Node.js Job Trends in Wales

Node
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 59 38
Rank change year-on-year -29 -21 +36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 51 8 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.55% 0.93% 3.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.62% 9.41% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 49 8 41
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,820 -
25th Percentile £47,750 £46,058 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £51,949 £44,344
Median % change year-on-year +39.56% +17.15% -26.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,813 £79,225
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,993 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +18.52% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 260 85 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.90% 9.88% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 228 79 172
10th Percentile £39,204 £45,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £47,385 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,500 £70,375 £65,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Node.js job vacancy trend in Wales

Node.js
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Node.js in Wales over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Node.js in Wales

Node.js
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
West Wales -39 27 £72,500 +92.14%
South Wales -30 20 £71,000 +36.67% 4
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 2
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 6 (11.76%) CMS
1 6 (11.76%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) AWS
2 30 (58.82%) Azure
3 23 (45.10%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (45.10%) Serverless
4 18 (35.29%) GCP
5 16 (31.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (27.45%) GitHub
7 13 (25.49%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (21.57%) Amazon S3
9 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (11.76%) CloudFront
11 2 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (3.92%) IaaS
11 2 (3.92%) PaaS
11 2 (3.92%) SaaS
12 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) Adabas
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.57%) Git
3 7 (13.73%) JIRA
3 7 (13.73%) Selenium
4 6 (11.76%) JUnit
5 5 (9.80%) Cypress.io
6 4 (7.84%) GitLab
6 4 (7.84%) Postman
6 4 (7.84%) REST Assured
6 4 (7.84%) Zephyr
7 3 (5.88%) Newman
7 3 (5.88%) TestRail
8 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.96%) Gatling
8 1 (1.96%) JMeter
8 1 (1.96%) Mocha
8 1 (1.96%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.96%) RSpec
General
1 26 (50.98%) Public Sector
2 22 (43.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.76%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Finance
6 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (31.37%) Lead
3 13 (25.49%) Senior
4 9 (17.65%) Software Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Software Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Architect
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.84%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Principal Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.92%) SEO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (74.51%) React
2 28 (54.90%) Terraform
3 23 (45.10%) Ruby on Rails
3 23 (45.10%) Spring Boot
4 16 (31.37%) Spring
5 12 (23.53%) AWS CDK
6 10 (19.61%) REST
7 8 (15.69%) GraphQL
8 7 (13.73%) AngularJS
8 7 (13.73%) NestJS
8 7 (13.73%) Serverless Framework
9 6 (11.76%) AWS SAM
9 6 (11.76%) CSS
9 6 (11.76%) Kafka
9 6 (11.76%) OAuth
9 6 (11.76%) OAuth2
9 6 (11.76%) OpenID
9 6 (11.76%) RESTful
9 6 (11.76%) SAML
10 5 (9.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Cloud Native
2 19 (37.25%) Mainframe
3 13 (25.49%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (15.69%) Management Information System
5 6 (11.76%) Digital Wallet
5 6 (11.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
7 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Replication
8 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) AIX
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 35 (68.63%) Agile
3 30 (58.82%) AI
3 30 (58.82%) Software Engineering
4 26 (50.98%) Microservices
5 25 (49.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 24 (47.06%) DevOps
7 22 (43.14%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (41.18%) Scrum
9 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (37.25%) Observability
11 18 (35.29%) Event-Driven
12 17 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (29.41%) Mentoring
13 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
14 13 (25.49%) Containerisation
14 13 (25.49%) Kanban
15 12 (23.53%) Code Quality
16 11 (21.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (54.90%) Java
2 23 (45.10%) Ruby
3 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.49%) TypeScript
5 9 (17.65%) C#
6 8 (15.69%) Python
7 6 (11.76%) COBOL
7 6 (11.76%) SQL
8 3 (5.88%) Bicep
8 3 (5.88%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Bash
9 1 (1.96%) Natural
9 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) AWS Certification
2 7 (13.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (7.84%) ISTQB
4 4 (7.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (27.45%) Accessibility
1 14 (27.45%) WCAG
2 6 (11.76%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (11.76%) NCSC
3 4 (7.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 6 (11.76%) OneLogin
1 6 (11.76%) Sitecore
2 5 (9.80%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle