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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 108 134
Rank change year-on-year -96 +26 -49
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 810 1,204 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 2.80% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.02% 12.75% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 667 779 1,510
10th Percentile £49,050 £38,147 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 8,086 9,446 18,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 21.97% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,917 6,672 15,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,050 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +10.08% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 17 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 17 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 -92 714 £77,070 +10.10% 472
UK excluding London -119 402 £67,500 +12.50% 335
Work from Home -77 344 £74,830 +3.21% 321
London -46 332 £95,000 +8.57% 197
North of England -36 159 £70,000 +3.70% 90
Midlands -13 80 £62,500 - 44
North West -30 77 £74,830 -0.23% 47
Yorkshire -14 75 £62,500 -7.41% 31
South East -133 67 £72,500 +31.82% 102
East Midlands -5 51 £64,500 -0.77% 17
South West -61 46 £62,500 +4.17% 41
West Midlands -14 29 £60,000 - 27
Northern Ireland -16 21 £82,500 +37.50% 3
East of England -71 13 £47,500 -17.39% 39
Wales -21 12 £71,894 +62.13% 9
Scotland -47 9 £67,500 +22.73% 11
North East -28 7 £50,000 -9.09% 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 14 (1.73%) CMS
1 14 (1.73%) OpenStack
2 11 (1.36%) Confluence
3 9 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.99%) IIS
5 7 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
7 4 (0.49%) Appian
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.37%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Strapi
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.37%) InVision
3 3 (0.37%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 464 (57.28%) AWS
2 199 (24.57%) Azure
3 174 (21.48%) Serverless
4 135 (16.67%) GCP
5 134 (16.54%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (13.21%) Amazon S3
7 105 (12.96%) GitHub
8 94 (11.60%) SaaS
9 65 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
11 46 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (2.84%) Figma
15 21 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.35%) Datadog
17 16 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.48%) AMQP
2 11 (1.36%) SSH
3 7 (0.86%) Broadband
4 4 (0.49%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) DSL
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) Multicast
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.51%) MongoDB
3 68 (8.40%) NoSQL
4 46 (5.68%) DynamoDB
5 42 (5.19%) MySQL
6 35 (4.32%) Relational Database
7 34 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (2.47%) Redis
10 16 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.73%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.23%) DB2
15 5 (0.62%) Big Data
15 5 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.62%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.49%) Power BI
16 4 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 118 (14.57%) Git
2 79 (9.75%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.32%) Cypress.io
4 28 (3.46%) JIRA
5 18 (2.22%) GitLab
6 15 (1.85%) CircleCI
6 15 (1.85%) Selenium
7 14 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.60%) Storybook
9 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.49%) Babel
12 4 (0.49%) Maven
12 4 (0.49%) Mocha
12 4 (0.49%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.49%) Vite
13 3 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 198 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 121 (14.94%) Finance
3 52 (6.42%) Front Office
4 45 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.35%) Law
8 16 (1.98%) Marketing
9 12 (1.48%) Banking
10 10 (1.23%) Retail
10 10 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.99%) Electronics
12 8 (0.99%) Legal
13 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.49%) Advertising
14 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.49%) Back Office
15 3 (0.37%) Games
16 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 413 (50.99%) Developer
2 177 (21.85%) Senior
3 169 (20.86%) Software Engineer
4 164 (20.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 137 (16.91%) Lead
6 97 (11.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 75 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 68 (8.40%) Java Developer
9 64 (7.90%) Lead Developer
10 60 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
11 58 (7.16%) React Developer
12 50 (6.17%) Architect
13 46 (5.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 43 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
15 40 (4.94%) Lead Software Developer
15 40 (4.94%) Software Developer
16 35 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 34 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
18 31 (3.83%) AWS Developer
19 25 (3.09%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (60.86%) React
2 124 (15.31%) CSS
3 120 (14.81%) HTML
4 104 (12.84%) REST
5 95 (11.73%) .NET
6 94 (11.60%) AngularJS
7 91 (11.23%) Vue
8 85 (10.49%) RESTful
9 73 (9.01%) GraphQL
10 64 (7.90%) Kafka
11 61 (7.53%) Redux
12 58 (7.16%) Spring
13 50 (6.17%) Spring Boot
14 49 (6.05%) Next.js
15 39 (4.81%) Jest
15 39 (4.81%) NestJS
16 34 (4.20%) React Native
17 33 (4.07%) Django
18 30 (3.70%) .NET Core
19 26 (3.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.93%) Fixed Income
3 40 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.72%) IoT
8 17 (2.10%) Derivative
8 17 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.98%) Equities
10 6 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.62%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.62%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.62%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.49%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.49%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.49%) Hackathon
12 4 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.81%) Linux
2 17 (2.10%) Windows
3 8 (0.99%) Android
3 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.86%) Unix
5 6 (0.74%) CentOS
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.62%) Debian
6 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (47.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 307 (37.90%) Software Engineering
3 304 (37.53%) CI/CD
4 283 (34.94%) Agile
5 187 (23.09%) Microservices
6 185 (22.84%) DevOps
7 179 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (19.01%) Mentoring
9 126 (15.56%) AI
10 112 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (11.48%) Computer Science
13 87 (10.74%) Containerisation
14 83 (10.25%) User Experience
15 80 (9.88%) Test Automation
16 78 (9.63%) Scrum
17 71 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (8.02%) Front End Development
19 61 (7.53%) Clean Code
20 58 (7.16%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 433 (53.46%) JavaScript
2 391 (48.27%) TypeScript
3 235 (29.01%) Python
4 207 (25.56%) Java
5 122 (15.06%) SQL
6 64 (7.90%) C#
7 62 (7.65%) Go
8 32 (3.95%) PHP
9 29 (3.58%) Ruby
10 25 (3.09%) Kotlin
11 19 (2.35%) Bash
12 15 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.74%) C
15 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.37%) ABAP
16 3 (0.37%) C++
16 3 (0.37%) RPG
16 3 (0.37%) Scala
17 2 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 93 (11.48%) Degree
2 62 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 39 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 14 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.37%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.32%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.96%) QA
3 9 (1.11%) GDPR
4 7 (0.86%) WCAG
5 5 (0.62%) PERC
6 4 (0.49%) SLA
7 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 148 (18.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.49%) Firmware
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 128 (15.80%) Terraform
2 104 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.95%) Ansible
4 14 (1.73%) Argo
5 12 (1.48%) Grafana
6 11 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.74%) Podman
8 5 (0.62%) Puppet
9 4 (0.49%) Nagios
10 3 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.25%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 34 (4.20%) Google
2 29 (3.58%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.73%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.36%) SAP
6 10 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle
8 7 (0.86%) Adobe
9 6 (0.74%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.74%) Pega
10 5 (0.62%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.62%) WSO2
11 4 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.49%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.37%) iManage
12 3 (0.37%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.37%) New Relic
12 3 (0.37%) Splunk