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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Node.js 15 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.36% 1.86% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.56% 7.50% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £400 £335 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -24.44%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £438
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 103 80 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 23.04% 24.84% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 46 27
10th Percentile £359 £335 £294
25th Percentile £408 £359 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +3.33% -21.74%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £610
90th Percentile £597 £650 £720
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £48.55 £30.44 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £36.34 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +122.34% -57.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -3 15 £450 -10.00% 27
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) Redis
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) GitLab
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Mocha
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Express.js
2 4 (26.67%) Jest
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) Kafka
4 2 (13.33%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Flask
5 1 (6.67%) MERN Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Next.js
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) TDD
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Pair Programming
4 4 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (20.00%) Coaching
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (13.33%) Line Management
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Secure Coding
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) Go
6 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Icinga
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Blue Prism
1 1 (6.67%) UiPath