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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 73 94
Rank change year-on-year -47 +21 -35
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 390 533 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 3.96% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.30% 13.59% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 317 421 909
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £98,000
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 3,171 3,923 8,546
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 29.13% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,275 3,177 7,510
10th Percentile £41,520 £40,000 £39,225
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
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 2 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 (2.56%) CMS
2 5 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (67.18%) AWS
2 99 (25.38%) Serverless
3 85 (21.79%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (20.26%) Azure
5 74 (18.97%) SaaS
6 71 (18.21%) GCP
7 70 (17.95%) Amazon S3
8 53 (13.59%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (12.05%) GitHub
10 46 (11.79%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (4.62%) Amazon EventBridge
13 18 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.59%) Amazon Cognito
16 14 (3.59%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.59%) Cloud Functions
17 13 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.10%) Broadband
2 6 (1.54%) 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 86 (22.05%) MongoDB
2 82 (21.03%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (13.08%) NoSQL
4 28 (7.18%) DynamoDB
5 20 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (4.10%) MySQL
7 15 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.33%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.08%) Redis
10 11 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.31%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.54%) Neo4j
14 4 (1.03%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
15 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.51%) Metadata
15 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (13.59%) Git
2 36 (9.23%) Cypress.io
3 23 (5.90%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.38%) GitLab
5 18 (4.62%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.79%) Storybook
7 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.77%) ESLint
8 3 (0.77%) JIRA
8 3 (0.77%) Maven
8 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.26%) JUnit
10 1 (0.26%) Mocha
10 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.26%) Synon
General
1 70 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.67%) Finance
3 42 (10.77%) Front Office
4 20 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.33%) Law
7 9 (2.31%) Marketing
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.54%) Electronics
10 4 (1.03%) Banking
10 4 (1.03%) Legal
10 4 (1.03%) Local Government
10 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.77%) Games
11 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 238 (61.03%) Developer
2 120 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 95 (24.36%) Senior
4 88 (22.56%) Software Engineer
5 75 (19.23%) Lead
6 64 (16.41%) Lead Developer
7 52 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
8 49 (12.56%) Lead Software Developer
9 42 (10.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 40 (10.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (8.97%) React Developer
12 32 (8.21%) Software Developer
13 29 (7.44%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 28 (7.18%) Senior Developer
15 25 (6.41%) Java Developer
16 23 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
17 19 (4.87%) Java Engineer
18 18 (4.62%) Python Developer
18 18 (4.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (62.31%) React
2 54 (13.85%) Kafka
3 48 (12.31%) GraphQL
4 47 (12.05%) Redux
5 46 (11.79%) Vue
6 43 (11.03%) AngularJS
7 40 (10.26%) RESTful
8 34 (8.72%) .NET
9 30 (7.69%) HTML
10 29 (7.44%) REST
11 28 (7.18%) Jest
12 26 (6.67%) React Native
12 26 (6.67%) Spring
13 24 (6.15%) CSS
14 23 (5.90%) Ruby on Rails
15 22 (5.64%) Spring Boot
16 17 (4.36%) NestJS
16 17 (4.36%) Next.js
17 15 (3.85%) Playwright
18 13 (3.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.26%) Fixed Income
3 18 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.31%) Derivative
8 8 (2.05%) Equities
9 7 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.54%) IoT
11 5 (1.28%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.67%) Linux
2 16 (4.10%) Unix
3 14 (3.59%) Windows
4 8 (2.05%) Android
4 8 (2.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) CentOS
5 1 (0.26%) Debian
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (57.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (36.92%) Agile
2 144 (36.92%) CI/CD
3 143 (36.67%) Software Engineering
4 110 (28.21%) Microservices
5 96 (24.62%) Mentoring
6 85 (21.79%) DevOps
7 73 (18.72%) AI
8 60 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 48 (12.31%) Containerisation
11 44 (11.28%) Scrum
12 41 (10.51%) Investment Management
13 40 (10.26%) Portfolio Management
14 39 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (8.21%) Order Management
17 31 (7.95%) Computer Science
18 30 (7.69%) Event-Driven
18 30 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 193 (49.49%) TypeScript
2 192 (49.23%) JavaScript
3 103 (26.41%) Python
4 99 (25.38%) Java
5 71 (18.21%) SQL
6 41 (10.51%) Go
7 25 (6.41%) Ruby
8 19 (4.87%) C#
9 17 (4.36%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.85%) PHP
11 7 (1.79%) Scala
12 3 (0.77%) Rust
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.26%) Bash
14 1 (0.26%) Bicep
14 1 (0.26%) RPG
Qualifications
1 30 (7.69%) Degree
2 21 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.31%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.05%) QA
3 4 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) WCAG
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (22.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (14.10%) Terraform
2 41 (10.51%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.15%) Argo
4 12 (3.08%) Podman
5 10 (2.56%) Ansible
6 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (6.41%) Google
2 22 (5.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.03%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.77%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.77%) 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 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.26%) IBM
7 1 (0.26%) Okta
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle
7 1 (0.26%) SaltStack