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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 160 123
Rank change year-on-year -15 -37 -25
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 1,104 965 2,273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 2.14% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.36% 11.05% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 900 628 1,641
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -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 9,715 8,733 21,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 19.35% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,270 5,738 16,584
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -8 997 £75,000 - 228
UK excluding London -10 690 £67,500 +12.50% 188
Work from Home -6 536 £69,310 -10.57% 166
London -23 327 £90,000 -5.26% 91
North of England -27 256 £70,000 -1.75% 52
South East +23 176 £72,500 +31.82% 56
North West -49 129 £75,000 - 31
Midlands +26 103 £60,000 -5.88% 22
Yorkshire +16 92 £70,000 +3.70% 9
South West -57 67 £52,500 -12.50% 16
East Midlands +25 61 £64,000 -8.57% 10
East of England 0 48 £52,500 +50.00% 15
West Midlands -9 42 £60,000 - 12
North East -24 35 £52,065 -9.45% 12
Wales -27 28 £72,500 +41.06% 7
Scotland +7 9 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 - 19

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 24 (2.17%) Confluence
2 18 (1.63%) CMS
3 14 (1.27%) Apache
4 13 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.09%) IIS
5 12 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.72%) JBoss
7 8 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.54%) nginx
8 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.45%) WordPress
10 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.18%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.18%) Immediacy CMS
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.18%) SAS
12 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.27%) Blender
3 3 (0.27%) Maya
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 635 (57.52%) AWS
2 345 (31.25%) Azure
3 215 (19.47%) Serverless
4 172 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
5 168 (15.22%) GitHub
6 142 (12.86%) Amazon S3
7 138 (12.50%) GCP
8 122 (11.05%) SaaS
9 95 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
10 78 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (6.16%) Amazon SQS
13 66 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
15 43 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 34 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 32 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
19 29 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
20 28 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.45%) Broadband
2 16 (1.45%) Firewall
3 12 (1.09%) DMARC
4 11 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.72%) AMQP
5 8 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
5 8 (0.72%) Internet
6 6 (0.54%) DNS
6 6 (0.54%) VoIP
7 5 (0.45%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.36%) LAN
8 4 (0.36%) SSH
8 4 (0.36%) VPN
8 4 (0.36%) WAN
9 3 (0.27%) DSL
9 3 (0.27%) VLAN
10 2 (0.18%) BGP
10 2 (0.18%) HTTP
10 2 (0.18%) IPsec
10 2 (0.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (19.20%) MongoDB
2 159 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (11.23%) Elasticsearch
4 110 (9.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 99 (8.97%) NoSQL
6 78 (7.07%) DynamoDB
7 66 (5.98%) MySQL
8 45 (4.08%) SQL Server
9 36 (3.26%) Redis
10 31 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 22 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (1.72%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.72%) DTS
17 7 (0.63%) Big Data
17 7 (0.63%) Db2
17 7 (0.63%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 125 (11.32%) Git
2 80 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 50 (4.53%) Cypress.io
4 43 (3.89%) GitLab
5 33 (2.99%) JIRA
6 14 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.18%) Selenium
8 8 (0.72%) Vite
9 6 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.45%) Maven
10 5 (0.45%) Mocha
10 5 (0.45%) Storybook
11 4 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.36%) JUnit
11 4 (0.36%) Postman
11 4 (0.36%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 207 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 144 (13.04%) Finance
3 83 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 53 (4.80%) Front Office
5 50 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.53%) Retail
7 34 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.26%) Law
9 16 (1.45%) Marketing
10 14 (1.27%) Legal
11 12 (1.09%) Advertising
12 10 (0.91%) Banking
12 10 (0.91%) Tech for Good
13 9 (0.82%) Games
13 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.63%) Automotive
14 7 (0.63%) Legal Technology
14 7 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 566 (51.27%) Developer
2 261 (23.64%) Senior
