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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 110 129
Rank change year-on-year -104 +19 -41
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 703 1,343 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 2.74% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 12.30% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 591 783 1,467
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,594 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £84,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 7,600 10,919 17,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.27% 22.28% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,595 6,564 14,333
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 February 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 February 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 -102 607 £75,000 - 377
UK excluding London -134 314 £65,000 +8.33% 267
London -62 310 £95,000 +8.57% 161
Work from Home -85 304 £74,830 -0.23% 279
North of England -37 128 £62,500 -7.41% 86
Midlands -20 66 £63,250 -2.69% 46
Yorkshire -27 64 £62,500 -7.41% 26
North West -25 56 £74,830 -0.23% 47
East Midlands -2 43 £64,000 -1.54% 16
South East -132 41 £65,000 +18.18% 64
South West -59 33 £62,500 - 35
West Midlands -22 23 £60,000 -9.43% 30
Northern Ireland -14 21 £82,500 +17.86% 3
Wales -15 12 £71,894 +62.13% 9
East of England -51 11 £55,000 -2.22% 17
North East -17 8 £50,000 -8.88% 13
Scotland -58 7 £74,830 +36.05% 7

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 21 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.28%) CMS
3 13 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 12 (1.71%) Confluence
5 8 (1.14%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.00%) nginx
6 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.85%) Apache
7 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.85%) IIS
8 4 (0.57%) Appian
9 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.71%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.71%) InVision
3 5 (0.71%) Sketch
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.57%) Shopify
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 411 (58.46%) AWS
2 178 (25.32%) Azure
3 157 (22.33%) Serverless
4 125 (17.78%) GCP
5 122 (17.35%) AWS Lambda
6 109 (15.50%) GitHub
7 91 (12.94%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.96%) SaaS
9 56 (7.97%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (6.26%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (3.56%) Figma
16 19 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (2.56%) Datadog
17 18 (2.56%) dbt
18 14 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.71%) AMQP
2 11 (1.56%) SSH
3 4 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.28%) Broadband
4 2 (0.28%) DSL
4 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.14%) CTI
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.14%) Internet
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 60 (8.53%) NoSQL
4 41 (5.83%) DynamoDB
5 38 (5.41%) MySQL
6 35 (4.98%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (4.41%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.99%) Redis
11 16 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.99%) Apache Arrow
13 14 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
13 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.99%) Dremio
14 12 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.56%) DB2
16 5 (0.71%) Big Data
16 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 103 (14.65%) Git
2 73 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.13%) JIRA
4 24 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 17 (2.42%) GitLab
6 15 (2.13%) Selenium
7 14 (1.99%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.71%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.56%) Storybook
11 10 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.71%) Mocha
14 4 (0.57%) Babel
14 4 (0.57%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.57%) Vite
14 4 (0.57%) webpack
15 3 (0.43%) ESLint
15 3 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 182 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 116 (16.50%) Finance
3 40 (5.69%) Front Office
4 39 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.28%) Marketing
8 15 (2.13%) Retail
9 13 (1.85%) Tech for Good
10 11 (1.56%) Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Law
11 9 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.00%) Back Office
12 7 (1.00%) Legal
12 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.85%) Electronics
14 4 (0.57%) Advertising
14 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.28%) Games
15 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 357 (50.78%) Developer
2 163 (23.19%) Senior
3 141 (20.06%) Software Engineer
4 128 (18.21%) Full-Stack Developer
5 113 (16.07%) Lead
6 78 (11.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 63 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 56 (7.97%) Java Developer
9 49 (6.97%) Node.js Developer
10 48 (6.83%) Architect
11 45 (6.40%) React Developer
12 42 (5.97%) Lead Developer
13 41 (5.83%) AWS Developer
14 38 (5.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 37 (5.26%) Python Developer
16 36 (5.12%) Software Developer
17 32 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 29 (4.13%) Backend Developer
19 28 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
20 26 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (63.44%) React
2 124 (17.64%) CSS
3 123 (17.50%) HTML
4 114 (16.22%) AngularJS
5 105 (14.94%) Vue
6 94 (13.37%) REST
7 78 (11.10%) RESTful
8 75 (10.67%) .NET
9 56 (7.97%) GraphQL
10 55 (7.82%) Spring
11 50 (7.11%) Kafka
12 45 (6.40%) Spring Boot
13 39 (5.55%) Next.js
14 36 (5.12%) Redux
15 32 (4.55%) Jest
15 32 (4.55%) React Native
16 31 (4.41%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.41%) Django
17 28 (3.98%) Web Services
18 26 (3.70%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 32 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.13%) Equities
7 20 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.84%) IoT
8 17 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.14%) Derivative
12 6 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.57%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.69%) Linux
2 18 (2.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Android
3 9 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.14%) Unix
5 5 (0.71%) CentOS
5 5 (0.71%) Debian
5 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (45.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 278 (39.54%) CI/CD
3 274 (38.98%) Agile
4 262 (37.27%) Software Engineering
5 183 (26.03%) Microservices
6 174 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (23.19%) DevOps
8 140 (19.91%) Mentoring
9 113 (16.07%) AI
10 94 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (12.66%) User Experience
12 88 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 84 (11.95%) Containerisation
14 83 (11.81%) Computer Science
15 77 (10.95%) Scrum
16 76 (10.81%) Test Automation
17 75 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (10.24%) Front End Development
19 56 (7.97%) Kanban
20 55 (7.82%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 382 (54.34%) JavaScript
2 342 (48.65%) TypeScript
3 222 (31.58%) Python
4 180 (25.60%) Java
5 118 (16.79%) SQL
6 52 (7.40%) C#
7 42 (5.97%) Go
8 29 (4.13%) PHP
9 27 (3.84%) Ruby
10 17 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 16 (2.28%) Bash
12 15 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.85%) C
15 3 (0.43%) ABAP
15 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.43%) C++
15 3 (0.43%) RPG
16 2 (0.28%) R
17 1 (0.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 83 (11.81%) Degree
2 64 (9.10%) Security Cleared
3 51 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.43%) PhD
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.55%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.84%) QA
3 12 (1.71%) GDPR
4 9 (1.28%) WCAG
5 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.71%) PERC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 128 (18.21%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 117 (16.64%) Terraform
2 100 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.84%) Ansible
4 15 (2.13%) Argo
5 11 (1.56%) Grafana
6 8 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.28%) Nagios
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 38 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.98%) Google
3 20 (2.84%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.56%) SAP
7 9 (1.28%) Adobe
7 9 (1.28%) Oracle
7 9 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.71%) Pega
9 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.57%) iManage
10 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.57%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.57%) WSO2
11 3 (0.43%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.43%) New Relic
11 3 (0.43%) Workday