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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing Node.js 12 13 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.94% 4.33% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.68% 30.95% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 2
10th Percentile £389 £248 £417
25th Percentile £400 £457 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £480 £478
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +0.52% -27.92%
75th Percentile £453 £490 £514
90th Percentile £523 £612 £536
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -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 124 42 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.10% 14.00% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 33 17
10th Percentile £378 £347 £327
25th Percentile £413 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £431
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.73% -24.05%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £501
90th Percentile £588 £568 £590
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 4
10th Percentile £55.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.36%
75th Percentile - - £27.12
90th Percentile - - £38.56
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 -31 12 £413 -14.06% 7
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 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Express.js
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) Jest
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) MERN Stack
4 1 (8.33%) Next.js
4 1 (8.33%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) TDD
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Operational Stability
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Icinga
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle