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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 121 123
Rank change year-on-year -85 +2 -32
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 853 1,045 2,138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.56% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 12.00% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 696 745 1,563
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,593 £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 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -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 8,526 8,710 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 21.31% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,227 6,591 15,653
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,875 £46,250
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 9 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 9 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 -89 751 £77,500 +10.71% 326
UK excluding London -108 458 £70,000 +16.67% 217
Work from Home -69 346 £72,500 - 214
London -49 319 £92,500 +5.71% 141
North of England -60 175 £70,000 +1.82% 71
Midlands -8 92 £64,000 +2.40% 38
North West -40 89 £75,000 - 47
South East -104 87 £77,500 +40.91% 58
Yorkshire -34 78 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East Midlands -15 59 £66,000 +1.54% 12
South West -70 47 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands -25 33 £60,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -22 20 £86,250 - 1
East of England -64 17 £46,250 -19.57% 15
Wales -25 14 £68,958 +14.93% 8
Scotland -30 11 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -35 8 £55,000 -2.22% 8

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 15 (1.76%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.64%) CMS
3 10 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.17%) Confluence
3 10 (1.17%) IIS
3 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.82%) nginx
6 6 (0.70%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) Appian
7 4 (0.47%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.35%) InVision
3 3 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 486 (56.98%) AWS
2 203 (23.80%) Azure
3 191 (22.39%) Serverless
4 147 (17.23%) AWS Lambda
5 133 (15.59%) GCP
6 120 (14.07%) Amazon S3
7 104 (12.19%) GitHub
8 101 (11.84%) SaaS
9 81 (9.50%) Amazon ECS
10 58 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
11 56 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.81%) Datadog
17 23 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 21 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
19 18 (2.11%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.41%) AMQP
2 9 (1.06%) SSH
3 8 (0.94%) Broadband
4 4 (0.47%) HTTP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) DSL
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) Multicast
5 2 (0.23%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) CTI
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.79%) MongoDB
2 75 (8.79%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.80%) DynamoDB
4 41 (4.81%) MySQL
5 33 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.87%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (2.34%) Redis
8 17 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.06%) DB2
13 5 (0.59%) Big Data
13 5 (0.59%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.47%) Power BI
14 4 (0.47%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 116 (13.60%) Git
2 74 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.45%) Cypress.io
4 25 (2.93%) JIRA
5 16 (1.88%) Selenium
6 15 (1.76%) GitLab
7 14 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.17%) Storybook
9 8 (0.94%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.59%) Maven
10 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.47%) Babel
11 4 (0.47%) rollup.js
11 4 (0.47%) Vite
12 3 (0.35%) ESLint
12 3 (0.35%) Mocha
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 126 (14.77%) Finance
3 52 (6.10%) Front Office
4 48 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (4.45%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.46%) Law
7 15 (1.76%) Banking
8 14 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.29%) Marketing
10 10 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.94%) Legal
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 7 (0.82%) Electronics
14 6 (0.70%) Advertising
14 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.47%) Back Office
15 4 (0.47%) Local Government
16 3 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 433 (50.76%) Developer
2 197 (23.09%) Senior
3 189 (22.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 186 (21.81%) Software Engineer
5 148 (17.35%) Lead
6 106 (12.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 84 (9.85%) Senior Developer
8 73 (8.56%) Lead Developer
9 70 (8.21%) Java Developer
9 70 (8.21%) Node.js Developer
10 61 (7.15%) React Developer
11 46 (5.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 46 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
12 45 (5.28%) Lead Software Developer
13 44 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (4.92%) Architect
15 41 (4.81%) Software Developer
16 40 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 34 (3.99%) AWS Developer
18 33 (3.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (59.67%) React
2 122 (14.30%) CSS
3 116 (13.60%) HTML
4 100 (11.72%) .NET
5 98 (11.49%) REST
6 91 (10.67%) AngularJS
7 88 (10.32%) Vue
8 86 (10.08%) RESTful
9 67 (7.85%) GraphQL
9 67 (7.85%) Kafka
10 66 (7.74%) Redux
11 56 (6.57%) Spring
12 48 (5.63%) Spring Boot
13 47 (5.51%) Next.js
14 45 (5.28%) NestJS
15 42 (4.92%) Jest
16 40 (4.69%) React Native
17 29 (3.40%) Django
18 28 (3.28%) .NET Core
18 28 (3.28%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.63%) Fixed Income
3 45 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.63%) Mobile App
5 30 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.23%) IoT
7 19 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.99%) Derivative
9 16 (1.88%) Equities
10 7 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.59%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.59%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.59%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (0.47%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.22%) Linux
2 14 (1.64%) Windows
3 8 (0.94%) Android
3 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 8 (0.94%) Unix
4 7 (0.82%) CentOS
5 5 (0.59%) Debian
5 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Rocky
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (49.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 323 (37.87%) Software Engineering
3 304 (35.64%) CI/CD
4 274 (32.12%) Agile
5 209 (24.50%) DevOps
6 200 (23.45%) Microservices
7 168 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (18.64%) Mentoring
9 130 (15.24%) AI
10 113 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 95 (11.14%) Computer Science
13 87 (10.20%) Test Automation
14 86 (10.08%) Containerisation
15 79 (9.26%) Scrum
16 69 (8.09%) User Experience
17 65 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
18 59 (6.92%) Clean Code
19 56 (6.57%) Front End Development
20 55 (6.45%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 453 (53.11%) JavaScript
2 416 (48.77%) TypeScript
3 224 (26.26%) Python
4 210 (24.62%) Java
5 125 (14.65%) SQL
6 66 (7.74%) C#
7 61 (7.15%) Go
8 33 (3.87%) Kotlin
8 33 (3.87%) Ruby
9 27 (3.17%) PHP
10 22 (2.58%) Bash
11 16 (1.88%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.47%) Scala
15 3 (0.35%) ABAP
15 3 (0.35%) C++
15 3 (0.35%) Groovy
15 3 (0.35%) RPG
16 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (11.14%) Degree
2 65 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 34 (3.99%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.23%) PhD
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.81%) QA
3 7 (0.82%) GDPR
3 7 (0.82%) WCAG
4 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.47%) SLA
5 3 (0.35%) PERC
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 163 (19.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.47%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 143 (16.76%) Terraform
2 113 (13.25%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.63%) Ansible
4 14 (1.64%) Argo
5 12 (1.41%) Grafana
5 12 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.94%) Podman
7 5 (0.59%) Nagios
7 5 (0.59%) Puppet
8 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Packer
10 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.12%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 34 (3.99%) Google
2 30 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.52%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
5 10 (1.17%) SAP
6 7 (0.82%) Adobe
6 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.82%) Pega
7 6 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.70%) WSO2
8 5 (0.59%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.47%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.35%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.35%) iManage
10 3 (0.35%) Mavenir
10 3 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.35%) Splunk