Next.js salary and demand: pay ranges and hiring trends

Reviewed by Mark Dickie · Last updated

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web apps, and this report tracks what the market pays for it and how often employers ask for it. The salary band and hiring-demand series below cover roles that name Next.js, so you can see where pay and postings sit right now. The salary band describes the whole market as one range, not a split by seniority. Read the demand series as a direction over time rather than a count of jobs you can apply to today.

What does the Next.js job market look like right now?

Figure on this pageWhat it measuresHow to read it
Salary percentiles (25th, median, 75th)Pay for roles that name Next.jsThe spread between the 25th and 75th shows how wide pay runs across the market.
Hiring-demand seriesPostings that name Next.js, plotted over timeWatch the direction across months, since one month says little.
Posting skill termsNot a figure on this pageCheck job text for App Router, Server Components, and Route Handlers before you compare a role to the band.

How to use these figures:

  1. Compare your current pay to the median first, then to the 75th percentile, since the band covers the whole market rather than one level.
  2. Check the demand series before you start a search: a line heading down means fewer postings naming Next.js, so the search will likely take longer.
  3. Ship one small App Router project with a Server Component that fetches data and a Route Handler, deploy it, and link it on your resume so the posting terms match work you can show.

Next.js salary & hiring demand

From live job postings, the median Next.js salary is £70,000, across 130 postings in August 2026. These figures are technology-wide across all seniority levels, as of August 2026.

25th percentile£63,750
Median (50th percentile)£70,000
75th percentile£81,000

Hiring demand over time

We need 3 complete months of tracking before we publish a month-by-month series. Months we only partly covered are left out rather than shown as low demand.

Vacancy and salary data includes Adzuna.

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