Node
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 84 73
Rank change year-on-year -54 -11 -14
Contract jobs citing Node.js 727 1,565 2,917
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 2.73% 3.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 11.80% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 1,125 2,192
10th Percentile £350 £413 £419
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 21
10th Percentile £53.00 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £64.38 £61.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +52.17% -29.77%
75th Percentile £71.75 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £75.25 - £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £73.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.86% +55.26% -27.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,926 13,259 23,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 23.15% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,680 17,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.30
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Node.js as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Node.js over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Node.js in the UK

Node.js
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -51 629 £550 - 574
London -57 341 £575 - 290
Work from Home -45 290 £525 -2.05% 375
UK excluding London -3 281 £500 -0.99% 367
North of England -3 133 £606 +14.12% 118
North West +26 111 £625 +25.00% 69
South East -1 53 £475 -13.64% 105
South West +2 34 £475 +5.56% 33
Scotland +25 26 £450 -1.10% 24
Midlands +10 21 £360 -26.15% 44
Yorkshire -30 20 £525 -4.55% 40
East Midlands +9 11 £225 -55.45% 24
East of England -1 11 £600 -7.69% 33
West Midlands +15 10 £450 -20.00% 20
Wales +12 5 £419 -33.00% 8
North East -5 2 £478 -23.60% 9

Node.js
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (2.75%) Apache
2 14 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.79%) CMS
3 13 (1.79%) Confluence
4 11 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.10%) WordPress
6 6 (0.83%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.83%) Tornado
7 3 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) InVision
1 2 (0.28%) Sketch
2 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.55%) Shopify
3 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 324 (44.57%) AWS
2 131 (18.02%) Azure
3 115 (15.82%) Serverless
4 77 (10.59%) GCP
5 75 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (7.98%) GitHub
7 54 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 34 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (3.71%) SaaS
11 25 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.89%) Azure Functions
13 21 (2.89%) OpenShift
14 19 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.98%) Firewall
2 44 (6.05%) VPN
3 11 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.10%) HTTP
5 6 (0.83%) DNS
6 5 (0.69%) DHCP
7 4 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.41%) Internet
8 3 (0.41%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.41%) SSL
9 2 (0.28%) AMQP
9 2 (0.28%) FTP
9 2 (0.28%) Intranet
9 2 (0.28%) MQTT
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.14%) Network Security
10 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (12.52%) MongoDB
2 78 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (9.63%) NoSQL
4 33 (4.54%) DynamoDB
5 31 (4.26%) MySQL
6 20 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (2.48%) Redis
9 14 (1.93%) Apache Ignite
10 13 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.38%) InterSystems Cache
13 9 (1.24%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.24%) Power BI
14 7 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
14 7 (0.96%) Couchbase
14 7 (0.96%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 90 (12.38%) Git
2 71 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.84%) Cypress.io
4 51 (7.02%) GitLab
5 31 (4.26%) webpack
6 25 (3.44%) JIRA
7 22 (3.03%) Selenium
8 16 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.20%) JMeter
9 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.65%) Maven
9 12 (1.65%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.51%) Eclipse
10 11 (1.51%) Postman
11 10 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.38%) Mocha
12 9 (1.24%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.10%) JUnit
13 8 (1.10%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.96%) Gradle
General
1 114 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.54%) Finance
3 73 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.19%) Banking
5 35 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.44%) Marketing
7 24 (3.30%) Front Office
8 19 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.20%) Advertising
10 14 (1.93%) Retail
11 12 (1.65%) Military
12 9 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.24%) Legal
