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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 129 123
Rank change year-on-year -52 -6 -73
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 826 1,396 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.98% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.81% 9.85% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 503 843 1,307
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £100,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 7,639 14,170 15,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.62% 20.10% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,831 8,721 12,431
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £50,861
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -40 783 £85,000 +25.93% 430
Work from Home -25 585 £90,000 +30.91% 347
UK excluding London -70 417 £60,000 +4.35% 334
London +20 361 £105,000 +27.27% 177
North of England +21 264 £65,000 - 102
North West +61 220 £65,000 -7.14% 64
South East -91 78 £57,500 +27.78% 127
Yorkshire -8 38 £60,000 +9.09% 26
East of England -36 26 £55,000 +15.79% 17
South West -10 20 £57,500 -4.17% 24
Midlands -49 15 £68,665 +14.44% 37
West Midlands -14 11 £74,915 +1.58% 27
Wales -22 8 £51,949 +17.15% 14
North East -15 6 £66,250 -11.67% 12
East Midlands -21 4 £57,500 +27.78% 9
Scotland -62 3 £74,830 +9.44% 6
Northern Ireland -16 2 £72,415 -9.48% 7
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 80 (9.69%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.30%) Confluence
3 15 (1.82%) CMS
4 13 (1.57%) Headless CMS
5 8 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.85%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.61%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Apache
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Solana
Applications
1 11 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.24%) InVision
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.57%) Shopify
2 11 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 616 (74.58%) AWS
2 390 (47.22%) Azure
3 338 (40.92%) GCP
4 80 (9.69%) dbt
5 78 (9.44%) Serverless
6 56 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (6.30%) GitHub
8 43 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.96%) SaaS
10 27 (3.27%) Figma
11 26 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 25 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.06%) Power Platform
15 16 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (1.69%) Vercel
17 13 (1.57%) npm
18 10 (1.21%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) Broadband
2 4 (0.48%) Internet
2 4 (0.48%) MQTT
3 3 (0.36%) DHCP
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 3 (0.36%) SMS
3 3 (0.36%) SSH
3 3 (0.36%) STUN
3 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.36%) VLAN
3 3 (0.36%) VoIP
3 3 (0.36%) VoLTE
3 3 (0.36%) VPN
3 3 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (19.73%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (12.11%) MongoDB
3 80 (9.69%) Amazon Athena
3 80 (9.69%) Apache Arrow
3 80 (9.69%) Apache Iceberg
3 80 (9.69%) Dremio
4 76 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
5 62 (7.51%) NoSQL
6 46 (5.57%) MySQL
7 40 (4.84%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.12%) Redis
9 24 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.18%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.61%) Metadata
14 4 (0.48%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.36%) Hazelcast
15 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (11.74%) Git
2 42 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.24%) JIRA
4 21 (2.54%) GitLab
5 20 (2.42%) Cypress.io
6 15 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.57%) webpack
8 11 (1.33%) Selenium
9 7 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.73%) gulp
10 6 (0.73%) Postman
11 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.61%) Mocha
11 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.61%) Storybook
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 239 (28.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 193 (23.37%) Finance
3 165 (19.98%) Social Skills
4 113 (13.68%) Front Office
5 70 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (6.17%) Law
7 41 (4.96%) Marketing
8 27 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.15%) Retail
10 23 (2.78%) Banking
11 15 (1.82%) Legal
12 12 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.85%) Back Office
14 6 (0.73%) Games
14 6 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.61%) Electronics
16 4 (0.48%) Advertising
16 4 (0.48%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 430 (52.06%) Developer
