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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 89 95
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Node.js 27 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.23% 1.66% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.00% 6.04% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 16
10th Percentile £355 £379 £430
25th Percentile £363 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +8.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £609
90th Percentile £649 £638 £728
Central London median daily rate £505 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -6.91% +8.50% -8.26%

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 450 480 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.43% 27.49% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 307 339
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £665 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £768 £780
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £551
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.00% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) GitHub
3 9 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (33.33%) Serverless
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (14.81%) Apigee
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (7.41%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (7.41%) Azure API Management
7 2 (7.41%) Figma
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) DynamoDB
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
1 4 (14.81%) Git
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) webpack
3 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
3 2 (7.41%) Claude Code
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) Mocha
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) gulp
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Advertising
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Front Office
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.41%) React Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) React
2 5 (18.52%) JWT
2 5 (18.52%) OAuth
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) Jest
3 4 (14.81%) Playwright
3 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 3 (11.11%) HTML5
4 3 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) CSS3
5 2 (7.41%) Enzyme
5 2 (7.41%) Great Expectations
5 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 2 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (7.41%) PySpark
5 2 (7.41%) pytest
5 2 (7.41%) Sass
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Microservices
4 8 (29.63%) Agile
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.81%) Analytics
7 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
7 4 (14.81%) TDD
8 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (11.11%) E-Commerce
8 3 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 3 (11.11%) Observability
8 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (11.11%) Webhook
8 3 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
1 13 (48.15%) TypeScript
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 10 (37.04%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) Icinga
4 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Databricks
1 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce