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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 186 142
Rank change year-on-year -8 -44 -25
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,178 846 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.72% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.87% 10.05% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 936 511 861
10th Percentile £45,228 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,875 £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 £92,813 £110,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -11.54%

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 11,933 8,419 16,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 17.07% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,480 5,373 10,217
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 28 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 28 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 -16 1,034 £72,500 -14.71% 832
UK excluding London +20 774 £67,500 +12.50% 424
Work from Home -6 601 £69,305 -24.05% 418
London -77 294 £84,500 -19.52% 463
North of England -27 263 £68,403 +1.34% 143
South East +61 231 £75,000 +30.43% 74
North West -75 120 £75,000 +7.14% 92
Midlands +32 97 £60,000 -20.00% 52
Yorkshire +9 75 £69,310 +15.52% 35
South West -34 69 £64,250 +11.74% 46
North East -7 68 £56,250 -13.46% 16
Wales -15 55 £72,250 +37.62% 8
West Midlands +5 53 £60,000 -20.00% 33
East of England 0 53 £60,000 +17.07% 43
East Midlands +3 44 £65,000 +13.04% 19
Scotland +10 6 £60,000 -50.00% 30

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 (2.97%) Confluence
2 24 (2.04%) CMS
3 21 (1.78%) Apache
4 15 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.93%) IIS
6 9 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.59%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.59%) WordPress
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
8 5 (0.42%) nginx
8 5 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) DNN
9 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.25%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.25%) Kentico
9 3 (0.25%) SAS
9 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.25%) Sitefinity
9 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.02%) 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 7 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 635 (53.90%) AWS
2 430 (36.50%) Azure
3 235 (19.95%) GitHub
4 215 (18.25%) Serverless
5 172 (14.60%) SaaS
6 160 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
7 143 (12.14%) GCP
8 118 (10.02%) Amazon S3
9 111 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
9 111 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
10 90 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 84 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
12 78 (6.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 70 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
14 46 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
15 36 (3.06%) Datadog
16 35 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 31 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
18 28 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.78%) Broadband
2 16 (1.36%) Firewall
3 15 (1.27%) DMARC
3 15 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.93%) Internet
5 10 (0.85%) VPN
6 9 (0.76%) DNS
7 8 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.59%) AMQP
9 6 (0.51%) BGP
9 6 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.51%) IPsec
9 6 (0.51%) VoIP
10 4 (0.34%) HTTP
10 4 (0.34%) LAN
10 4 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.17%) MQTT
11 2 (0.17%) Network Security
12 1 (0.085%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.085%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (21.90%) MongoDB
2 179 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (12.56%) Elasticsearch
4 143 (12.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 100 (8.49%) NoSQL
6 81 (6.88%) DynamoDB
7 67 (5.69%) Redis
8 61 (5.18%) SQL Server
9 54 (4.58%) MySQL
10 43 (3.65%) Relational Database
11 26 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (1.10%) Big Data
14 13 (1.10%) Hadoop
15 12 (1.02%) DTS
16 11 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.93%) Db2
17 9 (0.76%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 152 (12.90%) Git
2 91 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.43%) GitLab
4 52 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 40 (3.40%) JIRA
6 16 (1.36%) Vite
7 15 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.27%) Selenium
8 12 (1.02%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.02%) JUnit
8 12 (1.02%) Storybook
9 9 (0.76%) Postman
10 8 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.59%) Mocha
11 7 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.51%) Maven
13 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 270 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 143 (12.14%) Finance
3 126 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 63 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.75%) Retail
6 37 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (2.29%) Marketing