12 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.10%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.96%) Billing
14 7 (0.96%) Law
15 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 374 (51.44%) Developer
2 109 (14.99%) Senior
3 105 (14.44%) Full Stack Developer
4 95 (13.07%) Software Engineer
5 81 (11.14%) Lead
6 74 (10.18%) Architect
7 58 (7.98%) Node.js Developer
8 48 (6.60%) Technical Architect
9 47 (6.46%) Senior Developer
10 45 (6.19%) React Developer
11 43 (5.91%) Technical Leader
12 39 (5.36%) Full Stack Engineer
13 37 (5.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 36 (4.95%) Lead Architect
15 35 (4.81%) Java Developer
16 34 (4.68%) JavaScript Developer
17 26 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
18 25 (3.44%) JavaScript Engineer
19 23 (3.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 21 (2.89%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (42.23%) React
2 174 (23.93%) CSS
3 169 (23.25%) HTML
4 93 (12.79%) RESTful
5 84 (11.55%) AngularJS
6 83 (11.42%) REST
7 74 (10.18%) Express.js
8 73 (10.04%) Redux
9 72 (9.90%) GraphQL
10 56 (7.70%) Spring
11 48 (6.60%) Spring Boot
12 47 (6.46%) Jest
12 47 (6.46%) Web Services
13 44 (6.05%) Vue
14 43 (5.91%) HTML5
14 43 (5.91%) Next.js
15 38 (5.23%) .NET
16 37 (5.09%) React Native
17 33 (4.54%) Kafka
18 30 (4.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.78%) Public Cloud
2 34 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
4 32 (4.40%) Fixed Income
5 31 (4.26%) Mobile App
6 22 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.20%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.38%) Blockchain
12 9 (1.24%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.10%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.96%) Machine to Machine
14 7 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.83%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.83%) Derivative
15 6 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (0.69%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.22%) Android
2 65 (8.94%) Apple iOS
3 62 (8.53%) Windows
4 48 (6.60%) Windows Server
5 43 (5.91%) Linux
6 10 (1.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (39.06%) CI/CD
2 268 (36.86%) Agile
3 201 (27.65%) Full Stack Development
4 174 (23.93%) DevOps
5 172 (23.66%) Software Engineering
6 139 (19.12%) Microservices
7 86 (11.83%) TDD
7 86 (11.83%) Test Automation
8 78 (10.73%) Front End Development
9 75 (10.32%) Design Patterns
10 66 (9.08%) Continuous Integration
10 66 (9.08%) User Experience
11 62 (8.53%) Web Development
12 55 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (6.74%) E-Commerce
14 48 (6.60%) Unit Testing
15 46 (6.33%) Risk Management
15 46 (6.33%) Zero Trust
16 44 (6.05%) Mobile Device Management
17 43 (5.91%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 385 (52.96%) JavaScript
2 288 (39.61%) TypeScript
3 163 (22.42%) Java
4 144 (19.81%) Python
5 92 (12.65%) SQL
6 57 (7.84%) C#
7 29 (3.99%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.44%) Bash
8 25 (3.44%) Go
9 23 (3.16%) C++
10 14 (1.93%) C
10 14 (1.93%) PHP
11 13 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.65%) Ruby
13 8 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.69%) Perl
15 3 (0.41%) Scala
16 2 (0.28%) ABAP
16 2 (0.28%) Groovy
16 2 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 115 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 29 (3.99%) Degree
4 20 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.41%) CISSP
10 2 (0.28%) CAPM
10 2 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.19%) QA
2 32 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.83%) GDPR
4 5 (0.69%) SLA
5 4 (0.55%) MiFID
6 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.41%) WCAG
7 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 116 (15.96%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.41%) vCloud
4 3 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.28%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 144 (19.81%) Kubernetes
2 92 (12.65%) Terraform
3 35 (4.81%) Ansible
4 10 (1.38%) Argo
4 10 (1.38%) Grafana
5 7 (0.96%) Kibana
5 7 (0.96%) Puppet
5 7 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.41%) Autotask
7 3 (0.41%) PingFederate
7 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.28%) Istio
8 2 (0.28%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Anchore
9 1 (0.14%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (6.05%) Google
2 37 (5.09%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.03%) Oracle
4 21 (2.89%) SAP
5 16 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.51%) Adobe
7 11 (1.51%) VMware
8 7 (0.96%) Tealium
8 7 (0.96%) WSO2
9 6 (0.83%) Databricks
9 6 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.69%) Apple
10 5 (0.69%) Confluent
10 5 (0.69%) Ensighten
10 5 (0.69%) Monetate
10 5 (0.69%) Omniture
10 5 (0.69%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.55%) Checkmarx
11 4 (0.55%) Palo Alto