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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 49 73
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 33 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.60% 2.01% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.21% 14.47% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 11 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,733 £35,441
25th Percentile £50,417 £40,591 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £51,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.06% +2.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £67,400
90th Percentile £80,000 - £79,450
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -10.34%

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 117 76 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.67% 13.89% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 98 70 305
10th Percentile £38,480 £37,733 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +19.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%

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 24 June 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 24 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
West Wales -16 16 £72,500 +92.14% 1
South Wales -29 15 £72,500 +3.57% 5
North Wales - 2 £45,000 - 1
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 (18.18%) CMS
1 6 (18.18%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (84.85%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Azure
3 14 (42.42%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (42.42%) Serverless
4 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (30.30%) GitHub
5 9 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 9 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (24.24%) GCP
7 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (12.12%) CloudFront
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (9.09%) IaaS
9 3 (9.09%) PaaS
9 3 (9.09%) SaaS
10 1 (3.03%) BrowserStack
10 1 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Adabas
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) Selenium
4 5 (15.15%) JIRA
5 4 (12.12%) Cypress.io
5 4 (12.12%) JUnit
5 4 (12.12%) Postman
5 4 (12.12%) REST Assured
6 3 (9.09%) Zephyr
7 2 (6.06%) GitLab
7 2 (6.06%) JMeter
7 2 (6.06%) Newman
7 2 (6.06%) TestRail
8 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
8 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.03%) Gatling
8 1 (3.03%) Mocha
8 1 (3.03%) Pa11y
8 1 (3.03%) RSpec
General
1 17 (51.52%) Public Sector
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Retail
4 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Lead
2 11 (33.33%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Software Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) React
2 14 (42.42%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (42.42%) Spring Boot
3 9 (27.27%) Spring
4 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
4 7 (21.21%) AWS CDK
4 7 (21.21%) REST
5 5 (15.15%) CSS
5 5 (15.15%) GraphQL
5 5 (15.15%) HTML
6 4 (12.12%) CSS3
6 4 (12.12%) HTML5
6 4 (12.12%) Playwright
6 4 (12.12%) RESTful
6 4 (12.12%) Serverless Framework
7 3 (9.09%) .NET
7 3 (9.09%) AWS SAM
7 3 (9.09%) Jest
7 3 (9.09%) Kafka
7 3 (9.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 12 (36.36%) Mainframe
3 9 (27.27%) Management Information System
4 8 (24.24%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (18.18%) Onboarding
6 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
7 4 (12.12%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (9.09%) Replication
9 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) AIX
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 21 (63.64%) Agile
3 20 (60.61%) DevOps
4 18 (54.55%) AI
5 17 (51.52%) Microservices
6 16 (48.48%) Observability
6 16 (48.48%) Software Engineering
6 16 (48.48%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (48.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 15 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (39.39%) Scrum
9 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
9 10 (30.30%) Event-Driven
9 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
10 9 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (24.24%) Kanban
11 8 (24.24%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
11 8 (24.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 14 (42.42%) Ruby
3 6 (18.18%) Python
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 4 (12.12%) C#
5 4 (12.12%) COBOL
5 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) Natural
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.12%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 3 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 8 (24.24%) WCAG
3 4 (12.12%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (12.12%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Sitecore
2 4 (12.12%) OneLogin
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft