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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 93 91
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -20
Contract jobs citing Node.js 18 28 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.54% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.77% 5.94% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 24
10th Percentile £363 £363 £475
25th Percentile £503 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% -17.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £631 £611 £695
90th Percentile £638 £638 £755
Central London median daily rate £588 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +18.69% -17.50% +14.29%

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 477 471 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 25.85% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 305 349
10th Percentile £410 £404 £411
25th Percentile £475 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £706
90th Percentile £775 £762 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 7 July 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 (5.56%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Slack
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) webpack
3 3 (16.67%) Claude Code
4 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) Mocha
5 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Advertising
2 2 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (11.11%) React Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) React
2 8 (44.44%) Jest
3 7 (38.89%) REST
4 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
5 3 (16.67%) Kafka
5 3 (16.67%) Spring
6 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 2 (11.11%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) DOM
6 2 (11.11%) Enzyme
6 2 (11.11%) Express.js
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) JSON
6 2 (11.11%) Playwright
6 2 (11.11%) PySpark
6 2 (11.11%) pytest
6 2 (11.11%) Sass
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Observability
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Wealth Management
6 2 (11.11%) AI
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Functional Programming
6 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace