Next.js: market
Next.js is a production React framework: server-side rendering, static generation, routing, server components and API routes in one project. We track 1 572 open positions listing Next.js, 1 516 of them fresh. Next.js blurred the frontend-backend line, so it appears in fullstack postings more often than in pure UI ones. Most of the demand comes from Fullstack, Frontend and Architect roles. It most often appears next to React, TypeScript and Node.js. 50% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Next.js demand.
The Next.js market currently has 1,572 open roles, 1,516 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,250/mo. Observed candidate pool — 1,518.
50% of Next.js postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 152 of 1572 jobs; remote share from 1312 with a stated format; 1516 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Next.js postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, 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: 190
New sources connected: 17 Aug +23 · 24 Aug +18 · 31 Aug +17 · 7 Sept +17 · 14 Sept +6 · 21 Sept +27 · 28 Sept +15 · 5 Oct +11 · 12 Oct +14
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Next.js 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 Next.js 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.
Countries over time
How the share of Next.js 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
| Open demand | 1,572 |
| Observed supply | 1,518 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,500, one in ten over $15,208. Half the market falls between $5,312 and $10,927. Sample: 152.
The range histogram for Next.js postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 341 |
| PL | 220 |
| GB | 95 |
| RU | 82 |
| IN | 72 |
| DE | 70 |
| CA | 42 |
| BR | 32 |
| TH | 29 |
| NL | 20 |
The top country for Next.js demand is the US (341 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Next.js most often appears next to React, TypeScript and Node.js. React and TypeScript alongside — Next.js practically never appears without them.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Fullstack | 735 |
| Frontend | 396 |
| Architect | 52 |
| DevOps | 51 |
| Backend | 44 |
| AI Engineer | 43 |
| Data | 29 |
| Design | 24 |
| QA | 15 |
| Platform Engineer | 12 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 544 |
| principal | 102 |
| middle | 93 |
| lead | 86 |
| junior | 45 |
Senior-and-above is about 84% of 870 graded Next.js postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 890 employers. The largest accounts for 5.8%, the top ten for 13.7%; the remaining 86.3% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.8% |
| top-3 | 9.2% |
| top-10 | 13.7% |
| long tail | 86.3% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 129 sources; the largest accounts for 15.6% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Next.js postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Backend dev/Full stack dev · PL · $4,500
- Lead Software Engineer - Product Safety · GB
- Software Engineer (Full-Stack / AI Platform) · HK
- Software Engineer (Mid) – Legal Tech & AI · PL · $4,375
- Senior Frontend Engineer, Consumer Alliance · PL · $7,438
- Frontend Engineer (React.js / TypeScript / Next.js) - Fortune Tower · TH
- (Senior) Product Engineer (f/m/x) · DE
- Fullstack Engineer · US · $8,333
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: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-22
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Next.js market — short answers from the same data slice.
What is asked of a Next.js developer?
App Router and server components, rendering strategies (SSR, SSG, ISR) and caching, data fetching, middleware, Core Web Vitals optimization, deployment.
Is Next.js frontend or fullstack?
Increasingly fullstack: API routes, server actions and database access live in the same project. Postings show it through Node.js and PostgreSQL among the neighbours.
How big is Next.js demand?
The slice tracks 1 572 open positions naming Next.js explicitly; for new React projects with SEO requirements it became the default choice.