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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 97 90
Rank change year-on-year -24 -7 -21
Contract jobs citing Node.js 17 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.44% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.11% 5.11% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 26
10th Percentile £332 - £446
25th Percentile £433 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £594
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £708
90th Percentile £638 £653 £778
Central London median daily rate £550 £495 £594
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.63% +17.28%

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 546 509 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.83% 28.28% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 337 367
10th Percentile £425 £402 £425
25th Percentile £480 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £710
90th Percentile £774 £768 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

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 1 September 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Algolia
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.88%) Figma
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) Kong
6 1 (5.88%) Slack
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) webpack
3 2 (11.76%) Claude Code
4 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
4 1 (5.88%) Mocha
General
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) React
2 6 (35.29%) Jest
3 5 (29.41%) REST
4 4 (23.53%) Terraform
5 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
6 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.76%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (11.76%) DOM
6 2 (11.76%) Express.js
6 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) Kafka
6 2 (11.76%) PySpark
6 2 (11.76%) pytest
6 2 (11.76%) Sass
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.76%) Vue
7 1 (5.88%) JWT
7 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
3 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) AI
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) TDD
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Wealth Management
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
1 10 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Korn
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) SAP