2 351 (42.49%) Software Engineer
3 316 (38.26%) Senior
4 194 (23.49%) Senior Software Engineer
5 120 (14.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 111 (13.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 92 (11.14%) AWS Engineer
8 90 (10.90%) Senior Developer
9 87 (10.53%) AWS Software Engineer
10 86 (10.41%) AWS Developer
11 75 (9.08%) Lead
12 71 (8.60%) Python Developer
13 70 (8.47%) Software Developer
14 67 (8.11%) Python Engineer
15 66 (7.99%) Python Software Engineer
16 50 (6.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (5.21%) React Developer
18 42 (5.08%) Java Developer
18 42 (5.08%) Lead Developer
19 40 (4.84%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (49.64%) React
2 301 (36.44%) .NET
3 171 (20.70%) AngularJS
4 151 (18.28%) Vue
5 119 (14.41%) Pandas
6 109 (13.20%) CSS
7 105 (12.71%) HTML
8 84 (10.17%) GraphQL
9 81 (9.81%) RESTful
10 80 (9.69%) NumPy
10 80 (9.69%) SciPy
11 77 (9.32%) REST
12 61 (7.38%) Redux
13 48 (5.81%) Kafka
14 46 (5.57%) React Native
15 43 (5.21%) ASP.NET
16 41 (4.96%) Next.js
17 37 (4.48%) .NET Core
18 36 (4.36%) Express.js
18 36 (4.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 217 (26.27%) Cyberattack
2 187 (22.64%) Self-Motivation
3 179 (21.67%) Linux Command Line
4 113 (13.68%) Fixed Income
5 89 (10.77%) Equities
5 89 (10.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 70 (8.47%) Cloud Native
7 43 (5.21%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.97%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.48%) IoT
14 4 (0.48%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 254 (30.75%) Linux
2 42 (5.08%) Android
3 19 (2.30%) Windows
4 10 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (69.49%) Agile
2 457 (55.33%) Software Engineering
3 297 (35.96%) User Experience
4 284 (34.38%) Microservices
5 268 (32.45%) Mentoring
6 243 (29.42%) Scrum
7 224 (27.12%) Machine Learning
8 221 (26.76%) CI/CD
9 211 (25.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 196 (23.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 190 (23.00%) Cloud Security
12 181 (21.91%) Data Engineering
13 148 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (14.89%) DevOps
15 120 (14.53%) Investment Management
16 115 (13.92%) Fintech
17 105 (12.71%) Order Management
18 99 (11.99%) Containerisation
19 96 (11.62%) Asset Management
20 88 (10.65%) AI
Programming Languages
1 612 (74.09%) JavaScript
2 424 (51.33%) Python
3 372 (45.04%) TypeScript
4 358 (43.34%) Java
5 256 (30.99%) Go
6 222 (26.88%) C++
7 217 (26.27%) Rust
8 130 (15.74%) SQL
9 69 (8.35%) C#
10 22 (2.66%) PHP
11 13 (1.57%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.33%) Bash
13 10 (1.21%) Ruby
14 9 (1.09%) R
15 5 (0.61%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.12%) RPG
17 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 281 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 237 (28.69%) DV Cleared
3 182 (22.03%) AWS Certification
4 180 (21.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 178 (21.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 48 (5.81%) Degree
7 43 (5.21%) SC Cleared
8 28 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.36%) CCNP
11 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.12%) MCP
12 1 (0.12%) PhD
12 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.90%) QA
2 36 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.57%) GDPR
4 11 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.61%) WCAG
7 3 (0.36%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) PERC
8 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (14.53%) Docker
2 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.85%) vSphere
4 3 (0.36%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
5 2 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 115 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 82 (9.93%) Terraform
3 56 (6.78%) Ansible
4 14 (1.69%) Grafana
5 13 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.24%) CFEngine
7 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) logstash
8 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.91%) Google
3 18 (2.18%) Oracle
4 13 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 10 (1.21%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.09%) VMware
7 8 (0.97%) Apple
8 7 (0.85%) Ping Identity
8 7 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.73%) iManage
9 6 (0.73%) Sage
9 6 (0.73%) SAP
10 4 (0.48%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.48%) Gigya
10 4 (0.48%) PayPal
10 4 (0.48%) Pega
10 4 (0.48%) WSO2
11 3 (0.36%) Adobe
11 3 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.36%) Sonatype