Node.js Contract Job Trends in the North East

Node
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -35 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Node.js 21 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.79% 5.41% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.73% 40.00% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 4
10th Percentile £313 £437 -
25th Percentile £363 £458 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £463 £500 £484
90th Percentile £512 £605 £524
England median daily rate £525 £525 £570
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

Node.js falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 165 40 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.91% 13.51% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 32 22
10th Percentile £363 £375 £338
25th Percentile £406 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -21.30%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £496
90th Percentile £675 £575 £549
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 0 3
10th Percentile £60.75 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Node.js job vacancy trend in the North East

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the North East over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the North East

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -35 21 £400 -16.67% 9
Node.js
England

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) CMS
1 2 (9.52%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Kong
5 2 (9.52%) npm
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.52%) DocumentDB
4 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 6 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 6 (28.57%) Selenium
3 4 (19.05%) REST Assured
4 3 (14.29%) Bugzilla
4 3 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (9.52%) Mocha
5 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
6 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Publishing
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Tester
5 2 (9.52%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Express.js
1 6 (28.57%) Jest
1 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
2 5 (23.81%) Playwright
2 5 (23.81%) REST
2 5 (23.81%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) React
3 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) WireMock
4 2 (9.52%) Chai
4 2 (9.52%) CSS3
4 2 (9.52%) HTML5
4 2 (9.52%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (9.52%) Nunjucks
4 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (9.52%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (38.10%) Microservices
6 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (33.33%) DevOps
6 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (23.81%) API Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Defect Management
8 4 (19.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
8 4 (19.05%) SDLC
8 4 (19.05%) TDD
9 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
9 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
9 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
1 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
2 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (19.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (9.52%) Confluent
2 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle