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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 146 127
Rank change year-on-year -50 -19 -40
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 978 985 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.30% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.63% 11.84% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 785 645 1,579
10th Percentile £48,115 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £104,500 £118,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% +4.17% -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 9,203 8,319 20,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 19.40% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,785 5,628 15,807
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,235 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +10.39% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -54 882 £75,000 +3.45% 294
UK excluding London -42 570 £69,310 +10.90% 197
Work from Home -21 446 £70,000 -3.45% 190
London -25 318 £90,000 -1.37% 120
North of England -50 223 £70,000 -3.45% 72
South East -14 138 £75,000 +36.36% 56
North West -63 107 £75,000 - 42
Midlands +19 98 £61,250 +2.08% 25
Yorkshire +1 88 £70,000 - 21
East Midlands +21 61 £67,000 -4.29% 14
South West -80 57 £56,250 -6.25% 18
West Midlands -28 37 £60,000 - 11
East of England -21 31 £47,500 -13.64% 17
North East -23 28 £52,000 -9.57% 9
Wales -32 14 £72,500 +41.06% 4
Scotland -13 7 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2

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 17 (1.74%) CMS
2 14 (1.43%) Confluence
2 14 (1.43%) IIS
3 13 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 12 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
5 11 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.72%) JBoss
7 5 (0.51%) nginx
7 5 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.41%) WordPress
9 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Appian
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.10%) Blender
4 1 (0.10%) InVision
4 1 (0.10%) Maya
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 573 (58.59%) AWS
2 262 (26.79%) Azure
3 204 (20.86%) Serverless
4 159 (16.26%) AWS Lambda
5 137 (14.01%) Amazon S3
6 136 (13.91%) GCP
7 127 (12.99%) GitHub
8 108 (11.04%) SaaS
9 90 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
10 71 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
11 66 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 57 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 31 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
18 26 (2.66%) Datadog
19 25 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.04%) Broadband
2 13 (1.33%) Firewall
3 10 (1.02%) AMQP
4 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.41%) HTTP
5 4 (0.41%) SSH
6 3 (0.31%) DMARC
6 3 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.31%) Internet
6 3 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.20%) DNS
7 2 (0.20%) DSL
7 2 (0.20%) Multicast
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.10%) CTI
8 1 (0.10%) VoIP
8 1 (0.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 94 (9.61%) NoSQL
4 70 (7.16%) DynamoDB
5 58 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
6 52 (5.32%) MySQL
7 43 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 28 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (2.66%) Relational Database
11 23 (2.35%) Redis
12 19 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.82%) Neo4j
15 8 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (0.61%) DB2
16 6 (0.61%) GIS
17 5 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 125 (12.78%) Git
2 82 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 46 (4.70%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.68%) GitLab
5 23 (2.35%) JIRA
6 16 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.12%) Selenium
8 10 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.02%) Storybook
9 9 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.82%) Vite
11 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.51%) Maven
13 3 (0.31%) ESLint
13 3 (0.31%) JUnit
13 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.31%) Yeoman
14 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.20%) Mocha
14 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 118 (12.07%) Finance
3 68 (6.95%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.42%) Front Office
5 46 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.45%) Retail
7 23 (2.35%) Law
8 19 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.12%) Banking
9 11 (1.12%) Tech for Good
10 10 (1.02%) Marketing
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.82%) Advertising
13 6 (0.61%) Games
14 5 (0.51%) Automotive
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.41%) Electronics
15 4 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 507 (51.84%) Developer
2 252 (25.77%) Senior
3 220 (22.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 208 (21.27%) Software Engineer
5 171 (17.48%) Lead
6 113 (11.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 97 (9.92%) Senior Developer
8 91 (9.30%) Lead Developer
9 72 (7.36%) Node.js Developer
10 64 (6.54%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.24%) Lead Software Engineer
12 60 (6.13%) Software Developer
13 59 (6.03%) Lead Software Developer
13 59 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 57 (5.83%) React Developer
15 48 (4.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 46 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 43 (4.40%) .NET Developer
18 42 (4.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (4.19%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (55.73%) React
2 146 (14.93%) .NET
3 116 (11.86%) AngularJS
4 115 (11.76%) CSS
5 108 (11.04%) REST
6 106 (10.84%) HTML
7 95 (9.71%) Vue
8 91 (9.30%) RESTful
9 71 (7.26%) GraphQL
9 71 (7.26%) Redux
10 65 (6.65%) Kafka
11 61 (6.24%) .NET Core
12 58 (5.93%) ASP.NET
13 55 (5.62%) Spring
14 53 (5.42%) Next.js
14 53 (5.42%) Spring Boot
15 48 (4.91%) ASP.NET Core
16 47 (4.81%) NestJS
17 46 (4.70%) Jest
18 43 (4.40%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 117 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.91%) Fixed Income
3 39 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
5 35 (3.58%) Mobile App
6 32 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.74%) Derivative
9 17 (1.74%) IoT
10 16 (1.64%) Equities
11 14 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.33%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.82%) PropTech
15 5 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.51%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
15 5 (0.51%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.21%) Linux
2 33 (3.37%) Windows
3 19 (1.94%) Unix
4 7 (0.72%) CentOS
5 6 (0.61%) Android
5 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.61%) Debian
5 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (50.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 367 (37.53%) CI/CD
3 353 (36.09%) Software Engineering
4 341 (34.87%) Agile
5 268 (27.40%) Microservices
6 254 (25.97%) DevOps
7 214 (21.88%) Mentoring
8 153 (15.64%) AI
9 143 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 122 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (12.07%) Test Automation
13 106 (10.84%) Containerisation
14 102 (10.43%) Scrum
15 88 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
16 85 (8.69%) TDD
17 84 (8.59%) Computer Science
18 74 (7.57%) Observability
19 66 (6.75%) Event-Driven
20 60 (6.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 477 (48.77%) JavaScript
2 474 (48.47%) TypeScript
3 231 (23.62%) Python
4 229 (23.42%) Java
5 187 (19.12%) SQL
6 126 (12.88%) C#
7 55 (5.62%) Go
8 38 (3.89%) Kotlin
9 35 (3.58%) PHP
9 35 (3.58%) Ruby
10 30 (3.07%) Bash
11 16 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.72%) Scala
13 6 (0.61%) C++
13 6 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.51%) Rust
15 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.31%) ABAP
16 3 (0.31%) C
16 3 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (8.79%) Degree
2 62 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 60 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 17 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.10%) HNC
11 1 (0.10%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.66%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.45%) QA
3 8 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 8 (0.82%) WCAG
4 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 2 (0.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 195 (19.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Firmware
3 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (15.54%) Terraform
2 130 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.37%) Ansible
4 22 (2.25%) Argo
5 19 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.74%) Grafana
7 12 (1.23%) Podman
8 6 (0.61%) Puppet
9 5 (0.51%) Nagios
10 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.10%) Istio
12 1 (0.10%) linkerd
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 39 (3.99%) Google
3 11 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
3 11 (1.12%) OpenAI
4 10 (1.02%) Atlassian
5 9 (0.92%) Adobe
6 8 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.72%) HubSpot
7 7 (0.72%) Oracle
7 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.51%) iManage
9 5 (0.51%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.51%) SendGrid
9 5 (0.51%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.31%) Aderant
10 3 (0.31%) Intapp
10 3 (0.31%) Pega
10 3 (0.31%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) Splunk