8 20 (1.70%) Banking
9 19 (1.61%) Games
10 17 (1.44%) Law
11 11 (0.93%) Legal
11 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.85%) Military
13 9 (0.76%) Advertising
13 9 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.59%) Automotive
14 7 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 558 (47.37%) Developer
2 291 (24.70%) Senior
3 214 (18.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 213 (18.08%) Lead
5 190 (16.13%) Software Engineer
6 142 (12.05%) .NET Developer
7 107 (9.08%) Software Developer
8 103 (8.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 90 (7.64%) Senior Developer
10 85 (7.22%) Lead Developer
11 81 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 68 (5.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 67 (5.69%) Lead Software Developer
14 51 (4.33%) Software Manager
15 49 (4.16%) Architect
15 49 (4.16%) Node.js Developer
15 49 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 48 (4.07%) Development Manager
16 48 (4.07%) Software Development Manager
17 43 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (45.25%) React
2 261 (22.16%) .NET
3 181 (15.37%) AngularJS
4 172 (14.60%) Terraform
5 160 (13.58%) ASP.NET
6 154 (13.07%) .NET Core
7 149 (12.65%) CSS
8 148 (12.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 139 (11.80%) Vue
10 137 (11.63%) REST
11 136 (11.54%) HTML
12 107 (9.08%) RESTful
13 106 (9.00%) Spring Boot
14 102 (8.66%) Spring
15 85 (7.22%) Next.js
16 78 (6.62%) ASP.NET Web API
16 78 (6.62%) NestJS
17 72 (6.11%) Jest
18 68 (5.77%) Kafka
19 63 (5.35%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 200 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 43 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 42 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 21 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.61%) Mainframe
11 16 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.02%) IoT
13 12 (1.02%) PropTech
14 10 (0.85%) EPoS
14 10 (0.85%) iSeries
15 9 (0.76%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.18%) Linux
2 28 (2.38%) Windows
3 19 (1.61%) Unix
4 15 (1.27%) Debian
4 15 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.59%) CentOS
5 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) AIX
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.25%) Android
7 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (49.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 543 (46.10%) CI/CD
3 509 (43.21%) Agile
4 429 (36.42%) Microservices
5 353 (29.97%) Software Engineering
6 331 (28.10%) DevOps
7 279 (23.68%) AI
8 247 (20.97%) Mentoring
9 208 (17.66%) Test Automation
10 175 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
11 160 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
12 157 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 155 (13.16%) Event-Driven
14 154 (13.07%) Scrum
15 151 (12.82%) Containerisation
16 131 (11.12%) Observability
17 129 (10.95%) TDD
18 114 (9.68%) Code Quality
19 108 (9.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 550 (46.69%) TypeScript
2 506 (42.95%) JavaScript
3 330 (28.01%) SQL
4 266 (22.58%) C#
5 264 (22.41%) Python
6 241 (20.46%) Java
7 62 (5.26%) Ruby
8 44 (3.74%) PHP
9 39 (3.31%) Go
10 33 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 26 (2.21%) Bash
12 12 (1.02%) C++
13 10 (0.85%) ABAP
13 10 (0.85%) RPG
14 9 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.51%) C
15 6 (0.51%) COBOL
16 4 (0.34%) Bicep
16 4 (0.34%) Rust
16 4 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 95 (8.06%) Degree
3 78 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.93%) 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%) 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%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.085%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.88%) QA
2 69 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.74%) WCAG
4 22 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.10%) GDPR
5 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.59%) GRC
7 6 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.51%) NCSC
7 6 (0.51%) NIST
8 5 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 287 (24.36%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 215 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.06%) Ansible
3 22 (1.87%) Grafana
4 19 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.53%) Argo
6 11 (0.93%) Puppet
7 7 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.51%) Podman
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
9 4 (0.34%) linkerd
10 3 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 216 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.90%) Google
3 37 (3.14%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.53%) SAP
5 16 (1.36%) IBM
5 16 (1.36%) Oracle
6 15 (1.27%) Adobe
6 15 (1.27%) SendGrid
7 12 (1.02%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.76%) iManage
9 9 (0.76%) Sitecore
10 7 (0.59%) SaltStack
10 7 (0.59%) Splunk
11 6 (0.51%) Confluent
11 6 (0.51%) HP
11 6 (0.51%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.51%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.42%) Databricks