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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 123 129
Rank change year-on-year -81 +6 -68
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 686 1,402 1,389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.07% 2.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.08% 10.22% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 520 802 1,177
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £86,250 £91,934
90th Percentile £137,500 £108,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 7,552 13,720 14,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 20.27% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,061 8,264 11,738
10th Percentile £36,625 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,973 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £109,625 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -

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 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 18 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 6 November 2025. 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 -77 639 £80,000 +14.29% 1,220
Work from Home -57 415 £85,000 +13.33% 724
London -14 345 £100,000 +17.65% 707
UK excluding London -120 292 £60,000 +4.35% 835
North of England -6 159 £60,000 -7.69% 141
North West +34 106 £65,000 -7.14% 102
South East -93 64 £57,500 +21.05% 465
Yorkshire +2 48 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Midlands -32 23 £68,665 +5.64% 54
South West -10 19 £62,500 +4.17% 39
West Midlands +5 18 £77,500 +3.33% 33
East of England -47 11 £55,000 - 48
Wales -24 9 £68,500 +54.47% 23
East Midlands -14 5 £52,500 - 21
North East -24 5 £65,000 -13.33% 14
Northern Ireland -23 3 £74,830 -6.46% 12
Scotland -58 3 £74,830 +6.90% 41
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 65 (9.48%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.62%) Confluence
3 9 (1.31%) CMS
4 8 (1.17%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.02%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.73%) nginx
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.44%) InVision
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Sketch
3 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (1.75%) Shopify
2 10 (1.46%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 453 (66.03%) AWS
2 238 (34.69%) Azure
3 207 (30.17%) GCP
4 86 (12.54%) Serverless
5 66 (9.62%) dbt
6 58 (8.45%) GitHub
7 55 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (7.87%) SaaS
9 35 (5.10%) Amazon S3
10 33 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (3.50%) Figma
14 22 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.48%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.19%) Vercel
18 12 (1.75%) npm
19 11 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
19 11 (1.60%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.02%) Broadband
2 5 (0.73%) SSH
3 4 (0.58%) Internet
3 4 (0.58%) MQTT
4 3 (0.44%) DHCP
4 3 (0.44%) DNS
4 3 (0.44%) Firewall
4 3 (0.44%) SMS
4 3 (0.44%) STUN
4 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.44%) VLAN
4 3 (0.44%) VoIP
4 3 (0.44%) VoLTE
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (20.99%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (13.99%) MongoDB
3 65 (9.48%) Amazon Athena
3 65 (9.48%) Apache Arrow
3 65 (9.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 65 (9.48%) Dremio
4 58 (8.45%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.12%) MySQL
6 38 (5.54%) SQL Server
7 37 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (4.66%) Redis
9 27 (3.94%) DynamoDB
10 24 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (3.35%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.73%) DB2
14 4 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.44%) Hazelcast
15 3 (0.44%) Metadata
15 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 94 (13.70%) Git
2 43 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.10%) JIRA
4 22 (3.21%) Cypress.io
5 21 (3.06%) GitLab
6 17 (2.48%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.75%) Selenium
8 11 (1.60%) webpack
9 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.87%) Mocha
11 5 (0.73%) Postman
11 5 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.58%) gulp
12 4 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 185 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 178 (25.95%) Finance
3 95 (13.85%) Front Office
4 92 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (6.85%) Law
6 39 (5.69%) Marketing
7 35 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 24 (3.50%) Retail
10 21 (3.06%) Banking
11 16 (2.33%) Legal
12 14 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.17%) Back Office
15 6 (0.87%) Electronics
16 5 (0.73%) Advertising
16 5 (0.73%) Games
17 4 (0.58%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.58%) Publishing
