Hybrid/Remote Node.js Job Trends

Node
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Node.js skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 73 94
Rank change year-on-year -50 +21 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 395 588 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 4.23% 3.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.38% 14.55% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 321 422 903
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,214 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,620
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +10.49% -9.49%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,191 4,041 8,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.42% 29.06% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,291 3,165 7,481
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Node.js and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Node.js job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Node.js
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Node.js.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Node.js

Node.js
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Node.js over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Node.js salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 10 (2.53%) CMS
2 5 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.01%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 266 (67.34%) AWS
2 101 (25.57%) Serverless
3 86 (21.77%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (20.25%) Azure
5 75 (18.99%) SaaS
6 71 (17.97%) Amazon S3
7 69 (17.47%) GCP
8 54 (13.67%) Amazon SQS
9 49 (12.41%) GitHub
10 48 (12.15%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (4.56%) Amazon EventBridge
13 18 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.54%) Amazon Cognito
16 14 (3.54%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.54%) Cloud Functions
17 13 (3.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.05%) Broadband
2 6 (1.52%) AMQP
3 2 (0.51%) DSL
3 2 (0.51%) HTTP
3 2 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
3 2 (0.51%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (22.53%) MongoDB
2 85 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (12.91%) NoSQL
4 28 (7.09%) DynamoDB
5 21 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (4.56%) SQL Server
7 16 (4.05%) MySQL
8 15 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.54%) Redis
10 13 (3.29%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.52%) Neo4j
14 4 (1.01%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
15 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.51%) Metadata
15 2 (0.51%) Power BI
15 2 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 54 (13.67%) Git
2 37 (9.37%) Cypress.io
3 24 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.32%) GitLab
5 18 (4.56%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.77%) Storybook
7 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.01%) JIRA
9 3 (0.76%) ESLint
9 3 (0.76%) Maven
9 3 (0.76%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.25%) Gradle
11 1 (0.25%) JUnit
11 1 (0.25%) Mocha
11 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.25%) Synon
General
1 70 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.46%) Finance
3 42 (10.63%) Front Office
4 20 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.29%) Law
7 9 (2.28%) Marketing
8 7 (1.77%) Retail
9 6 (1.52%) Electronics
10 4 (1.01%) Banking
10 4 (1.01%) Legal
10 4 (1.01%) Local Government
10 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.76%) Games
11 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 245 (62.03%) Developer
2 126 (31.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 95 (24.05%) Senior
4 88 (22.28%) Software Engineer
5 78 (19.75%) Lead
6 68 (17.22%) Lead Developer
7 52 (13.16%) Lead Software Developer
7 52 (13.16%) Node.js Developer
8 42 (10.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 40 (10.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (8.86%) React Developer
10 35 (8.86%) Software Developer
11 33 (8.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (7.34%) Senior Developer
13 28 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (6.58%) Java Developer
15 23 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (4.81%) Java Engineer
17 18 (4.56%) Python Developer
17 18 (4.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (61.52%) React
2 54 (13.67%) Kafka
3 49 (12.41%) GraphQL
3 49 (12.41%) Vue
4 47 (11.90%) Redux
5 45 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 41 (10.38%) RESTful
7 36 (9.11%) .NET
8 30 (7.59%) HTML
8 30 (7.59%) Jest
8 30 (7.59%) REST
9 27 (6.84%) Spring
10 26 (6.58%) React Native
11 24 (6.08%) CSS
11 24 (6.08%) Ruby on Rails
12 23 (5.82%) Spring Boot
13 18 (4.56%) Next.js
14 17 (4.30%) NestJS
15 15 (3.80%) Playwright
16 14 (3.54%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.13%) Fixed Income
3 18 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.80%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.28%) Derivative
8 8 (2.03%) Equities
9 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.52%) IoT
11 5 (1.27%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.76%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.58%) Linux
2 16 (4.05%) Unix
3 14 (3.54%) Windows
4 8 (2.03%) Android
4 8 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) CentOS
5 1 (0.25%) Debian
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (58.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 145 (36.71%) Agile
4 143 (36.20%) Software Engineering
5 115 (29.11%) Microservices
6 96 (24.30%) Mentoring
7 87 (22.03%) DevOps
8 74 (18.73%) AI
9 60 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 48 (12.15%) Containerisation
12 45 (11.39%) Scrum
13 41 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (10.38%) Investment Management
14 40 (10.13%) Portfolio Management
15 34 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (8.35%) Computer Science
17 32 (8.10%) Order Management
18 30 (7.59%) Event-Driven
18 30 (7.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 198 (50.13%) JavaScript
2 196 (49.62%) TypeScript
3 103 (26.08%) Python
4 100 (25.32%) Java
5 72 (18.23%) SQL
6 41 (10.38%) Go
7 26 (6.58%) Ruby
8 21 (5.32%) C#
9 17 (4.30%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.80%) PHP
11 7 (1.77%) Scala
12 3 (0.76%) Rust
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.25%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) Bicep
14 1 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (8.10%) Degree
2 23 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.03%) QA
3 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) WCAG
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (22.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (13.92%) Terraform
2 42 (10.63%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.08%) Argo
4 12 (3.04%) Podman
5 11 (2.78%) Ansible
6 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (6.33%) Google
2 23 (5.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.01%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.51%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.51%) Ericsson
6 2 (0.51%) Mavenir
6 2 (0.51%) Nokia
6 2 (0.51%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.51%) SAP
6 2 (0.51%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.25%) Apple
7 1 (0.25%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.25%) IBM
7 1 (0.25%) Okta
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle
7 1 (0.25%) SaltStack