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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -101 +12 -32
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 836 1,115 2,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.71% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 12.57% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 684 762 1,546
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,785 £42,249
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 £100,000 £91,805 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,479 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% - -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 8,247 8,867 19,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 21.52% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,042 6,643 15,460
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 30 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 30 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 -98 737 £75,000 +7.14% 326
UK excluding London -111 433 £68,479 +14.13% 217
Work from Home -80 344 £72,500 - 214
London -49 326 £92,500 +5.71% 141
North of England -37 169 £70,000 +3.70% 71
Midlands -5 84 £64,000 +2.40% 38
North West -33 84 £74,915 -0.11% 47
South East -123 79 £75,000 +36.36% 58
Yorkshire -24 78 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East Midlands -10 53 £65,000 - 12
South West -76 48 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -19 31 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -17 21 £82,500 - 1
East of England -74 15 £47,500 -17.39% 15
Wales -26 11 £74,830 +41.19% 8
Scotland -51 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -22 7 £52,500 -6.67% 8

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 (1.67%) CMS
1 14 (1.67%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.08%) Confluence
3 9 (1.08%) IIS
3 9 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.84%) nginx
5 6 (0.72%) Apache
5 6 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.48%) Appian
6 4 (0.48%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Strapi
Applications
1 13 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.36%) InVision
3 3 (0.36%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 482 (57.66%) AWS
2 210 (25.12%) Azure
3 181 (21.65%) Serverless
4 140 (16.75%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (16.27%) GCP
6 113 (13.52%) Amazon S3
7 104 (12.44%) GitHub
8 95 (11.36%) SaaS
9 71 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (6.22%) Amazon SQS
11 51 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (2.51%) Datadog
18 20 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 20 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.39%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.44%) AMQP
2 11 (1.32%) SSH
3 7 (0.84%) Broadband
4 4 (0.48%) HTTP
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) DSL
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (8.85%) MongoDB
3 72 (8.61%) NoSQL
4 52 (6.22%) DynamoDB
5 44 (5.26%) MySQL
6 34 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.07%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (2.39%) Redis
9 18 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.67%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.08%) DB2
14 5 (0.60%) Big Data
14 5 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.60%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.48%) GIS
Development Applications
1 119 (14.23%) Git
2 78 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.31%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.11%) JIRA
5 18 (2.15%) GitLab
6 15 (1.79%) Selenium
7 14 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.32%) Storybook
9 9 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.60%) Maven
11 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.48%) Babel
12 4 (0.48%) Mocha
12 4 (0.48%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.48%) Vite
13 3 (0.36%) ESLint
General
1 189 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.83%) Finance
3 52 (6.22%) Front Office
4 47 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.39%) Law
7 19 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.79%) Marketing
9 14 (1.67%) Banking
10 10 (1.20%) Retail
10 10 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.96%) Electronics
12 8 (0.96%) Legal
13 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.60%) Advertising
15 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.48%) Back Office
16 3 (0.36%) Games
16 3 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 430 (51.44%) Developer
2 185 (22.13%) Senior
3 179 (21.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 175 (20.93%) Software Engineer
5 143 (17.11%) Lead
6 99 (11.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 80 (9.57%) Senior Developer
8 71 (8.49%) Java Developer
9 68 (8.13%) Lead Developer
10 66 (7.89%) Node.js Developer
11 59 (7.06%) React Developer
12 47 (5.62%) Architect
13 46 (5.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 45 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
15 41 (4.90%) Lead Software Developer
16 40 (4.78%) Software Developer
17 38 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (4.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 33 (3.95%) AWS Developer
20 29 (3.47%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (59.69%) React
2 125 (14.95%) CSS
3 120 (14.35%) HTML
4 104 (12.44%) REST
5 100 (11.96%) .NET
6 96 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 93 (11.12%) Vue
8 84 (10.05%) RESTful
9 71 (8.49%) GraphQL
10 65 (7.78%) Redux
11 64 (7.66%) Kafka
12 58 (6.94%) Spring
13 50 (5.98%) Spring Boot
14 46 (5.50%) Next.js
15 43 (5.14%) NestJS
16 42 (5.02%) Jest
17 38 (4.55%) React Native
18 34 (4.07%) Django
19 31 (3.71%) .NET Core
20 26 (3.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 98 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.74%) Fixed Income
3 41 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.39%) IoT
8 18 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.03%) Derivative
10 16 (1.91%) Equities
11 6 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.60%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.60%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.60%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.48%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.48%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.90%) Linux
2 18 (2.15%) Windows
3 8 (0.96%) Android
3 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.84%) CentOS
4 7 (0.84%) Unix
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.60%) Debian
6 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (49.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 315 (37.68%) Software Engineering
3 308 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 284 (33.97%) Agile
5 196 (23.44%) DevOps
6 195 (23.33%) Microservices
7 178 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (18.66%) Mentoring
9 131 (15.67%) AI
10 115 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (11.24%) Computer Science
13 88 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 85 (10.17%) Test Automation
15 79 (9.45%) Scrum
16 76 (9.09%) User Experience
17 68 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
18 61 (7.30%) Front End Development
19 59 (7.06%) Clean Code
20 58 (6.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 455 (54.43%) JavaScript
2 405 (48.44%) TypeScript
3 239 (28.59%) Python
4 213 (25.48%) Java
5 124 (14.83%) SQL
6 65 (7.78%) C#
7 61 (7.30%) Go
8 33 (3.95%) PHP
9 32 (3.83%) Ruby
10 31 (3.71%) Kotlin
11 22 (2.63%) Bash
12 16 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.72%) C
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) ABAP
16 3 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.36%) C++
16 3 (0.36%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 94 (11.24%) Degree
2 63 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (5.98%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.87%) QA
3 9 (1.08%) GDPR
4 7 (0.84%) WCAG
5 5 (0.60%) PERC
6 4 (0.48%) SLA
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (18.66%) Docker
2 4 (0.48%) Firmware
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 134 (16.03%) Terraform
2 106 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.95%) Ansible
4 14 (1.67%) Argo
5 12 (1.44%) Grafana
6 11 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.72%) Podman
8 5 (0.60%) Nagios
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 35 (4.19%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.07%) Google
3 16 (1.91%) Atlassian
4 13 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.32%) SAP
6 9 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.84%) Adobe
8 7 (0.84%) Oracle
9 6 (0.72%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.72%) Pega
10 5 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.60%) WSO2
11 4 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.48%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.36%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.36%) iManage
12 3 (0.36%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.36%) Splunk