Node.js Developer Contracts

Node.js Developer
UK

The median Node.js Developer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 525 529
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -194
Contract jobs requiring a Node.js Developer 79 187 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 143 283
10th Percentile £313 £413 £425
25th Percentile £443 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £619
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £515
% change year-on-year +0.96% +0.97% +21.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £36.25
90th Percentile - - £51.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Node.js Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Node.js Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Node.js Developer.

Daily rate trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Node.js Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Node.js Developer in the UK

Node.js Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Node.js Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +29 68 £575 +4.55% 21
London +44 37 £616 +12.05% 13
Work from Home +55 31 £525 -0.94% 10
UK excluding London +52 28 £525 +0.96% 8
North of England +43 16 £575 +6.48% 4
Yorkshire +26 8 £569 -0.22% 2
North West +23 8 £575 +29.21% 3
South East +8 5 £440 -23.64% 2
Midlands +36 4 £250 -64.29% 1
South West +17 3 £400 -15.79% 1
West Midlands +30 2 £250 -64.29% 1
East Midlands +9 2 - -

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Node.js Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Node.js Developer in the job title.

1 75 (94.94%) Node.js
2 33 (41.77%) AWS
3 31 (39.24%) Agile
4 30 (37.97%) JavaScript
4 30 (37.97%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (35.44%) Azure
5 28 (35.44%) TypeScript
6 23 (29.11%) MongoDB
6 23 (29.11%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (21.52%) Java
7 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
8 16 (20.25%) Kubernetes
8 16 (20.25%) DevOps
8 16 (20.25%) Git
9 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
10 14 (17.72%) Microservices
10 14 (17.72%) Finance
11 13 (16.46%) SQL
11 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
11 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
12 12 (15.19%) React
12 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
13 11 (13.92%) Express.js
13 11 (13.92%) Docker
13 11 (13.92%) RESTful
13 11 (13.92%) HTML
13 11 (13.92%) CSS
13 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (12.66%) Serverless
15 9 (11.39%) Clean Code

Node.js Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 33 (41.77%) AWS
2 28 (35.44%) Azure
3 10 (12.66%) Serverless
4 9 (11.39%) GCP
4 9 (11.39%) GitHub
5 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.06%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.53%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) SMS
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.11%) MongoDB
1 23 (29.11%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.39%) Redis
3 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (10.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (7.59%) InterSystems Cache
4 6 (7.59%) MySQL
5 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Git
2 9 (11.39%) Maven
3 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.13%) JIRA
3 8 (10.13%) Postman
3 8 (10.13%) SoapUI
4 4 (5.06%) GitLab
5 3 (3.80%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.53%) Mocha
7 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.27%) Protractor
General
1 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Finance
3 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Marketing
6 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (94.94%) Node.js
2 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
2 12 (15.19%) React
3 11 (13.92%) CSS
3 11 (13.92%) Express.js
3 11 (13.92%) HTML
3 11 (13.92%) RESTful
4 8 (10.13%) NestJS
5 7 (8.86%) MERN Stack
6 6 (7.59%) koa
6 6 (7.59%) OAuth
6 6 (7.59%) REST
7 5 (6.33%) OpenID
7 5 (6.33%) SignalR
8 4 (5.06%) JWT
8 4 (5.06%) Kafka
8 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.80%) Spring
9 3 (3.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) Derivative
3 1 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) Agile
2 30 (37.97%) Full Stack Development
3 16 (20.25%) DevOps
4 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.72%) Microservices
6 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
7 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.39%) Clean Code
8 9 (11.39%) Privileged Access Management
9 6 (7.59%) API Development
9 6 (7.59%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (7.59%) Front End Development
9 6 (7.59%) Prototyping
10 5 (6.33%) Design Patterns
10 5 (6.33%) Fintech
10 5 (6.33%) Prompt Engineering
10 5 (6.33%) Rapid Prototyping
11 4 (5.06%) API Design
11 4 (5.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) JavaScript
2 28 (35.44%) TypeScript
3 17 (21.52%) Java
4 13 (16.46%) SQL
5 7 (8.86%) Python
6 2 (2.53%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.27%) Google
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.27%) Virgin Media