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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

nodejs

1,300 live US technical postings name nodejs in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,300 postings naming nodejs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer62.5%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer19.1%
  3. 3Backend Engineer4.8%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.6%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer3.1%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.5%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.5%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.3%

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.

Disclosed pay where nodejs is named
n = 666
10th
$130k
25th
$153k
Median
$180k
75th
$205k
90th
$240k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA15.3%
  2. 2Remote15.2%
  3. 3New York, NY12.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.5%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.1%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.