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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 190 138
Rank change year-on-year -4 -52 -15
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,171 846 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.70% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.89% 10.10% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 928 509 846
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,594
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,813 £110,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -11.54%

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 11,841 8,373 16,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 16.86% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,380 5,332 9,999
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 5 October 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 -10 1,029 £70,000 -17.65% 1,065
UK excluding London +28 766 £67,500 +12.50% 624
Work from Home -15 598 £69,305 -22.99% 641
London -90 295 £84,000 -20.00% 543
North of England -24 263 £67,500 +1.89% 204
South East +61 231 £75,000 +30.43% 123
North West -72 116 £73,500 +6.91% 118
Midlands +24 91 £60,000 -20.00% 70
Yorkshire -5 76 £69,310 +15.52% 57
North East 0 71 £57,500 -13.21% 30
South West -23 70 £64,250 +11.74% 58
Wales -24 53 £72,500 +38.10% 25
East of England -8 52 £60,000 +9.09% 64
West Midlands +3 50 £60,000 -20.00% 41
East Midlands -4 41 £55,000 -4.35% 29
Scotland +5 6 £80,000 -33.33% 45

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 36 (3.07%) Confluence
2 25 (2.13%) CMS
3 21 (1.79%) Apache
4 18 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 15 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.94%) IIS
7 9 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
8 8 (0.68%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.51%) WordPress
10 5 (0.43%) JBoss
10 5 (0.43%) nginx
11 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.26%) DNN
12 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.26%) Hedera
12 3 (0.26%) Kentico
12 3 (0.26%) SAS
12 3 (0.26%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.26%) Blender
3 3 (0.26%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.26%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.085%) Quorum
5 1 (0.085%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 625 (53.37%) AWS
2 428 (36.55%) Azure
3 240 (20.50%) GitHub
4 212 (18.10%) Serverless
5 171 (14.60%) SaaS
6 155 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
7 143 (12.21%) GCP
8 116 (9.91%) Amazon S3
9 111 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
10 104 (8.88%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
13 81 (6.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 67 (5.72%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (2.90%) Datadog
18 30 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
19 29 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.79%) Broadband
2 16 (1.37%) Firewall
3 15 (1.28%) DMARC
3 15 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.94%) Internet
5 10 (0.85%) VPN
6 9 (0.77%) DNS
7 8 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 7 (0.60%) AMQP
9 6 (0.51%) BGP
9 6 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.51%) IPsec
9 6 (0.51%) VoIP
10 4 (0.34%) HTTP
10 4 (0.34%) LAN
10 4 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.17%) MQTT
11 2 (0.17%) Network Security
12 1 (0.085%) Asterisk PBX
12 1 (0.085%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (21.95%) MongoDB
2 180 (15.37%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (12.55%) Elasticsearch
4 143 (12.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 97 (8.28%) NoSQL
6 77 (6.58%) DynamoDB
7 67 (5.72%) Redis
8 62 (5.29%) SQL Server
9 50 (4.27%) MySQL
10 43 (3.67%) Relational Database
11 25 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.28%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (1.11%) Big Data
14 13 (1.11%) Hadoop
15 12 (1.02%) DTS
16 11 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.85%) Db2
18 8 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 148 (12.64%) Git
2 91 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 64 (5.47%) GitLab
4 50 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 41 (3.50%) JIRA
6 16 (1.37%) Vite
7 14 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.11%) Selenium
9 12 (1.02%) JUnit
9 12 (1.02%) Storybook
10 8 (0.68%) Postman
10 8 (0.68%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.60%) Mocha
11 7 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.51%) Maven
12 6 (0.51%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 273 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 145 (12.38%) Finance
3 126 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 62 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (4.70%) Retail
6 38 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (2.31%) Marketing
8 19 (1.62%) Games
9 18 (1.54%) Banking
10 17 (1.45%) Law
11 12 (1.02%) Legal
12 10 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.85%) Military