3 218 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 213 (19.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 195 (17.66%) Lead
6 109 (9.87%) .NET Developer
6 109 (9.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 96 (8.70%) Lead Developer
8 95 (8.61%) Senior Developer
9 70 (6.34%) Node.js Developer
10 69 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 64 (5.80%) Lead Software Developer
11 64 (5.80%) Software Developer
12 62 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
13 58 (5.25%) Java Developer
14 56 (5.07%) React Developer
15 47 (4.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 46 (4.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 44 (3.99%) Architect
18 43 (3.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (52.36%) React
2 212 (19.20%) .NET
3 148 (13.41%) AngularJS
4 129 (11.68%) Vue
5 126 (11.41%) CSS
6 124 (11.23%) ASP.NET
7 123 (11.14%) .NET Core
8 118 (10.69%) REST
9 115 (10.42%) ASP.NET Core
10 114 (10.33%) HTML
11 98 (8.88%) RESTful
12 79 (7.16%) Spring Boot
13 78 (7.07%) Spring
14 71 (6.43%) GraphQL
14 71 (6.43%) Kafka
14 71 (6.43%) Redux
15 58 (5.25%) Next.js
16 54 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 51 (4.62%) Jest
18 50 (4.53%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (14.31%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.44%) Fixed Income
3 45 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.99%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.54%) Derivative
10 16 (1.45%) Equities
10 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.36%) IoT
11 15 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.91%) PropTech
14 9 (0.82%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.63%) Mainframe
16 6 (0.54%) EPoS
16 6 (0.54%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.34%) Linux
2 32 (2.90%) Windows
3 20 (1.81%) Unix
4 10 (0.91%) Debian
4 10 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.63%) CentOS
6 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.27%) Android
8 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (50.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 442 (40.04%) Agile
3 428 (38.77%) CI/CD
4 358 (32.43%) Software Engineering
5 354 (32.07%) Microservices
6 294 (26.63%) DevOps
7 243 (22.01%) Mentoring
8 178 (16.12%) AI
9 159 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (13.13%) Test Automation
11 133 (12.05%) Scrum
12 130 (11.78%) Containerisation
13 128 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 127 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 112 (10.14%) TDD
16 108 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (8.88%) Event-Driven
18 95 (8.61%) Observability
19 88 (7.97%) Computer Science
20 80 (7.25%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 520 (47.10%) TypeScript
2 501 (45.38%) JavaScript
3 273 (24.73%) SQL
4 257 (23.28%) Python
5 250 (22.64%) Java
6 200 (18.12%) C#
7 55 (4.98%) Go
8 47 (4.26%) PHP
9 46 (4.17%) Ruby
10 40 (3.62%) Kotlin
11 30 (2.72%) Bash
12 13 (1.18%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.72%) ABAP
13 8 (0.72%) C++
14 7 (0.63%) Scala
15 6 (0.54%) RPG
16 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.45%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.36%) C
17 4 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 92 (8.33%) Degree
2 67 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 65 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 21 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.091%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.091%) HNC
13 1 (0.091%) HND
13 1 (0.091%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.71%) QA
2 36 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.45%) WCAG
4 7 (0.63%) GDPR
5 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 213 (19.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.36%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (13.50%) Terraform
2 145 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.90%) Ansible
4 20 (1.81%) Argo
5 19 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.63%) Grafana
7 12 (1.09%) Podman
8 6 (0.54%) Puppet
9 5 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.36%) Istio
10 4 (0.36%) linkerd
10 4 (0.36%) Nagios
11 3 (0.27%) Packer
12 2 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.18%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 149 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 42 (3.80%) Google
3 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
4 13 (1.18%) SendGrid
5 12 (1.09%) Oracle
6 11 (1.00%) SAP
7 10 (0.91%) Adobe
8 9 (0.82%) iManage
9 8 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.72%) IBM
9 8 (0.72%) Sitecore
10 7 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.63%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.54%) OneLogin
12 5 (0.45%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.45%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.45%) Splunk
13 3 (0.27%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.27%) Pega