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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Node.js 30 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.51% 3.88% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.33% 13.95% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 4
10th Percentile £328 £378 -
25th Percentile £353 £431 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £465 £594 £484
90th Percentile £485 £603 £524
England median daily rate £511 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -0.24% -10.87% +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 225 86 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 26.35% 27.83% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 63 32
10th Percentile £361 £360 £326
25th Percentile £400 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £556
90th Percentile £675 £599 £625
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 5
10th Percentile £61.75 £36.85 £34.37
25th Percentile £62.50 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -9.05% -
75th Percentile - £47.63 -
90th Percentile - £49.95 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -19 30 £400 -20.00% 16
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 (6.67%) CMS
1 2 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (16.67%) Kong
3 5 (16.67%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.67%) Azure
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) npm
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.67%) DocumentDB
3 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
2 6 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (16.67%) Selenium
4 4 (13.33%) REST Assured
5 3 (10.00%) Bugzilla
5 3 (10.00%) JIRA
6 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.67%) Mocha
7 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (63.33%) Public Sector
2 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Tester
6 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior PHP Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) REST
2 11 (36.67%) RESTful
3 10 (33.33%) Express.js
4 9 (30.00%) Jest
4 9 (30.00%) Kafka
4 9 (30.00%) Spring
4 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (26.67%) Terraform
6 7 (23.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (20.00%) CSS
7 6 (20.00%) HTML
7 6 (20.00%) Nunjucks
8 5 (16.67%) MEAN Stack
9 4 (13.33%) Playwright
10 3 (10.00%) React
10 3 (10.00%) WireMock
11 2 (6.67%) Chai
11 2 (6.67%) CSS3
11 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
11 2 (6.67%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (23.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) Agile
3 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (53.33%) DevOps
5 13 (43.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (40.00%) Microservices
7 11 (36.67%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (33.33%) SDLC
9 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (23.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (23.33%) SFIA
11 6 (20.00%) Front End Development
11 6 (20.00%) Functional Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Manual Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 5 (16.67%) API Testing
12 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) QA
2 11 (36.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Confluent
1 5 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (3.33%) Google