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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 182 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 -49 -16
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,180 859 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.74% 1.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.06% 10.05% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 941 516 888
10th Percentile £45,456 £46,330 £41,175
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,305 £60,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +15.51% +1.27% -8.85%

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 11,725 8,551 16,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 17.29% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,437 5,469 10,837
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,556
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -8 1,035 £75,000 -9.09% 850
UK excluding London +24 781 £69,305 +15.51% 376
Work from Home -6 606 £69,305 -22.99% 1,521
London -77 287 £85,000 -19.05% 521
North of England -29 262 £69,310 +2.68% 127
South East +73 233 £75,000 +30.43% 80
North West -59 121 £75,000 +7.14% 82
Midlands +34 104 £60,000 -4.00% 37
Yorkshire +12 81 £70,000 +3.70% 25
South West -29 69 £62,500 +8.70% 48
North East -8 60 £56,250 -10.00% 20
West Midlands +5 56 £60,000 -20.00% 31
Wales -28 53 £72,500 +20.94% 10
East of England 0 52 £60,000 +17.07% 39
East Midlands +11 48 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Scotland +13 8 £60,000 -50.00% 26

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 34 (2.88%) Confluence
2 20 (1.69%) CMS
3 19 (1.61%) Apache
4 15 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (1.10%) IIS
7 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.68%) WordPress
9 6 (0.51%) JBoss
10 5 (0.42%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.34%) nginx
12 3 (0.25%) DNN
12 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.25%) Kentico
12 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) SAS
12 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Blender
3 3 (0.25%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 652 (55.25%) AWS
2 425 (36.02%) Azure
3 230 (19.49%) GitHub
4 213 (18.05%) Serverless
5 168 (14.24%) SaaS
6 166 (14.07%) AWS Lambda
7 148 (12.54%) GCP
8 123 (10.42%) Amazon S3
9 114 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
10 109 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
11 95 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 88 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
13 75 (6.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 66 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
15 48 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 39 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
17 37 (3.14%) Datadog
18 34 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
19 33 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 29 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.12%) Broadband
2 16 (1.36%) Firewall
3 13 (1.10%) DMARC
3 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.85%) DNS
4 10 (0.85%) VPN
5 8 (0.68%) Internet
6 7 (0.59%) Wireshark
7 6 (0.51%) AMQP
7 6 (0.51%) BGP
7 6 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.51%) IPsec
7 6 (0.51%) VoIP
8 4 (0.34%) HTTP
8 4 (0.34%) LAN
8 4 (0.34%) WAN
9 2 (0.17%) MQTT
9 2 (0.17%) Network Security
9 2 (0.17%) VLAN
10 1 (0.085%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (21.69%) MongoDB
2 171 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
3 149 (12.63%) Elasticsearch
4 144 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 109 (9.24%) NoSQL
6 89 (7.54%) DynamoDB
7 61 (5.17%) Redis
8 58 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 53 (4.49%) MySQL
10 36 (3.05%) Relational Database
11 28 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 27 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (1.02%) Big Data
14 12 (1.02%) DTS
14 12 (1.02%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.93%) Db2
16 7 (0.59%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 138 (11.69%) Git
2 90 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.17%) GitLab
4 56 (4.75%) Cypress.io
5 38 (3.22%) JIRA
6 16 (1.36%) Selenium
7 15 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 12 (1.02%) JUnit
9 11 (0.93%) Vite
10 10 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.85%) Storybook
11 9 (0.76%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.76%) Postman
11 9 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.59%) Maven
12 7 (0.59%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.51%) Mocha
14 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 258 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 139 (11.78%) Finance
3 122 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 61 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (4.92%) Retail
6 34 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (2.12%) Marketing
8 20 (1.69%) Banking
9 19 (1.61%) Games
10 18 (1.53%) Law
11 11 (0.93%) Legal
11 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.85%) Advertising