13 9 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.68%) Advertising
15 7 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.60%) Automotive
15 7 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 546 (46.63%) Developer
2 284 (24.25%) Senior
3 208 (17.76%) Lead
4 207 (17.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 194 (16.57%) Software Engineer
6 142 (12.13%) .NET Developer
7 105 (8.97%) Software Developer
8 100 (8.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 84 (7.17%) Senior Developer
10 82 (7.00%) Lead Developer
11 81 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 66 (5.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 65 (5.55%) Lead Software Developer
14 53 (4.53%) Software Manager
15 50 (4.27%) Development Manager
15 50 (4.27%) Software Development Manager
16 48 (4.10%) Architect
17 47 (4.01%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 46 (3.93%) Node.js Developer
19 42 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 522 (44.58%) React
2 267 (22.80%) .NET
3 180 (15.37%) AngularJS
4 170 (14.52%) Terraform
5 162 (13.83%) ASP.NET
6 155 (13.24%) .NET Core
7 152 (12.98%) CSS
8 148 (12.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 139 (11.87%) HTML
10 138 (11.78%) Vue
11 136 (11.61%) REST
12 107 (9.14%) Spring Boot
13 104 (8.88%) RESTful
14 102 (8.71%) Spring
15 89 (7.60%) Next.js
16 83 (7.09%) NestJS
17 78 (6.66%) ASP.NET Web API
18 73 (6.23%) Jest
19 65 (5.55%) Kafka
20 63 (5.38%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 199 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 69 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
5 41 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.73%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.62%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.02%) IoT
13 12 (1.02%) PropTech
14 10 (0.85%) EPoS
14 10 (0.85%) iSeries
15 9 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.21%) Linux
2 28 (2.39%) Windows
3 19 (1.62%) Unix
4 15 (1.28%) Debian
4 15 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.60%) CentOS
5 7 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) AIX
6 4 (0.34%) Android
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (48.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 549 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 505 (43.13%) Agile
4 427 (36.46%) Microservices
5 356 (30.40%) Software Engineering
6 328 (28.01%) DevOps
7 283 (24.17%) AI
8 247 (21.09%) Mentoring
9 211 (18.02%) Test Automation
10 178 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 162 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
12 155 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 152 (12.98%) Event-Driven
14 151 (12.89%) Scrum
15 149 (12.72%) Containerisation
16 130 (11.10%) Observability
17 126 (10.76%) TDD
18 116 (9.91%) Code Quality
19 105 (8.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 540 (46.11%) TypeScript
2 503 (42.95%) JavaScript
3 325 (27.75%) SQL
4 271 (23.14%) C#
5 266 (22.72%) Python
6 239 (20.41%) Java
7 60 (5.12%) Ruby
8 44 (3.76%) PHP
9 40 (3.42%) Go
10 32 (2.73%) Kotlin
11 26 (2.22%) Bash
12 12 (1.02%) C++
13 10 (0.85%) ABAP
13 10 (0.85%) RPG
14 9 (0.77%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.51%) C
15 6 (0.51%) COBOL
16 4 (0.34%) Bicep
16 4 (0.34%) Rust
16 4 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 97 (8.28%) Degree
3 86 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.26%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.26%) OCP
12 3 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.085%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.085%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.92%) QA
2 68 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.76%) WCAG
4 22 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.11%) GDPR
6 12 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.60%) GRC
8 6 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (0.51%) NCSC
8 6 (0.51%) NIST
9 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 283 (24.17%) Docker
2 6 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (17.93%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.99%) Ansible
3 22 (1.88%) Grafana
4 19 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.54%) Argo
6 11 (0.94%) Puppet
7 7 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
8 6 (0.51%) Podman
9 4 (0.34%) Istio
9 4 (0.34%) linkerd
10 3 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.26%) Packer
11 2 (0.17%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 218 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.01%) Google
3 37 (3.16%) OpenAI
4 18 (1.54%) Adobe
4 18 (1.54%) SAP
5 16 (1.37%) IBM
5 16 (1.37%) Oracle
6 15 (1.28%) SendGrid
7 12 (1.02%) OneLogin
8 10 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 9 (0.77%) iManage
9 9 (0.77%) Sitecore
10 7 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 7 (0.60%) Splunk
11 6 (0.51%) Confluent
11 6 (0.51%) HP
12 5 (0.43%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.43%) Databricks