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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 36 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Node.js 12 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.18% 2.61% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.19% 9.52% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £399 £335 £422
25th Percentile £431 £348 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% -14.09%
75th Percentile £586 £603 £492
90th Percentile £618 £650 £497
England median daily rate £500 £580 £519
% change year-on-year -13.79% +11.81% -5.68%

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 79 84 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.95% 27.45% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 47 38
10th Percentile £393 £335 £346
25th Percentile £419 £388 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -13.76% -0.91%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £624
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £46.53 £34.37 -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -4 12 £500 - 14
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Redis
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) GitLab
2 5 (41.67%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Mocha
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Backend Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Jest
3 3 (25.00%) Express.js
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) React
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (8.33%) Flask
5 1 (8.33%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (25.00%) Coaching
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 2 (16.67%) SFIA
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Packer
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Blue Prism
1 1 (8.33%) UiPath