Node.js Contracts in the UK excluding London

Node
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Node.js skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Node.js over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 139 143
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -59
Contract jobs citing Node.js 291 423 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 1.80% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.98% 9.83% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 303 406
10th Percentile £313 £400 £381
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £825 £673 £684
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 7
10th Percentile £54.25 £62.38 £36.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £73.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +55.26% -27.48%
75th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile £75.75 - £70.12
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +52.17% -29.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Node.js is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Node.js in the UK excluding London

Node.js
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
North of England +1 134 £600 +14.29% 99
North West +29 112 £625 +25.00% 62
South East +1 53 £488 -11.36% 38
South West +6 38 £475 +5.56% 41
Scotland +25 30 £458 -3.12% 17
Midlands +24 22 £380 -24.00% 43
Yorkshire -27 20 £525 -4.55% 29
West Midlands +16 11 £450 -21.74% 18
East Midlands +15 11 £225 -55.00% 25
East of England -5 11 £600 -7.69% 21
Wales +13 5 £419 -33.00% 7
North East -6 2 £478 -22.04% 8
Node.js
UK

Node.js
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (41.58%) AWS
2 43 (14.78%) Serverless
3 31 (10.65%) Amazon S3
4 27 (9.28%) Azure
5 24 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (4.81%) GitHub
7 13 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.44%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (3.44%) Route 53
10 10 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.41%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.41%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.06%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.43%) Firewall
2 40 (13.75%) VPN
3 11 (3.78%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 3 (1.03%) SSL
5 2 (0.69%) 5G
5 2 (0.69%) MQTT
5 2 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.53%) MongoDB
2 37 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.15%) MySQL
5 13 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.78%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.09%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.09%) Redis
8 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.41%) InterSystems Cache
8 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.72%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.37%) GIS
10 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.69%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 29 (9.97%) Git
1 29 (9.97%) GitLab
2 24 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.50%) webpack
4 11 (3.78%) Eclipse
4 11 (3.78%) Visual Studio
5 10 (3.44%) JIRA
6 9 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.06%) Postman
8 5 (1.72%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.37%) Selenium
10 3 (1.03%) gulp
10 3 (1.03%) Maven
11 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.69%) git-flow
11 2 (0.69%) GoCD
11 2 (0.69%) JUnit
11 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.34%) Mocha
General
1 42 (14.43%) Public Sector
2 34 (11.68%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.59%) Finance
4 12 (4.12%) Military
5 11 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.41%) Billing
8 6 (2.06%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Banking
9 4 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.37%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.03%) Law
10 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 135 (46.39%) Developer
2 55 (18.90%) Lead
3 50 (17.18%) Architect
4 44 (15.12%) Software Engineer
5 40 (13.75%) Technical Architect
6 37 (12.71%) Technical Leader
7 28 (9.62%) Lead Architect
8 26 (8.93%) Full Stack Developer
9 24 (8.25%) Senior
10 19 (6.53%) Node.js Developer
11 18 (6.19%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.47%) JavaScript Developer
13 11 (3.78%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.44%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.44%) C++ Software Engineer
14 10 (3.44%) Designer
15 9 (3.09%) Software Developer
16 8 (2.75%) Full Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
17 7 (2.41%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (37.11%) React
2 77 (26.46%) CSS
3 76 (26.12%) HTML
4 48 (16.49%) RESTful
5 39 (13.40%) AngularJS
6 25 (8.59%) GraphQL
6 25 (8.59%) Spring
7 23 (7.90%) Spring Boot
8 22 (7.56%) Web Services
9 21 (7.22%) Express.js
9 21 (7.22%) REST
10 20 (6.87%) AWS CDK
10 20 (6.87%) Redux
11 19 (6.53%) Jest
11 19 (6.53%) React Native
12 13 (4.47%) Next.js
13 12 (4.12%) Vue
14 10 (3.44%) OAuth
15 9 (3.09%) HTML5
16 8 (2.75%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Public Cloud
2 14 (4.81%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.69%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.69%) IoT
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.34%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.34%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.34%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.59%) Windows
2 50 (17.18%) Android
3 49 (16.84%) Apple iOS
4 44 (15.12%) Windows Server
5 17 (5.84%) Linux
6 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (42.61%) CI/CD
2 111 (38.14%) Agile
3 67 (23.02%) Full Stack Development
4 66 (22.68%) DevOps
5 63 (21.65%) Software Engineering
6 56 (19.24%) Microservices
7 49 (16.84%) Design Patterns
8 42 (14.43%) Security Architecture
8 42 (14.43%) Zero Trust
9 40 (13.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 40 (13.75%) Mobile Device Management
9 40 (13.75%) Risk Management
9 40 (13.75%) Threat Intelligence
10 36 (12.37%) TDD
11 33 (11.34%) Test Automation
12 27 (9.28%) Unit Testing
13 26 (8.93%) Front End Development
14 23 (7.90%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (7.56%) User Experience
16 21 (7.22%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 152 (52.23%) JavaScript
2 81 (27.84%) TypeScript
3 60 (20.62%) Java
4 33 (11.34%) Python
5 22 (7.56%) C#
5 22 (7.56%) SQL
6 14 (4.81%) Bash
7 13 (4.47%) C++
8 11 (3.78%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.06%) C
9 6 (2.06%) PHP
10 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.34%) Dart
12 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.37%) Degree
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.34%) CAPM
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.87%) QA
2 19 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.69%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.34%) MISRA
6 1 (0.34%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (12.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.69%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 36 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.28%) Terraform
3 8 (2.75%) Ansible
4 6 (2.06%) Kibana
5 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.34%) Anchore
7 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.47%) Google
3 12 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.09%) Oracle
5 5 (1.72%) Apple
6 4 (1.37%) VMware
7 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Ariba
8 1 (0.34%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.34%) Compaq
8 1 (0.34%) Okta
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.34%) Sage