Node.js Developer: market
A Node.js Developer builds server-side code on Node.js: APIs, real-time services, integrations and backends for web and mobile apps in TypeScript. We currently track 1 094 open positions for this role, 1 027 of them fresh. Postings usually require TypeScript, NestJS or Express, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, queues and Redis, Docker, tests and event-loop understanding. By co-occurrence in requirements, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript and Node.js appear most often. 63% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Node.js Developer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Node.js Developer market currently has 1,094 open roles, 1,027 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,250/mo.
63% of Node.js Developer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 86 of 1094 jobs; remote share from 931 with a stated format; 1027 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Node.js Developer postings appeared each week since May 11, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 188
New sources connected: May 18 +10 · May 25 +7 · Jun 1 +7 · Jun 8 +5 · Jun 15 +1 · Jun 22 +22 · Jun 29 +19 · Jul 6 +17 · Jul 13 +14 · Jul 20 +13 · Jul 27 +4 · Aug 3 +5 · Aug 10 +3 · Aug 17 +6 · Aug 24 +3 · Aug 31 +7 · Sep 7 +4 · Sep 14 +1 · Sep 21 +7 · Sep 28 +1 · Oct 5 +5 · Oct 12 +3 · Oct 19 +9
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Node.js Developer salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Node.js Developer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Node.js Developer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on Aug 10: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Node.js Developer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Node.js Developer
| Open demand | 1,094 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Node.js Developer
One in ten earns under $3,500, one in ten over $9,375. Half the market falls between $3,940 and $8,143. Sample: 86.
The range histogram for Node.js Developer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Node.js Developer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 207 |
| US | 55 |
| MX | 53 |
| GB | 52 |
| RU | 44 |
| BR | 44 |
| IN | 30 |
| DE | 23 |
| SG | 22 |
| PE | 22 |
The top country for Node.js Developer demand is Poland (207 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Node.js Developer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript and Node.js.
Demand by grade: Node.js Developer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 667 |
| middle | 63 |
| lead | 35 |
| junior | 21 |
| principal | 18 |
Senior-and-above is about 90% of 804 Node.js Developer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Node.js Developer
Demand is spread across 419 employers. The largest accounts for 20.7%, the top ten for 40.8%; the remaining 59.2% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 20.7% |
| top-3 | 31.5% |
| top-10 | 40.8% |
| long tail | 59.2% |
Node.js Developer openings come from 419 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 92 sources; the largest accounts for 26.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Node.js Developer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Node.js Developer
- Middle+ Backend Developer (Node.JS) · RU
- Node.js Senior Developer · US
- Sr BackEnd Developer (NodeJS) - LATAM
- Backend Engineer (Node.js / TypeScript) · HK
- Principal Software Engineer TypeScript, Node.js & Azure - 20417 · SE
- Experienced Node.js Developer · AM
- Senior Fullstack Developer (Node.js, React, AWS) · RU
- Backend-разработчик (PHP / Python / Node.js) · KZ
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-27
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Node.js Developer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Node.js Developer do?
A Node.js Developer builds server-side code on Node.js: APIs, real-time services, integrations and backends for web and mobile apps in TypeScript.
Which skills do Node.js Developer postings require?
Postings usually require TypeScript, NestJS or Express, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, queues and Redis, Docker, tests and event-loop understanding. In the current slice, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript and Node.js appear in requirements most often.
Does a Node.js developer need frontend?
Not always, but often: many postings are fullstack, and a shared language with the frontend is one of Node.js's main advantages.
How remote-friendly are Node.js Developer jobs?
63% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 1 094 open positions.
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