18 3 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 361 (52.62%) Developer
2 232 (33.82%) Software Engineer
3 201 (29.30%) Senior
4 105 (15.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 102 (14.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 87 (12.68%) Lead
7 86 (12.54%) Senior Developer
8 80 (11.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 75 (10.93%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (10.20%) AWS Developer
11 67 (9.77%) AWS Software Engineer
12 62 (9.04%) Python Developer
13 58 (8.45%) Python Engineer
14 57 (8.31%) Python Software Engineer
15 53 (7.73%) Architect
16 47 (6.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (5.98%) Java Developer
18 40 (5.83%) Lead Developer
19 39 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 37 (5.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (59.91%) React
2 156 (22.74%) AngularJS
3 150 (21.87%) .NET
4 134 (19.53%) Vue
5 117 (17.06%) CSS
6 111 (16.18%) HTML
7 83 (12.10%) GraphQL
7 83 (12.10%) RESTful
8 74 (10.79%) REST
9 65 (9.48%) NumPy
9 65 (9.48%) Pandas
9 65 (9.48%) SciPy
10 54 (7.87%) Redux
11 53 (7.73%) Kafka
12 44 (6.41%) React Native
13 42 (6.12%) ASP.NET
14 41 (5.98%) Next.js
15 39 (5.69%) Spring
16 38 (5.54%) .NET Core
17 32 (4.66%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.85%) Fixed Income
2 83 (12.10%) Cloud Native
3 76 (11.08%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (10.35%) Equities
4 71 (10.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 64 (9.33%) Linux Command Line
6 63 (9.18%) Cyberattack
7 40 (5.83%) Mobile App
8 23 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.35%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.60%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.31%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.87%) IoT
15 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.58%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 102 (14.87%) Linux
2 19 (2.77%) Windows
3 10 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.87%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) Android
5 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (60.50%) Agile
2 299 (43.59%) Software Engineering
3 218 (31.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 199 (29.01%) CI/CD
5 180 (26.24%) User Experience
6 176 (25.66%) Microservices
7 161 (23.47%) Mentoring
8 158 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (19.97%) Scrum
10 127 (18.51%) DevOps
11 110 (16.03%) Machine Learning
12 99 (14.43%) Fintech
13 98 (14.29%) Investment Management
14 94 (13.70%) AI
15 89 (12.97%) Order Management
16 82 (11.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 78 (11.37%) Asset Management
18 76 (11.08%) Test Automation
19 75 (10.93%) Front End Development
20 71 (10.35%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 447 (65.16%) JavaScript
2 360 (52.48%) TypeScript
3 265 (38.63%) Python
4 216 (31.49%) Java
5 127 (18.51%) SQL
6 105 (15.31%) Go
7 68 (9.91%) C++
8 66 (9.62%) C#
9 63 (9.18%) Rust
10 23 (3.35%) PHP
11 14 (2.04%) Ruby
12 12 (1.75%) Bash
12 12 (1.75%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.87%) R
14 5 (0.73%) Groovy
14 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.44%) ABAP
15 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.29%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.24%) DV Cleared
3 68 (9.91%) AWS Certification
4 65 (9.48%) AWS Certified Developer
5 63 (9.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 54 (7.87%) Degree
7 45 (6.56%) SC Cleared
8 32 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.44%) CCNP
11 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) MCP
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.16%) QA
2 38 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.19%) GDPR
4 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.73%) WCAG
6 4 (0.58%) PERC
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (11.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.02%) vSphere
4 3 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) KVM
5 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.60%) Terraform
3 23 (3.35%) Ansible
4 18 (2.62%) Grafana
5 15 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.17%) Argo
7 2 (0.29%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.29%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) logstash
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.50%) Google
3 16 (2.33%) Oracle
4 13 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.60%) SAP
6 10 (1.46%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.17%) Apple
8 8 (1.17%) VMware
9 6 (0.87%) iManage
9 6 (0.87%) Sage
10 5 (0.73%) Adobe
10 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.73%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.58%) Gigya
11 4 (0.58%) PayPal
11 4 (0.58%) Pega
11 4 (0.58%) WSO2
12 3 (0.44%) Ping Identity
12 3 (0.44%) Sonatype