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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 109 128
Rank change year-on-year -102 +19 -41
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 706 1,325 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.73% 2.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.20% 12.30% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 591 783 1,461
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 £85,000
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 7,671 10,771 17,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.15% 22.20% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,639 6,632 14,356
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -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 21 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 21 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 -103 614 £75,000 - 379
UK excluding London -132 325 £65,000 +8.33% 272
London -52 307 £95,000 +8.57% 159
Work from Home -94 297 £74,830 -0.23% 260
North of England -44 134 £65,000 -3.70% 87
Yorkshire -15 70 £62,500 -7.41% 27
Midlands -21 67 £62,500 -3.85% 43
North West -36 55 £75,000 - 46
East Midlands -13 44 £63,250 -2.69% 13
South East -154 44 £65,000 +18.18% 75
South West -56 35 £62,500 - 35
West Midlands -32 23 £60,000 -4.00% 30
Northern Ireland -17 21 £82,500 +17.86% 2
Wales -12 12 £71,894 +62.13% 8
East of England -54 10 £55,000 -4.35% 18
North East -22 9 £50,000 -8.88% 14
Scotland -43 7 £74,830 +36.05% 6

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 18 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.98%) CMS
3 13 (1.84%) OpenStack
4 12 (1.70%) Confluence
5 7 (0.99%) nginx
5 7 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.85%) Apache
6 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.85%) IIS
7 5 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.57%) Appian
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.71%) InVision
2 5 (0.71%) Sketch
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.57%) Shopify
2 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 409 (57.93%) AWS
2 174 (24.65%) Azure
3 162 (22.95%) Serverless
4 125 (17.71%) GCP
5 124 (17.56%) AWS Lambda
6 107 (15.16%) GitHub
7 95 (13.46%) Amazon S3
8 72 (10.20%) SaaS
9 59 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.68%) Figma
15 19 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.69%) Datadog
16 18 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.70%) 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
1 107 (15.16%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (9.77%) MongoDB
3 59 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 44 (6.23%) DynamoDB
5 37 (5.24%) MySQL
6 34 (4.82%) Relational Database
7 31 (4.39%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.83%) Redis
11 15 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.56%) Apache Arrow
15 11 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (1.56%) DB2
15 11 (1.56%) Dremio
16 5 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (14.31%) Git
2 74 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.97%) JIRA
4 26 (3.68%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.69%) GitLab
6 17 (2.41%) Selenium
7 15 (2.12%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.70%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.70%) Storybook
10 10 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.71%) Maven
12 5 (0.71%) Mocha
13 4 (0.57%) Babel
13 4 (0.57%) rollup.js
13 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.57%) Vite
13 4 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 184 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.58%) Finance
3 41 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.24%) Front Office
6 20 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.12%) Marketing
7 15 (2.12%) Retail
8 12 (1.70%) Law
8 12 (1.70%) Tech for Good
9 11 (1.56%) Banking
10 9 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.99%) Legal
11 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.85%) Back Office
12 6 (0.85%) Electronics
13 4 (0.57%) Advertising
13 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.28%) Games
14 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 355 (50.28%) Developer
2 163 (23.09%) Senior
3 140 (19.83%) Software Engineer
4 131 (18.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 114 (16.15%) Lead
6 80 (11.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 62 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 59 (8.36%) Java Developer
9 49 (6.94%) Node.js Developer
10 48 (6.80%) Architect
11 44 (6.23%) React Developer
12 43 (6.09%) Lead Developer
13 40 (5.67%) AWS Developer
14 37 (5.24%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 33 (4.67%) Python Developer
17 32 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
18 30 (4.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 24 (3.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
20 23 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (62.61%) React
2 124 (17.56%) CSS
3 123 (17.42%) HTML
4 110 (15.58%) AngularJS
5 99 (14.02%) Vue
6 98 (13.88%) REST
7 76 (10.76%) RESTful
8 73 (10.34%) .NET
9 56 (7.93%) GraphQL
10 55 (7.79%) Spring
11 50 (7.08%) Kafka
12 47 (6.66%) Spring Boot
13 39 (5.52%) Next.js
14 36 (5.10%) Redux
15 35 (4.96%) Jest
16 34 (4.82%) React Native
17 30 (4.25%) Django
18 28 (3.97%) .NET Core
18 28 (3.97%) NestJS
19 27 (3.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.96%) Fixed Income
4 34 (4.82%) Mobile App
5 28 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.83%) IoT
9 19 (2.69%) Equities
10 14 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.13%) Derivative
12 8 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.57%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.57%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.24%) Linux
2 15 (2.12%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Android
3 9 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.13%) Unix
5 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.71%) CentOS
6 5 (0.71%) Debian
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (45.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 272 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 265 (37.54%) Agile
4 260 (36.83%) Software Engineering
5 183 (25.92%) Microservices
6 169 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (23.23%) DevOps
8 144 (20.40%) Mentoring
9 108 (15.30%) AI
10 93 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 85 (12.04%) User Experience
13 83 (11.76%) Computer Science
13 83 (11.76%) Containerisation
14 76 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (10.34%) Scrum
16 71 (10.06%) Test Automation
17 70 (9.92%) Front End Development
18 55 (7.79%) Clean Code
19 52 (7.37%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (54.25%) JavaScript
2 338 (47.88%) TypeScript
3 213 (30.17%) Python
4 180 (25.50%) Java
5 115 (16.29%) SQL
6 50 (7.08%) C#
7 42 (5.95%) Go
8 27 (3.82%) PHP
9 26 (3.68%) Ruby
10 20 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.55%) Bash
12 15 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.85%) C
15 3 (0.42%) ABAP
15 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.42%) C++
15 3 (0.42%) RPG
16 2 (0.28%) Groovy
16 2 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (11.76%) Degree
2 59 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 51 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.42%) PhD
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.68%) QA
3 11 (1.56%) GDPR
4 8 (1.13%) WCAG
5 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.71%) PERC
7 4 (0.57%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 129 (18.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) Firmware
2 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (17.14%) Terraform
2 102 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.39%) Ansible
4 15 (2.12%) Argo
5 10 (1.42%) Grafana
6 9 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.28%) Nagios
9 2 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (4.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.11%) Google
3 19 (2.69%) Atlassian
4 14 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.56%) SAP
7 9 (1.27%) Adobe
7 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.13%) Oracle
9 6 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.71%) Pega
10 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.57%) iManage
11 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.57%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.57%) WSO2
12 3 (0.42%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.42%) Splunk