13 9 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.76%) Military
13 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.59%) Automotive
14 7 (0.59%) Publishing
15 6 (0.51%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 566 (47.97%) Developer
2 299 (25.34%) Senior
3 221 (18.73%) Full-Stack Developer
4 215 (18.22%) Lead
5 180 (15.25%) Software Engineer
6 143 (12.12%) .NET Developer
7 106 (8.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 103 (8.73%) Software Developer
9 99 (8.39%) Senior Developer
10 87 (7.37%) Lead Developer
11 80 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 70 (5.93%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 66 (5.59%) Lead Software Developer
14 53 (4.49%) Node.js Developer
15 51 (4.32%) Architect
15 51 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 49 (4.15%) Software Manager
17 45 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
18 44 (3.73%) Development Manager
18 44 (3.73%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (45.25%) React
2 259 (21.95%) .NET
3 180 (15.25%) AngularJS
4 174 (14.75%) Terraform
5 163 (13.81%) ASP.NET
6 155 (13.14%) .NET Core
7 150 (12.71%) ASP.NET Core
8 145 (12.29%) CSS
9 140 (11.86%) Vue
10 131 (11.10%) HTML
11 119 (10.08%) REST
12 100 (8.47%) RESTful
12 100 (8.47%) Spring Boot
13 96 (8.14%) Spring
14 78 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web API
14 78 (6.61%) Next.js
15 71 (6.02%) Jest
16 67 (5.68%) NestJS
17 63 (5.34%) Blazor
18 62 (5.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 192 (16.27%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
4 45 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.61%) Mainframe
11 15 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.02%) PropTech
14 10 (0.85%) EPoS
14 10 (0.85%) iSeries
15 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.76%) IoT
16 8 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.08%) Linux
2 28 (2.37%) Windows
3 18 (1.53%) Unix
4 14 (1.19%) Debian
4 14 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.59%) CentOS
6 6 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.34%) AIX
7 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.25%) Android
8 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.085%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (50.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 526 (44.58%) CI/CD
3 506 (42.88%) Agile
4 428 (36.27%) Microservices
5 342 (28.98%) Software Engineering
6 330 (27.97%) DevOps
7 267 (22.63%) AI
8 247 (20.93%) Mentoring
9 191 (16.19%) Test Automation
10 170 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 156 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 156 (13.22%) Scrum
11 156 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
12 151 (12.80%) Event-Driven
13 150 (12.71%) Containerisation
13 150 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (11.10%) TDD
15 128 (10.85%) Observability
16 107 (9.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 106 (8.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.61%) TypeScript
2 516 (43.73%) JavaScript
3 329 (27.88%) SQL
4 257 (21.78%) C#
5 254 (21.53%) Python
6 241 (20.42%) Java
7 66 (5.59%) Ruby
8 42 (3.56%) PHP
9 38 (3.22%) Kotlin
10 32 (2.71%) Go
11 28 (2.37%) Bash
12 10 (0.85%) ABAP
12 10 (0.85%) C++
12 10 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 10 (0.85%) RPG
13 6 (0.51%) C
13 6 (0.51%) COBOL
14 4 (0.34%) Rust
14 4 (0.34%) Scala
14 4 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 93 (7.88%) Degree
3 71 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.25%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.25%) OCP
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.085%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.10%) QA
2 67 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 43 (3.64%) WCAG
4 21 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.02%) GDPR
5 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (0.51%) GRC
6 6 (0.51%) NCSC
6 6 (0.51%) NIST
7 5 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 283 (23.98%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (17.80%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.05%) Ansible
3 23 (1.95%) Grafana
4 19 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.53%) Argo
6 10 (0.85%) Podman
6 10 (0.85%) Puppet
7 7 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
9 4 (0.34%) linkerd
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.085%) Nagios
12 1 (0.085%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.085%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 206 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.15%) Google
3 36 (3.05%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.53%) SAP
5 16 (1.36%) IBM
5 16 (1.36%) Oracle
6 14 (1.19%) Adobe
7 13 (1.10%) SendGrid
8 12 (1.02%) OneLogin
9 10 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.76%) iManage
10 9 (0.76%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.59%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.51%) HP
12 6 (0.51%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.51%) Splunk
13 5 (0.42%) Databricks
14 4 (0.34%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.34%) New Relic