.07% 20.83% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 6,529 15,739
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,454 £45,500
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 £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 16 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 16 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 -81 775 £77,500 +10.71% 299
UK excluding London -87 475 £70,000 +12.00% 201
Work from Home -64 360 £72,500 - 196
London -38 323 £92,500 +5.71% 130
North of England -40 177 £71,250 +1.79% 63
Midlands -4 97 £64,000 +2.40% 34
South East -97 93 £77,500 +40.91% 55
North West -34 91 £75,000 - 42
Yorkshire -27 77 £70,000 +3.70% 8
East Midlands -10 62 £67,000 +3.08% 17
South West -88 50 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands -16 35 £60,000 - 17
Northern Ireland -24 19 £90,000 - 2
East of England -58 19 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Wales -26 14 £68,958 +2.16% 4
Scotland -43 11 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North East -35 9 £55,000 -2.22% 13

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 14 (1.59%) CMS
2 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.25%) Confluence
2 11 (1.25%) IIS
2 11 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.80%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) nginx
6 4 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.46%) Appian
6 4 (0.46%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.59%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.34%) InVision
3 3 (0.34%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 499 (56.77%) AWS
2 204 (23.21%) Azure
3 193 (21.96%) Serverless
4 152 (17.29%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (15.47%) GCP
6 122 (13.88%) Amazon S3
7 106 (12.06%) GitHub
8 102 (11.60%) SaaS
9 78 (8.87%) Amazon ECS
10 62 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
11 58 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 24 (2.73%) Datadog
17 21 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.28%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.48%) AMQP
2 12 (1.37%) Broadband
3 8 (0.91%) SSH
4 4 (0.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) DSL
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) Multicast
5 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.11%) CTI
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (9.67%) MongoDB
3 81 (9.22%) NoSQL
4 60 (6.83%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.66%) MySQL
6 32 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.28%) Redis
10 18 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.59%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.02%) DB2
15 6 (0.68%) Big Data
15 6 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (0.68%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.57%) Power BI
17 4 (0.46%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 115 (13.08%) Git
2 70 (7.96%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.89%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.73%) JIRA
5 18 (2.05%) CircleCI
5 18 (2.05%) GitLab
6 16 (1.82%) Selenium
7 14 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.14%) Storybook
10 8 (0.91%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.68%) Maven
12 5 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.46%) Babel
13 4 (0.46%) rollup.js
13 4 (0.46%) Vite
14 3 (0.34%) ESLint
14 3 (0.34%) Mocha
14 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 128 (14.56%) Finance
3 52 (5.92%) Front Office
4 48 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.50%) Law
7 15 (1.71%) Banking
7 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.25%) Marketing
9 10 (1.14%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.02%) Retail
11 8 (0.91%) Legal
12 7 (0.80%) Electronics
13 6 (0.68%) Advertising
13 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.46%) Back Office
15 4 (0.46%) Local Government
16 3 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 446 (50.74%) Developer
2 207 (23.55%) Senior
3 197 (22.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 192 (21.84%) Software Engineer
5 150 (17.06%) Lead
6 111 (12.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 88 (10.01%) Senior Developer
8 76 (8.65%) Lead Developer
9 73 (8.30%) Node.js Developer
10 64 (7.28%) Java Developer
11 62 (7.05%) React Developer
12 47 (5.35%) Lead Software Developer
12 47 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
12 47 (5.35%) Software Developer
13 46 (5.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 46 (5.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 44 (5.01%) Architect
15 42 (4.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 36 (4.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 35 (3.98%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (59.84%) React
2 123 (13.99%) CSS
3 117 (13.31%) HTML
4 103 (11.72%) .NET
5 94 (10.69%) REST
6 91 (10.35%) Vue
7 89 (10.13%) AngularJS
8 88 (10.01%) RESTful
9 69 (7.85%) GraphQL
10 68 (7.74%) Kafka
11 67 (7.62%) Redux
12 53 (6.03%) Spring
13 47 (5.35%) Next.js
14 46 (5.23%) NestJS
15 45 (5.12%) Spring Boot
16 43 (4.89%) Jest
17 39 (4.44%) React Native
18 32 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails
19 29 (3.30%) .NET Core
19 29 (3.30%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.46%) Fixed Income
3 44 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 31 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.16%) IoT
8 18 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.93%) Derivative
10 16 (1.82%) Equities
11 9 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.80%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.68%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.57%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.57%) Mobile Payment
15 4 (0.46%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.55%) Linux
2 16 (1.82%) Windows
3 10 (1.14%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
4 8 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.91%) CentOS
5 6 (0.68%) Debian
5 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Rocky
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (50.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 334 (38.00%) Software Engineering
3 315 (35.84%) CI/CD
4 278 (31.63%) Agile
5 211 (24.00%) DevOps
6 203 (23.09%) Microservices
7 165 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (18.66%) Mentoring
9 130 (14.79%) AI
10 121 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (10.69%) Computer Science
12 94 (10.69%) Containerisation
13 91 (10.35%) Test Automation
14 81 (9.22%) Scrum
15 70 (7.96%) User Experience
16 67 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
17 61 (6.94%) Clean Code
18 59 (6.71%) Observability
19 56 (6.37%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 458 (52.10%) JavaScript
2 434 (49.37%) TypeScript
3 226 (25.71%) Python
4 210 (23.89%) Java
5 128 (14.56%) SQL
6 72 (8.19%) C#
7 61 (6.94%) Go
8 37 (4.21%) Ruby
9 33 (3.75%) Kotlin
10 29 (3.30%) PHP
11 21 (2.39%) Bash
12 15 (1.71%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.68%) C
15 4 (0.46%) Scala
16 3 (0.34%) ABAP
16 3 (0.34%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Groovy
17 2 (0.23%) RPG
17 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (10.81%) Degree
2 65 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (4.89%) Security Cleared
4 37 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.62%) QA
3 7 (0.80%) GDPR
3 7 (0.80%) WCAG
4 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.46%) SLA
5 3 (0.34%) PERC
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 167 (19.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.46%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 143 (16.27%) Terraform
2 114 (12.97%) Kubernetes
3 28 (3.19%) Ansible
4 17 (1.93%) Argo
5 12 (1.37%) Grafana
5 12 (1.37%) Podman
5 12 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.80%) Puppet
7 5 (0.57%) Nagios
8 4 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Packer
10 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (4.44%) Google
2 32 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.48%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.25%) Red Hat
4 11 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.14%) SAP
6 8 (0.91%) Adobe
7 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.68%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.46%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.46%) Oracle
10 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.34%) Ericsson
11 3 (0.34%) iManage
11 3 (0.34%) Informatica
11 3 (0.34%) Mavenir
11 3 (0.34%) Nokia