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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 140 123
Rank change year-on-year -51 -17 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 969 1,058 2,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.40% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.68% 12.03% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 780 705 1,575
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.92%
75th Percentile £95,313 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% +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 9,074 8,793 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.97% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,676 6,147 15,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,472 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -56 867 £75,000 +7.14% 325
UK excluding London -62 553 £69,310 +10.90% 210
Work from Home -27 438 £70,000 -3.45% 443
London -31 322 £90,000 - 134
North of England -60 209 £70,000 - 74
South East -14 135 £75,000 +36.36% 53
North West -64 105 £75,000 - 41
Midlands +11 99 £62,500 - 31
Yorkshire -15 82 £70,000 +3.70% 22
East Midlands +14 63 £66,000 -0.38% 23
South West -70 54 £56,250 -6.25% 28
West Midlands -31 36 £60,000 - 8
East of England -33 28 £47,500 -13.64% 16
North East -27 22 £53,500 -6.96% 11
Wales -28 13 £67,500 +12.03% 2
Northern Ireland - 11 £90,000 - 2
Scotland -17 9 £60,000 +9.09% 4

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 17 (1.75%) CMS
2 15 (1.55%) Confluence
3 14 (1.44%) IIS
4 13 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.93%) Apache
8 7 (0.72%) JBoss
9 6 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.52%) nginx
11 4 (0.41%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.41%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.41%) WordPress
12 3 (0.31%) Appian
12 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.21%) InVision
4 2 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 565 (58.31%) AWS
2 260 (26.83%) Azure
3 198 (20.43%) Serverless
4 155 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 134 (13.83%) Amazon S3
6 132 (13.62%) GCP
7 128 (13.21%) GitHub
8 110 (11.35%) SaaS
9 85 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
10 70 (7.22%) Amazon SQS
11 65 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (3.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 29 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
19 25 (2.58%) Datadog
19 25 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.65%) Broadband
2 10 (1.03%) AMQP
2 10 (1.03%) Firewall
3 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 4 (0.41%) SSH
4 3 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.31%) Internet
4 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.21%) DMARC
5 2 (0.21%) DNS
5 2 (0.21%) DSL
5 2 (0.21%) Multicast
5 2 (0.21%) VLAN
6 1 (0.10%) CTI
6 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 140 (14.45%) MongoDB
3 91 (9.39%) NoSQL
4 67 (6.91%) DynamoDB
5 59 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (5.16%) MySQL
7 43 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (4.13%) SQL Server
9 26 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (2.58%) Redis
10 25 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.83%) Neo4j
15 7 (0.72%) DB2
16 5 (0.52%) Big Data
16 5 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
16 5 (0.52%) GIS
16 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 123 (12.69%) Git
2 77 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.54%) Cypress.io
4 36 (3.72%) GitLab
5 23 (2.37%) JIRA
6 16 (1.65%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.24%) Selenium
8 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.03%) Storybook
9 8 (0.83%) Vite
10 5 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.31%) ESLint
12 3 (0.31%) JUnit
12 3 (0.31%) Yeoman
13 2 (0.21%) Babel
13 2 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.21%) rollup.js
General
1 180 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 127 (13.11%) Finance
3 62 (6.40%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.47%) Front Office
5 45 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.27%) Retail
7 21 (2.17%) Law
8 15 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.24%) Banking
9 12 (1.24%) Marketing
10 11 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.72%) Advertising
12 7 (0.72%) Legal
13 6 (0.62%) Games
14 5 (0.52%) Automotive
15 4 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.41%) Electronics
15 4 (0.41%) Local Government
15 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 513 (52.94%) Developer
2 243 (25.08%) Senior
3 225 (23.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 196 (20.23%) Software Engineer
5 167 (17.23%) Lead
6 112 (11.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 98 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 91 (9.39%) Lead Developer
9 77 (7.95%) Node.js Developer
10 63 (6.50%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.30%) Software Developer
12 59 (6.09%) Lead Software Developer
12 59 (6.09%) React Developer
13 55 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
14 53 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (4.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 45 (4.64%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 43 (4.44%) .NET Developer
17 43 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 42 (4.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (56.55%) React
2 150 (15.48%) .NET
3 118 (12.18%) CSS
4 112 (11.56%) AngularJS
5 110 (11.35%) HTML
6 102 (10.53%) REST
7 101 (10.42%) Vue
8 90 (9.29%) RESTful
9 73 (7.53%) Redux
10 70 (7.22%) GraphQL
11 65 (6.71%) Kafka
12 61 (6.30%) .NET Core
13 59 (6.09%) ASP.NET
14 54 (5.57%) Spring
15 51 (5.26%) Next.js
15 51 (5.26%) Spring Boot
16 49 (5.06%) NestJS
17 48 (4.95%) ASP.NET Core
18 45 (4.64%) Jest
19 41 (4.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.95%) Fixed Income
3 43 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (3.41%) Mobile App
6 30 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.75%) Derivative
9 17 (1.75%) IoT
10 16 (1.65%) Equities
11 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.72%) PropTech
15 6 (0.62%) Low-Code
16 5 (0.52%) Data Centre
16 5 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.52%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.85%) Linux
2 31 (3.20%) Windows
3 19 (1.96%) Unix
4 7 (0.72%) CentOS
5 6 (0.62%) Android
5 6 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.52%) Debian
6 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (51.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 355 (36.64%) CI/CD
3 343 (35.40%) Software Engineering
4 330 (34.06%) Agile
5 267 (27.55%) Microservices
6 247 (25.49%) DevOps
7 201 (20.74%) Mentoring
8 149 (15.38%) AI
9 144 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 121 (12.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (11.56%) Test Automation
12 102 (10.53%) Containerisation
13 100 (10.32%) Scrum
14 87 (8.98%) Computer Science
15 80 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
16 78 (8.05%) TDD
17 70 (7.22%) Observability
18 62 (6.40%) Clean Code
19 58 (5.99%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 481 (49.64%) JavaScript
2 473 (48.81%) TypeScript
3 230 (23.74%) Python
4 226 (23.32%) Java
5 179 (18.47%) SQL
6 126 (13.00%) C#
7 60 (6.19%) Go
8 36 (3.72%) Kotlin
8 36 (3.72%) Ruby
9 34 (3.51%) PHP
10 26 (2.68%) Bash
11 16 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.72%) Scala
13 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.52%) Rust
15 4 (0.41%) C++
15 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.31%) C
16 3 (0.31%) Groovy
17 2 (0.21%) RPG
Qualifications
1 88 (9.08%) Degree
2 63 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 16 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.48%) QA
3 7 (0.72%) WCAG
4 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
6 3 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (19.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Firmware
3 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (15.69%) Terraform
2 132 (13.62%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.30%) Ansible
4 23 (2.37%) Argo
5 17 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.55%) Grafana
7 12 (1.24%) Podman
8 6 (0.62%) Puppet
9 5 (0.52%) Nagios
10 4 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) Packer
12 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.92%) Google
3 12 (1.24%) OpenAI
4 11 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (0.93%) Adobe
6 8 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 8 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.72%) Oracle
8 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.52%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.41%) SendGrid
10 4 (0.41%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.31%) Aderant
11 3 (0.31%) iManage
11 3 (0.31%) Intapp
11 3 (0.31%) Pega
11 3 (0.31%) Splunk
12 2 (0.21%) VMware