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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 89 101
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -28
Contract jobs citing Node.js 22 31 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.78% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 6.49% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 19
10th Percentile £363 £396 £464
25th Percentile £433 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -10.64% +9.81%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £703
90th Percentile £694 £638 £734
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £581
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.68% +7.64%

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 442 478 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.33% 27.38% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 305 339
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £464 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -10.40%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

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 12 May 2026.

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) GitHub
2 6 (27.27%) Serverless
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.55%) Figma
5 1 (4.55%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.55%) Slack
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Claude Code
2 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) webpack
3 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 2 (9.09%) Mocha
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.64%) Banking
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Advertising
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Front Office
3 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (9.09%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Evangelist
5 1 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) React
2 4 (18.18%) Jest
2 4 (18.18%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) CSS3
4 2 (9.09%) Enzyme
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) Great Expectations
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) HTML5
4 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) Playwright
4 2 (9.09%) PySpark
4 2 (9.09%) pytest
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) WireMock
5 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Equities
3 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) TDD
7 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 4 (18.18%) E-Commerce
7 4 (18.18%) Observability
8 3 (13.64%) AI
8 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
8 3 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 2 (9.09%) Pair Programming
9 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
1 12 (54.55%) TypeScript
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Icinga
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Databricks
1 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.55%) Google