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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 77 92
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 -36
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 437 689 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 4.56% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.10% 15.35% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 362 399 921
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,476 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £99,375 £98,474 £83,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -7.92%

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 3,335 4,490 8,598
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.75% 29.74% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,402 3,026 7,526
10th Percentile £41,925 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,236 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -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 20 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 (2.29%) CMS
2 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.92%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.69%) Confluence
4 3 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 289 (66.13%) AWS
2 114 (26.09%) Azure
3 98 (22.43%) Serverless
4 83 (18.99%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (17.16%) SaaS
6 71 (16.25%) Amazon S3
7 64 (14.65%) GCP
8 57 (13.04%) GitHub
9 56 (12.81%) Amazon SQS
10 49 (11.21%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (3.43%) Amazon Cognito
15 15 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (3.20%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.20%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.58%) Broadband
2 5 (1.14%) AMQP
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.69%) Internet
4 2 (0.46%) DSL
4 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (27.92%) MongoDB
2 100 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (12.36%) NoSQL
4 53 (12.13%) Elasticsearch
5 43 (9.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (6.86%) DynamoDB
7 26 (5.95%) MySQL
8 21 (4.81%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.20%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.20%) Redis
10 12 (2.75%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (1.37%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.92%) DocumentDB
15 3 (0.69%) Spatial Data
16 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 56 (12.81%) Git
2 38 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 27 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.81%) GitLab
5 16 (3.66%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.60%) Storybook
7 6 (1.37%) JIRA
8 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.69%) ESLint
9 3 (0.69%) Selenium
10 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.23%) JUnit
11 1 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.23%) Mocha
11 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (16.70%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.56%) Finance
3 42 (9.61%) Front Office
4 26 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.66%) Retail
7 13 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.52%) Law
9 6 (1.37%) Games
9 6 (1.37%) Marketing
10 5 (1.14%) Banking
10 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Electronics
13 2 (0.46%) Advertising
13 2 (0.46%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 277 (63.39%) Developer
2 127 (29.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 100 (22.88%) Software Engineer
4 93 (21.28%) Senior
5 83 (18.99%) Lead
6 70 (16.02%) Lead Developer
7 55 (12.59%) Lead Software Developer
8 50 (11.44%) Node.js Developer
9 43 (9.84%) .NET Developer
9 43 (9.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 42 (9.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 36 (8.24%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (8.24%) Software Developer
12 34 (7.78%) React Developer
13 33 (7.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 30 (6.86%) Senior Developer
15 25 (5.72%) Java Developer
16 23 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
17 20 (4.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 19 (4.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (59.73%) React
2 69 (15.79%) .NET
3 56 (12.81%) Vue
4 52 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 49 (11.21%) GraphQL
5 49 (11.21%) Kafka
6 48 (10.98%) Redux
7 46 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 46 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 46 (10.53%) RESTful
8 43 (9.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 34 (7.78%) REST
10 33 (7.55%) HTML
10 33 (7.55%) Jest
11 31 (7.09%) CSS
12 27 (6.18%) React Native
13 26 (5.95%) Spring
14 24 (5.49%) Ruby on Rails
15 23 (5.26%) Spring Boot
16 20 (4.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.15%) Fixed Income
3 23 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.06%) Derivative
8 8 (1.83%) Equities
8 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.37%) IoT
10 5 (1.14%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (0.92%) Cyberattack
11 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.46%) Robotics
13 2 (0.46%) Smart Home
13 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.49%) Linux
2 16 (3.66%) Unix
3 14 (3.20%) Windows
4 6 (1.37%) Android
4 6 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Debian
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (60.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 179 (40.96%) Agile
3 156 (35.70%) CI/CD
4 148 (33.87%) Software Engineering
5 139 (31.81%) Microservices
6 107 (24.49%) Mentoring
7 88 (20.14%) DevOps
8 78 (17.85%) AI
9 57 (13.04%) Scrum
10 54 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (12.13%) Test Automation
12 45 (10.30%) Containerisation
13 43 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (9.38%) Investment Management
15 40 (9.15%) Portfolio Management
16 37 (8.47%) TDD
17 34 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (7.32%) Order Management
19 31 (7.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 217 (49.66%) JavaScript
2 211 (48.28%) TypeScript
3 113 (25.86%) SQL
4 101 (23.11%) Java
5 98 (22.43%) Python
6 56 (12.81%) C#
7 38 (8.70%) Go
8 24 (5.49%) Ruby
9 16 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.66%) PHP
10 7 (1.60%) Scala
11 4 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (6.64%) Degree
2 21 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.60%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.97%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.60%) QA
4 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) WCAG
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (21.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (11.44%) Terraform
2 45 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.12%) Argo
4 12 (2.75%) Podman
5 11 (2.52%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) Packer
6 2 (0.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.72%) Google
3 5 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 4 (0.92%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.46%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.23%) Apple
7 1 (0.23%) Okta
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.23%) SaltStack