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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 78 94
Rank change year-on-year -41 +16 -37
Permanent jobs citing Node.js 392 536 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 3.94% 3.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.32% 13.43% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 319 422 906
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £54,214 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £98,750
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 3,181 3,991 8,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 29.34% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,283 3,167 7,503
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £39,000
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 £115,000 £99,750
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 3 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 (2.55%) CMS
2 5 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.02%) 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
1 263 (67.09%) AWS
2 99 (25.26%) Serverless
3 85 (21.68%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (20.15%) Azure
5 76 (19.39%) SaaS
6 71 (18.11%) GCP
7 70 (17.86%) Amazon S3
8 53 (13.52%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (11.99%) GitHub
10 46 (11.73%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (4.59%) Amazon EventBridge
13 18 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.34%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
16 14 (3.57%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
17 13 (3.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.08%) Broadband
2 6 (1.53%) 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 (21.94%) MongoDB
2 82 (20.92%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (13.01%) NoSQL
4 28 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 20 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (4.08%) MySQL
6 16 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.32%) BigQuery
8 13 (3.32%) Redis
9 11 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.53%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.02%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.51%) Metadata
14 2 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (13.52%) Git
2 36 (9.18%) Cypress.io
3 23 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.36%) GitLab
5 18 (4.59%) 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 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.58%) Finance
3 42 (10.71%) Front Office
4 20 (5.10%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.32%) Law
7 9 (2.30%) Marketing
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.53%) Electronics
10 4 (1.02%) Banking
10 4 (1.02%) Legal
10 4 (1.02%) Local Government
10 4 (1.02%) 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
1 240 (61.22%) Developer
2 122 (31.12%) Full-Stack Developer
3 95 (24.23%) Senior
4 88 (22.45%) Software Engineer
5 77 (19.64%) Lead
6 66 (16.84%) Lead Developer
7 52 (13.27%) Node.js Developer
8 51 (13.01%) Lead Software Developer
9 42 (10.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 40 (10.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (8.93%) React Developer
12 34 (8.67%) Software Developer
13 31 (7.91%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
14 28 (7.14%) Senior Developer
15 25 (6.38%) Java Developer
16 23 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
17 19 (4.85%) Java Engineer
18 18 (4.59%) Python Developer
18 18 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (61.99%) React
2 54 (13.78%) Kafka
3 48 (12.24%) GraphQL
4 47 (11.99%) Redux
4 47 (11.99%) Vue
5 43 (10.97%) AngularJS
6 40 (10.20%) RESTful
7 34 (8.67%) .NET
8 30 (7.65%) HTML
9 29 (7.40%) REST
10 28 (7.14%) Jest
11 26 (6.63%) React Native
11 26 (6.63%) Spring
12 24 (6.12%) CSS
13 23 (5.87%) Ruby on Rails
14 22 (5.61%) Spring Boot
15 17 (4.34%) NestJS
15 17 (4.34%) Next.js
16 15 (3.83%) Playwright
17 13 (3.32%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.20%) Fixed Income
3 18 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.30%) Derivative
8 8 (2.04%) Equities
9 7 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.53%) 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 (6.63%) Linux
2 16 (4.08%) Unix
3 14 (3.57%) Windows
4 8 (2.04%) Android
4 8 (2.04%) 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
1 227 (57.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 145 (36.99%) CI/CD
3 144 (36.73%) Agile
4 143 (36.48%) Software Engineering
5 111 (28.32%) Microservices
6 96 (24.49%) Mentoring
7 85 (21.68%) DevOps
8 74 (18.88%) AI
9 60 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (13.27%) Test Automation
11 48 (12.24%) Containerisation
12 44 (11.22%) Scrum
13 41 (10.46%) Investment Management
14 40 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (10.20%) Portfolio Management
15 34 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (8.16%) Computer Science
16 32 (8.16%) Order Management
17 30 (7.65%) Event-Driven
17 30 (7.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 195 (49.74%) TypeScript
2 194 (49.49%) JavaScript
3 103 (26.28%) Python
4 99 (25.26%) Java
5 71 (18.11%) SQL
6 41 (10.46%) Go
7 25 (6.38%) Ruby
8 19 (4.85%) C#
9 17 (4.34%) Kotlin
10 15 (3.83%) 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 31 (7.91%) Degree
2 22 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.30%) 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 (3.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.04%) QA
3 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.02%) 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 (22.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (14.03%) Terraform
2 41 (10.46%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.12%) Argo
4 12 (3.06%) Podman
5 10 (2.55%) 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 (6.38%) Google
2 22 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.02%) 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