Side-by-side distribution
Node.js
$117,500
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 10%
- Live roles
- 241
Python
$162,050
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 15.9%
- Live roles
- 1,066
Highest-paying jobs
Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra
Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Staff Fullstack Engineer, Data Products (Golang / Node)
Senior Software Development Engineer - Node
Staff Backend Engineer - Prompt Security (Node.js / TypeScript)
Contract Senior Typescript Engineer (Node.js, AWS Serverless)
Node.js Developer SME
☄️ Lead Software Engineer (Node.js) ☄️
Software Engineer II Full Stack (Java/Node.js/Angular)
Senior Product Engineer (TS/NodeJS/Vue)
Highest-paying jobs
Python Senior Software Engineer, AI Training
Software Engineer (C++ or Python) – 2027 Grads
GenAI Python Systems Engineer –Senior Manager
Senior Software Engineer (Networking, Python, C/C++)
Senior Software Engineer, Treasury and Reference Data (Java/Ruby/Python)
Software Engineer 2 (Hybrid) - AWS/Hadoop/Accumulo/Terraform/Python/Java
Software Integration Engineer 2 (On-Call) - Linux/Bash/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/IaC/Helm/Prometheus/Grafana
Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/Apache Airflow/SQL/Jupyter Notebook/NumPy/JSON
Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS/Java/Linux/Ansible/Git/Python
Software Engineer 2 (Hybrid) - AWS/Hadoop/Accumulo/Terraform/Python/Java
Copeland
Synechron
Salonkee
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Captivation Software
|
$200,000 | 33 |
Northbeam
|
$185,000 | 12 |
Travelers
|
$144,750 | 8 |
Bank of America
|
$141,400 | 7 |
| PA PayPal | $199,600 | 5 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 5 |
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 4 |
OpenDataJobs
|
$123,750 | 4 |
Node.js salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| London | $206,653 | 3 |
Python salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | $202,000 | 5 |
| San Francisco | $200,000 | 3 |
| Boston | $200,000 | 3 |
| Atlanta | $184,700 | 3 |
| Chicago | $165,000 | 11 |
| New York | $163,000 | 15 |
| Los Angeles | $150,000 | 3 |
| Toronto | $94,897 | 7 |
Node.js vs Python: which pays more?
The median for Node.js is $117,500 per year (typically $89,973–$167,750), versus $162,050 for Python ($127,143–$200,000). That puts Python about 38% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Node.js and Python are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.