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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 127 126
Rank change year-on-year -76 -1 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 889 990 2,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.38% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.24% 11.49% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 721 743 1,577
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,836 £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 £111,250 £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 8,678 8,613 20,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 20.70% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,324 6,523 15,742
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 18 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 18 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 -77 786 £77,500 +10.71% 304
UK excluding London -78 483 £70,000 +12.00% 203
Work from Home -62 367 £72,500 - 196
London -28 326 £92,500 +5.71% 131
North of England -35 182 £71,250 +1.79% 58
Midlands +2 98 £64,000 +2.40% 35
South East -87 95 £75,000 +36.36% 61
North West -28 93 £75,000 - 36
Yorkshire -39 79 £70,000 +3.70% 10
East Midlands -7 62 £67,000 +3.08% 18
South West -78 50 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands -25 36 £60,000 - 17
Northern Ireland -24 19 £90,000 - 2
East of England -57 19 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Wales -24 14 £68,958 +2.16% 4
Scotland -44 11 £60,000 +9.09% 11
North East -31 10 £52,500 -8.70% 12

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 (1.57%) CMS
2 12 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 11 (1.24%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.24%) Confluence
3 11 (1.24%) IIS
4 10 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.79%) Apache
7 6 (0.67%) nginx
8 5 (0.56%) JBoss
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.45%) Appian
9 4 (0.45%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.34%) InVision
3 3 (0.34%) 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
1 507 (57.03%) AWS
2 206 (23.17%) Azure
3 195 (21.93%) Serverless
4 154 (17.32%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (15.19%) GCP
6 122 (13.72%) Amazon S3
7 108 (12.15%) GitHub
8 103 (11.59%) SaaS
9 81 (9.11%) Amazon ECS
10 62 (6.97%) Amazon SQS
11 60 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.04%) Datadog
17 25 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 23 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
19 20 (2.25%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.46%) AMQP
2 12 (1.35%) Broadband
3 7 (0.79%) SSH
4 4 (0.45%) HTTP
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) DSL
5 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) Multicast
5 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.22%) VLAN
6 1 (0.11%) CTI
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (10.01%) MongoDB
3 82 (9.22%) NoSQL
4 63 (7.09%) DynamoDB
5 40 (4.50%) MySQL
6 33 (3.71%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.25%) Redis
11 18 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.46%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.90%) DB2
15 6 (0.67%) Big Data
15 6 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
15 6 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.56%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 117 (13.16%) Git
2 72 (8.10%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.84%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.59%) JIRA
5 19 (2.14%) GitLab
6 18 (2.02%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.69%) Selenium
8 13 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.24%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.12%) Storybook
11 7 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.67%) Maven
13 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.45%) Babel
14 4 (0.45%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.45%) Vite
15 3 (0.34%) ESLint
15 3 (0.34%) JUnit
15 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 181 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 129 (14.51%) Finance
3 52 (5.85%) Front Office
4 47 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.47%) Law
7 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.57%) Banking
9 11 (1.24%) Marketing
10 10 (1.12%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.01%) Retail
12 8 (0.90%) Legal
12 8 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.79%) Advertising
13 7 (0.79%) Electronics
14 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.45%) Local Government
17 3 (0.34%) Back Office
17 3 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 449 (50.51%) Developer
2 214 (24.07%) Senior
3 198 (22.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 195 (21.93%) Software Engineer
5 150 (16.87%) Lead
6 111 (12.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 89 (10.01%) Senior Developer
8 77 (8.66%) Lead Developer
9 73 (8.21%) Node.js Developer
10 64 (7.20%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.86%) React Developer
12 51 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 47 (5.29%) Lead Software Developer
13 47 (5.29%) Software Developer
14 46 (5.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 46 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
15 44 (4.95%) Architect
16 42 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 36 (4.05%) AWS Developer
17 36 (4.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 530 (59.62%) React
2 120 (13.50%) CSS
3 115 (12.94%) HTML
4 103 (11.59%) .NET
5 96 (10.80%) REST
6 93 (10.46%) AngularJS
7 91 (10.24%) Vue
8 89 (10.01%) RESTful
9 71 (7.99%) GraphQL
10 70 (7.87%) Kafka
11 67 (7.54%) Redux
12 54 (6.07%) Spring
13 47 (5.29%) NestJS
13 47 (5.29%) Next.js
14 46 (5.17%) Spring Boot
15 43 (4.84%) Jest
16 38 (4.27%) React Native
17 32 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
18 29 (3.26%) .NET Core
18 29 (3.26%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.40%) Fixed Income
3 46 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
5 31 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 27 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.02%) IoT
8 18 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.91%) Derivative
10 16 (1.80%) Equities
11 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.79%) 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 (0.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.61%) Linux
2 18 (2.02%) Windows
3 12 (1.35%) Unix
4 8 (0.90%) Android
4 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.90%) CentOS
5 6 (0.67%) Debian
5 6 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) Rocky
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (49.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 340 (38.25%) Software Engineering
3 316 (35.55%) CI/CD
4 279 (31.38%) Agile
5 219 (24.63%) DevOps
6 210 (23.62%) Microservices
7 169 (19.01%) Mentoring
8 159 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (14.85%) AI
10 121 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (10.69%) Containerisation
13 93 (10.46%) Computer Science
13 93 (10.46%) Test Automation
14 84 (9.45%) Scrum
15 69 (7.76%) User Experience
16 66 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
17 63 (7.09%) Observability
18 60 (6.75%) Clean Code
19 56 (6.30%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 457 (51.41%) JavaScript
2 439 (49.38%) TypeScript
3 229 (25.76%) Python
4 212 (23.85%) Java
5 127 (14.29%) SQL
6 77 (8.66%) C#
7 61 (6.86%) Go
8 37 (4.16%) Ruby
9 34 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 30 (3.37%) PHP
11 20 (2.25%) Bash
12 15 (1.69%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.67%) C
14 6 (0.67%) Scala
15 3 (0.34%) C++
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.22%) ABAP
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
16 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (10.57%) Degree
2 65 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 36 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.79%) 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 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.70%) QA
3 6 (0.67%) GDPR
3 6 (0.67%) WCAG
4 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.45%) SLA
5 3 (0.34%) 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
1 172 (19.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.45%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 148 (16.65%) Terraform
2 118 (13.27%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.37%) Ansible
4 19 (2.14%) Argo
5 12 (1.35%) Podman
5 12 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.24%) Grafana
7 7 (0.79%) Puppet
8 5 (0.56%) Nagios
9 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.34%) 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 (4.27%) Google
2 34 (3.82%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.46%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.24%) Red Hat
4 11 (1.24%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (1.01%) SAP
7 8 (0.90%) Adobe
7 8 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.67%) SaltStack
9 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.45%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle
10 4 (0.45%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.34%) Ericsson
11 3 (0.34%) iManage
11 3 (0.34%) Informatica
11 3 (0.34%) Mavenir
11 3 (0.34%) Nokia