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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 73 92
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 -34
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 390 530 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 3.94% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.30% 13.52% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 318 418 907
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,813 £54,214 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £98,500
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 3,171 3,921 8,551
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 29.14% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 3,175 7,517
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,900
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 £85,253 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £98,750
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 1 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%) 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
1 261 (66.92%) AWS
2 99 (25.38%) Serverless
3 85 (21.79%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (20.26%) Azure
5 75 (19.23%) SaaS
6 71 (18.21%) GCP
7 70 (17.95%) Amazon S3
8 53 (13.59%) Amazon SQS
9 46 (11.79%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (11.79%) GitHub
10 26 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (4.62%) Amazon EventBridge
12 18 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.59%) Amazon Cognito
15 14 (3.59%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.59%) Cloud Functions
16 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 85 (21.79%) MongoDB
2 81 (20.77%) 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
8 14 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.33%) BigQuery
10 12 (3.08%) Redis
11 11 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.31%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.54%) Neo4j
15 4 (1.03%) DocumentDB
15 4 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
16 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.51%) Metadata
16 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%) Maven
8 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.51%) JIRA
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 69 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.92%) Finance
3 42 (10.77%) Front Office
4 20 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.10%) 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%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 237 (60.77%) Developer
2 119 (30.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 94 (24.10%) Senior
4 88 (22.56%) Software Engineer
5 75 (19.23%) Lead
6 63 (16.15%) 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 28 (7.18%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 28 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (6.92%) 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 47 (12.05%) GraphQL
3 47 (12.05%) Redux
4 46 (11.79%) Vue
5 43 (11.03%) AngularJS
6 39 (10.00%) RESTful
7 33 (8.46%) .NET
8 31 (7.95%) HTML
9 29 (7.44%) REST
10 27 (6.92%) Jest
11 26 (6.67%) React Native
11 26 (6.67%) Spring
12 25 (6.41%) CSS
13 23 (5.90%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (5.64%) Spring Boot
15 17 (4.36%) NestJS
16 16 (4.10%) 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%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.51%) Sports Betting
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
1 224 (57.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 145 (37.18%) Agile
2 145 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 143 (36.67%) Software Engineering
4 110 (28.21%) Microservices
5 95 (24.36%) 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 45 (11.54%) 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
1 192 (49.23%) JavaScript
1 192 (49.23%) TypeScript
2 103 (26.41%) Python
3 99 (25.38%) Java
4 71 (18.21%) SQL
5 41 (10.51%) Go
6 25 (6.41%) Ruby
7 18 (4.62%) C#
8 17 (4.36%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.85%) PHP
10 7 (1.79%) Scala
11 3 (0.77%) Rust
12 2 (0.51%) C
12 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) Bicep
13 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%) Guidewire
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%) IBM
7 1 (0.26%) Okta
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle
7 1 (0.26%) SaltStack