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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 125 125
Rank change year-on-year -74 0 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 900 1,014 2,165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.42% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.32% 11.71% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 730 744 1,565
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,733 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,875 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +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 8,720 8,656 20,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 20.69% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,373 6,538 15,641
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 April 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 April 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 -86 794 £77,500 +10.71% 307
UK excluding London -92 487 £70,000 +12.00% 211
Work from Home -56 374 £72,500 - 201
London -38 330 £92,500 +5.71% 127
North of England -44 183 £71,250 +1.79% 58
Midlands +4 98 £64,000 +2.40% 41
South East -90 97 £75,000 +36.36% 54
North West -33 94 £75,000 - 37
Yorkshire -30 79 £70,000 +3.70% 10
East Midlands -17 62 £67,000 +3.08% 24
South West -87 50 £60,000 - 28
West Midlands -28 36 £60,000 - 17
East of England -68 20 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland -26 19 £90,000 - 7
Wales -28 14 £68,958 +2.16% 3
Scotland -40 11 £60,000 +9.09% 9
North East -39 10 £52,500 -8.70% 11

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 14 (1.56%) CMS
2 12 (1.33%) Confluence
2 12 (1.33%) IIS
2 12 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.67%) Apache
5 6 (0.67%) JBoss
5 6 (0.67%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.44%) Appian
6 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.33%) WordPress
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.33%) InVision
3 3 (0.33%) Sketch
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 516 (57.33%) AWS
2 208 (23.11%) Azure
3 195 (21.67%) Serverless
4 154 (17.11%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (15.00%) GCP
6 123 (13.67%) Amazon S3
7 110 (12.22%) GitHub
8 103 (11.44%) SaaS
9 81 (9.00%) Amazon ECS
10 64 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
11 59 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 48 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (2.89%) Datadog
17 25 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 24 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
19 20 (2.22%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) AMQP
1 12 (1.33%) Broadband
2 7 (0.78%) SSH
3 4 (0.44%) HTTP
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) DSL
4 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.22%) Internet
4 2 (0.22%) Multicast
4 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.11%) CTI
5 1 (0.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (13.22%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (10.22%) MongoDB
3 83 (9.22%) NoSQL
4 63 (7.00%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.56%) MySQL
6 34 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (2.89%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.22%) Redis
10 18 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.89%) DB2
14 6 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.56%) Big Data
15 5 (0.56%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.56%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 117 (13.00%) Git
2 71 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.89%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.67%) JIRA
5 20 (2.22%) GitLab
6 18 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.67%) Selenium
8 13 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.11%) Storybook
11 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.67%) Maven
13 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.44%) Babel
14 4 (0.44%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.44%) Vite
15 3 (0.33%) ESLint
15 3 (0.33%) JUnit
15 3 (0.33%) Mocha
15 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 181 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 131 (14.56%) Finance
3 52 (5.78%) Front Office
4 47 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.44%) Law
7 17 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.56%) Banking
9 11 (1.22%) Marketing
10 10 (1.11%) Retail
10 10 (1.11%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.89%) Advertising
11 8 (0.89%) Legal
11 8 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.78%) Electronics
13 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.44%) Local Government
15 3 (0.33%) Back Office
15 3 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 453 (50.33%) Developer
2 219 (24.33%) Senior
3 200 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 194 (21.56%) Software Engineer
5 152 (16.89%) Lead
6 112 (12.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 91 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 77 (8.56%) Lead Developer
9 75 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (7.00%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.78%) React Developer
12 52 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 48 (5.33%) Software Developer
14 47 (5.22%) Lead Software Developer
15 46 (5.11%) Architect
15 46 (5.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 46 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
16 42 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 36 (4.00%) AWS Developer
17 36 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (59.33%) React
2 119 (13.22%) CSS
3 114 (12.67%) HTML
4 105 (11.67%) .NET
5 94 (10.44%) REST
6 92 (10.22%) AngularJS
7 91 (10.11%) Vue
8 89 (9.89%) RESTful
9 72 (8.00%) GraphQL
10 70 (7.78%) Kafka
11 69 (7.67%) Redux
12 52 (5.78%) Spring
13 47 (5.22%) NestJS
13 47 (5.22%) Next.js
14 44 (4.89%) Jest
14 44 (4.89%) Spring Boot
15 38 (4.22%) React Native
16 32 (3.56%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (3.22%) .NET Core
17 29 (3.22%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (5.33%) Fixed Income
3 35 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 27 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.00%) IoT
9 17 (1.89%) Derivative
10 16 (1.78%) Equities
11 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.56%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.56%) Mobile Payment
15 4 (0.44%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.44%) Linux
2 20 (2.22%) Windows
3 12 (1.33%) Unix
4 8 (0.89%) Android
4 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.78%) CentOS
6 5 (0.56%) Debian
6 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) Rocky
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (49.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 341 (37.89%) Software Engineering
3 324 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 282 (31.33%) Agile
5 221 (24.56%) DevOps
6 215 (23.89%) Microservices
7 173 (19.22%) Mentoring
8 160 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (15.00%) AI
10 123 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (10.56%) Containerisation
12 95 (10.56%) Test Automation
13 93 (10.33%) Computer Science
14 83 (9.22%) Scrum
15 70 (7.78%) User Experience
16 67 (7.44%) Technical Leadership
17 65 (7.22%) Observability
18 61 (6.78%) Clean Code
19 54 (6.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 458 (50.89%) JavaScript
2 444 (49.33%) TypeScript
3 232 (25.78%) Python
4 214 (23.78%) Java
5 130 (14.44%) SQL
6 81 (9.00%) C#
7 64 (7.11%) Go
8 37 (4.11%) Ruby
9 34 (3.78%) Kotlin
10 32 (3.56%) PHP
11 20 (2.22%) Bash
12 15 (1.67%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.78%) Scala
13 7 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.67%) C
15 3 (0.33%) C++
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
15 3 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
16 2 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (10.44%) Degree
2 65 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 35 (3.89%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.22%) PhD
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (0.67%) GDPR
3 6 (0.67%) WCAG
4 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.44%) SLA
5 3 (0.33%) PERC
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 174 (19.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.44%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (16.56%) Terraform
2 119 (13.22%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.22%) Ansible
4 20 (2.22%) Argo
5 12 (1.33%) Podman
5 12 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.22%) Grafana
7 6 (0.67%) Puppet
8 5 (0.56%) Nagios
9 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (4.22%) Google
2 36 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.44%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.22%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.00%) Adobe
6 9 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.00%) SAP
7 6 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.56%) Oracle
8 5 (0.56%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.44%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.33%) iManage
10 3 (0.33%) Mavenir
10 3 (0.33%) Pega
10 3 (0.33%) Splunk