Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
nodejs
634 live US technical postings name nodejs in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 634 postings naming nodejs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer63.2%
- 2Full-Stack Engineer20.5%
- 3Backend Engineer4.7%
- 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.6%
- 5Frontend Engineer3.3%
- 6AI Engineer1.7%
- 7Security Engineer1.6%
What postings asking for it pay
Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote18.8%
- 2San Francisco, CA18.1%
- 3New York, NY14%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA3.9%
- 5Austin, TX2.8%
- 6Washington, DC2.8%
- 7Boston, MA1.7%
- 8Los Angeles, CA1.7%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.