Node.js Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Node
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Node.js skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 88 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +27
Contract jobs citing Node.js 26 33 60
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.46% 1.55% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.27% 6.36% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 30
10th Percentile £338 £422 £308
25th Percentile £356 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £543 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +10.15% -17.57%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £538
90th Percentile £688 £743 £588
Central London median daily rate £485 £543 £490
% change year-on-year -10.60% +10.71% -18.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 415 519 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.28% 24.38% 24.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 312 447
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £501 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £738 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

Node.js
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Node.js relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Node.js job vacancy trend in the City of London

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js

Node.js
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Node.js in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Node.js in the City of London

Node.js
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Node.js

Node.js
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (46.15%) Serverless
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (30.77%) GitHub
5 7 (26.92%) Azure
6 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (19.23%) Apigee
7 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
8 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
9 2 (7.69%) GCP
10 1 (3.85%) Figma
10 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (3.85%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) DKIM
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) DynamoDB
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.85%) GIS
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) gulp
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Mockito
4 1 (3.85%) Vite
4 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 6 (23.08%) Banking
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Front Office
3 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Backend Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) React
2 6 (23.08%) JWT
2 6 (23.08%) OAuth
3 5 (19.23%) .NET
3 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
4 4 (15.38%) CSS
4 4 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 4 (15.38%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) REST
6 2 (7.69%) HTML5
6 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.69%) Playwright
6 2 (7.69%) RESTful
6 2 (7.69%) Sass
6 2 (7.69%) Spring
6 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (3.85%) SPFx
7 1 (3.85%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) IVR
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 6 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Webhook
6 4 (15.38%) Workflow
7 3 (11.54%) API Design
7 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
7 3 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Attribution
7 3 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (42.31%) Java
4 8 (30.77%) SQL
5 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) Bash
7 2 (7.69%) Ruby
8 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.85%) C#
8 1 (3.85%) Go
8 1 (3.85%) PHP
8 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.85%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Icinga
4 1 (3.85%) Istio
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk